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Hello blog, long time no see! Making a film was a long lasting ambition and actually the most difficult thing was to start (even if not from Goethe I love this quote). Chris High gave the motivation with his Participatory Video seminar, as well as a theme; “Lost in Milton Keynes”. The rest was a lot of reading, nagging people for participation or for equipment, some preparation and as less sleep as possible. Also being surrounded by very helpful and smart participants and actors was a great experience.

I have always loved film, but have to admit I had no idea of what cinema was about. Somehow, even knowing that a released film had gone through a heavy process of editing, I could not imagine the amount of “artifice” that could be involved in that process. Somehow I thought that more or less “what you shoot is what you get” and you just have to stick the pieces together. I was wrong; sound overs, acting beats entirely at the mercy of the editing, speeds, colors, order, almost everything can be different from the original. Of course, again, knowing it and seeing it happening in front of you is quite a different thing.

“MK- at First Sight” will be presented at the Open University tomorrow afternoon as part of the OU Festival of Research.

Akira Kurosawa’s multi perspective narration of a murder, Rashomon, is on Google video (and on the internet archive). (from we make money not art)

Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will as well reports artbasher!

After yesterday’s film, with full making off (Koyaanisqatsi), websites for pro shorts (atomfilms) pilots from Scrubs writers going directly online (e.g. Nobody’s Watching), or other directly in Second Life (Four Eyed Monster), the question is: who really needs IP TV?

It is in the air as shows this elaborate hoax (or not?) where secret access to Google TV project would be granted by a hundred (or a thousand) successive signouts and logins in gmail (see techcrunch). I also asked to be part of the public beta of Joost led by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Internet’s biggest trouble makers after Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, without getting anything yet. So why? Maybe because it will look so great…

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Michael Wesch’s <5 minutes short about the web, great facture, at least one step further from traditional screencasts and gives many ideas for the next versions of the eMerges video. (from Richard Cyganiak via Planet RDF).