September 2010
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Web Made Movies hack day at Open Video Conference!
As the Open Video Conference in New York draws closer (Oct 1-3), we’re excited to announce our hack day on Sunday October 3rd. The Web Made Movies hack day is a chance for filmmakers, developers and anyone interested in creating Open Video to turn the inspiration of OVC into action. Are you a videomaker? Its a great opportunity to meet with people who can help you explore the...
Sep 11th
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Kuleshov Effect + We Feel Fine = Lev's all right?
Was discussing in the Web Made Movies IRC today with David Humphrey the need to create a new, and vastly different than our last, demo for the upcoming Open Video Conference. We wanted to create something that presented a dynamically generated video based on who was watching, and that created different meaning from different juxtapositions of shots. This reminded me of the Kuleshov effect -...
Sep 10th
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Web Made Movies vault
In creating our first demo for popcorn, we gathered footage from projects like Grassrootsmapping.org and The Village Telco to create the final video. However, we only used small snippets, so I took some time to edit down longer versions of each. Grass Roots Mapping The Village Telco
Sep 9th
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A week in the cloud
I’m old. Unlike people born after the first Star Wars movie (the real one), I use desktop apps for things like managing my calendar and checking my email. My hard drive recently crashed, and as someone who is terrible about backing up their computer, I was terrified - but then found that all my data actually existed in the cloud (since I use google apps for my mail), so I really...
Sep 2nd
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