A short experimental associative-voodle by moi & b.k. capturing despair of abandoned hope and showing an uneasy student work on Cuba in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by the norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær who also provided the soundscape for this video; ‘torn’ from the album ‘re-vision’ (2008).

Part Two : The Flames That Burned The County

I shot this footage back in the fall of 2007 when the southland was engulfed in flames. The fires destroyed many homes in San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles County. The fires were kicked up by the usual late year santana winds that blow in from the south, raising tempratures, felling trees and downing power lines.

By the time the fires had burned out more than 2 weeks after they started, half a million acres had burned, 1500 homes lost, and 9 people died.

The two plus weeks after the storm that ignited the fires were tense and drama filled as everyone tuned into the news of firefighters battling endless blazes all over the southland. Containment was seemingly impossible and the fires spread and merged, causing mass evacuations. Everywhere to went you were followed by thick acrid smoke. Ash was over everything. It hurt to breath outside. And it was hot, and the winds did not rest making matters even even worse.

More info is here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_wildfires_of_October_2007

My friends and I recently converged in Hawaii for a reunion of sorts, and it was truly amazing. This is a video of the five of us sitting in a shark cage off the north shore of Oahu.

What an experience. What’s missing from this raw footage is me puking off the deck afterwards — above a circling shark that seems to be waiting for chunks like a dog for scraps. All he got was ingested seawater, though, which — on top of hyperventilation, lack of sleep, and crazy waves that almost made our tour guides call the whole thing off — is what I blame for the expulsion.

More media from this trip to come. I converted/compressed this vid down to about 80MB, so depending on your connection you might have a better viewing experience downloading it first by right-clicking the Quicktime link.

Ice Cream Face

Caffeine, WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Bryce 2/18/08

Seizure- Another bizarre abstract experimental piece.

wrong one.

kind of busy… just time for lumieres

One corner. One minute.

Week 9

http://semanal2008.over-blog.com/

A year from my pocket.

Drifting (It’s best viewed full size.)
I shot this while sitting in a sandwich shop for lunch. There’s a lot of action and at the same time a lot of nothing going on.

“Muhr - A lonely gust of wind” © Vincent Fugère was used by permission. Check him out at http://www.muhrmusic.com.

delicious lumiere

It’s not a particularly new design, so it has plenty of quirks - it’s still photo performance is not very good, it gives best video performance when recording at 320 x 240, and it records in ASF format, which not all editing software supports.

I just love the size and shape, though. It sits so comfortably in my hand, particularly when recording myself.

I’ve worked at Griffith for almost a year now and the view never gets old.

riding e-bikes—Charging time: 8 to 10 hours—Maximum loading: 120kg–Maximum speed: 45kph–Distance per charge: 60 to 80km–made in China of course …helmets are not compulsory for e-bikers but for motorbikers–e-bikes are meant to be riden by one person so do not carry anyone or you will get a fine by the police or traffic wardens.

For the first time in my posts for the Semanal project, a traditional piece-to-camera videoblog. In this case, it’s about my Nisis DV H-10 flash-memory camera

Length: 0:38This week the boy discovered the falling baker from the early years of Sesame Street. He’s learning well.

every saturday for over a year now we have held a noon hour demo in downtown courtenay, brutish kolumbia.

this is the third vid for semanal, shot with a borrowed sony cybershot 4.1 and edited using kino on a kubuntu linux system.

(i still don’t know how to put the thumb up)

second video for week 9: a montage with syncopated sound and a concert ending…
great video views this week, thanks for sharing.
cheers, sam

It’s a 5 o’clock on a Friday and the regular crowd rushes in.
There’s a Snow Man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin.

Here are the other links from the week.
http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2008/02/29/lumiere-service-elevator/
http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2008/02/26/mats-sundin/
http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2008/02/24/camundrum/

me and the street this week.

Watery Sunday::Revlogged

I just finished writing my first book! Whew. This video shows the printed out manuscript that I have to mail to my editor. Lots of pages, lots of words. 39,704 words, to be exact (yes, I had to send the publisher a word count).

week 9 diary.

Reciprocity is defined as a sense of mutual obligation people may feel toward each other. One way that anthropologists try to understand different social relationships is to examine the kinds of reciprocity that individuals or members of social groups have toward one another. Among video bloggers, do you feel a sense of reciprocity to watch and comment on their videos? Why or why not?

Please note that this post links back to a research site and that comments posted to the site may be used in research. For more information about the study and how comments posted to the site are used in research please see: http://anthrovlog.wordpress.com/about/

week 9: an architectural dream with fabulous soundtrack from Gurdonark.
more on patalab site. enjoy! cheers, sam

Week 9, my diary on the cell and still camera !

You should listen to this audio track. My friend Hens (37hz.net) made it just for this movie!

Another run to Boston.

The original plan was for a run to Portsmouth, enjoy the warmth of the day by walking around the city close to home. BUT I got a call from a friend asking if we were going to make a run to the city. Ryan overhead enough of the conversation to want to change our plans. Turns out that our friend never did show, but we had a blast anyway.

We ran down, took the train, and hit the Museum of Science. That place never gets old.

Wow that’s so cool. So you guys are going to be farmers! I’ll send you a house warming…something. Virginia is so pretty, and you can cover the election easily from there.

Anyway, in honor of your impending move, I thought I would post a how-to video to show you how to really do green building. This is a completely green - greenhouse - really I mean it’s green!
Milt

Ah, the popcorn game. I did one of these back in September 2005.

We’re moving to the mountains…literally

De : Jimi B.
(Quebec city) Thanks !! Merci !!

Backlight

Been enjoying the old-fashioned method these days…

Short video of the eclipse from last week. A little time-lapse action, too.

Just a little something from my life..

My blog with my semanal videos got hacked last week. Milt let me know this had happend, as I had not found out myself. But this was peanuts compared with the news later that day that my friend Arno had passed away. His funeral was very, very impressive. Hardly ever seen so many people together. This is my personal salut with one of the many special types of music and scenery he loved. And one of the memories i’d like to share sometime this year with his wife and his kids.

What do you worry about? My friends and I worry a lot about the future. I also worry about the test that I blew off studying for to make this video. Music: Bobhellbringer “You Need” http://www.ccmixter.org

It has been a while since I posted. It was unintentional. I think I wondered into that place that Rupert was in a few months ago.

Here is what I did. I took a camera to downtown Los Angeles. I wanted to see what was really around me. I lost a lot of time trying to edit the different pieces together. I decided to upload each one as a plain vanilla video. This is a construction project happening on Spring Street. Do you remember as a kid just staring as a large piece of concrete was lifted into the sky?

Here’s a piece that I did a while ago, but I just made it part of my all time fav’s - so I thought you all might enjoy it. Don’t take it too seriously, unless of course you want to.
Milt

Local concert event the night before Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, AZ.