just so i don't forget it - voogling from 2007

voogling

a term which did not catch on, apparently - someone's attempt to cover 'citizen tv'
no idea if anyone else is looking at this - a number of mash-ups.

16 takes together

joan jubett sent me this- or rather her new(ish) husband Andrew Bauer did, and it's in the category of more than one performance cut together - which my judy X 3 also is - and also an elvis video that i'm going to find right now that my brother (as in my brother who is running for mayor) sent me for my bday -
thanks joan and andrew.

now i get it

now i get it, man - this is how i can do this. this idea - that what you see changes what you hear, has of course been intuitively grasped by every kid who has ever done something like - well, this- for example, an Everlong song replacing the great score by david amram - a very strange sensation -

but - laslty - really - this is the thing - so i jsut put up the dad writes his poem thing - there it is, adn i realized- well, i don't even have the alternate video fo this thing - it's nowhere, is it?

i can put my own alternate audios and just - put them up there. i coudl even take this one song -
actualy -
now see, there's a really interesting idea: what happens when you put alternate split videos over the SAME audio -
judy garland isn't on my youtube uploads, is it. fuck it, who can keep all these video websites straight. well - it's out there somewhere.

New Order Regret PL

so this is just a beautiful use of a Super8-inspired use of split imageform. i wish i knew who made it, and when, who shot, edited it - i know nothing about it, except that it's a highly imaginative use of a screen to add, connect, renumber images -- in a faux 'niave' setting - i.e. postcards, super* softness and aspect ratio, it's actually deftly using the dark space of a widescreen to put images in as many relationships as possible, really -
so ill have to find out more, but in the meantime here it is.

send to patrick

Question: Open source tools for web-based split-screen media

A reader writes:

I am an artist, who is not very technical, looking for any existing open source code that would enable a web site to pair two videos on a split screen for simultaneously play. The video artist uploading his/her video would simply note which video he or she wanted to appear opposite his or her own video on the split screen and "viola", the videos would be play side by side.

YouTube Doubler and You3b provide the functionality described above, but the reader informed me that she is looking for an open source software package that can be installed on a given site and presumably customized. If you know of such software, or would be willing to work on something similar, please leave any info in the comments.

Monday, May 11, 2009 at 02:53 PM in Miscellaneous | Permalink

SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'

taking things apart - this applies perhaps to memes

not to mention multichannel and memes
this from an interview
KATHY ACKER: The way I talk about myth is in terms of narratives. I was never interested in narratives until fairly recently when I started writing _Empire of the Senseless_ and I realized I could come to an end. I think that I see not only writing, but all that is presented to us, in terms of text. Until _Empire of the Senseless_ I was basically interested (except in my very early stuff), in taking texts apart to see how they worked when meshed together with other bits and pieces of writing. I had come to the end of certain areas of what's called "Postmodernist theory." I began thinking that there is enough taking apart already. The society in which I grew up, the very hypocritical society of the 50's, is over with, and now everything is very surface, knowable. So, there's no reason to have to constantly take things apart and investigate them to see how they work. What we really need is some kind of instruction. I greatly distrust the usual bourgeois linear narrative of the 19th century, where the reader identifies with the character and the character goes through various moral crises. So I was searching structurally for a new kind of narrative, and that's when I became very interested in myths. Myths were narratives that were presented prior to that whole bourgeois structure.
.... and this applies to billy
There were very different relationships between art and community. I've always seen art as being something active (or hopefully so, god knows we're marginalized out of existence these days). Ideally, art and the political processes of the community should be interwoven.

and this applies to fragmentation:
Because communities, or what pass as communities, are composed of people who face the similar problem of trying to organize meaning from fragmented bits of texts?

i wonder... i think i may have just
finally
at last
discovered theory.

thank you, kathy acker