found this while looking for night shots of trees

all right, this is something i have to keep track of -

the tudou site - a japanese site for watcing videos, must be something like their youtube: http://movie.tudou.com/

this beautiful framing in japanese - of someone taking some kind of image of what seems to be a computer game-

[and actually this makes me realize something - that all these 'handheld' movies - cloverfield, et alia - are actually using the camera rhythms and motions of the videogame - the swooping in, pulling back, searching with the camera. like the 'camera' work here- or - i don't know what you call it on a videogame, actually. something to look into: camera motino in videogames]

it makes for a slightly trapezoidal screen -- i know there's a word for this, this filming of one's game moves on a computer screen - well, screen grabs, i guess- or is this some kidn of children's cartoon?

but this is so eerie- at any rate, i love the framing of the Japanese ideograms and the black background -

something to go, i guess, in the 'letterbox' section - in this sense of video-watching platforms creating framing for a video - which is meant to be 'unseen' but of course isn't -

oh and that reminds me, here's another thing on framing which i also stumbled on - [it's amazing how a blog can turn randomly surfing the web into a suddenly useful activity - just start writing about everything you've been clicking through and voila- a kind of internet triangulation, that's somehow - i don't know - it feels like you're done something even though all you've done is link together links - which is what passes for knowledge now. actually - perhaps this is how new languages got started)
from a site, new to me, called loose wire - on a device called uTag
well, actually that doesn't really apply - it's about 'banners' and substituting another site's URLS for the ones you want to link to. never mind.

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)'