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Dziga Vertov and Social Media

Oct 15, 2019

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Reading Time: 3 minutesA century ago Dennis Arkadievitch Kaufmann, more commonly known as Dziga Vertov, the spinning top, came up with the concept of the All-Seeing Eye. The Kinoki. The Cinema Eye. His idea was that with time life unawares could be documented and daily life would be captured by cameras for everyone to see.…

Film and Video archiving

Oct 30, 2015

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richard

in social conscience, video archive, vimeo

Reading Time: 2 minutesFilm is Fragile – Film needs your help! | BFI Trailer from BFI on Vimeo. Recently I spent more than a year working as a video archivist for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. During this time I digitised several decades of documentary films and news stories. In the process I…

14-18 Le bruit & la fureur

Oct 15, 2013

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in Documentary, Via Ferrata, Video, video archive, youtube

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn interesting take on the 1914-18 war. 48 minutes in you see mention of mountain fighting.

Eric Powell Sarajevo Story

Apr 8, 2013

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richard

in tech related, Video, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn interesting look back in to the past. I remember seeing this conflict on television. I know people who covered the story and I’ve heard about how a colleague gave one person a gameboy when he left Sarajevo. That person called and asked about the individual and that’s how I knew…

Lake Parade streaming fun

Jul 12, 2008

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richard

in N95, social media, tech related, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst a friend was filming with a high speed camera i was streaming the event live from my phone via Qik. I noticed they improved a couple of important things. The first is that video files are now saved and readable without conversion. The second fact is that you now have…

People appreciate video of an event for the second time

Oct 8, 2007

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richard

in editing, facebook, London, social networking, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few months ago I filmed the Silent Disco in Paddington station, one of London’s main train stations. As a result of the coverage of the event many people were happy to see it. With the footage I have recently filmed of the events that took place on the 6th of…

After two months as a camera operator in the UN General Assembly hall in Geneva…

Sep 11, 2007

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in observation, travel, video archive

Reading Time: 3 minutesA tall slender woman was sitting on a chair by the podium where her husband was delivering a presentation to a hall filled with people. Each group of four people had a white board in front and on this board was the name of the deleguation. Canada, USA, France, Lithuania and more.…

Slow data transfers and self satisfaction

Sep 5, 2007

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richard

in social networking, tech related, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with technology is a great way of learning new skills but occasionaly you are let down by it. This happened to me tonight when I wanted to do episode four of twittervox. The entire day I had an excellent connection and things were downloading at a good speed. Wait until…

As featured on Operator 11

Aug 22, 2007

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in fun, Post-university life, tech related, twitter, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter a long but great day of work I came home to do The Twitter Vox show with Loudmouthman and two guests. We were joined by Goldie Katsu and Malburns. We discussed what it’s like to reach 3000 tweets and the conversation moved towards the advantages of using twitter when part…

New Site of Interest and Old Site To Avoid For A Few Days

Aug 1, 2007

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in tech related, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce more facebook is down due to site maintenance and it’s making me think that it’s time to move onto another site for a number of days until they sort everything out. That’s where Tubemogul comes in, a video sharing website. Whilst it has hardly anything to do with Facebook Tubemogul…

Category: video archive