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Day 16 - Little Pieces
Kath published some intriguing thoughts about time, the data-body, and outsourced memories along with her video. Her piece begins with a quote from “Time Squared,” a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Which is kind of funny because when I think about time, I always come back to Delmore Schwartz’ poem Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day, which, of course, provides a big theme for the Star Trek Generations film: Time is the fire in which we burn. And I also come back to Don Charles’ song, “Little Pieces,” performed by D-Squared, which I used as the soundtrack. As Charles says, we’re all just “walking, talking, burning little pieces.” And for the origin of both, you can always look back to Heraclitus.Posted 3 months ago
Day 23 - where's daddy?
Here's my contribution for the NaVloPoMo videoblogging game 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos. The challenge? Each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. In Mike Moon's video, he appears and disappears a time or two, and his familiar backyard scene keeps jumping around. That reminded me of my busy work and travel schedule, and how I might be constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing again to my kids. Hence, I appear and disappear a bunch in the video, which is set to echoey music. Special thanks to the crow who somehow chirped in time to the beat.Posted 3 months ago
NaVloPoMo : Nov 10
Yosemite SnapshotArriving at out hotel on the Western entrance to the park after a long days drive. We enter the room and open the back door and are greeted with a deafening roar. The Merced River flows right out back. The whole week was underscored with the white noise of flowing water over rock. It was amazing. We'd sit out on the patio with a bottle of wine as The Sprite slept inside and just sit and listen and stare into the blackness.Published 4 months ago
Day 29 - Trying to Sleep
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Kerry Brogan and is followed by a post by Mary Matthews. Music by: Imogen Heapvideobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 3 months ago
Day 28 - Seeing
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Brook Hinton and is followed by a post by Steve Garfield. Music by: Delmo from ccmixter.com.Posted 3 months ago
Day 27 - What I Didn't See
Here’s my decidedly lo-fi contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos project for Navlopomo 2009. This video follows yesterdays collection of rituals rendered in animated gifs by Jennifer Proctor. Next up: Kerry Brogan.Posted 3 months ago
Day 01 - Adrian Miles
Love is like a match. For the full experience, view at original website. Commentary repeats. Transcript availablePosted 4 months ago
I admit my crime / broken ladder - mumbai one year on
I admit my crime / broken ladder - mumbai one year on I was in Mumbai last year when the terrorist attacks were happening. luckily I was not staying at one of the affected hotels. but I'd received at txt around 3am asking if I was ok, so I woke and started watching the tv. at that time the news media were reporting pretty irresponsibly IMHO - showing live footage of locations of the police and telling everyone what the police were doing. the journalists seemed to be in shock which was understandable, but it wasn't until mid the next morning that they started delaying the footage and not handing out details until later. at the time I was trying to use the internet too but twitter was overloaded all the time. I think I got a couple of messages through to facebook and my blog. I was recording some of the tv footage - the English speaking channels at least. the night before I'd recorded the ad for the Champions League cricket competition, which I think was canceled - or at least, the Australian team didn't go? there were many criticisms of the media's coverage of the event on the Indian blogs, and on Sarai list and Kafila blog & elsewhere. this week will be one year after the attacks. the Times of India website has some articles so tonight I was reliving the night and following day (where I'd flown to Delhi and later caught a flight back to Sydney). I'd been able to get onto a couple of people via mobile the next morning which made me feel better. and I'd had lots of calls from people from work too checking how I was which was comforting. I spent a lot of time in the following months reading the press articles and blogs. I read the confession of the arrested terrorist - he was the only remaining survivor from his group. I almost felt sorry for the situation he had found himself in and I kept wondering, at which point in all of this training did he not stop and think, "hang on, they're talking about killing people", and what sort of life he must have had in order to not find this a problem. it's awful what they did to the people of Mumbai and tourists. but it's also a desparate situation on his/their part too as I'm sure they were not the organizers behind the attack - just the participants, however willing. what a crazy world this is. it made me sad for a while to think about me being there (even if not directly involved) and what happened to the people involved and the whole situation & background of many of the people there that puts them into these situations. I think watching the tv made it worse as they sensationalized everything - really gave it the CNN / USA flashy headline - scare the public treatment. as I understand it, Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist is awaiting trial in an Indian prison "Mujhe gunah kabool hai (I admit my crime). We fired on the public at CST" -- Ajmal Kasab confesses via http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Sir-mujhe-mera-gunaah-kabool-hai/articleshow/4801037.cms this all happened during #vlomo08 which is why I had my cameras ready at the time http://www.aliak.com/content/broken-ladder http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/11mumterror-confession-of-caught-terrorist-mumbai.htm http://indiainteracts.com/columnist/2008/12/03/Youth-Violence-and-Terrorism--Why-this-fatal-attraction http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Sir-mujhe-mera-gunaah-kabool-hai/articleshow/4801037.cms http://www.aliak.com/content/mumbai-people-advised-stay-indoors #vlomo09 day21 21/11/2009 blog entry : http://www.aliak.com/content/i-admit-my-crime-broken-ladder-mumbai-one-year .mov video file ::: video page at blip.tvPublished 3 months ago
Day 30 - REM 30
Day 30 entry of 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a video by Steve Garfield.vimeo.com/7871542videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 3 months ago
Day 17 - Time...For A Dog Walk!
Dog Walk is my contribution to NaVloPoMo The idea is to do a video that was inspired by the previous days video. I followed Cheryl Colan and was inspired by her use of windows, leaves and a morning face. This inspired me to imagine waking up to the big trees outside my bay windows and needing to take the dog out. Go figure. This was a great test for me as it really set into gears the task of quick script writitng, shooting, editing and my limited HTML all within a few hours to keep the game going for the next person...Good Luck Ernie! I'm happy with the final piece as time allowed, but somehow the aspect ratio got botched with bad settings when I imported from iMovie HD. Clark Park has one of the few, if not only statues in the world, of Charles Dickens.Published 3 months ago
Day 06 - Got The Time?
30 Days of Vlog 30 vloggers steal a day from November and create something based on the day before. This is mine. Thanks to Michael Verdi. Good luck to Dee.Published 4 months ago
Day 24 - NaVloPoMo 2009 Day 24
The Yahoo Videoblogging Group’s “30 videos by 30 Vloggers in 30 Day” Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. I was intrigued by all the chopping and changing in recent videos from Mike Moon and David Lee King, but I wanted to pick that up and show that change is a vital part of survival. And I wanted to celebrate Darwin, today at least.Posted 3 months ago
Combat Wombat live at spectrum
I actually made it out to a gig on a Friday night - this is one of my favourite Sydney bands Combat Wombat - they're on my fav Sydney label, elefant traks. they're partly a subversive, hip hop, outdoor party band, & have been running a traveling vege-oil & solar powered van & crew called the "Lab Rats Solar Sound System" which traveled the outback and brought music & mayhem to various outback & Indigenous Australian towns for many years - before the cars were talking about being converted. http://www.myspace.com/labratssolarpoweredsoundsystem Combat Wombat at the Curse ov Dialect album launch 27/11/2009 http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=artists&artistId;=81 http://blip.tv/file/2904562Published 3 months ago
Day 11 - more than one home, sadly.
for vlomo09 11-11we tried to bring "home" to my grandmother's final year at a nursing facility.the little tangible conveniences and intimate objects and memories. and accompany her as much as we could.in the end, she went to her final home.... her resting place.Published 4 months ago
Day 10 - Home Is Where The Tech Is
VloMo09 Day 10I have always had to have some kind of tech with me when in the outdoors. Even if it is a compass or a fancy multi-tool. It's more than just being prepared. I could live without it but it goes a hell of a long way to making any trip or adventure more 'comfortable'.In this case a home comfort for me tends to be tech related. I can feel at home anywhere, especially if I have a bag full of tech. To eat, sleep or communicate with.Published 4 months ago
