Lightwriting vid on Flickr
Originally uploaded by lichtfaktor
Some very cool lightwriting techniques fromLichtfactor. They must be very patient people indeed.
Read MoreConfiscating longline in the Pacific
Confiscating longline in the Pacific
Originally uploaded by Greenpeace Esperanza
I’ve been following this great Flickr contributor from Greenpeace for a while now.
[flickr video=2489312320 show_info=true secret=f97f850136 w=260 h=195]
The photos are taken by Greenpeace staff working on the Greenpeace Esperanza in the Pacific Ocean. The photos they post are infrequent depending on who seems to be on rotation, but show the crew, the work and the environment they spend their time in. They bring a real insight into the ship, the crew and Greenpeace, despite the Esperanza being on the other side of the world.
Its a great way of spreading the word of Greenpeace, and it does make it look very exciting!
This is their first Flickr video, nothing especially exciting but again, a great way of demonstrating why the Esperanza and Greenpeace are deep in the Pacific Ocean. If only they’d add in some location metadata and then we could see exactly where they are. That would be cool.
(posted from Flickr)
Read MoreFirst movie on flickr
First movie on flickr
Originally uploaded by nairnski
My first movie posting to flickr. First attempt failed as it didn’t seem to like H.264 but the second attempt encoded as an MPEG-4 seems to have worked fine.
I used a custom camera housing, some might call it a cardboard box with lots of tape wrapped round it, to film this. This was coming down an empty red run on the Fornet glacier. It was steeper than it looks!
Read MoreMicrosoft: Hands off our Flickr
It seems Flickr users are not especially pleased with the possibility of their favourite photo sharing website being owned by Microsoft.
They’re a creative bunch and have created an great Flickr Pool entitled “Microsoft: Keep your evil grubby hands off of our Flickr” for their protestations. It’s well worth five minutes of your time.
Read MoreCloverfield – spoiler warning…
We went to see Cloverfield at a surprisingly quiet Brixton Ritzy on Friday night. It’s good and completely relentless – well worth seeing if you think you might like it.
I remember having a conversation with Dallas last July (ish) about a great trailer for a scary movie that nobody knew anything about. At the time it didn’t seem to even have a name, except possibly 1-18-08.
At the same time there were various online treasure hunt type games which teased and tempted you through various puzzles. Although looking back I think the information that was revealed about the film had little to do with what I saw on Friday night. The main hype and excitement seemed to just come from the trailer which managed to look terrifying but revealed pretty much zero about the film. On top of this we knew that JJ Abrams was involved, and whether you like Lost (note the phrase HD streaming on this page!) or not, you know he has a track record.
Now the film has been released, I thought it was be interesting to see how much content people have been posting about Cloverfield. You obviously might come across some spoilers if you visit the links below.
Flickr: 1420 photos.
This is the first photo which seems to refer to the movie uploaded on July 18 2007. There are also quite a few photos from the production sets.
Youtube: 6840 videos. These seem to consist of mainly trailers and exclusive bits of content leaked and a few people doing reviews and ranting about the movie.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY&rel=1]
Facebook:You can join 19000 other people and become a fan of Cloverfield. Despite having such a huge number of fans, there are only 6 videos posted. There are over 1200 reviews and comments though, implying that people are not exactly rushing to Facebook to upload videos.
Blogs and elsewhere: There are a gazillion blog posts about Cloverfield, I think a more interesting analysis comes from Alexa and Technorati using both Cloverfield sites and 1-18-08 sites.
And from Technorati…
And if you have seen the movie and can take anymore, then you might be interested in following this link which possibly shows what happens after the lights came up… (or perhaps this is the sequel) http://www.1-18-08.com/
