Published Date 11/2/11 9:46 PM The is a churning of the wheel in activism, it is part of the explanation of why campaigns tend to tern in cercals, the social change we push is often bogged down by these muddy memory’s. The churning of the ground is mistaken for real movement, then activist get bored…
How I learned to stop panicking and love disorder
Published Date 10/25/11 8:05 PM At protest camps, after a time it’s inevitable that things fall apart. At St Paul’s (Occupy 2011) today we had the health and safety rep shouting and waving petrol cans around while unscrewing the top in the middle of a crush of tents. “We must shut this down now.” He…
The state of video aggregation on the web
Published Date 10/18/11 4:07 PM There is an issue of centralization around a single portal for different types of content on the web, and the withering of diversity of outcomes that this entails. There are a few successful implementations of p2p web structures such as blogging and RSS but they are exceptions, we have total…
Using a good mobile phone with an external mic to shoot live video reports
Published Date 10/16/11 5:31 PM Here are two short video pieces I did at the recent Occupylsx. Feel they work quite well, two crew, one on camera, one on mic and interview, then basic camera moves and VO/interview. [embedded content][embedded content]Shot and uploaded in an hour or so, I did a few more interviews but…