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I mean I wish I was this good:
Theres some really cool stuff up there but my favorite right now has got to be this one.
It makes me realise that just becuase your using a computer, the theory is all still the same as oil painting. I've got to take me some classes.
Its hard to mention this topic without mentioning Jason. Check out his stuff.
First of what I hope will be weekly drawings / inkings / colourings. Its me, at least, a little. Kinda. Well ok its... I'm getting better!
So today I got me a promotion.
Thats a kinda weird thing to be able to say. It was just like in TV, the call into the office the hearty congratulations and so on. It was pretty damn awesome.
I'm an Art Director now, I'm waiting to see what that means in practice but in theory it means that I will have my own projects, entirely to myself. I'll go from concept to design to execution. Its true that I've had those sort of opportunities before, but This should make it the norm, and It also means that what people expect of me when they are introduced to me. I think. I've never been a client. Thats how I imagine it goes.
There is some weirdnes sin how it all plays out in reality though, there are people who I was very clearly below under a year ago, and now I'm theoretically they're equal. Some of them are much older than me. More worringly theres one or two people I clearly 'outrank' that are older than me. I'm not sure how to deal with that. In the end though my workplace dosn't really do the 'pullinng rank' thing, its just not that kind of environment. Hopefully I'll just never have to deal with it and I'll just be given work in a way that it will just move me into a new rut.
Something like that.
Anyway, the question is should i go +1 dexterity or +2 constitution?
(jokes for nerds, jokes for nerds)
Try watching these videos and not having a different point of view on the war in Iraq.
Internet video is like these are really changing things for our 'intake of media' patterns. Something like this would never have been on the air in Australia.
So it seems that our Australian government is trying to rush some pretty damn imposing copyright legislation through.
Take a listen to:
http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/materials/20061122-BrianFitzgerald_PeterCoroneos-64.mp3
to quote the SMH:
Under these proposed new laws it will be illegal - for instance - to lend a video copy of a TV show you have made to your family or friends if you have already watched that copy.
And those same proposed laws will required you to delete that program once you've watched it once.
I personally love:
Can I give a recording I have made to a friend
No. A recording is for the personal use of the person who made it. You can invite a friend over to watch or listen to your recording but you can't lend or give it to a friend to take home with them.
It really seems like the government heard that something needed to be done, but then went to the content companies for advice on solutions. Or just for money. Whats really disturbing is the way this legislation is rushing through. The Australian part of the blogosphere does not have the influence that the American portion does, and if the traditional media companies (which have the potential to control our media uptake a lot more with these laws) decided not to report about it, and I've heard very little about it in the mainline press, how are non tech savy Australians surposed to understand how this will affect them. They wont know anything has changed until a few years from now when they'll find that they're kids dvd of the latest pixar film will only play in the first dvd player it was used on, or that the show they recorded in the lounge room will cost them exrea to be able to play it back in the bedroom.
If you can, make a stink about this. Write to a member of parliment, or better yet call them. Try and get the attention of media houses with more open thinking, like the abc, and get them to report on it.
Thikn its not a big deal? The collective at Digg seems to think that singing out loud may be illeagle under the new laws. Google is worried too.
My new favorite Video podcast/netcast is Chasing Windmills. Well I guess thats a lie, Ze Frank's the show is still hard to beat. Chasing Windmills is a totally different show. For a start its not a blog, its a serialized drama. And its totally awesome.
I don't want to talk about what its actually about too much for fear of being wrong all over the internets, which can be horribly embarrassing, but you should definitely start form the beginning. Its fairly safe to say that each episode kinda speaks for itself, but put together you get a much better sense of character.
I really hope to see more of this kind of content being made into netcasts/podcasts (I still havn't decided which phrase I'm going with). If anyone knows of anything like it, link me up with the linking.
1) Boyfriend - Ashlee Simpson
2) Romantic Comedies
3) Picking other peoples scars
4) Storage solutions
5) Cold pizza
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http://www.5ives.com/
So after I post about revver I find kongregate. Even though it would appear this hasn't really started up, it looks like this flash game site is going to operate under the revver model, of which I am a fan.
I've already submitted the Personal Space Invaders game from rid, and its actually encouraged me to start thinking about game design again. Horay for incentives.
"People come up to me and say, 'your doing all this internet stuff... but your not making any money', and I say, 'Mum, Dad, I'm trying'." - Ze Frank
Its sadly true.
The interner has given us the excellent vechicle for sharing ideas, art, thoughts, opinions... but we just seem to be hitting ourselves in the croch and blowing up diet coke.
Perhaps this is all we have to share, at least for now, but even so people are watching it. Shouldn't people be making money from it? Arguably no, but there sould at least be some way they could. There was an excellent snippet on Heroes last week when someone said they were going to stick the freaky videos of claire bennet or YouTube and make million, recieveing the nicly timed "youtube is free you idiot". Yeah it is. Why is that? Frankly youtube is a hit, because it got lucky. Just like myspace or other web social networking hits, they're the market leader because thats where everyone is. Enter revver. Rever works out how much, as a percent, of the content watched on the site was yours, and gives you that percent of that months advertising take, with a cut for themselves. This means that if you stick a video up and it goes super crazy popular you make some money. The Googles is trying to show support, but theres just not gaurentee like there is with revver.
So whats the holdup? Why Isn't everyone on revver? Thats a self answering quention. No ones there, because no ones there.
That and it looks like ass.
Give it time though, I suspect Youtube may be a bit of a flash in the pan.
So i discovered that there is only ONE show i still watch on free to air now. Even then I an using a home media centre to record it first so i don't have to watch the ads. And I'm only doing it to justify the $200 tuner card.
I either download the shows I watch, or I podcast or (netcast). I find that if I'm not with people I pretty much have to be either listeneing to music or to podcasts, and more and more podcasts are taking up more of my mind share.
I thought I'd just give a brief roundup of my favorite casts:
Buzz Out Loud - a "podcast of indeterminate length", BOL highlights some of the most intreaguing tech news storys every day. Notice the every day? That's why I love this show. Its hosted by three people, and if one of them is away, the other two always battle on. Its very easy to be endeared with Tom, Molly and Veronica, and the balance of ages, levels of experience and sexes makes this easy to recommend to anyone that spends a fair part of their day reading tech blogs.
Ze Frank - the show is possibly some of the finest comedy to be found anywhere. Ze is brilliant, and has got what is basically a video diary down to an amazing art. It has a vaugly Eddie Izzard feel about it, with a strong political undercurrent. Watching should be mandatory.
TWiT network - The Twit network is all about Leo. Leo Laporte has brought together the best In Tech and Tech related podcasts on the net, not to mention hosting and producing most of them himself. If you are at all into technology there's something here for you.
Revision 3 - There's something here for you. whoever you are. A cooking show? Beer drinking / news telling ? Photoshop tips? Hacking? Music that isn't MTV? Check them out, some of the best video casts available.
