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November 4, 2006
Saturday Video Fun
In order to get back in the blogging habit, I'm thinking of adding a weekly feature here at The Chutry Experiment: Saturday Video Fun. As many of my readers will know, I'm a big fan of online video, and there are countless videos out there to choose from. This week's favorites:
First, via the cinetrix, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema featuring Slavoj Zizek sitting on a toilet in order to explain the similarities between two key scenes in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 thriller, The Conversation and Hitchcock's Psycho. In related news, I'll be joining the cinetrix at SCMS (not to mention several folks from Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope), where I'll be giving a paper on the recent documentary, Unknown White Male.
With the election coming up, I couldn't resist throwing in a couple of political videos, including this fun little video using George Michael's "Freedom" to comment on the Bush administration. Somehow this line seems especially fitting: "All we have to do is take these lies and make them true" (via TPM). Related: via Altercation, a short video about Bush's spech writer.
Finally, I wanted to mention a few videos from the new video service, Motionbox, which I learned about via email this week. With the implications of Google's purchase of the video hosting service YouTube still unclear, I think it's worth looking at what other video hosting services can offer. There's a lot to like about Motionbox, most notably the fact that Motionbox claims no ownership rights to videos submitted to their site (which isn't always the case wih other video hosting sites). The other feature I've grown to like is deep-tagging, which allows you to add tags within a specific video to make it even more navigable (this functions much like chapter stops on a DVD).
I mention Motionbox in part as an excuse to point to Bush's Beatbox and the very interesting experimental video, Blackbird, which features a hybrid of digital and analog animation techniques. Finally, Motionbox is also hosting a trailer for the new personal doc, 51 Birch Street, which I'd love to see.
Posted by chuck at November 4, 2006 12:15 PM
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