We’ve started a small pool of release forms that may be used for film/video projects using two of the more common Creative Commons licenses in Australia. These forms have been prepared in collaboration with the Creative Commons Clinic.
See our CC Screen material on the apc.au wiki.
The slam team clips are now online. Make merry at OPEN CHANNEL on EngageMedia.
You’ll also find them on YouTube and Vimeo.
Last nights VIDEO SLAM Remix Forum was a success… It was amazing! The Horse Bazaar was packed! There were cheers for the teams and discussion between the legal crew after the screenings raised issues that I’d never heard discussed in any Creative Commons (CC) forum space.
Elliott Bledsoe and I spent the last hours of the evening talking about quite a few CC and related projects… he stated again, that this is the only initiative in the world that uses CC licenses in this way, that not only provides a workshop in how they are used, but also results in real, watchable films!
More on the Remix Forum OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM Blog… includes a run-down of proceedings.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew-garton/2537852037/ © All rights reserved
As part of our involvement with Arts Law Week 2008, we are running Open Channel’s Video Slam 02 (Appropriate Original) event.
When Andrew last mentioned the project, he was counting down the days until it started. It is now well and truely under way, with Andrew leading the participants who are busy working up their projects at Horse Bazaar in the Melbourne CBD.
Justin from Horse Bazaar has come up with a great theme and Andrew’s given it a wicked twist that is being kept a secret from everyone outside the SLAM teams. Even the panelists don’t know what’s in store for them so the big reveal happening tonight (7:30pm onwards at Horse Bazaar) promises to be a great time.
You can follow progress on the Video Slam 02 Blog and get the indepth details behind the concept on our Video Slam 02 wiki page.
It’s been around 10 months since I’d been to OPEN CHANNEL’s SHED 4. It was an odd feeling to see my files in the same place I’d left them, all neatly stored on shelves in my old office where I’d sat, this time round, as a contractor.
It was good to see the new studio spaces in SHED 4 coming to fruition, the “huts” as they’re known, with the remaining space being hired out on a very frequent basis.
After the formal part of the visit was over I checked in on my former colleagues and was astonished to find Ian Dixon and I in pretty much the same attire. Black Doc Martins, black trousers, green shirt, black t-shirt and almost the same jacket!
Ian’s just had his first feature, Crushed, premiered and I dare say will have a vast and brilliant career ahead of him.
Two years ago I saw a presentation of a subtitling translation tool for online videos at the first iCommons Summit. At first dotSUB appeared rather crude, but it worked. This morning I had a look at where they’re at, having heard they’d worked on a large translation project and was mightily impressed with where they’d got to.
Here’s an example video that comes with 22 completed translations… that’s 22 individual languages that a mix of volunteers and professionals have contributed to.
Read more about what dotSUB have to offer.
With the recent upgrade of WordPress to 2.5.1, and in fact, I believe since 2.3+, embedded videos in all the WordPress sites I look after had suddenly disappeared! The embed / object code seemed in place, but what in fact seems to have happened is that the GUI editor munched up this code preventing the videos from even appearing.
The solution is to turn off the default visual editor in your user profile and re-embed all those vids, in particular the EngageMedia pieces as the WordPress media embed tool only supports a handful of providers such as YouTube, Google, Flickr, etc.
From 1988, a small community of computer engineers, software developers, writers, poets, unionists and community workers fanned out across South Asia, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe with modems in their back-packs and dial-up software in their pockets. It was perhaps the single most intensive effort to get people online since the establishment of ARPANET, and certainly prior to the broad scale uptake of the World Wide Web.
We’re counting down the days till the introductory VIDEO SLAM evening on Tuesday 20 May when we will meet our participants and start organising them into production teams. With around 3 days of workshops and the final event on the 22nd, it should prove to be another fun packed, accelerated project that I hope will inspire our panellists to further the discussion on appropriation in the arts, open licensing models and how these tools contribute to cultural practices that enrich, rather then simply entertain.
For more details go the the VIDEO SLAM Blog on OPEN CHANNEL or review our up-coming projects on the VIDEO SLAM wiki.
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