Since the great server move of December 2007 podcasts on Secession Records had dropped off-line. After an agonising few months trying to address this problem, amidst all our other projects, we decided to re-host the entire collection… This meant creating a dedicated site for our Secession artists and re-directing the old RSS / podcast feed to the new one.
Thankfully, this was more grunt than technical wizardry, but all the huff and puffing has paid off.
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We’re producing a self-funded micro docs series titled Sarawak Gone entirely on location.
Sarawak Gone explores four remote Bidayuh communities accessible by foot within an hour’s drive from Kuching, capital city of Sarawak, Malaysia. They will lose their livelihood, traditional lands and culture, their rights and heritage with the development of the controversial Bengoh Dam project.
Sarawak Gone is a micro docs series intended to raise awareness to the denigration of the rapidly dwindling societies on the island of Borneo, the native land titles at stake and the rapidly decreasing habitats for protected and endangered flora and fauna.
Micro-docs are short, 5 – 10 minute documentaries designed for online distribution and portable media devices and laptop screening events.
Ten years ago I began working with the video artist and painter, John Power. We were keen to develop ways and means to fuse our improvisations in sound and image towards interactions that were both immediate and meaningful.
Our work continues having explored numerous means of live sound and image interplay, over many projects, recently culminating in the proof of concept machinima work titled Border Song.
Border Song was recently exhibited at the new RMIT Gallery, Field 36, from June 10 – 13. For more details on this unique collaboration read the exhibition notes.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
We’re producing a self-funded micro docs series titled Sarawak Gone entirely on location.
Ten years ago I began working with the video artist and painter, 
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.
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.
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