CulturePulp 54 interviews a scanner darkly’s director richard linklater. in comic strip form.
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there’s also a hi-rez pdf here

the people from the participatory culture are raising a design contest for the broadcast machine video player (I told about them before)
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it’s open source (right now I use iTunes to watch my videos, but in no way I trust a private company to maintain a huge community), it’s TV and it’s one step more away from the monolog culture to our networked dialog.
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I offered help before, but the $1000 prize and the opportunity to create an app to deliver the plethora of videoblogs out there convinced me to buckle up and design my dream video player (yeah, I’m a prosumer!)
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my entry (a 10 pages document, with screenshots, detailed information and suggestions) can be seen as flashpaper format or downloaded as a pdf (a wooping 5.7 MB file)
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alea jacta est!

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jeffrey rowland - from the funny strip overcompensating - informs about a new animation project from his friend. it’s called snow-bo and it’s only available as a torrent seed, so you have to use tomato (if you’re a mac-head) or bitlord (if you bow your head to bill gates).
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besides that, he’s now counting the days for his own death (after a dream told him he’d die april 23, 2005).

julio’s digital camera records movies as .mpg, which is all dandy and fine if you just want to watch them on quicktime. but try to import those mpg files to imovie, and you’ll hear no audio.
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i found a way to put it to work, it’s kinda boring and you have to have quicktime pro, but at least you can manipulate it.
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1. download bbDEMUX
2. drop the mpg file on the app, and it will create two files on the same directory: m1a (the audio) and m1v (the video)
3. download and install mad audio encoder
4. open the madplaywrap icon, drop the m4a on it, and click start: it will create an .aiff file on the same directory
5. open the m4v on quicktime, and edit > export… as movie to MPEG-4
6. open the aiff file on quicktime. click command+A, command+C
7. open the mp4 file on quicktime, go to edit > add scaled: it will mix the audio on the video again
8. delete the aiff, mp4, m1v, m1a files. you won’t need these anymore
9. save as a mov file, allowing dependencies (the first option on save as…)
   ta-da! here it is, a .mov file, all ready to edit on imovie

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i’d show my new videoblogs, but my imovie now imports any new footage with black bands on the top and bottom of screen, since the damn update I explained below. another day, another debugging…

take a look at these hilarious found footage.

I teach jeff, my boyfriend, how to videoblog…
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from basic video edition (using imovie HD), to uploading and posting it… the results are here.
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if you want to watch other videobloggers around the world (at least on a mac) you can download ant. in fact, a videoblogger explains it on this video (talk about recursiveness :). I still don’t know how to feed his new videoblog to ant, but time to time.
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I know how obsessed jeff is, and in no time our server will be crammed with videos, so I’ll better find a cheaper way. our idea is to use the ourmedia.org servers, but the website crashes our safari - don’t click if you use the same browser, we had to use firefox - and it takes some time from the upload to the actual link.

a side-by-side comparison between matrix and ghost in he shell.