July 2010
26 posts
Home - Picsean →
A place where selected travel photos can earn money
WatchShatterBox (by Jordan Scott)
Eminently simple with well chosen music. It goes to prove that photorealism is not all that it takes to create some interesting
Tunited Home →
Midge Ure led community to help new, unsigned bands
Looking for young filmmakers in Birmingham -... →
If you are a young film maker in the Birmingham area then you should take a look at this
BBC News - MoD lifts lid on unmanned combat plane... →
The Celtic god of Thunder is becoming an autonomous combat plane.
Kaltura: Open Source Video Developer Community |... →
If you’re building a video site you should take a look at Kaltura. It’s a full blooded solution for handling videos on web sites. It includes libraries and applications for some of the most used social CMS systems.
Helium - Where Knowledge Rules →
One for writers this. I’ve signed up yet so these are only my first impressions. Helium looks like a profit sharing website for writers. In other words this is a place to try and get paid for the written word. The appearance is that you can submit anything, or match up your writing to the sites current needs. The needs seem to be driven by what is marketable and also but is needed by...
WatchShadows - A thought by Waqqas Qadir Sheikh (by Waqqas Qadir Sheikh)
Short film conceived of and shot in less than 12 hours using a Flip Camera
YouTube Blog: Edit video in the cloud with the... →
Its time to bring to your attention the You Tube Video Editor, that allows you to edit video or add soundtracks to your work online. One feature I am particularly keen on - there is a large library of music for you to use, and that helps source the eternal problem of how to legally source music.
Movies - News - Ridley Scott to produce YouTube... →
Post a video of your life on Saturday July 24th to take part in You Tube based Day in a Life project run by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald
Flattr →
Coming from one of the creators of Pirate Bay and picking up a fair bit of interest is Flattr - a combinator of social media and payments that allows you to support people who create things you like. They make it, you like it and so you send a small payment. Its personal and social patronage for creative people. It looks interesting to me and perhaps a little ironic that a matey from Pirate Bay is...
Wreckamovie - Be the Future of Film →
Open and shared movies made to professional standards A collaborative artists dream
Issuu - You Publish →
Issuu is publishing online with some very pretty page display software. Issuu takes a PDF file and turns it into a page flipping display that can be embedded on web pages. Like YouTube a free account will make your documents discoverable to anyone. Making Issuu into a large library. If you publish documents this could be a good solution for you.
WatchEazy Handle (by Jason Hernandez)
Excellent description and coverage of a handy looking gadget to help you get smoother video from a DSLR. If you use one of these let me know how you get on
Vimeo Festival + Awards →
Don’t forget to submit your video to the Vimeo festival. The closing date for submissions is July 31st
Pixorial - Video Sharing Service →
Pixorial call themselves a video sharing service. That suggests that they may be a YouTube competitor.
They are so much more.
Pixorial is a web based video editor designed to output the results of your work to all major video sharing sites.
That’s cool, but not the really cool bit. The cool bit is that it is designed for collaborative video editing. You can work with someone in another...