Oasis is launching their new single and CD with the help of street musicians in NYC. Using an interesting twist on Web 2.0, they have taught street musicians in NY their new song and are recording the process documentary style for use on
YouTube and
Flickr. The musicians will then perform throughout the city to promote the album. It’s an interesting experiment that follows in the steps of
Radiohead and
Trent Reznor with the pay what you want record releases.
The digital tools available to musicians today create unique opportunities for them to reach out to fans and share their music in a new way…as long as…
Political ads produced for the Internet and political digital videos produced by ordinary citizens are having an impact in the 2008 U.S. election. Taking notice was none other than weekly circulation giant Parade magazine in its edition that fell between the Democratic and Republican conventions. Both the campaigns of Sens. Barrack Obama and John McCain “have gained hours of unconventional publicity from content that’s been put online and watched by ordinary Americans,” wrote political writer Jonathan Alter in Parade’s August 31 edition. Alter’s thrust was that voters used to receive information about candidates from news stories, ads, campaign literature, and…
Okay, I admit, I’m a hopeless junkie for the athletic excellence of the Olympic games – summer and winter. But Beijing 2008 
should have excited even those media and new media junkies the least interested in athletics. NBC’s standard setting closing credits video montage alone was a must see for any video editor. But most significant was how NBC’s multi-platform presentation combined broadcast, cable, Internet, video-on-demand, and pay-per-view while also delivering video as it was captured in Beijing to three screens: TV, PC, and smartphone.
The many promises of digital new media are incalculable. But its gold medal event can’t happen without more advanced technologies. So…
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” - Sir Chimhoy Ghose.
Every now and then a friend of mine from the other side of the world sends me a link of an item that moved him or her, that link sparked something with in them and they choose to take the time and spread their thought and emotions regarding that event. I decide to take my precious time and embark on an adventure which will connect us to a higher meaning of relationships. This bonds us and make us wonder about how souls connect and…
As video cameras and still cameras become smaller and easier to use, we find ourselves in a world of novice video and photo editors who immediately jump into their editing programs telling themselves it can’t be that hard to do.
While the basic editing of a photo slideshow to DVD is not rocket science, it is a good thing to have a little knowledge about the different formats that are becoming standard on today’s televisions. This will make your start in the video world a little less filled with snapshots of pulling your hair out because it doesn’t look the same on the…
Sorry, you won’t find any hidden code buried in this image that will lead you to fame or fortune, but for those video enthusiasts who grow by the numbers every day, I do hope that you find this blog helpful.
I by no means consider myself an expert when it comes to video, but as we find with most things we do on a regular basis there are better and more effecient ways to do things.
As American families pick up the camcorders, they also find themselves piling up the mini-dv tapes or mini dvd discs by the dozen. I find myself…
