Terry Gilliam explains the secrets of the Monty Python animations.
Sourced from The Monty Python Museum
Category Archives: Inspiring Media
2 Inspiring Light Painting Examples
Below are two fascinating examples of light painting. One photographed in 1949 by renowned LIFE photographer Gjon Mili and artist Pablo Picasso and the other created by the Inner-City Arts’ Heart and Soul project in 2011.
View the more of Gjon Mili and Pablo Picasso images on LIFE
This video by Inner-City Arts intersecting light painting, photography, dance, & animation.
Also posted in Artists, Photography, Video
Tagged & animation, dance, Gjon Mili, Inner-City Arts, LIFE Magazine, Light Painting, Pablo Picasso, photography
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Content Versus Technique – Alfred Hitchcock
Sourced from the “Telescope” – A Talk with Hitchcock (1964)
This 1964, interview of Alfred Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. It was conducted during or immediately after the filming of Marnie and also contains interesting stories and comments from Alfred Hitchcock and his associates Norman Lloyd, Joan Harrison and Bernard Herrmann. There are clips from and during the making of several Hitchcock movies. While some of the recollections are part of Hitch’s standard interview material others are unique. Written by Vic Evans
Magnum in Motion: Steve McCurry
Magnum in Motion video showcasing Steve McCurry’s most recognizable photographs from New York to Southeast Asia to Tibet and Afghanistan.
Also posted in Artists, Photography
Tagged international photography, magnum, photojournalism, Steve McCurry, video
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Paul Lewis – Citizen Journalism
Journalist Paul Lewis talks about new media, citizen journalism. and how he has used social media to investigate two murders. He also talks about the new level of transparency and accountability new media offer in public life.
Paul Lewis full bio: http://www.tedxthessaloniki.com/speaker/paul-lewis
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Tagged citizen journalism, Journalist Paul Lewis, new media
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An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
Presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net | Video sourced from http://bit.ly/nxBaSW
0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
23:00 Our first vlogs
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (“context collapse”)
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
30:25 Connection without Constraint
32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKgQyGx0
47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube
49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)
The Numa Numa quote is from *Douglas* Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).
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Tagged Library of Congress, Media Arts, new meida, Youtube
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