tracking shot remix

Remix art event in Second-Life

Check out this remix art event over on Second-Life.  This is image-based remix (not music or video).  Put on by the Creative Commons organization.

Digg-clone for CC music: CChits

Using Ning, some creative commons music will now get the Digg treatment.  Cory at bOING bOING has the scoop about CChits.

Music video for "Nerdy Boy" by Candypants

For all you nerds out there, here's a music video created using tracking shot for the song Nerdy Boys by the band Candypants (click on the photo to watch).

Shakira fan-made videos

Jackie at the Church of the Customer blog writes about a Shakira video that was constructed at least partially from 10,000 short videos uploaded by fans through Yahoo!.....  The song went to #1....more than a coincidence?

on-line film making

Over at the r e a l digital revolution is a story about videoblogging turning into on-line movie making.  The post talks about raising money on-line for aspiring film makers using micro-donations.

Customer-made, generation-c

Trendwatching.com is a consumer trends firm, doing their best to spot trends early.  Some of the trends they are tracking relate directly to the remix culture.  For example, they have dubbed those who enjoy creating new content GENERATION C.  From the article:

The GENERATION C phenomenon captures the an avalanche of consumer generated 'content' that is building on the Web, adding tera-peta bytes of new text, images, audio and video on an ongoing basis.

Taking that the next step further, they also talk about a Customer-Made trend, where customers create advertising, new products, etc.  Again, from their site:

The phenomenon of corporations creating goods, services and experiences in close cooperation with experienced and creative consumers, tapping into their intellectual capital, and in exchange giving them a direct say in (and rewarding them for) what actually gets produced, manufactured, developed, designed, serviced, or processed.

Certainly as the tools getting less expensive and easier to use, the latent desire to create stuff has an easier outlet.  As the blogosphere repeats: it's the conversation.  Making products in cooperation with your supplier seems like one of the deepest forms of conversation, eh?

TechCrunch bets against Google video ads

Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington doesn't think much of the proposed video ads from Google.  He has 6 reasons:

• Google isn't using it themselves
• Video click doesn't go to a website
• Small businesses already can use SpotRunner instead for TV ads
• People don't want to click on video ads
• Creating video ads is too much work/too expensive
• The above will cause low PPC and click thru rates

He predicts a fade into obscurity.

Google may be selling video ad space

Seen on the MIT Advertising Lab blog, a post about Google beginning to sell video advertising spots.

The Ten Mashup Comandments

Cory at bOING bOING points out a mashup trailer for a fictional teen comedy called "Ten Things I Hate About Commandments."  I had no idea that Sinead O'Connor was in it!

The Grey Video

Jim's previous post reminded me of the great grey video for the encore remix by Danger Mouse. And if you're unaware of his latest project, Danger Mouse is one half of Gnarls Barkley along with vocalist Cee-Lo. The whole album is fantastic. Also check out the "original" music video for Crazy. Animated ink blots. So cool.