who needs old media?
Given the amount of videos I have been watching online lately, I couldnt resist following up on this, and sharing some of my recent favs.
Starting with the icing, Abject Learning highlighted a post today from Gardner Writes that makes this relevant to education. My own take is going to be a bit more off topic educationally speaking. Brian then follows to make my week with a link to one of the coolest home produced vids I’ve seen. Just amazing, particularly if you have done that drive.
This took me back a couple weeks to a gem from geek entertainment tv interviewing Tom Green. They discussed his recently launched vlogging, ‘deputy’ community, and promoted vloggercon. The interview is hilarious for one thing, and green does a classic commentary on “old media”, that kills. Essentially the point from both the interview”er” and “ee”, was, “look out TV and Hollywood, the internet is ours”.
Proving the point on a larger scale this post via Screenhead, the first “open movie”, Elephants Dream,
“…made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.”
Their process is available on wikipedia, and serves as a model for collaboration between open source software and filmmakers, and who knows, maybe an entirely new industry just for good measure.
Lastly, these two virals that speak out humorously against the history of oil, and conspiratorially question the events of 9/11. This new media thing certainly has the potential to stir things up. I’m curious if that will be the case on campus and in the classroom.
Oh, and not to leave things on a somber note, you have to see Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
yay screenhead!