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Note: This video is at 640×240 resolution, so if you’re using Ant or a similar client, then drag/save the video to your desktop, and open it in native QuickTime. Otherwise you probably won’t be able to read the text. I’m told they’re working on it. 🙂
This is the first of what might be a series of videos about storytelling. I say might be, because it took 5 hours to make, my third longest to make so far.
Some people are natural storytellers, and some aren’t. Neither typically have any conscious idea what makes a good story, and how much a well constructed story can hold attention. In fact storytelling is a big fad at the moment in the corporate world, but I’ve yet to see any really good theoretical stuff from storytelling for business consultants. Anyway…
Hopefully I’ve also redeemed myself with Chris, from when I didn’t include him in my Video Killed the Radio Star video from earlier this year. Chris is a great story teller, and along with Josh and Ian, are masters of the Setup, as you’ll soon see.
Not the storytelling video, but a piece on art and story.
This is also the first video that isn’t included in the feed as blog text and an enclosure. When I started videoblogging, 117 videos ago, a lot of friends didn’t have readers that supported enclosures, so I embedded them as HTML in the text as well. By now they should be using Ant or some enclosure capatable reader.
I’ve been fairly dissatisfied with the content coming out of the videoblogging community recently. They’re mostly home video style pieces, which tend to get boring once you’ve seen the first dozen they’ve made, or these people tend to just stop making videos. I have no problem with the home movie style, because it is interesting getting to know people, but once you get a bit of what they’re about, for me at least, they then tend to blur into a single contuing stream of tedium.
I think I also hit my second wall of idea block for the year, and because culture feeds on culture, I think that’s partially why I’ve run out of ideas, there’s nothing innovative happening in the videoblogging space.
So here’s a rant about podcasting, which I haven’t done for over a year, and a cry for more innovation and storytelling.
Amusingly, I happened to be wearing my “CRASS – Destroy Power Not People” tshirt, but you can’t really see it in frame, and please don’t ask me what biodirectional means. 🙂
You gotta love home movies. Guess where I’ve been and you haven’t, now watch the long and boring video of it, now say how lucky I am for being there, now go home.
I have a cat named Macro, but he doesn’t live with me any more, he lives with my folks in what is becoming less and less of bushland. The cat in this video looks exactly like him. Yep, another Newtown stray, or as Jane put’s it, Meowtown. I call this one Marco.
Remember that my videos are all at 480×360, so if you’re using Ant, pop it open in another window to see the full detail of the kitty’s face.
And yes Josh, I will be sending you a list of cat videos for your cat vlog. (I wish I could remember the URL)
Singleton is the biggest threat to the music industry.
I just realised that this shows what happens to white pillows in my house. I don’t always sleep with white pillows, but this is what happens when I do. Although if I hadn’t just mentioned it, maybe you wouldn’t have noticed. Oh well, too late now.
I’ve had some comments from people who haven’t seen my earlier videoblogs, about the history of Singleton. If you want to see what else he’s gotten up to, then my site actually has a Singleton archive (and a video archive if you’d like all my videos). But don’t show him too much attention, he’ll get a bigger head than he already has. HEY I SAW THAT YA BASTARD PEOPLE LIKE ME SO GET OVER IT! JUST CAUSE YA GOT YOUR OWN VLOG YA THINK YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING. STUFF YOU RICHARD, JUST STUF YOU.
Maybe not the prodigal son, but he seems to be having more fun than I am. Yes, Singleton is back.
Video Killed the Radio Star on a theremin. Found this video listed with my tribute to early videobloggers on some forum. Amusing.