Monthly Archive for March, 2008

The Clip Show: Videos not from Orlando

Published by Ryan Price on March 9, 2008 in news, orlandovideo, podcast, series, video and vlogs. 0 Comments Tags: , .

59 times out of 60, Orlando Video highlights a clip made right here in Sunny Floria, but today I must give props to two gentleman more talented and dedicated than myself at showing off cool videos. Their names are Jim Kirk and Chuck Baker, and their talent produces many podcasts, one of which is The Clip Show. I really have to hand it to them for following the KISS methodology and just keeping things super-simple. The show within the show that you see The Heap, actually gets it’s own web site and feed, because they write and produce things that last 2 to 10 minutes and just get it over with.

This particular episode of the Clip Show doesn’t follow the familiar format, where they rate video podcasts on the C.O.G.D.N. Rating System, which is a modest scale of 1 to 13 COGDN, 13 being knock your socks off amazing. In fact, the reason why I linked to this episode is to direct you readers to 13 shows you should really check out, a great sampling of video podcasts. Add these 13 shows to your iTunes / Miro / FireAnt player, or visit each web site individually each week and get a cramp in your hand from all the clicking like I know so many of you do, but give all of these shows an equal chance.

Visit the Clip Show and make sure you subscribe!

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

Valencia Interactive Design: High Fidelity Rant

Published by Ryan Price on March 6, 2008 in education, film, mashups, motion graphics, orlando, orlandovideo and video. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .


John Cusak in High Fidelity, created by Steve Steger
Source: VCC Graphics Technology Blog: We’re on YouTube!

I’ve been reading the Graphics Technology program’s blog from Valencia Community College for as long as it’s existed, I think. The best part is: it’s an interesting read! There are always students winning awards, getting jobs and the like, and now there are videos, too!

Amanda Kern writes:

I’ve uploaded six new projects from my Interactive Design 1 course to share with you all. Last semester I began assigning a new typographic animation project which has had some great results. You’ll just have to check out the videos for yourself. Enjoy!

A BIG thanks goes out to Digital Media Professor, Rob McCaffrey, who was instrumental in spearheading our new youtube account. Keep an eye out for new videos by visiting Valencia’s digital media/graphics youtube account directly.

I know I’m going to continue keeping an eye on this blog for more videos. It looks like these were captured with a screencasting software instead of exported from Flash. There are also several more examples of animated type on the blog post where I found this video, so go check them out.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

OrlandoNews.TV: Alas Poor Yorick

Published by Ryan Price on March 6, 2008 in news, orlando, orlandovideo, video and vlogs. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Tough love is necessary sometimes…

CentralFloridaNews.TV – I have met Chaz Yorick and seen him perform poetry to a decent degree, but these initial videos are not his strong suit.

Here’s some free advice – for anyone posting lots of videos to the web – do post your videos to YouTube, but on your web site post higher-quality vids from Viddler, Blip.TV or Revver – all three of these allow for contextual ads in the video, and their playback quality and video players are much better. A service like TubeMogul can help you post and tag the video on multiple sites, as well as tracking the number of viewers you get.

More free advice – as much as I love “A Comic Shop” and the plan for what they announced for their MegaCon booth, as a producer, you need to understand when your interview subject is as exciting as a wet noodle and you need to read the copy yourself. We made that mistake on the TASTE video and paid the price.

You can catch Chaz any Wednesday night hosting the poetry open mic at Austin’s Coffee. Also this weekend at MegaCon. Something about live streaming, but it doesn’t really say where or by what method…? Twitter – something called College Boys Live that looks like a Justin.TV thing. Not too sure what zombies and comic books have to do with college boys streaming 24/7 on the internet, but it will make my google ads more interesting for a few weeks, yes?

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >. We also started a show called OrlandoScene.TV – it is open for anyone to contribute so we aren’t duplicating efforts and splintering the viewership. Anyone out there making videos like this, we want to work together.

Update: According to the announcement made in this video, he and some folks will be streaming live from MegaCon this weekend via the Justin.tv service. I’m watching a little of it right now – people eating lunch. I like that someone is doing the live streaming thing from Orlando. Props.

Update 2: I had my doubts about this project earlier this week, but after watching the live stream at MegaCon, I see that you not only get to watch them set up for the videos, but all the crazy folks walking around in costume is an experience like no other. I have only been to MegaCon once in the past, but this live stream lets me get just enough of it and remain immersed to make it fun.

In this crazy hurricane we call Internet Video, I get a jones for finding things that were made in my backyard. I hope these little blogs can bring a bit of that joy to you, and maybe help you make a new friend. It's the least I can do.


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