Documentary Now!
Last week I was at a gathering of around 200 academics and practitioners (quite a few of whom these days span both worlds) for the annual Documentary Now! Conference at Birkbeck College, London.… Continue reading
The Jean Rouch Project
On Wednesday I was lucky to be at a Paris screening of the seminal documentary – “Chronique d’un Ete” (“Chronicle of a Summer”) which was being shown, almost fifty years after it was… Continue reading
350 – collaborative creativity as political action
Last Saturday my daughter Shauna, my friend Vron and I joined a few hundred other people in the park by the London Eye on the South Bank, to stand in the form of… Continue reading
Making Music – in B flat
Here’s another inspired musical collab piece. Producer Darren Solomon asked musicians on You Tube to offer him videos where they’re playing in Bb. He’s aggregated these onto one page along with some live action and… Continue reading
One & Other
Photos of “Plinthers” taking part in One & Other by Garry Knight (Flckr) “It is a spyhole on the nation’s secret mind, incidental fragments of humanity that weave together into a rich and… Continue reading
“Chips with Everything” – more on Digital Revolution
Rushes sequences from interviews with web luminaries Howard Rheingold and Tim Berners Lee are among those now available for viewing and download on the Digital Revolution website. It’s the latest development in what the BBC… Continue reading
Aerial Storytelling
Early this year aviation consultant Jeral Poskey took advantage of Google Earth 5’s new ‘tour’ capability to produce a re-enactment of the brief flight and emergency landing in the Hudson River of US… Continue reading
Birds on the Wires
Jalbas Agnelli from Sao Paolo has made a lovely video – a co-creation between man and birds…