From Michael’s last post you can see that Michael and I recorded a snappy little library song last week. We are really proud of the work we’ve produced and now YOU get a chance to be in the video!! It’s a jumpy little ditty about library futures, technology and how we will succeed as libraries.
Please listen to this short snippet of the song and then … shoot a brief video of you singing along! That’s all it takes! You can use a web cam or any other camera you like and send it to the email below. It should only take a few minutes on your end, and after we get the videos, we’ll take the best and put them in the video we are hard at work on! Of course, also feel free to send other videos that might go along with the title/theme of the song “hi-fi sci-fi library,” too (costumes are very welcome by the way!:)
So join in the fun and star in a video with us! This is your official invite! We are looking forward to seeing YOU in our upcoming video!
If you have you have a webcam, you really should be emailing your video to:
michael.libraryman *At Sign**gmail.com
Please send your clips in to the above address no later than August 24th, 2008. We are really looking forward to seeing you in the video with us!!!!!!!!!
Some of you probably saw me wandering around ALA2008 with a Flip video camera… well, here’s why: ALA let me borrow one of their cameras! Daniel Kraus, the guy behind most of the videos on AL Focus (a cool blog from ALA) lent me one of their Flip cameras, and asked me to fill it with video of the conference. So I did - then mailed it back to Daniel, who miraculously edited my video mess into a pretty cool video snippet of the conference.
Hey - just me, testing out the embed part of the new flickr video option. The what??? If you haven’t heard - flickr now allows video uploads for pro members (translation - those who have paid $30 a year for a flickr pro account).
The limitations? Not overly produced (I think the idea is to upload those videos people take with their phones); 90 seconds max in length (you can do a lot in that time frame); and only certain video formats are allowed - if you’re interested, you can read more about the specifics here.
David Free and I had a great time with our preconference workshop yesterday. Here’s a link to my presentation, and David Free’s post on the session (includes a link to his presentation and a link to the podcast we made). And of course, the video we made is at the top of this post.
A couple days ago, I gave a workshop on videos and videoblogging to the fine folks at the Long Island Library Resources Council. It was a fun presentation to give (see the video above)!
Here’s a list of videos we watched during the class:
Zadi Diaz, Bre Pettis, Lisa Donovan (Lisa Nova on YouTube), Lindesy Campbell
lots of people taking video of people in this session
People who have made videoblogging their day job - topic of panel
Telling their stories:
Lisa Donovan:
started a small production company
lots of corporate stuff
they wanted to be more creative in their down time
this was about 2 years ago - they discovered youtube
started posting videos…
her videos have been watched 40 million times
They use the resources they have - no money involved - just time, primarily
she was picked up on MadTV 2 months after she started doing the youtube stuff
Zadi Diaz:
EpicFU - internet culture show
her background editor is in publishing and acting
she started vlogging to keep in touch with her family, then discovered other vloggers
hooked up with rocketboom
show started as JetSet - recently changed the name
the British Council is a fan of her show, and they’ve invited her over to do something
EPIC-FU IS their job
(aside) Steve Garfield just walked around the room, vlogging the session)
Bre Pettis:
got started as an art teacher
2004 - he started doing online video
he mentioned the library! Loves the 700 section in the library
started making DIY videos
2006 - started doing DIY videos once a week
Lindsey Campbell:
MOBLOGIC.TV
she’s an actor (translation - she was acting, singing, and temping in NYC)
saw an ad for a web hosting for a financial show thing and auditioned for it
she did wallstrip - acquired by CBS Interactive last year
“the internet IS TV”
Some people tell them it’s too bad they haven’t made it on TV or film
They are just a little bit ahead of traditional media, and traditional media types are starting to contact them and ask questions - sort of like what I do in libraries
Bre’s suggestions
don’t make people wait even a second - cut everything to the edge
Make friends with musicians
publish often
own your IP
take acting classes
take care of your teeth
Zadi
start where you are
don’t quit your day job - just start there - make a show with the people around you
Campbell - email your heroes - they might help you
q - what’s the justification for being in the web space with trad media companies that bought video?
- they wanted to be in the space
- it’s experimentation
building a community - they want to feel like they’re participating with you, hanging out with you, connect with you - the web offers that connection point
Have you been thinking about diving into video? Confused about where to begin? Here are some ideas, taken from the highly creative people that work at my library.
First off, the William Allen White booktalks. What are they? From our Papercuts blog: “Traditionally, the Kansas William Allen White (WAW) book award nominee booktalks have been performed annually by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library staff in person at local area schools. Realizing that it is impossible to reach all students in the service area in person, Sandy Lane and Robin Clark collaborated with Topeka area gifted students to produce these highly creative videos on Youtube featuring book reviews of the current William Allen White nominees for 2007-2008. The videos include interviews from “The Dr. Dyl Show”, several inanimate object reviewers, masked anonymous book reviewers, and one with exceptional headgear.” (go read the whole post!).
90 second book review: Austenland - ”
The Barbies are back, this time to act out scenes from the novel Austenland by Shannon Hale” (from the About This Video on the YouTube page).
World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian - “Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials, made by a Warcraft Blood Elf about her alternate life in the library.” (again, from the About This Video text). This is a cool video - and a great example of machinima, too.
You can find these videos and more on our YouTube channel. So… that’s what we’re doing with video… what are YOU doing with video?
I’ve owned an iPhone for about two months now, and thought I’d make a video sharing my likes and dislikes.Dislikes:
Stocks icon - works great, but I could care less about the stock market, so it’s not terribly useful to me
Calendar - again works great… but I have a work calendar and an everything else calendar… so I have both synced up to Google Calendar. That works fine. Usually. [translation=I haven't quite figured it all out yet].
Likes: Pretty much everything else. Ease-of-use is awesome. Included apps are great. I originally thought I’d get a Treo, but waited for the iPhone to come out to see what it was like… and haven’t been disappointed!
Update: I had a little trouble viewing the video, so I’ve been playing around with it. It should work now! And there’s a .mov and a YouTube version now, too.
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