ChapmanLogic

May 12, 2006

Tales from the Public Domain

James Boyle, the keynote speaker from BeyondBroadcast created a nice online comic book overview of fair use problems/issues, from the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain....

May 10, 2006

I Heart EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network)

What's really amazing about EBN is that their work is STILL not mainstream. Here's the video remix "Hello" from Greg's site, via the EBN Archive:...

beyond broadcast and open media developers II

I'll be in Boston this Thursday eve - Sunday for Beyond Broadcast and OMDS II. If you're attending and would like to chat, email me at elichapman at gmail dot com. I'm looking forward to finally meeting Terry Heaton and...

May 1, 2006

vloggercon June 10 & 11, 2006

September 22, 2005

rain on windshield driving

March 29, 2005

The Best Video I've Seen on the Web In a Long Time

A friend's friend passed away this week, and she pointed we to The Sad Song by Fredo Viola as something that expressed how she was feeling. This is a wonderful video and represents an entire new genre for videoblogging. Fredo...

March 9, 2005

If you're in Chicago last night

Tuesday Mar 08, 2005 7:10 PM MedicineFilms Party #3: Chicago by zac Hello everybody, MedicineFilms members are meeting up at the Rainbo bar at 8pm on Wed March 9th. Rainbo is located at the corner of Division St and Damen...

March 2, 2005

kids, cameraphones, and the rocket's red glare

In a Philly high school class, a teacher freaks (video) on his students who are whistling and not standing up for the Star Spangled Banner, (via MonkeyFilter). This obviously happens already in schools. But cameras do tend to bring out...

January 14, 2005

thoughts on video blogging

I'm putting together some notes for my session on the Masses' Media at vloggercon next week and decided to aggregate some comments I'd left on blogs around the web. If there was a better tool for this than my blog,...

January 13, 2005

MedicineFilms rules

Zac popped up with a comment at the vloggercon site and linked to MedicineFilms.com- a project of his and Regina's. It rules. It's like Tarnation crossed with Gummo crossed with Todd Haynes' Superstar crossed with MySpace. It feels pretty local...

April 28, 2004

I'm filming two guys run 154 miles in 24 hrs

154 miles. 24 hours. 2 ultra-endurance guys on treadmills in public. Lots of skin care products. And a fundraiser. It's got to be the 2004 Kiehl's Treadathalon! I'll be documenting the maddness over here. STARTS 8 AM THURSDAY APRIL 29th...

January 7, 2004

Meetup with GNN

Met up with Josh Shore from GNN at Vintage New York and sipped local wines and tasted local cheeses. Spoke about multiple projects and paths towards Sustainable Media. Much more to come. If you haven't checked out GNN and some...

December 29, 2003

Participatory Media Meetup

Kenyatta, Drazen Pantic, and I at Cafe Cafe in SoHo after a nice discussion about participatory media and some potential strategies/applications we can move forward with....

December 22, 2003

video blogging meetup

Kenyatta and I (tonight at Pink Pony, NYC) are combining forces on the path towards Sustainable Media. More meetups coming soon. In New York and moving in similar directions? Ping me at eli at chapmanlogic dot com....

November 17, 2003

a note for Smartmobs

For some reason I can't leave a comment on Howard's 11/11/03 "Who's Out There? Smartmobbers sign in, please!" post, so I'll leave it here. He says, "I'm wondering -- who's out there? And what do you get out of this?......

November 5, 2003

Scratch Video Thesis

Scratch Video, a mutant hybrid of scratch DJ music and guerrilla TV by Hart Snider (via artengine) Scratch video marries hip hop-style audio sampling with guerrilla television-style video sampling. The results can range from the Emergency Broadcast Network's cut-up of...

October 20, 2003

Future troop helmets will protect and connect

This is serious. From the Sioux City Journal: ...High-tech helmets now being developed will help soldiers pinpoint enemies in a crowd, mute a deafening bomb blast or help guide a lost soldier to safety with global positioning systems. The helmet...

Eyetop Multimedia Glasses

These (from Eyetop) might be useful for monitoring handheld and body attached lipstick cams, wireless cameras in live event situations, and reviewing footage during the day in sunlight. But please, not for entertainment (from MobileMag): In an image-oriented world, Eyetop...

October 14, 2003

Amazon Inside Microsoft Word: An Example of Where Video Editing Should Go

With the announcement (from CNET via The Shifted Librarian) that Amazon services will be available within Microsoft Word, we can infer some interesting things about the future of video editing, as well as the possibilities of video blogging. From the...

May 26, 2003

Video Blogs Are To Blogs As...

Imagine trying to write a book if the alphabet didn't exist. Or teaching a symphony orchestra what to play without having sheet music. Considering how long text has been around, it's no wonder that Blogging becomes a natural extension of...

March 27, 2003

Video Blogging in Context of Google/Pyra

Video Blogging needs specific software. Aisling Kelliher is trying to address the problem through the creation of cinemaware: software that allows for functions like capture, editing, annotating, transcoding, and ftp. It seems to be that she is creating this tool...

March 24, 2003

Video Blogging

This is the first post on a quest to create something really useful....