Canadian Marketing Blog : Online video isn't the future, it's the present

Where's my video camera?  I gotta get shooting!

Online video isn't the future, it's the present

Google Canada hosted a showcase last week in Toronto, complete with recent case studies and numbers from YouTube.The following stats had several jaws hitting the floor:
• 10 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds
• YouTube contributors produce 3000x more output than Hollywood
• Hollywood would need to premier 57,230 feature films a week just to keep up
• YouTube currently boasts 200M+ worldwide unique visits a month
• 25% of surveyed registered YouTube viewers watch more video content online than they do on TV
Online video isn't the future, it's the present | Canadian Marketing Blog - Canadian Marketing Association

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Beautiful Katamari

Beautiful Katamari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's surprising how many video games are based on violent action. This game, and the one that proceeded it, are too much fun and very benign. It seems everyone can have fun with it, including Liam and his mommy! read on about the bizarre game play:

The game's plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations and Moon, which his father, the King of All Cosmos, has accidentally destroyed. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to schoolchildren to mountains, until the ball has grown large enough to become a star. The game falls under both the puzzle and action game

genres, since strategy as well as dexterity are needed to complete a mission, but the game is fundamentally peaceful and somewhat meditative.

Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heavily stylized, rarely attempting any semblance of realism, though the brands and items used are based on those current in Japan during the game's production.

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Far Out Son of Lung

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On my book shelf

I was filling up thebook case in the basement and got thining about what kind of portrait someone gets from looking at your books. Music is the same way. I always look at the selection to inform myself. So I decided to try the same thing online. Flickr allows you to comment on parts of the image.Follow the links and then mouse over the shots to see my notes.

Photo Books

Another shelf of my books

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Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme

Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme
The latest cool site, where you recreate a snap from your childhood.
Kinda wacky.

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Hello from the inside...

Hello from the inside of the brand new (___) Hydro building in Downtown Winnipeg. I am currently working on documenting some of the construction. It's quite a site. listen

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TOXIC Garbage Island VBS.TV

TOXIC  - Garbage Island - Part 10 of 12 - VBS.TV

In honour of Earth Day I offer this link to part of a series of videos.

All the plastic, EVER MADE, is still here. It hasn't broken down, back into original elements, it's simple broken down itno smaller and smaller pieces, and is effecting our food chain at the microscopic level.

Three"kids" travel with researchers to the middle of the Pacific to document how all the plastic in the world eventually breaks down into tiny particulates.

After weeks of sailing, into the middle of the Pacific, some places they dredge the water and find way more plastics that plankton or any other life.

The urban myth was that there was a huge pile of garbage all whirlpooled up, the size of Texas, what they realize is that it would be way easier if that was the case!
Like a lot of environmental issues, there is no "money shot" that one image to scare the crap out of people.

Happy Earth Day!

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My New Mix tape is up

Muxtape

It's a real shoe gazer mix, sorry gang I was in a dreamy mood with I assembled this. The first track, Goodbye by Ulrich Schnauss, makes me drive really fast when I play it it really loud in the car!

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Liam visits the studio

  

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Matt Bailey: Search Friendly Design | NewMediaManitoba.TV

Definitely one of the hi lights of Tuesday SEO presentation. Check out all the clips.

Matt Bailey: Search Friendly Design | NewMediaManitoba.TV

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Yo, you listen up,... this stuff is GREEEEEAAAAAAAT!!

Under The Hood Register
yes that's right, a line of urban wear celebrating the Kellogg brands. You know your brands are solidly entrench in the pop culture when they are accepted within in the urban demographic, but isn't this a little silly?

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BuzzFeed

Book mark this one to keep up with the ipod gen.!

We use technology and human editors to find the hottest buzz on the web. Each weekday, we publish ten stories that highlight the best stuff emerging from the Internet popularity contest. Find your new favorite thing on BuzzFeed.com, via RSS, and from our extended network.

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Pitchfork: Air's Moon Safari Reissued for Tenth Anniversary

10 years already?! wow,.. thats amazing. Still the beachmark I measure any of their work against, I played this one constantly back in ,...um I guess it was 98-99. I might pick this one up for the unified package, which brings everything together. The video for All I Need is amazing as it kinda encapsulates the whole vibe of the album, and is SO WELL DONE! I don't know if it's a doc or imporv'ed or what but I just love it.

Pitchfork: Air's Moon Safari Reissued for Tenth Anniversary

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PDNPulse: Camcorders that think like cameras: Q&A with Ted from RED

PhotoDistrictNews has a few article covering the RED announcements. They are taking this stuff as serious as I am. Here's a couple snippets

RED announced three new products yesterday, the 5K Epic, the 3K Scarlet and Red Ray. Can you point out features that you think photographers would be most interested in?

Ted: I talk very publicly and very bluntly about what our camera is, and it is essentially, a digital still camera that can shoot video. It doesn't think like a video camera at all. It shoots RAW like a digital still camera and it can compress that RAW using a very advanced hardware compression engine that turns that still RAW into something that can be recorded at a very high frame rate on a compact flash card. And every [camera we make] does that.

When RED One was released last year with the ability to pull high-resolution still images from video footage, it caused a buzz in the photo community about the potential death of the decisive moment. Is RED's encroachment of the still image market an intentional one?

Ted: No, not at all. We're huge fans of the still world. We just see this as pieces of the puzzle evolving, as the convergence of the two worlds. We have the highest level of respect for what digital still cameras have done in the market. In fact, we've paid a lot of attention to that in terms of what we've done because we believe that we're on the same path. When you see things projected from our RED One camera in 4K and how far we can go with a similar type of sensor and a similar type of logic, this RAW-processing logic, but applying it to slightly different toolsets that are used for motion instead of stills, it's all the same stuff. You're just using it slightly differently.

We've talked to National Geographic and Discover and guys shooting with video and digital still at the same time, and they're asking, "Can we shoot with just one camera and potentially pull stills for our magazine?" The answer is, absolutely.

PDNPulse

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Monique

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Canada Goose Limited Edition 3-In-1 Photographer's Jacket

You've seen our jackets before, at the Antarctic research stations, on top of Mount Everest, in movies like National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, The Day After Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Disney's Eight Below. Our parkas are recognized to be the warmest on earth and now we have focused our expertise on creating the world's first "3 in 1" Photographer's Jacket.

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Liam's big truck came out today!

   

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The Real Internet Finally Made Mobile

Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition - The Real Internet Finally Made Mobile

Contrary to my instant love affair for the iPod Touch, I offer this link, to the extended commercial about the upcoming WIMAX version of Nokia's N810. The thing I notice in this very well done video is how they portray this "ipod genneration". The expectations of connectivity, the mention of being private and yet public at the same time, the talk about sharing "My music, my photos,..." and having it all with you everywhere. Granted this level of access can only be achieved in somewhere like San Fran,... but give it time. Everyone under 30 will want this kind of thing.

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A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically
AJ Jacobs was on CBC radio this AM about another piece he's written, "My Outsourced Life" where he tries to outsource all the tasks he can off shore! It was quite humorous and enlightening. Outsourcing is becoming more and more viable for all sorts of tasks and AJ tries to prove you can use it for anything!

He's been on CBC before promoting his latest book, where he tries to live a year while following the bible by the letter. Sounds like a fun read! I think I will pick this one up!

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Super Hamlet

Super Hamlet
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The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)

A rap about good web design! :-)

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RED / SCARLET

RED / SCARLET

The revolution WILL be televised, and here's what it will be shot with!
Remember several years ago, I said to keep an eye on this company? yeah well this is exactly what I was talking about!

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BSG stuff

I don't get all silly about anything on TV, except Battlestar Galactica. We're into the fourth and final season and we'll have some twists ahead.

Here's a not bad interview of Ronald Moore with some mild spoilers at the end. The Biggest spoiler, the clue set forth with the photo above. A ste by step break down of the photo is also here.

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All Touchy Feely

Well I finally broke down. I bought the basic 8gig iPod Touch. I just had to see what all the fuss is about. Yes I know I was at Macworld when the iPhone was first released and the Ipod Touch the following year, and yes I got to play with these toys before anyone else. But there is something about owning one, loading it up with the media you know (and love) and seeing and playing with that can't be beat!
It won't replace the 60gig ipod full of music I already own, but it will showcase recent work, videos, and some music and do it ALL beautifully!
Yes, all the raves about UI are justified. It's just so damn intuitive. Case in point, I showed Liam his photo, swiped to the next frame, and he was off doing it himself. Now if a 3 yr old can grasp the concept after being shown ONCE, you're onto something! It's after a few hours with the device, you really appreciate how well thought out the entire UI experience is. IMHO, having it tied tightly to iTunes helps in this regard. One spot to select all the different syncing or loading of media. No disk mode even!

If we're working together, just ask to play with it, I am sure you'll become hooked on it as easily as I have!

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Just cuz it's there,.. doesn't mean we use it

livebooks, the makers of my website ian.ca have updated the software and have included the ability to put music on the website. At first I thought "Hey cool I love music, this will be great to share!"
then I calmed down and thought about it.

First off, I hate websites that have music, conflicts with the music I am playing, so why do it to someone else?
Secondly, the copyright issue. I can't just use any old music, and not pay for it, that would be like someone just right clicking one of my photos and using it somewhere and that wouldn't be nice.

I looked around and found another post by a web designer talking about how to convince clients they don't need music. So crank your own itunes or ipod and read this

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PhotoshopDisasters

Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop.If it is commercial and awful then please let us know! Anonymity can be arranged for the easily embarrassed/canned

PhotoshopDisasters

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Phone Word

infiniteNIL

A basic app to find your own vanity phone numbers. I don't plan on changing mine, but for those looking for a new number, this is cool.

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Basement update: Ceiling's done.

Next is carpet, maybe baseboards, but more importantly, we get to move in!!

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Sturgeon Creek Thaw

Sturgeon Creek Thaw

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MNP portrait

MNP portrait
Originally uploaded by ianmcc

Appeared in last Sat's Freep. you could barely see it in the copy I bought they went crazy with the black ink. Shot on location at CanWest Global Centre, in the heart of Winnipeg at the historic corner of Portage and Main

Joe McNally's Blog

Joe McNally's Blog

Some cool lighting set up and explanations over at Joe's blog. he's really getting into this whole blogging thing!

This diagram is from a shot using something like FIFTY THREE off camera SB24's! They guy was doing this stuff before any of us.

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my supermodel

my supermodel
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issu

Issu is a site where you upload your own PDF to make one of these book-like things. kinda cool.

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Western Living

Western Living

Follow the link for the full story.

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Video on Flickr!

Flickr now supports video. Albiet it's only for 90 seconds at a time. So it's not the next Youtube.... and you ask why...

90 seconds? While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.

Video on Flickr! « Flickr Blog

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Buffalo intros palm-sized Terabyte RAID 1 NAS

This is cool, smaller versions of NAS means it can be anywhere!

SmallNetBuilder - Small Network Help - Buffalo intros palm-sized Terabyte RAID 1 NAS

Buffalo Technology today announced a new miniature dual-drive NAS with 1 TB capacity.

The LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1) measures only 1.57 x 3.22 x 5.31 inches and weighs slightly over a pound. It has a gigabit Ethernet port and dual 5,400RPM 2.5 inch notebook drives and supports both RAID 0 and 1, as well as Active Directory.

A single USB 2.0 port can support an external hard drive, USB printer or UPS.

Also included is Active Directory support, DLNA server (TwonkyVision) and Buffalo's Web Access feature. Web Access allows users to access content stored on the device from anywhere in the world via a web browser. Web access includes a Remote Power Feature, which can power up the unit remotely with the included Navigator software.

The 1TB LinkStation Mini will be available next month at an estimated street price of $699. Buffalo will also "soon" offer a 500GB version.

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New Posters for Warehouse One

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the boys

the boys
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My Magic Hour

The Strip

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If you see this man, SLAP HIM FOR ME

For he is the voice behind the most annoying character I deal with in the mornings, Elmo! Like nails on chalkboards for me.

Be more Tuned In: Be more Tuned In podcast -- Kevin Clash, the man behind Sesame Street's Elmo...

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