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Internet Video Magazine Newsletter - January 2005
It's a new year and I hope one of your resolutions was to spend
more time visiting
Internet Video
Magazine. (http://www.internetvideomag.com).
Maybe clicking on some of our sponsors links and banners and even
buying stuff.
We have new articles, trends and announcements you might be
interested in, as well as new on-line movies and video sites that
deserve a visit and your attention. And of course, if you are
active in this space, if Internet and streaming video is your
business or obsession, please don?t forget the
Industry news
and announcements section. We have lots of news from CES.
By the way, if you need to laugh this year, to get you through
winter and to the spring, make sure you check out LaffLink. (www.lafflink.com
). They have video clips of many of the world's best comics,
delivering their best material.
New Articles and Columns - cool new products, news and other
stuff
Atomfilms and Lucasfilm
Ltd. announced the Fourth Annual Star Wars Fan Film Awards (<http://starwars.atomfilms.com>)
with an official call for submissions. The contest is now accepting
fan-made Star Wars spoofs and documentaries until March 8.
Get on it.
more
LEAD Capture & Convert is a very cool product for capturing and
converting video, audio and graphics programs and files. In many
ways this is a video editing program which does everything except
edit and trim clips ? you can capture video, add effects and text,
and then output it in a variety of formats as well as extract still
images from video and convert video, audio and graphic files. It
includes a bunch of effects filters that are not available on other
video and graphics packages.
more
If you are interested in creating your own video blog, the new Vlog
It! software from Serious Magic may be just the tool you need
more
"Home Hacking Projects for Geeks" (Northrup and Faulkner, O'Reilly,
US), gives new meaning to the words "home improvement." Everything
is hackable...
more
More about video blogs or vlogs. Thousands of ordinary (and
some downright nutty) people have begun posting a cornucopia of
video fare online, from self-indulgent art clips and earnest citizen
journalism to sly political commentary - see
Newsweek article
Looking for a special music video? A video clip someone told you about
but they can't remember the name or the web site. Check out the new
video search feature at
Yahoo. This might be the best video search application around.
Have you been to Vegas lately? Check out the new version of Vegas
Video 5 Editing Suite and Vegas Video 5 - DVD-Architect 2 program
combined into one package called Vegas + DVD Production Suite
more
"Secrets of Home Video" this new book by TechTV's Mike Wood teaches
you everything you need to know about designing, buying, installing
and configuring your home theater system to get the best possible
performance
more
How to use Sonic DVDit 5 to create customized DVDs - by Douglas
Dixon of Manifest Tech
Rolling Stone announces their pick of the
top 20 music videos of 2004. Check it out. Is your favorite on
the list?
Interesting Video Web Sites:
There's an old rock & roll
biz joke - are you a musician or are you a drummer? Don't beat on
me, mr percussion, I just tell the jokes. Anyhow, if you have any
interest at all in rock & roll or drumming, you got to go visit the
World's
Fastest Drummer web site. It's an Extreme sport where they are
searching for the world's fastest drummers. They got lots of
videos and you have to see
Jason Farmer: The Freddie Krueger of Drumming.
Video Blogging or vlogs are becoming hot and sexy. You may have seen
or heard about the hundreds of tsunami videos that popped up on
vlogs worldwide. Others are using vlogs to promote their artistic
and create visions and productions. Check out Human Dog. Other cool
video blogging sites include
Onetrick.net,
Vogner,
Vidblogs.com and
Daily Experience
Do you like to go faster? Are you into road racing and the people
who do it? Check out the Faster
web site - built to market two movies - "Faster" and "Faster &
Faster". This is a great use of the web and Internet video to
promote and market a film project.
Looking for some hilarious videos? Check out
Moronland.com - they have
tons of funny commercials from throughout the world. "The Web's Best
Morons under One Roof"
Russell Hunt is a video producer
who deserves a bit of recognition and the spotlight. His site,
www.rougemontfilms.com
offers a very interesting assortment of short flicks ranging in
quality from inspiringly amateurish to professionally thought
provoking. Definitely worth checking out.
OK. So you think you are funny. You've written a script with lots of
funny skits, got a bunch of your buddies to appear in it, and then
transformed the written words into a cool half hour pilot video. Now
what? Stick it on the Internet and see if you can become famous.
Check out Brian Anderson's
web site and his newest production, "No Soliciting".
Are you into poker? Do you like playing with friends? Like going to
casinos or do you play online? Check out
Poker Updates TV. This is
an extremely well produced and informative online TV show that is
all about poker - the business, the game, and how to play. If you
love gaming, you'll love this show.
Looking for some short and funny video clips that you may not see
anywhere else? Check out the
Weird Clicks page
at
www.Lafflink.com. Runs the gamut from political to slightly
adult in content.
Great On-line Videos
"Virus" by Simon Hynd is really scary and spooky - especially if
you are into computers, Internet videos and murder. Great concept -
wonderful production - this is the kind of virus even Norton and
McAfee can't deal with.
How big is yours? Check out
this great
Dodge Truck commercial that for some reason never got broadcast.
Guys got to boast - its all about size and performance. Hosted at
Accordion Guy Blogware
Every once in a while you need to step back and smell the roses ... or
take a few moments to think about life and death and the meaning of
it all. Check out this music video - the classic John Lennon song "Working
Class Hero"
Here are two great new films from Atom Films -
just right to welcome in the new year.
12
Hot Women
No plot. No story. No problem when you've got 12 hot women.
Moving
Units: "Available"
Check out this current buzz band's new wave punk sound.
I don't know why we like
this... country music, trailer parks, drunk white guys in t-shirts
and funny hats, and a pretty blonde woman with too many children.
Check out this music video, "Did
I Shave my Legs For This?" by Deana Carter
These two films are quite interesting -
Top Hat and
The Jacket -
by Dorothy Schafer, Rachel Tucker and Lawrence Furman. Great acting,
good writing and direction. This is another very interesting use of
the web to promote acting and production skills.
Maybe we
should start a category for the cutest and cheeziest videos of the
week?
Check this out - if you love little kitty cats and kittens and
babies - you will love this.
Are you
familiar with what is going on in the Ukraine and the
Orange Revolution?
On UkrainaTV, you can see the
Orange Revolution
captured in these amazing video clips.
New
Year Celebrations from Majdan Nezalezhnosti on 12/31/04,
Latest
Video Music by VV, Haydamaky, Oksana Bilozir and more:
Viktor Yuschenko's first interview as a President:
Who poisoned Viktor Yuschenko? and
The
beginning of Orange Revolution ? Day #1 ? 11/22/04. UkrainaTV
also provides access to historical documentaries, music videos,
Ruslana's Wild Dances to support the Orange Revolution, etc., etc.
Women (and men), what do you
collect? Shoes, purses, make-up, power tools? Check out this short
and very artsy semi documentary of
Rose sharing her panty collection. Great concept, wonderful
photography and understated production. By Russell Hunt
2004 was a big year -
elections, disasters, and Brittney Spears got married. However, we
also lost some wonderful people. Check out this short
2004 video that honors the famous that passed on during 2004.
Are you a Quentin Tarantino
fan? What if Quentin started making Santa Claus films? They might be
bit different. Check out this fake move trailer for
Pulp Fiction
XMAS.
If you need to laugh, you might want to check out these two funny
videos from Lenny Boudreau.
"The North Pole Dance" is a Santa related video (not for young kids
who still believe) and "Zolift", a very dry but accurate take-off on
the Zoloft TV ads. They can both be found at
http://www.superturbosonic.com.
What would
you do if you were on the job, looking for drunks and speeders, and
you had to pull over
Santa Claus? Check out this short animated video. It's a great
take-off on COPS. Maybe you shouldn't show this to your little
ones...
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