messing with movie maker - and messing with my head

It seems the theme of #ALIA2012 - discovery - has a long tail. After some 6 years or so subscribed to YouTube I finally got around to uploading my own video - will wonders never cease? I don't particularly like YouTube because it eats a lot of band-with and often takes minutes to load the simplest and shortest of videos... so I'm trying something a little different here (not using YouTube) to see if it will work (of course in the midst of tearing my hair out exploring this option, I'm also having loads of fun with Windows Live Movie Maker - another unexpected discovery!)

This video is from my ride to Brisbane earlier today and features images near Bangalow NSW, the soundtrack is "Jet Lag" by Simple Plan.

Social Media Revolution !?!

A friend posted this to Facebook -
"Social Media Revolution: Is social media a fad?
Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details out social media facts and figures that are hard to ignore. This video is produced by the author of Socialnomics. "

Week 6 - videos - adventure

Task: find a video I like and embed it into my blog........ Hmmmm. Decisions, decisions.

I did a bit of searching for this and that and something else and finally settled on my favourite reptile, the Eastern Water Dragon. I don't have any live footage of my own Dragon (only photos) and found the search for someone else's footage an education in itself. In the end I settled on this one - it's informative, the dragons are in a replicated natural environment and human intervention in the video was nil. (It sure beat the videos showing water dragons tethered on a woven leather leash so they wouldn't escape whilst the video was being shot - those I was horrified by.)
There were a couple of ways I could have shared this video but have found that the easiest by far is to move from the 'compose' tab to the 'edit html' tab and copy in the 'embed' data from the video page.

Week 6 - videos - explore

I have to say the time lapse photography of the Qld State Library's construction project reminded me of a Peter Gabriel videoclip. Yet I was also struck by what it achieves - in a short 2.02 minutes a building site goes from nothing to something. Here you can 'see' vision take shape.

Then the Staff orientation video from PLCMC showed a neat way of presenting a professional image which all and any staff could access from anywhere. In a Regional Library network this sort of 'distanceless' orientation process is a huge bonus. With training days so hard to organise across distances and time and staff here is an 'easy' way of ensuring that the same message gets to all staff within the overall library service. The possibilities here are endless.

And Video Coolness - yay. For me this would be the best - video footage of a book group in action. Discussions, laughter. coffee, digression. All the things that the best bookgroups are made of. Book reviews online and available via the library website - the coolest stuff in RA available!
Across ages and genres the possibilities are absolutely endless!

Week 6 - Videos online - discover

I love YouTube, I find all sorts of lovely and wonderful surprises each time I visit! Firstly I searched for lego and played around with the Indiana Jones lego game, then I searched for Kogarah Library and came across a live band performance in the library, lastly Liverpool Plains brought me a Harvesting 2006 video. All good
Next I did the same at Google Video. This time I noted the difference between a search using "all viedos" and one using "videos hosted by google". The first had hits with YouTube and many others, the second was a much smaller result.
So which were my favourite videos? Well all kids love lego so I couldn't go past Indiana Jones:



& Monty Python and the Holy Grail.



As a finale though I came across Paul McDermott & Fiona Horne performing Shut Up/Kiss Me live.



Like I said, all good.