Plenty of people are objecting to video being incorporated into Flickr, a photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo. Some say, ‘this is a place for photos!’ or ‘it will be filled with YouTube-style crap’. And that may be the case.
I personally don’t
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have an opinion. I’m an artist, I make media, in any form that’s presented to me. I’m also a paying customer of Flickr. I use the service to post photos from my Canon 20D, photos from my iPhone and N95, screenshots from my desktop and video games, and now, video.
Today I had a thought, however, about this ‘moving photo’ spin that Yahoo has been dishing out. That phrase is something quite easy for me to smirk at, given that there’s only have 90 seconds of total running time, and video does not equal photos. So, I wondered. What if it wasn’t Flickr who needed to change, instead, it’s us? What if we turned the cameras not on ourselves, but away from us? Can we learn a new skill? What if we studied this new sliver of a video genre?
Jay Dedman, one of videoblogging’s early pioneers, had several videos that were just snapshots in time…. ‘moments showing’… that’s about the only term I can think of to describe this. It’s not us ‘performing’, it’s us, watching, observing…seeing.
So I tried to have a go at it. A living snapshot:
Bonus video from Jay Dedman from July of 2004: Freaking out, quietly. Thanks, Jay.
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