N93 Videos

The slowest series ever. In November 2007, I posted Part 1, arriving in San Francisco; in November 2008, I posted Videoblogging The Conversation; this year it s Vertigo. And they were all shot in November 2006. Holy shitsticks, I ve aged more in the last three years than this movie location has in the last 50! Formats available: MPEG4 Podcast File (.mp4)

Formats available: iPhone Podcast File (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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I used this music on Vlomo Day 3 last year, too but tongue in cheek, at the start of The Placenta Video. I know it s schmaltzy, but sometimes you find a piece of music which fits a video so perfectly that you just can t not use it, even though your cheese alarm is waking people up three streets away. iPhone video podcast mp4 file

Shot late at night on Nov 1st, Day of the Dead, in my father in law s rambling old country house. As I mentioned yesterday, I and a bunch of other people are playing a big game of video consequences this month. Each day, someone different makes a 90 second video, inspired in some way by the previous day s piece. Adrian Miles kicked it off yesterday with Like A Match, a love poem in audio, looping over a video of a match being struck, which changes when you move your mouse over the video. The rules are that your video has to be 90 seconds or less, and inspired in any way (you don t have to explain how) by the previous day s video. While I was pondering my response late last night, and filming the log fire we were gathered around, I caught this moment, which I decided to share as it is. Then I went up to bed, in the haunted room. At 3am, Kate and I lay wide awake in the pitch black. Old country houses are dark. Every few minutes there was a loud and unexplained bang of wood on wood from somewhere within the room. Turning on the light would have woken the baby, so we spent a rigid hour with Kate asking me to whisper reassurances in her ear about the lack of scientific evidence for ghosts. Neither of us wanted to admit to the other how freaked out we were Kate had already been in bed when I shot this video, and I didn t want to frighten her by telling her what I d just heard. Eventually, she quietly got up, turned on the light in the hallway, left the door open a little, and the noises stopped. Turns out that Kate had had the same conversation with her stepmother yesterday evening about the flamingo room only she had the details, which for obvious reasons aren t widely available, but which do add an eerie extra level of synchronicity to this video. If you want to know, the code is here, you ll just have to View the Fire again, and think Fox and Source iPhone Video / Podcast mp4 file

It s November again. Which means NaVloPoMo. Which means posting one video a day every day. With all the things I ve got going on, there s not much chance of me being able to do that this year, but it s a good prompt to post some videos when I can. I ve also devised a game of consequences to run alongside NaVloPoMo, with 30 videobloggers in a chain, each posting on a different day, each inspired in some way by the previous day s video. More tomorrow, which is my day. Formats available: iPhone compatible video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)

It s taken me a week to find the time to sort through the footage and cut it down to a watchable size but here are 8 minutes of highlights from the 18 or so hours of non-stop filming we did on Day 1. We had some technical hitches with uploading, so I didn t post from the road as much as I d wanted. @philcampbell, @vikkichowney and I were sent by Nokia we started in Helsinki, and then headed off in different directions me to Bucharest, Phil to Dubai, Vikki to, um, Birmingham where we handed our N86s over to @bvlad and @freshplastic who continued the tour all of us reconvening in Oxford on Sunday night. Twestivals are essentially meetups of Twitter users in scores of cities around the world, to raise money for local causes. Each city s cause was chosen by an online vote. Nokia sponsored our trip (as well as carbon offsetting our miles) by giving a Euro for every 5 miles we travelled. So in the end, we raised around €3600 for local causes. Plus we carried with us a free Nokia N86 for each Twestival we visited to raffle or auction. More to come and I ll post some links to all the media that I and the others generated. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)

This is the third part of my review series of the new Nokia N93i. This time around I was really mostly interested in comparing the photo and video quality of the two devices. Today is somewhat photo-heave, tomorrow I'll have more video comparisons. All right, here are the comparison shots. All images were shot with the factory firmware. I have not made any color correction or used any kind of image editing software. Portrait images were rotated to that format in Flickr, not on the computer. What do you think? Which camera takes the better pictures? Leave your opinion in the comment section! N93 (above) N93i (above) N93 (above) N93i (above) N93 (above) N93i (above) N93 (above) N93i (above) N93 (above) N93i (above)

little bit random, but the linux penguin, Tux, has been caught using the new Nokia Nseries linux based N800 internet tablet.

All right, please don't think I am completely crazy. Mario, a friend of mine from Germany who also lives here in the US, decided to surprise his mom and dad with a home-made music video modelled after Germany's former child star Heintje from the 1960s. Mario and I spent an afternoon freezing, but at the same time we were cracking up and this 2-minute video needed about 3 hours of shooting. Not because of the camera work but more because of both of us bursting into laughter every ten seconds. While this video is undoubtedly stupid, it also shows you some of the possibilities of the Nokia N93. I had the music file (in mp3 format) on the camera and turned off the audio recording in the video function on the N93. This then allowed me to play the music through the built-in speaker for Mario to get his cue. So, if you're planning on making a music video, know that the N93 contains everything necessary to do just that. We only had one problem: Mario constantly forgot his lines. Sucker. PS: Check out the original music video from the 60s down below.

The weather forecast already told us yesterday that we might be in some trouble today. The day started off pretty normal, at around 2 pm though, heavy storms and thunderstorms as well as pretty strong rain started hammering down on our tent. There were tornado warnings out and we had the best shelter of all: a tent that my dad and I got 3 years ago when he was visiting me from Germany. Well, the tent held up well, we survived and the Fort Myers Beach area seemed to have been ok, unlike further up north. Luckily my N93 came along for the ride, so I get to show you these (somewhat uneventful) images.

You like? Hail to the BM.Video shot on Nokia N93. Location: Outside Nemo, Amsterdam Event: Museum Night (N8)