[-empyre-] Vog applications

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

Its too nice outside to concentrate much on a considered reply
but if there was a 'ready made' vog format [is there one?] I would use 
it (and so probably would the 30,000,000 or whatever other bloggers). It would sit 
well with  a number of personal portal formats for presenting on a single page all 
our favourite discussion groups as well as all our favourite online newspapers and
email accounts, and our interminable online researches. And it could have an application as grey board for Metaversity communication, including the all 
important'Introduction to Cultural Studies' for which there seems to be a global demand. If only to help end cultural confusion over hypermedia, or rather give it 
a context.

The only thing I personally don't like about streamed video online is
the assumption that we can revert to a passive consumption of moving image
in its (or its makers or distributors) own economy of time. I think the geek description of 
cinema going 'one hundred people sitting in the dark not speaking for an hour and 
a half with nothing to do except look at except some projections on a wall' has 
some relevance here or the geeks description of TV audiences 'billions of people 
organised in small familial units resting for hours in large sofas, sitting 
silently in small rooms with a small box emitting ulta high frequency sound and 
low freqency conversation, and a dizzying range of pictures of people and events 
that are glanced at anxiously from time to time' and I prefer media players that 
allow us to manage our own time and viewing, to speed through (and so save our 
precious time), and rewind to catch and freeze our favourite moments.

Also I like to full screen video to fully apprecitate the 'blockiness'
of the aesthetic that Patrick so aptly celebrates in 8 bits or less.
Just a personal preference. 

Vertov?! Why so much Vertov?! Patrick references Vertov, you reference Vertov, 
Lev Manovitch cites Vertov. October #100 references new media's citation of Vertov 
to bemoan the 'obsolescence' of Psychoanalytic Film Theory. Studies of Cinema began 
a couple of generations after the emergence of the cinema. Scholars and theory 
preceded hypermedia. There's no correlation at all.

Lachlan



>and yes, an intertextual whole, that's why i like the vog quicktime 
>stuff. i had vogs + text on a web page, then after a year i had a duh 
>that's obvious moment when i realised that i was still so stuck in 
>text + image land. now the text is always just another track/s in the 
>movie. i want the distance/difference maintained (text and image and 
>video have different semiotic and material economies) but i also 
>think bringing them together makes the distance/difference visible.
>
  (i dislike some theory's assumption that putting video next to text 
is novel or a valuable outcome - if you're a visual arts person the 
text still tends to be little more than caption, if you're a text 
person the image tends to be little more than illustration to the 
wondrous word. of course that could be a strawman argument, but it 
works well at making visible the fact that words and images are 
different but that doesn't mean they can't work together (can anyone 
say blake?), and more importantly at making visible that multimedia 
doesn't erase that distinction.)

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