Browsing archives for January 2007

vidavee graffiti

By michelle, 4 years, 11 months ago - No Comments

Ideafarm pointed me to this virtual graffiti website. You upload a youtube film onto the site, then proceed to 'graffiti' it with digital effects. I guess it's a variation on sites like Jumpcut and Eyespot, which encourage non-editors to create their own films by providing users with a super simple editing tools on their websites. vidavee graffiti claim it's tools enable a “legal form of artful vandalism”

anyway, the Stray Cinema requirements state 'There are no limitations to the amount of special effects you may add to your film submission. You are limited only by your imagination.'

So I guess you could use effects from vidavee graffiti to modify your Stray Cinema film submission? At this stage the effects are lacking, but soon you will be able to add and access other peoples graphics and effects...so watch the space...

digital painting kit

By michelle, 4 years, 11 months ago - No Comments

Wow, take a look at Drag & Draw.

Will Google & Amazon merge to create Googlezon?

By michelle, 4 years, 11 months ago - No Comments

An interesting prediction anyway. Watch Epic 2015 to find out more. It is a Flash animation about the history of the Internet, set in the future. This was made by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History.

I was frustrated watching this, only because of the poor broadband we are being dished up here in New Zealand. Sometimes the future feels very distant in this part of the world.

Stray Cinema update

By michelle, 4 years, 11 months ago - No Comments

Well it's been all go since we received our 30th film submission, and set a date for our screening event. Planning is starting to take place, and there is some exciting ideas floating around the Stray Cinema space.

Reaching 30 film submissions was a huge feat for us, and in all honesty we didn't think we would reach this day so soon. The Stray Cinema project relies on its community to participate and contribute to the project, and without them we wouldn't exist. When we first launched this website, we found it was quite easy to attract people here for a quick peek at what we were doing. However, we soon realised that wasn't enough, we needed people to stay on our website for longer, to come back and ultimately to participate and contribute in some way. At Stray Cinema we are just facilitators of a creative process.

Our community page is one of the most popular pages on our website, and here we list the different ways people can contribute to our project (asides from the obvious - make a film submission). Perhaps there are other ways you feel you can contribute? We are open to that too...

Our main focus right now is drawing people into the site to vote and comment on the film submissions, so please let us know if you have any ideas on how to go about this.

Finally, thanks for your ongoing support. You made this happen, and that's exciting.