MetaFilter posts tagged with internet and video

Arcangel and the future of digi/net art

0bvious — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:44:50 -0800

Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are we destined to roam the int3erw£bs like the mythic beasts of yore, hoping, in time, that digi art can free us from the confines of this fleshy void? [...previously]

300 baud of awesome in a wooden box

loquacious — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:47:03 -0800

This is what 300 baud looks like online today.

Miro, Miro, on the wall

hippybear — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:42 -0800

Been overjoyed with hulu and other online internet television sources? You need to know about Miro, the video podcast tracker and media display program for everyone. Subscribe to some of the feeds. Can't find your favorite listed? It will still work for you. It's a full featured bittorrent client, it works with any media RSS feed, and it's an attractive alternative to VLC for Mac users weeping into their folders full of .avi files. (Plus it's open source!) With many HD sources, including the ability to download YouTube HD content for offline viewing, it's also a resource for original online content, including spawning new "networks." Previously, sort of

Final Edition

yiftach — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:49:50 -0800

Newspaper says goodbye via Vimeo. The Rocky Mountain News published its final edition today, after 149 years, 311 days in circulation.

Incredigreat

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:01:52 -0800

I'm On a Boat, Featuring T-pain (NSFWork or Landlubbers) ...is the latest video from the new album by Incredibad who is Lonely Island. "A slew of "real" musicians will join Samberg on the album, including T-Pain, Norah Jones, Jack Black, E-40, the Strokes' frontman Julian Casablancas and Justin Timberlake." The album has a bunch of older and SNL-developed tracks, but also enough new stuff (like the update of Just Two Guys, We Like Sports) that f a n s might be reasonably expecting more gold this year from the Dudes. KABLAMO4EVER

First!

Del Far — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:36:53 -0800

"Wow, a new user... That's Great! We'd be happy to show you the ropes!" a PSA on conversation starters in forums and comment threads online that have never been heard or used before. Brought to you by Red Vs. Blue.

Proper internet forum behavior video.

filmgeek — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:01:58 -0800

How to act on an internet forum. Yup, just a single link to a video – informative on how to behave nevertheless. Even here on Metafiler. Covers feeding trolls, Godwin's Law, fanboys, teenagers, increasing your post count, Admin respect, caps, lurking, keeping on topic, pictures, and of course items that might be NSFW.

Art in the Age of Digital Ubiquity

billtron — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:14:12 -0800

I was going to share the many amazing videos that StSanders has uploaded to youtube featuring guitar gods like Van Halen and Santana shredding, since they have inexplicably only received scant mention on mefi so far. But StSanders' account has been suspended all all videos have been removed! So in the meantime the best I can offer is the work of John Michael Boling and Javier Morales. They are video artists whose hypnotizing and nostalgic and work can be seen at 53 o's. For those of you who didn't hover over that hyperlink, the website is http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/.

Terry's Chop Shop

Soup — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:29:18 -0800

Terry's Chop Shop. "Ever since I was a boy I have had a burning desire to chop."

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

dhammond — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:56:43 -0800

It's 1994, there's a bomb in Los Angeles, and THERE'S NO TIME! Will Jack Bauer save the world with AOL 3.0?

video profiles--from activists to huggers to outers to excons to the religious ....

amberglow — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:55:56 -0800

People of the Web --very well done short video profiles of interesting people online. Mike Rogers of blogactive is on the front page now. Links to previous profiles are on the right, including Kirk Cameron, Caleb Shikles, Sherman Austin, and Josh Wolf.

Make Internet TV

signal — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:55:21 -0800

MITV: A how to for internet video production, from the friendly people at the Participatory Culture Foundation (makers of the Democracy Player).

Viral, as in it makes you ill

unSane — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:41:42 -0800

The bastard offspring of Borat and Inspector Clouseau shares his insights on internet marketing, the time to take action, the correct use of videos (!!) and plenty more. Warning: his website crashed my browser.

Download interent video easily

jonson — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:58:52 -0800

Keep Vid is an excellent web based utility for downloading web video from many of the most popular sites (iFilm, google video, YouTube & a ton of others) to your hard drive.

teh intarwebs peeveearr

gren — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:09:33 -0800

Democracy Player. Watch internet videos like you watch TV. Cool trick to it, whichever OS you are on (OS X or Windows for now, *nix coming soon) the homepage will load the appropriate download link. Built in channel guide gives you access to tons of interesting content, and lets anyone share their vids.

After all, it's the wave of the future, wave of the future, wave of the future, ...

kliuless — Mon, 23 May 2005 04:17:45 -0800

Steven Levy and Mark Pesce on the future of television. Oh and Conan O'brien! :D [via]

TV on the internet

halo7879 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:01:33 -0800

Watching tv on the internet With daily tv-video news.

Who needs a hug...

drpynchon — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:21:56 -0800

Grandfather of the personal blog freaks out at age 30, after spending 11 years writing about the most intimate details of his life. From the beginning, he was always brutally honest in a time long before it became so commonplace, before any of us knew where this internet business would take us. Naturally he recorded said freakout on video for the world to see, and more or less shut down his storied site. Can we take this kind of display at face value? Is it a bad case of someone substituting net life for the real thing? Is it all just effete whining? Or is this a genuine case of two loves colliding, and a man forced to make a difficult choice?

Star Wars Kid

malphigian — Fri, 02 May 2003 08:57:17 -0800

Step one: record an embarrassing video of yourself (WMV link). Step two: Let the video fall into the hands of the internet masses, and become the hero you've dreamed of(also WMV).

TheManWhoKnowsMostThings — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:36:53 -0800

Want to listen to the World Series on the Web? Pay $9.95. I know, it's a sports post, so (most) everyone will hate it, but I see a disturbing trend of no more free media lunches on the Web. CNN went subscription months ago, and most other places I've gone for free video/audio are drying up. All I wanted was to listen to the game. But I can't find it anywhere. All the regular stations I listen to that carry the game are silent. And how will the Angels make a valiant comeback if I can't cheer them on? (sigh)

Argyle — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:05:55 -0800

Bait and Switch? (Quicktime Movie) - One of the Mac Faithful at fury.com makes a funny (but true) statement about the new .Mac service charge that Apple recently announced. How far can Apple push their core consumer market with this type of thing? In a News.com report, Apple predicts losing up to 90% of their existing .Mac users. That's some public relations plan. They are indeed thinking differently.

nyukid — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:45:09 -0800

ShadowTV is tomorrow's technology today -- its "TiVo on steroids," according to Joachim Kim, a creator of a new technology that enables users (which may at sometime include the public on a subscription model) to pull up video-quality or better streaming footage of any television show that aired or is currently airing, including (or not including) the commercials, all in a handy web application.

The limitations are endless.

Such a technology could prove deadly for the big TV networks (down the road sometime), although ShadowTV seems optimistic to work with content providers. [Thanks to Professor Michael Rosenblum at NYU for introducing our Televison and the Information Explosion class to tomorrow' technology.]

Now, let me begin planning that 7-season Star Trek: Voyager marathon...

netbros — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:05:26 -0800

Net faces 10-year Olympic shutout. Chairman of the IOC Internet working group says, "Unless and until you can guarantee your internet signal is only available within your territory, you cannot put video on your website. We're going to go forward with that and we're going to see how it evolves." Anyone have some portable transmission walls they can erect on international boundaries every two years?