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 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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