Everyday Films with Eric Rice

This is where we ve all been for the past week:

Found a 64 minute documentary on Cyberpunk, complete with interviews with William Gibson, Timothy Leary and more.

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.

Record your video and add it to the group 90secondgear on Flickr.

And when I say practical social media app , I mean, for once, it doesn t parade around my contact list, display every blink and sneeze I make for the entire world to see. I don t want to be crazy hermit man in the cave, but come ON people. Give people some space. Eyejot, is really simple. Video mail, the end. No really, I just record a video and send it to either a) another Eyejot user or b) an email address. It s free or 14.95 for an entire year (which gets more bells and whistles, recording time from 1 minute to 5, uploads, mobile access and the like. It works well on the iphone and you can subscribe to your inbox as a podcast feed. This is smart and super simple. Here s a vid: Feel free to add me to your addressbook, I m ericrice, or just drop a note to me at my typical gmail account.

Who would think it would be SO DIFFICULT to buy an overpriced phone from Nokia (to switch FROM an IPHONE ffs)? I m already OVER the fact that I will never be able to go into a physical store to touch/hold/read-the-side-of-a-box. (I know, call me crazy for wanting to see/touch a product I ll be buying, wacky, eh?). Fine. Most online retailers can t seem to clearly get stats published properly and even calling Nokia themselves has left me with doubt that even they know (and hey, nice way to have your sales guys throw people to tech support and drop the sale in the process). So yeah, here s the video open letter to Nokia, who apparently seems to coddle bloggers and vloggers, yet you d never know it. Everyone else is an armchair expert I just want a company to confirm that something will work (for those that have offered up advice and links, thanks, now if only the actual company could get it together, heh). Short version: I want an n95 that will work w/AT T and support UMTS 2100 (so I can use it in japan). Whether or not it has 3G in the US is irrelevant, EDGE is fine. I just want to buy the right thing ONCE, but getting to that point, in a word, sucks. PS: Is this it? Nokia N95 @ MacMall

This video became popular so I decided to post it here so people could comment on it. This is, in a way, the next level beyond the Facebook-data scraping incident. This is social hacking; social engineering. The creation of fake personas, carefully nuanced with mundane details and mediocrity, the fake average guy , when developed over a long period of time, can be an ingenious platform to scrape data, mine data, infiltrate social networks and communities.

Ah, the irony. Even though I pay attention to a lot of virtual worlds and such, I m typecast as the SL Guy , heh. In this long , I talk with Akela and Moo about the history of Saijo City, Second Life, iPhone, design, filmmaking, Web 2.0, Social Networks and more. (Aw, I m the Web 2.0 poster boy, do I have to tell my mom? Download the MP3

Ah, the irony. Even though I pay attention to a lot of virtual worlds and such, I m typecast as the SL Guy , heh. In this long , I talk with Akela and Moo about the history of Saijo City, Second Life, iPhone, design, filmmaking, Web 2.0, Social Networks and more. (Aw, I m the Web 2.0 poster boy, do I have to tell my mom? Download the MP3

Heh. The iPhone Song Produced By Nora McDevitt Written By MC Slutsky, MC Prager, Randy Zuckerberg Music By Myloekoe

Just because it s called a Hellion. Wonder how it performs Hyundai isn t the first brand I think of for performance. But they win for the name:

But it s not my own, heh. I guest hosted The Podcast Network s Rock Show, TPN Rock Takeover, playing some of the music that gets me charged, including some D.O.A. (you d be amazed what s podsafe these days ). Every Monday, a new guest host. . TPN Rock is something my MacHomeboy Ewan Spence has on his plate (amongst a couple of other things he s helped out with Combat Cards Redeswire Rip, FTW). Music included tracks from Vigilante, Hed Pe, Caterpiller Tracks, D.O.A. and some stand-up comedy from Don Friesen. TPN Rock Takeover >Get the show and crank it in the car.

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This is the most intelligent thing I ve read yet about the issues and it touches on something: infringement of we-the-people-by-the-people, as opposed to a megacorp. Dell arrived with four islands in SL and that s certainly NOT the news of the day. Plus, duh, it s DELL. Anyway, Notable game designer Raph Koster on CopyBot. This is spreading everywhere. Copyleft vs. Copyright; Open Source vs. Proprietary, the debates rage on and on from all sides. Tons of misinformation and lots of mob behavior. It s a bad story for SL and since it s the media darling now, the bad side is also an easy media angle. Popped in today and saw more Reuters people in all the hotspots. Doesn t matter what the medium is, it s the higher concept. Please remember that. Bonus: SOMEONE SET US UP THE PETARD

The previous version of this file required that you skipped ahead about 3.5 minutes. This is the corrected file. October 10, 2006 Sun Microsystems press conference in Second Life with the following people: Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab CEO John Gage, Sun Microsystems Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer Produced by MillionsOfUs Podcast powered by Hipcast.com Download MP3

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CNET/ZDnet did a cool couple of TV segments: One of being a virtual millionaire and the other on saving lives virtually First video is me talking about the Hipcast.com Virtual Conference Center and the other is Kim Rufers-Bach talking about setting up disaster training in a virtual world to prepare for real world (Philip Rosedales piece on working out the logistics of setting up a command center in a parking lot is quite insightful). (who built it? find out here) Check em out, and thanks for all the good words. BTW, ALSO IMPORTANT! I m stoked that one of Multiverse Records/Slackstreet Music s own is part of the soundtrack! In the piece on Virtual Millionaire, you can hear Keiko, who is a dual San Jose/Tokyo artist and someone filled with much awesomeness. Her story is amazing and her sounds I personally can t get enough of even the kids love her music. Listen to Saw it Coming . Play it on your podcast, but please link to Keiko s myspace page: http://myspace.com/keikotakamura Keiko performs weekly inside of Second Life, and may be doing a couple gigs here in the Bay Area before going back to Tokyo. 3

Karma's a bitch. Sounds of Gunfire at Capitol Complex. Although, it is amusing the Californian is all 'eh prolly balloons popping or a backfiring car' ... We got Compton and East Palo Alto. Settle down, white people. In other news, you can see the dynamic of facts vs. interpretation vs. People don't actually care about the details-- if it is perceived to stink it stinks. Web 2.0 Cease & Desist (I post this link since this is where I read it first. Bonus: NYPost++ Bad Lay ... Enron's Kenny Boy gets 165 years. Bonus 2.0: I registered BunnyInABallGag.com Watch video here Have a great day, sports fans!

BTW, I meant to not 'video for 80 years' but the notion of home movies and other such moving pictures and sound being created. We're all just doing the same thing from personal stuff to rockstar stuff and everything in between in a new medium. Terms be damned! :-) On location at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. OnHollywood 2006. AlwaysOn Network. Eric's jeans by Apostle. Video podcasting powered by Hipcast. Download Video

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He got a toy camcorder for Christmas. He's learning how to hold it. When he somewhat gets how the LCD screen works, he starts to interview his brother. All I did was plug it into the computer and uploaded the AVI file to Audioblog.com. Amazing.

PodGuide.tv doesn't have comments enabled, so I'm addressing the review of Backstaging here on my own blog. "Mesmerizing like a car wreck" is the best shit EVER, I'm so stealing that. Thanks. And yes, Backstaging is very much about the obvious, and that is exciting to me. Except it's not focused around the building of our studio, it's about damn near everything that surrounds the tools of this trade, whatever 'trade' is.... citizen media, home production, devices, software, and what not. And as we learn something, we'll share it. And if we need help, we'll ask for it. Not everyone who wants to make media is the demographic of affluent blogger, hence duct-taping the shit out of something and make it look reasonably good might be some very useful information. And more importantly, we need to make content that people can take with them, on their iPods, to hardware stores, so they can get in on the action. Flip on HGTV sometime, there's plenty of shows about the obvious (stapling felt to a board to dress it up? see the point?). I want Backstaging to ultimately be some twisted hybrid of MTV and HGTV, that's short, portable, useful, and if it's entertaining, well then score! It's also a living case study of, "Hey I want my own show. I don't want to pitch it. I'm just gonna do it." If it lands in traditional media, then so be it. The point is, I'm doing it my way. And that's what I believe to be one of the four types of media making. (Now if I can get over the irony of the dollars we're investing to make a video podcast about how to do cool shit for seven bucks... welcome to DIY, I guess. Heh) Thanks for the love. I'll go film some car wrecks for under 500 dollars. /me falls over. ;-)

Visit Backstaging for the last video podcast on the RCA cable trick for your video iPod; see how camera filters can work on different cameras with the help of step ring adapters. Watch the latest episode and get future video podcasts delivered free in iTunes!

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I've made a short little thing... no audio.. it's late. So, download and watch the second video from Lessig's virtual appearance in Second Life. Check the last two posts for video #1 and the transcript (and also links to the flickr photos). Now go remix the video.