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Obama Landslide
from Michael Verdi
October 04, 2008
QuickTime vPIP Yeah I said it. We ll see for sure in 31 days. Vlog Anarchy Take 2 W-WTF?...
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YouTube Hot Spots
from Michael Verdi
October 02, 2008
iPod vPIP This is a screencast of YouTube s great new metric, Hot Spots which lets you see what parts of your videos connect with viewers and which parts don t....
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I Am Blind
from Michael Verdi
October 03, 2008
iPod vPIP I got a package in the mail the other day for an ARG about the film Blindness which opens today. iamblind.org ARGNet post Unfiction thread...
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PUNCH
from scratch video
September 29, 2008
Download punch.mov Reposting an oldie. You even have to click on the link to get to the low res video. Remember these days? This was done in March 2005....
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Machinima: Filmmaking Of The Future
from Michael Verdi
January 20, 2008
iPod vPIP [Note: This video is a real out-take from the making of SAND, the machinima series from What Is Scion City? I m showing this video to you because I think it shows part of the difference between traditional animation and machinima. This event happened spontaneously, in real-time. The audio ...
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Passage to Zhong Fu
from Michael Verdi
January 30, 2008
iPod vPIP Watch in HD (181MB - will open in the QuickTime Player) Passage to Zhong Fu was originally made for the 48 Hour Film Project in Second Life but since I work for Millions of Us, one of the sponsors of the event, our team wasn’t eligible to compete. That said, making this film, for me, was...
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Flash & H.264
from Michael Verdi
March 16, 2008
iPod vPIP Last year Adobe announced that Flash would support H.264 video. I hadn t had the time to follow up on that until I saw this cool tip on the Videoblogging list yesterday. So this post is just testing that functionality - even though there is a Flash version that plays in the Jeroen Wijering...
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Please Vote For My SXSW Panels
from Michael Verdi
August 28, 2008
iPod vPIP I proposed two how to demonstrations: Machinima Kung Fu - Sure machinima looks easy - record a game, drop it into iMovie and do some voices - but there’s actually a little more to it than that. This session will cover all the tech of making machinima - from hardware and software to in-ga...
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Light
from Michael Verdi
September 08, 2008
iPod vPIP Yesterday the evening light on the wall across from my desk was so beautiful that I just had to grab my camera. It reminded me of how I used to listen to music and watch the light and shadows reflected on my ceiling from a lava lamp. The moon just happened to be on the same tape. I d forgo...
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Shiny
from Michael Verdi
September 08, 2008
iPod vPIP This video was originally posted back in January 2006 on a now defunct version of this site. It was shot at the SFO Bart station....
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Sun
from Michael Verdi
September 22, 2008
iPod vPIP Once again, I continue to be entertained by shiny things in the sky. The music is the end of 11 Ghosts II and the beginning of 12 Ghosts II from Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV....
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Shot Glass
from scratch video
September 22, 2008
Kari, Torsten and Darren. I always love watching the capture take place. Simple moments become textured like this. Feels that way to me. It's a good thing....
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Beijing, China: August 2008
from Ryanne's Video Blog
September 21, 2008
Jay and I spent the better part of August in Beijing during the Olympics to help document protests happening there. We blogged more in depth about it on RyanIsHungry. Here is the momentshowing version of the trip. As you can see the Olympics were everywhere. Shopping centers, cafes, buses, subway ca...
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Old Staples
from scratch video
April 07, 2007
Sweet little ditty from my old friend Anne! A nice visit tonight. It's been a long long time since we've seen one another ...I don't like maple anymore. The rest is pretty much the same. Funny how time can give perspective on the little things....
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Cutting Brains
from scratch video
September 21, 2008
One of the most spiritual moments I've had in the edit room was cutting an autopsy. Me and the fresh cells. Thank God I'm left alone in there....
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McCain & Obama On The Economic Crisis
from Michael Verdi
September 18, 2008
QuickTime vPIP This whole subprime mess is extremely frustrating. I can t stand when people argue that the government shouldn t regulate anything. This is the shit that happens when we do that. Of course, in the end, the government is forced to intervene anyway. To me the whole point of having a gov...
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Sabinal
from Michael Verdi
September 08, 2008
QuickTime vPIP At the end of July I went to a retreat with my theater company out in Sabinal, TX. It s not a big place. This is pretty much it. The music is from Girl Talk. It s what I was listening to in the car (and pretty much everywhere else for the last few months)....
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Slim Fast Viral Video
from JeepBastard's Video WarpCast
February 06, 2008
Slim Fast Viral VideoI just wrapped shooting a Silm Fast Viral Video. It features 3 women (Hazel Dolphy, Rhonelle Bruder, and Lauren Munger ) who tell their stories about becoming comfortable with their own body image in an organic way and talk about a friend they have to help them count calories an...
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100 Grand Bar: The Bachelorette Party
from JeepBastard's Video WarpCast
April 10, 2008
100 Grand Bar: The Bachelorette PartyCheck out this Commercial Spec I cobbled together for 100 Grand called: The Bachelorette Party. It features Jonelle Ownes, Chantel, Aiesha Tong and Michelle Reynoso as girls who are partying with their favorite friend - the 100 Grand Nestle Bar, but unfortunately...
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Jem -vs- The Spice Girls Teaser
from JeepBastard's Video WarpCast
June 05, 2008
Jem -vs- The Spice Girls TeaserI watch any cartoon I can get my hands on, but I used to watch Jem, which shaped forever how I deal with women to this day. I used to have a crush for more substantial women more like Valerie from Josie and the Pussycats or Velma from Scooby Doo, who were both super sm...
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Us
from scratch video
October 31, 2006
When us and them collide with ourselves......
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Bart Cheever
from Michael Verdi
August 25, 2008
QuickTime I ve been working at Millions of Us for the better part of a year now and I love it because I get to work on all kinds of crazy projects with all kinds of creative people. Bart Cheever, our VP of Production also happens to be Bart Blackstone the DJ. I beamed him into my virtual studio the ...
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My Yard
from Josh Leo's Vlog
August 24, 2008
With a house, comes a yard. With a yard, comes responsibility Music: Pearl Django - Nuages Downloads: iPod Version...
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Odds in Space
from scratch video
August 16, 2008
My brother and my two nephews came to visit this summer. We did a lot of walking and watching. It's amazing how much is going on in this city. From wedding pictures to singing Bowie, just a few feet away from each other. Thomas managed to fit right in....
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My First Crush
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
July 28, 2008
I was looking to explore the subject of love and infatuation and thought it best to interview real people about their encounters to really capture the emotion of this very awkward early experience. Using their animal counterparts I looked to explore the humor and heartache of this right of passage, ...
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Homeless Karaoke
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
August 01, 2008
It?s Wednesday night in downtown L.A. and the sound of a Stevie Wonder song is pouring out of a building on Skid Row. The crowd is going wild. But that isn?t Stevie on stage. In fact, the guy singing looks a lot like someone you just saw sitting on the sidewalk earlier. Welcome to the Karaoke Coffee...
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Homeless Karaoke
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
August 01, 2008
It?s Wednesday night in downtown L.A. and the sound of a Stevie Wonder song is pouring out of a building on Skid Row. The crowd is going wild. But that isn?t Stevie on stage. In fact, the guy singing looks a lot like someone you just saw sitting on the sidewalk earlier. Welcome to the Karaoke Coffee...
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Dear Beautiful
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
June 25, 2008
The sudden appearance of exotic flowers in New Haven spawns an unprecedented epidemic that threatens to destroy the city. Infected people cover themselves maniacally with lotions, creams, and rags, the result of a botched experiment by cosmetics giant, V-Zone. Paul and Lauren, a married couple, are ...
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Flies by The Young Knives
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
July 30, 2008
A small boy wanders alone across a beautiful but hostile planet. He is watched over by his guardian angels, the flies, who protect him from all danger. As he walks naively and freely through the world, the flies stop him falling down holes and being attacked by plants.. finally the child's desire fo...
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The Grand Tour
from Ryanne's Video Blog
July 31, 2008
I've been meaning to make this video for weeks. Check out our place and our gardens! If you can't see the QuickTime video, click here for the Flash version. We're gardening using the Grow Biointensive methods we learned in Willits, CA from John Jeavons and Carol Cox. All hand tilled baby. Everything...
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Cubie
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
January 21, 2008
A conscious computer has been the holy grail of artificial intelligence research for decades. This film doesn't deal with morality, it explores the cognitive consequences of a thinking machine. How would a man-made consciousness differ from a human one? Would they even be able to recognize each othe...
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Dumbass from Dundas
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
February 20, 2008
In the middle of the Nevada desert, two lunkheads get tossed out of separate cars by their so-called friends. One guy is wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt and one is wearing a Kiss t-shirt. They don't like each other. They have problems. This film really resonated in the alternative film scene in the...
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REMINISCE
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
April 02, 2008
What started it all? Two friends talk about what inspired them to start skateboarding and why they both continue to ride their skateboards today....
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Tenderly Yours
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
June 06, 2008
Tenderly Yours resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating,...
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blissful
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
July 28, 2008
Blissful is a collaborative, psychological landscape that describes the internal struggle of a heartless individual. Within the gaps that are created throughout years of pain and suffering, wicked yet blissful scenery is created inside one?s mind. Naturally obstacles are created and internal struggl...
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Johnny Jimmy Joe
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
July 23, 2008
Pop duo Treble & Timbre sing a funky pop song with a country flavor, about some sort of a love triangle - or really a quadrangle - between Treble, Johnny, Jimmy and Joe. Timbre sings back-up and square dances....
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blissful
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
July 28, 2008
Blissful is a collaborative, psychological landscape that describes the internal struggle of a heartless individual. Within the gaps that are created throughout years of pain and suffering, wicked yet blissful scenery is created inside one?s mind. Naturally obstacles are created and internal struggl...
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Whatever Happened To Peaches Christ?
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
June 19, 2008
The third and final chapter in Peaches Christ?s Tran-ilogy of Terror, Whatever Happened to Peaches Christ? finds a drunken Peaches desperately trying to hang on to a career in show biz while her sidekick and ex-friend Martiny's rise in popularity eventually sends Ms. Christ over the edge. A horrible...
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Intelligence
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
June 30, 2008
In a dark, Abbu Ghraib-like prison, three Arab detainees - one a hardware store owner, one a maitre ?d and one possibly a dangerous terrorist ? are interrogated by a team of U.S. military officials - including a sadistic intelligence officer, a weak-willed colonel and a woefully incompetent translat...
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Little Failures
from Undergroundfilm > Top Rated
July 02, 2008
After spending the morning ditching class and smoking cigarettes, fifteen-year-old skater Olive decides to talk to speak to the awkward young man that has fascinated her for so long....
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exit
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
June 22, 2008
Crowds of people in motion during rush hour.The volatile movement of the human presence is led by the rhythm of automatic doors. "Exit" explores the relationships between the unique and the multiple, the successive and the simultaneous, between now and then....
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Dear Beautiful
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
June 25, 2008
The sudden appearance of exotic flowers in New Haven spawns an unprecedented epidemic that threatens to destroy the city. Infected people cover themselves maniacally with lotions, creams, and rags, the result of a botched experiment by cosmetics giant, V-Zone. Paul and Lauren, a married couple, are ...
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eF_2: bROOKLYN
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
June 25, 2008
On the 8th of August 2007 an uncanny ef2 category tornado ripped through Brooklyn, New York. The residents of East 8th street shared their experience in this official selection of the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council Film Fest....
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Intelligence
from Undergroundfilm > Recent Additions
June 30, 2008
In a dark, Abbu Ghraib-like prison, three Arab detainees - one a hardware store owner, one a maitre ?d and one possibly a dangerous terrorist ? are interrogated by a team of U.S. military officials - including a sadistic intelligence officer, a weak-willed colonel and a woefully incompetent translat...
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