Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Filmed for something else, but never used. Around 8 seconds and 11 megabytes.

When Brittany and I talked about the lumiere rules for the first time she mentioned Blandlands to me. I knew Aaron Valdez of course, but Blandlands had totally escaped me. Loved it then and I'm still hooked. Here's my first attempt at a blandlands type video. Yesterday I biked by the harbour area on my way to town and noticed the grand banner (an ad for the school I attend, no less). It just seemed so fitting that I returned at dusk to film.

Watch Brittany's Road Chimney blandland and read why competition is dumb for these projects.

I did a short talk on videoblogging at AAU yesterday. We had a very good discussion afterwards, but unfortunately I can't put that online. So here are the slides instead (it includes links so click around):

• Slides from videoblogging talk (PDF document)

The video is in Danish. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Jan Michael Madsen underholdte onsdag på AAU omkring storytelling (og hvad han kaldte storyliving) i forbindelse med Tordenskioldsdage i Frederikshavn. Det var et meget inspirerende foredrag om involvering af lokalsamfundet. Her er en lille video om storytelling på Frederikshavnsk.

Since February E-Learning Lab at Aalborg University has been podcasting. They have eight podcasts available right now. The topics are broad, but of course the focus is on ICT and learning. Some of the podcasts are in English, but it's a bit hard to see which ones. The website also seems to be missing permalinks for the individual episodes making further conversation in the blogosphere impossible. I'm a bit bummed about that.

In similar news AAU-TV had their release party on Friday. AAU-TV is a student-run tv-station at Aalborg University. There are promotional videos online at the moment and production will start sooner rather than later. If you are student or faculty at AAU and have something to say AAU-TV have cameras and know-how. Everything is in Danish at the moment, but if you're an exchange student you will also be welcomed with open arms.

Byfilm (“City Movies”) is a project in Copenhagen where anyone is encouraged to send in short movies (no longer than 7 minutes) of city life. The team behind will show these movies in open spaces around Copenhagen. They accept movies from mobile phones and digital cameras (mov. avi, wmv, 3gp, mp4 og MPEG-4 formats) and all movies are shown without sound. It sounds like a really cool project and it makes me wish I was in Copenhagen to attend a screening. If they accepted movies from Aalborg I'd send them a short moment like the one below.

Okay, I might've made something longer than 13 seconds, but this was the only fresh video clip I had lying around.

Earlier today I did a talk at Aalborg University as a part of a seminar on videoblogging and new media. Here are the examples I used in my presentation:

• Momentshowing: Looking at Things…
• Human Dog: HD LAB MEMO - PILLS
• Steve Garfield: 2004: The Year of the Video Blog
• Two Carpenters: It Snows Here
• Squeeze Project
• Vlog Your Face
• Crash Test Kitchen: Cracking Creme Brulee
• Rocketboom — March 9th 2006
• Road Node Video Quote
• One America Videoblog
• Human Dog: The Haberek Part I, Part III
• Board Games with Scott
• Clerks 2 Videoblog

What I wanted to use, but didn't because my presentation was in English and the video is in Danish:

• Kristjansson: Jeg er meget fotogen…

I took a walk around campus today to take photos (and return books to the library). This is my test of the Badge feature at 23. It looks like a really easy way to link to multiple photos. I especially like that 23 provides an unstyled version so you can make the design yourself. Not that I've done more than create some spacing. There are notes on the format available.

I'm a student, and they make students write papers. This semester I wrote a semiotic analysis of weblogs and videoblogs. It's an attempt at defining the two media — mostly because I couldn't get my head around them. My paper was due before Christmas, but I've been holding out putting it up for download becuase I haven't been graded for it yet. Of course now I realize that my paper will be available in the university project database regardless so I might as well host it here also.

• Download “Videoblogging Is... en tekstanalyse af weblogs og videoblogs” (705KB; 28 pages)

The paper is in Danish and it is a school paper, not a paper for a journal (so some boredom is to be expected). The version linked above is the same I turned in, missing words and grammatical mistakes included. I know they're there and you don't have to tell me about them (it's too late to fix anyway). If you quote this, let me know. I like reading about weblogs and videoblogs.

Friday my internship application to Ann Arbor Community Television Network went in the mail. Now I have to play the waiting game for a while. I really hope they are interested in having me as an intern. Working full time at a place like that would give me new opportunities for learning I feel I can't get anywhere else.

I have to thank Jay for telling me about these community tv-networks to begin with, and I have to thank the internship coordinators at the International Office. They are some of the most helpful people.