Jakob Lodwick and James Hong

We did our iCollaborated shoot with Jakob Lodwick (of CollegeHumor.com fame) and James Hong (of HotOrNot.com fame) over breakfast. Jakob and James, BTW, are famous for other things beyond the websites they and their colleagues built, but that's for another day ;)

And in addition to College Humor Jakob has another project, Vimeo, which is for video sharing. James has another project too called 10 over 100, which is about supporting good causes.

We filmed in NYC. James came in from SF, Jacob is NYC based. James was, er, out being entertained by friends much of the night before the shoot, for more details you'll have to ask James. Anyway, we covered a lot of ground and picked up some great footage for the 24x7.com film experiment.

We have a clip here where the conversation is about their projects and how the timing of technology may have played a role in their brilliant successes.

Here's the clip:



(download the .mov here if you can't view the above player)

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Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid

You probably know Paul Miller as the DJ culture guru famous for creating structure from sequences. Also known as DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, he works in music, video, and text, he cuts-up and collages, he deconstructs and creates. And Paul appears in our 24x7 film experiment.

The clip in this post is from the beginning of the shoot where the conversation was about collaboration. As with the other clips we're posting in the production blog, this clip is pretty typical of the shoot however it's not amongst the footage that's making it into the final cut.

Have a look at some of the projects Paul has in the works and pick up his book if you have time, it's an interesting and enjoyable read, of course you have already checked out his music.

Paul Miller (8.6mb quicktime faststart .mov)


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Genesis P-Orridge

I'll quote Doug Rushkoff to introduce this video clip we're posting to the production blog for the 24x7 film experiment:
"Genesis P-Orridge's work defies objective analysis". That about sums it up, if you don't know the body of work check out Genesis' website for current goings on, pics and performance schedules.

We invited Genesis, who identifies as a cultural engineer, to appear in iCollaborated (working title) and had a fantastically fun shoot. Genesis brought Lady Jaye, a totally inspired idea, and we covered everything from growing up in the U.K. to industrial music to COUM to Throbbing Gristle (I heart TG) to Her Majesty the Queen to more. Enjoy.

Genesis P-Orridge (18mb quicktime faststart .mov)


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Brad Templeton And Jerry Michalski

Just prepped another podcast from the shoot for the 24x7 film experiment (working title iCollaborated), this one's with Brad Templeton and Jerry Michalski. We filmed Brad and Jerry down in Menlo Park, it was a breakfast shoot at one of my new favourite hotels (outstanding management and staff, they really know how to deliver a great experience to guests).

The film edit continues to go well, Brad and Jerry covered a lot of interesting ground during the shoot we are still selecting their clips. We'll be releasing more of their conversation as podcasts or video clips as time permits, if you're anxious for more sooner please feel free to email. Please also feel free to redistribute this podcast noncommercially, we've released it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 license.

If you're involved in anything remotely technology related chances are you know of at least one of these guys and probably both. Brad has worn several hats over the years, from techie entrepreneur to chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he also has some great Burning Man pics. Jerry has also been doing cool things around the tech world, he worked with Esther Dyson's company, EDventure Holdings writing for her Release 1.0 newsletter and presently is consulting in the technology space.

Their conversation in this clip begins with one of the big questions of the day - open vs closed systems/environments - and the societal impact. Great stuff. Please enjoy, we'll continue to release audio podcasts and video clips as part of our experiment in increasing awareness for the film (i.e., blatant self promotion) and to give you a something you might enjoy while commuting or at the gym.

And hey everyone, please support the EFF or at least read more about the work they do for all of us to help protect our digital rights.

Here's the audio podcast, it runs about 30 minutes. Enjoy (~28mb).




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Sean Gullette

We all remember Sean from the flick he did with Darren Aronofsky, Pi (get Pi DVD here). But did you know Sean also had other stuff going on in Internet publishing?

We did our shoot with Sean for the 24x7 film experiment in NYC. He had so much to say about so many things it's going to be hard selecting the right bits of his for the film. Anyway, here's a clip (and plug for iCollaborated) where he tells a brief story (he's such a great story teller) related to how New York City changed during the dot com boom. Enjoy.

Sean Gullette (6.8mb quicktime faststart .mov)


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Rob Malda And Jeff Bates

Rob CmdrTaco Malda and Jeff Hemos Bates joined us for the 24x7 film experiment, and an all around fun afternoon it was. You know them from Slashdot, or if you don't you should, Slashdot provide the geek community with an online venue for exchanging news and ideas.

We did their shoot in Ann Arbor, the meat-space location of Slashdot filming over a laugh-till-it-hurts long lunch. They've know each other since middle school and as you might imagine with old friends the conversation flowed fast and furiously ricocheting from topic to topic. I won't disclose too much about the shoot here, you'll have to wait for the movie. One thing though, there was this damn uninvited house fly that showed up mid way through the shoot and hogging the action for a bit as you'll see in this clip.

Rob and Jeff (10.8mb quicktime faststart .mov)


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Bram Cohen

Distributing large files such as the movies we all make has become more efficient thanks to people like Bram Cohen.

Bram is the guy behind BitTorrent, a program that enables our audiences to receive our productions whilst reducing the burden on our own bandwidth by sharing the distribution task. BitTorrent is making a bit of history right now, and a lot of tools developers are climbing on board with implementations and variations.

Anyway, for the 24x7 film experiment along with others who we thought would be interesting to audiences we invited Bram. Here's a brief clip with Bram introducing himself and BitTorrent. We are using other footage in the final cut of the film and thought you might enjoy seeing and hearing Bram and getting a BitTorent 101 introduction.

Bram Cohen (8.2mb quicktime faststart .mov)


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Kiki Smith & Bill T. Jones

The 24x7 film experiment (working title iCollaborated) continues to be a huge amount of both work and fun. As those of you who are following our progress know, we are in edit and have only a small amount of shooting to complete before we go into a final edit.

And time permitting, as we progress in the edit we'll continue releasing podcasts comprised of excerpts from the shoots. Why are we releasing podcasts? Well, partly to experiment with methods to increase awareness for the film (i.e., blatant self promotion) and partly because it's helping the edit process along. And why not, it's easy for peeps to listen to podcasts while driving or on the train or at the gym.

This podcast is from the shoot with Kiki Smith and Bill T. Jones. You probably have seen Kiki's work in museums or private collections and either seen Bill's company perform either live or on television. On the very off chance you haven't seen their work, check the schedules and get out from behind your fancy high-res flatscreen monitor and have look. Sure, I was skeptical about the whole going outdoors thing at first too, but it's actually nice not seeing the world solely in pixels, I now understand what all the going out just for fun fuss is about :)

If you need more information feel free to email me directly, I think Bill's next performance is at the Kennedy Center and Kiki is in collections pretty much everywhere.

The shoot was done over lunch (in case you miss the dining sounds in the audio) and they chat about creativity, making art and identity. The entire lunch conversation was amazing, and as usual we didn't include the bits in the podcast we're using in the film. We have a lot of interesting footage from all of the shoots so it's been difficult selecting the bits for the film, I wish there was a way to show you more of it.

If you're an artist or at all interested in creativity you will probably enjoy this podcast. BTW, why do you make art?

A huge thanks to both Kiki and Bill for participating in iCollaborated.

Here's the podcast, enjoy.




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Woz And Captain Crunch

As we continue the big edit for the film experiment we plan to continue releasing podcasts along the way. I hope peeps are enjoying these, it would be great if the podcasts help increase awareness of the film for when it's finally released. But I will not hold my breath. Any thoughts re podcasting and promoting indie film, feel free to contact me directly. Thanks.

Anyway, here's the background for this shoot with Steve Wozniak and John Draper. As you may recall, there was a lot of experimentation back in the days before the invention of personal computers with communications networks. Steve (Woz) Wozniak met John (Captain Crunch) Draper during those days. Once we began shooting the conversation turned to the days of experimentation, it was like being there during the blue-boxing and homebrew computer club days listening to them reminisce.

If you're a geek you probably know something about how this happened, if you're not you will probably enjoy hearing first-hand what was going on while the ideas for the Mac were germinating in Woz's head, back before he and Steve Jobs rawked the world with the birth of Apple. IMHO, it's fascinating to hear about experimentation and the paths ideas travel before they become inventions.

And hey, we didn't include the entire conversation in this podcast, no sense in spoiling it for you by including the bits going into the film. And a big thanks goes out to not only Steve and John but also Steve's super cool assistant who with our fellow here sorted the details for this shoot while I was travelling.

Here's the podcast, enjoy.




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Amanda and Julianne (podcast)

The day we filmed Amanda Congdon and Julianne Shepherd Rocketboom was having an interesting day, they had the what Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron says (I'm paraphrasing) was their most controversial episode. He said viewers came on subsequent days to see that episode more heavily than for almost all other episodes. The controversy had nothing to do with us filming Amanda and Julianne, in this podcast Amanda explains what happened.

They also talk about vlogging, podcasting, John Edwards and politics, if these are areas of interest you might want to have a listen. This podcast is comprised of excerpts from their shoot and as with our other podcasts from the film experiment we are using other clips from Amanda and Julianne's lunch conversation in the film. And BTW, you'll hear at the beginning of this podcast the inspiration for the vlog we posted last week.

Here's the podcast, enjoy.



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Ken Jacobs & Maya Stendhal Conversation (podcast)

Our shoot with Ken Jacobs and Maya Stendhal was interesting, they navigated through and around several topics, here we've edited excerpts into a podcast for you. As with our other (past a future releases of) podcasts from the film experiment we chose a portion of the conversation, the bits we marked for the film are not in this podcast.

Ken and Maya are both very much in tune with the opportunities and concerns of artists and producers of digital content. Ken Jacobs, as you know if you're into film, is an avant-garde filmmaker and has been making conceptual art for decades and Maya has a gallery, Maya Stendhal Gallery, specialising in moving image art.

They chat about issues facing anyone creating music, video and anything digitally reproducible. They do a much better job than I could do explaining it, here's the Ken Jacobs and Maya Stendhal podcast.

The podcast runs about 22 minutes (they get less face time in the film). Their conversation begins with the topic of Maya's show for Jonas Mekas and the Venice Biennale, progressing from there towards, well, have a listen and see.



And for all enquiring when you can preview a rough cut of the film all I can say right now is the editing is coming along nicely. We'll be releasing a few more podcasts along the way, time permitting and probably open the production blog to the public. Watch this space for details and further podcasts, or grab the feed and stay on top of our little experiment. Thanks again Maya and Ken. Later all, now back to work here.

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Amanda Congdon & Julianne Shepherd

Amanda Congdon and Julianne Shepherd are two of the gracious participants in the 24x7 documentary film experiment. Their shoot was not only a total breeze it was also very interesting. And the footage looks great. Thanks Amanda and Julianne :)

You probably recognise Amanda as she's the Rocketboom presenter or from one of her acting gigs or her personal Amanda Unboomed blog. And if you're into music and/or Portland culture you've probably read Julianne's work, perhaps her Cowboyz 'n' Poodles blog or in Spin, The Portland Mercury, Pitchfork or Citypages (and other places too).

I'm thinking we'll post a podcast from their shoot later this week if we have time to do an edit, there may be one ahead of theirs that's close to a final edit; we're going over a lot of footage from all of the shoots and it's a bit mad here at the moment.

I blogged earlier we're working on the edit for the 24x7 documentary film experiment and releasing several podcasts comprised of edited conversations from shoots. While we were sorting the movie edits and podcasts we very quickly grew fond of this brief clip from from Amanda and Julianne's shoot, we thought we'd share the image with you. During the shoot there was great conversation re music and dancing, and after the shoot we, well, have a look for yourself, check back for the podcast or add the RSS Feed (the link is over there on the right of this page) to your news-reader:

Amanda & Julianne (9.7mb quicktime faststart) -or- download then watch (9.7mb mov)


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Evan "evhead" Williams Conversation (podcast)

I mentioned in an earlier post some of the footage shot for the film experiment would be posted as podcasts. Well, here's Evan Williams in the first podcast for the film experiment.

We showed up in the bay area to film and invited Evan in for a chat. Given Ev's launch of ODEO (with biz partner Noah Glass) we though it only fair that he got to be the first podcast. If you haven't heard of ODEO yet, go check it out. Ev's personal channel on ODEO is here and his blog is here.

The podcast runs about 30 minutes, Ev gets less face time in the film, he talks about other stuff there. Heh, podcasting might be a good way to plug the film experiment, I guess we'll see. And here's a pic from the shoot:



Everyone probably knows who Ev is but if you don't he's the guy from blogger.com (which got sold to Google), one of the early forces behind blogging and he's now into podcasting. He talks about his experiences with blogger.com and ODEO in the podcast, some other stuff too. Enjoy.

We're busily working on editing the film and will squeeze in the release of a few more podcasts along the way, time permitting. Watch this space for more, or grab the feed. And thanks again Ev for the great talk. Everyone go join ODEO and check out their easy interface and start podcasting.

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Regarding The Film Experiment, Three Notes

First of all and again, thanks to everyone who participated.

Second, a few peeps have expressed interest in seeing certain footage and we're trying to figure out the easiest way to handle this. On one hand it would be really cool to show it all, and on the other if we post it on the interweb the final cut might not have the same impact. And while I'm on the subject, we are considering a few experimental distribution ideas that I think work well with the making experimental film. Experimentation is where it's at.

Third, we are presently editing a few podcasts from the footage and will post when so you can have a listen while commuting or hanging at the beach. Feel free to contact me privately if you have any questions.

My present thinking is podcasts will be both quicker for us to edit and easier for you to check out some of the material going into the film.