Canon survey report #VIDEOdrupa #drupa other surveys are available

New content is starting to appear on YouTube

Previous Canon surveys have been very interesting. I hope to find some of the content online over the next few days. It looks as if the main points will also be on YouTube.

Reference is made to an "integrated media communications mix" so this might be another way to talk about "cross media publishing". Look out for more terms but the direction is clear enough.

I will not be actually there but I do have a suggestion. At the last IPEX Kodak gave away a Zi8 to the bloggers and jouirnalists attending their press conference. A very welcome gift but there was no training session. So I managed to switch to closeup focus trying to turn it on. If Canon has any plans to give away cameras they should mail out a guide a few days ahead.

Linotype from 1986 via YouTube and Twitter #VIDEOdrupa #drupa @edboogaard

The plan to push #VIDEOdrupa as a tag is going well. I am being told about much more stuff.

This laser show is fantastic. 
Slightly off topic I am working with the Wild show on Phonic FM looking at dance music in 80s. Thursday 10-12
the laser show starts with classical music but there is some dance mode later I think. So the 80s arguably were the start of something. VHS tape could be copied a few times but nothing like the web for distribution. Still, the idea that one drupa is associated with a specific technology has to be revised. the video drupas continue. 

Exeter University Forum looking good but I still wonder about the bookshop

I went to the campus again in the middle of today. It is almost ready and looking good. Some photos later. I visited the offices of Expose, the student newspaper. They explained that the series of reports and comment on the bookshop issue had come to an end because there seemed no way to reverse the decision and also students seemed to be accepting the new situation. So the new Forum will reopen without a bookshop although Blackwells are convinced the current shop is viable. It still seems to me a strange way to spend £24m or £48m or whatever number when there was a perfectly reasonable bookshop before the project started. The student newspaper will investigate opinion again at the start of the next academic year. After six weeks the temp arrangments for course books will end and perhaps the lack will be noticed. But the current portacabin has not been easy to find. There may be a new generation of students who have no idea what a bookshop is.

I will try to study more on Wednesday or later. There could be some good resources once we are allowed inside.

Meanwhile here are some notes from bits of cuttings that I have half remembered and just found

The Maxxi in Rome may be about to close after only opening a couple of years ago. Apparently financing the building is an issue.

In an interview with the Guardian at her own apartment, Zaha Hadid had a comment
"The only thing about this flat is there's no kitchen," she says. How can she live without a kitchen? "Well it did have one, but I took it away. It was ugly." Does she ever cook? "No, I used to have someone to cook, but he's gone now. I go out all the time."
Is this connected to the relation of form and function? A YouTube clip has this in the description-  "Zaha Hadid is one of the architects which is more focused on the form, instead of function. This type of designing is also known as Function follows Form, not Form follow Function."

My impression is that Second Life has a lot to answer for. Space appears to be unlimited but this is actually a fantasy, not easy to compete with through an actual building even if the design software is the same. Anyway, looking at the new Forum there is now obviously no space where you could put a bookshop.

By the way there is still an empty retail unit on the St Lukes campus where the bank used to be. (It would suit me as a bookshop as I live in Heavitree.)

Three stories from IPEX 2010 ahead of drupa 2012

http://www.scribd.com/doc/91738937

Adobe completes messaging to IPEX, they have done the job on Postscript.

Xerox positioned close to Heidelberg at IPEX, they just tipped it to digital imho

Video was very evident. Looks like being moreso at drupa so cross media is with us now, whatever is said about just being a possible future.

OhmyNews International was an excellent situation for me. These were about the last stories I did, they still have the "waiting to be edited" status but I think by then I had the style fairly well understood. OhmyNews continues in Korea, with a lot of video.

future dates / random access during drupa

2nd May         HM The Queen visits Exeter, official end of the university bookshop

24/25 May          #likeminds in Exeter

31 May/1June Lancaster 30 years of MA in Learning and Leadership  #MAMLL30

7th June Demsig #cqimoso  (location available if some prior knowledge)

3rd-4th September Cross Media Live #CrossMedia2012

(music during summer links to social media)

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#mtw3  continues online / may be face-to-face in September   (could link to Cross Media Live depending on media used as part of it)

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Winterlude 4 mostly BETT and Learning Technology 

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try to look for links 

Towards a theory of PR for Creative Commons events #A2DMusicExpo #likeminds

http://will789gb.posterous.com/performance-on-youtube-from-a2dmusicexpo-live

This previous post links to video clips from last Saturday. I hope the Creative Commons choice will stay ok with the performers. It will allow the remix button to show on YouTube so there could be future combinations, including other times and places.

Previously I have tried to work out if there is a general theory of PR that relates to this sort of thing. Last year Watershed PR handled the animation at Exeter cathedral. They were explicit that this was on a Creative Commons basis, including the YouTube clip with an excellent soundtrack. I was encouraged to do interviews and again this was posted on a Creative Commons licence.

I don't know if the people in these videos from the Phoenix bar have an explicit PR policy. Something will emerge though as more connections are made.

Towards the end of May there will be another #likeminds in Exeter. I don't know how music will feature. But there could be continued discussion about how events and performance are recorded. 

A lot of the time I just assume a Creative Commons style of PR policy. For example on the Wild Show this Thursday I may broadcast sound from YouTube clips about #likeminds on Exeter Quay. I sort of assume this is ok. But the Creative Commons box on YouTube has not been ticked on this one so far.

When Dan Jarvis MP was a guest on the Wild Show I asked him why he did not choose Creative Commons on his Flickr page. He said he would have a look at this and I notice that Michael Gove did choose Creative Commons for his speech at BETT on YouTube. 

I would welcome more explicit policy on this. It would benefit reporting and linking content together.

Below, interview with Cllr Paul Bull soon after the Wild Show with Dan Jarvis MP. Phoenix Bar lighting much better than the basement.

Performance on YouTube from #A2DMusicExpo, live from the Phoenix Bar Exeter

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It took about a week to render and load which is reasonable I think. Not exactly in time for the evening news the same day but then Youtube works on another level of time awareness. 

also from a room upstairs, demo of Tenori-on as an App

later posts will look at implications for apps, mobile devices, and the recording studio.

#VIDEOdrupa links IPEX 2002, drupa 2008 with VIDEO ahead of next week #futureprint

http://ipex2002.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/continues-on-drupa-2008-videodrupa.html

this link will take you to a blog about IPEX starting 2002, then a blog about drupa starting in 2008, then a YouTube clip with Andy Tribute ahead of drupa right now in cloud mode or next week in face-to-face.

I think a lot of things that have been building up are going to shift significantly.

Part of the background is that Apple and Adobe have stopped attending these shows. But they are still in the book business and soforth.