I’ve written before of the ways that contemporary media, with their recording/archiving and modeling/projection functions, enable a simultaneous opening up of the past and the future, even as they leave us dependent on them so that our own capacities for memory and prognostication fail when our media fail. As we continue to build a universal […]
Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’
The dogs of the universal image machine
Posted in Music & soundscape, Science & society, tagged CD Baby, copyright, Musicworks, Resurrected Fields, surveillance, technology, universal image machine, Yasuhiro Otani, YouTube on August 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »
Ecomedia on YouTube
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, videos, YouTube on January 17, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Reposted from e2mc: evolving ecological media cultures: I’ve begun a YouTube playlist entitled “Ecomedia,” where I’ll be sharing ecologically relevant PSAs, eco-art videos, and other works relevant to the broad and loose category encompassed by its title. Access it here. Feel free to “like” it, subscribe to it, and send suggestions to me about videos that should be […]
ways to shoot starlings
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, Deleuze, visuality, YouTube on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Shoot” as in film, photograph, capture and display, but also fly with them, shoot the rapids of their movement, accompany them, become starling. These mesmerizing videos of moving masses of starlings, “murmurations” as they’re called, like other YouTube animal videos, tell us as much about the phenomenon being watched as about those watching it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE&hl=en_US&fs=1&
It all gets going here at around the 3’20” mark. But it would be nice if we were given some alternative soundtrack options. Like this one, with no commentary, just a few intertitles, set to the music of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble:
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