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I didn’t post a video clip in a while. Here is a French one, with the first round of the French elections coming up in a few days.
Le Peuple de l’Herbe - Theme
Why do we still see videoclips as an extra? Frequently videoclips are distributed for free or as a bonus while you have to pay for the song. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Shouldn’t the videoclip be the default?
A growing group plays cd’s on a dvd player, buys music dvd’s or listens to music on a video iPod. These devices play video. Most new devices will support video.
Why shouldn’t you only have videoclips on your iPod? You can still just listen to the music, and if you want you can watch the video too. Why is it we see the video as an extra. The clip should be the default and the audio the teaser.
The production costs of a videoclip are an issue. An upcoming band can’t pay for the production of a videoclip. This is were a record company can come back in the loop. They can invest in clips of bands they like and start selling the clips.
Niche talents can be helped producing creative clips with cultural government funding (or they will find their audience via Social Networks). For example below four videoclips that are partly (read mainly) subsidized by the Dutch state.
Coparck - A good Year for the Robots
C-mon And Kypski ft. Phete Philly - Make my Day
A Balladeer - Robin II
Kraak & Smaak - Money in the Bag
Clips via this article about subsidized videoclips (Dutch).
Kode 9 & Spaceape - Samurai
Last night Kode 9 & Spaceape performed at a dubstep night in Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam. I made a short audio recording at the end of the performance. Actually the recording was a video, unfortunately the room was so dark you can’t see a thing on the video.
[audio:http://www.wilbertbaan.nl/audio/170307_kode9.mp3]
Photographs will be published later.
I have some video in my archive with Kid Koala (previous post, Fender Bender) scratching live on an amazing Ninja Tune night in the Melkweg, Amsterdam. If I have some time I will start editing all the material (including interview).
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news? In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website. The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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