witty?
after my last blog post, it’s definitely time for something lighter.
You can post video on flickr now. Really.
I’ve never done much of anything with video. In fact, this right here that you can watch me babbling in is the first time I even tried to record video in Photo Booth on my MacBook. But I’m intrigued now, inspired even. What some may grumble about on Flickr, I actually like - there’s a limit, videos can only be a max of 90 seconds long. (Although, 2 minutes might be really nice, then we could have a virtual 20×2 on flickr all year round.)
So I wonder (SAT style), does that make it: a 90 second flickr video is to youtube as a 140 character twitter tweet is to blogging? Maybe.
I like the description, the idea of what flickr videos should be:
- A long photo
- Personal
- Simple – not overproduced or slick
- Possibly the best answer so far: The Great Unknown
It’s little snapshots of life where you can hear the squeak of someone’s guinea pig or the voice of their loved ones or the giggle of their child or their own voice if you’ve never heard it. It’s vignettes of how you wanted to string your photos together. It’s more moving photography than video. At least that’s the idea and it could be really cool.
I’m betting that moderation is going to be a bitch on this one. It could get, well, not so cool pretty fast. Do you know how many innocuous photos I’ve had to lock down to just friends and family because someone with a weird fetish was linking to them? Word of advice - no photos or videos of your feet.
update: Holy crap! I find this absolutely highlarious. There are a ridiculous amount of people who have their panties in a wad about videos on flickr. There’s a NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!! group and a We Say NO to Videos on Flickr group. But the one I joined? EVERYTHING NEW IS BAD. You know it, baybee.
*shaking my head*
Of course in the work that I do, I see this a lot. Some people are just resistant (for whatever reason) to change. I get it, change IS hard sometimes. But this change? Well *I* choose to be inspired by it.
