This past July we told you about a new contest by the world renowned Guggenheim museum to find the best YouTube video art.
Ignored for years by art curators and critics, still photo shooters and video creators alike are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Now that digital imaging has become so ubiquitous, the art world has finally accepted that what we do IS art – well, what some of us do – and the Guggenheim art experts challenged us to prove it.
Well, the jury is in – the results are now published and some interesting videos by YOU[Tube] are now “hanging” in the walls of this revered museum alongside important valuable and esteemed art collections. Some are very artsy, others just beautiful in simplicity, and still others are what one might consider “out there”, but they all have one thing in common: they are videos that the Guggenheim has tagged as Art.
My favorites are: “Birds on the Wires” , 2009 by Jarbas Agnelli of São Paulo and Gardyn, 2010 by Pogo of Perth, Australia. What’s yours?
The YouTube-Guggenheim contest had 23,000 entries from 91 countries. 25 entries were selected as winners. Check it out.
Today YouTube announced they have increased their video upload limit from 10 up to 15 minutes. Meaning all those two part videos can now, hopefully, fit snuggly into a single clip.
Joshua Siegal, Product Manager at YouTube explains in his blog, posted earlier today, “…the upload limit for non-partners has been 10 minutes for years. Well, we’ve spent significant resources on creating and improving our state-of-the-art Content ID system and many other powerful tools for copyright owners. Now, all of the major U.S. movie studios, music labels and over 1,000 other global partners use Content ID to manage their content on YouTube. Because of the success of these ongoing technological efforts, we are able to increase the upload limit today.”
One last tip for those trying to reunite their two-part videos: Siegal says, “if you’re uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, you’ll have to go into ‘My Videos’ and delete it before attempting to upload it again. Thanks and happy uploading!”
In the ever increasingly complex world of company buyouts, Snapfish announced on Monday their purchase of Motionbox, a video platform for families and friends to share their memories online. To make things even more complex, this actually comes shortly after Motionb0x acquired the highly successful personal video blogging service Viddyou in October. While this may seem like a bold move for Snapfish, which deals mostly in printing and sharing photographs, it is upon closer inspection, a natural evolution for the company (which was bought out by computer giant HP in 2005). What Snapfish has realized is that even though photos are important ways to store and share memories, it’s no secret that with the dwindling cost of high end cameras and a veritable bevy of software to edit them with, that people have begun to turn to video as their main way of sharing memories with loved ones. At the same time, not everyone wants that video to be seen by thousands of complete strangers on sites like YouTube and Facebook, which is one of the biggest reasons for Motionbox’s existence. This same idea also held a lot of promise as an upgrade to Snapfish’s service, so HP naturally decided to join the fray by buying the already developed technology of Motionbox.
As for the site itself, HP says the “current Motionbox site” will remain open until August 10, after which the service will be moved over to Snapfish.com. Unfortunately this means that for users of Motionbox, their videos will need to be downloaded from the site before it moves over to Snapfish. Thankfully, for this trouble, Snapfish is giving Motionbox Premium members a free year of Snapfish’s video service.
Recently YouTube announced support for videos shot in 4K, meaning that they now support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4K. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet!
In December of last year, YouTube announced support for 1080p, or full HD. At 4096 x 2304 pixels, 4K is over four times the size of 1080p. To check out the videos in their full 4K glory, select “Original” in the video quality pulldown menu. Be warned 4K requires a super fast high speed connection and shooting in 4K requires an ultra expensive camera, regardless, we are excited to see YouTube paving the way for online video
How good is your video art – really? Good enough to stand alongside the likes of Warhol, van Gogh and Picasso? Here’s your chance to find out.
Ignored for years by art curators and critics, still photo shooters and video creators alike are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Now that digital imaging has become so ubiquitous, the art world has finally accepted that what we do IS art – well, what some of us do – As we video “artists” know, many people just pick a camera off the rack, hit the red record button and flay the camera around and think THAT is capturing video, which it is, but we true artists know the difference, and now the art experts want us to prove it to them.
YouTube users have the chance to have their work featured among the art masters of the world at one of the world’s most renowned art establishments, the Guggenheim Museum.
Usually the curatorial process can take years to result in Guggenheim exposure, but winners of YouTube Play’s contest will be displayed at the Guggenheim in October this year.
Guggenheim and YouTube Play’s partnership was developed to uncover the “most creative video content in the world.” The Guggenheim will select a shortlist of submissions to be evaluated by an international jury of experts and celebrities from the worlds of art, design, film and video, with the final 20 videos on display at the Museum.
So do you think you’ve got what it takes – really? By being a Videomaker reader you KNOW video production, so you’ve already been cut from the pack and have your place amongst the elite - here’ s your chance to prove you’ve got the chops to create true video art, and get the recognition you deserve by one of the most prestigious art galleries in the world.
But don’t sit around contemplating this too long, the entry deadline is at the end of July. Find out more at http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial for submission details.
If you could capture a single day of your life, would you? If you could capture a single day in the lives of people all around the world, could you? Producer Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) and Director Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void) will soon find out. Their newest project, Life In A Day, attempts to capture a single day on earth. What makes this project unique is they want you to shoot it.
The goal of the project is to get people to submit raw footage of the things that make up their day. From the average ho-hum events to the wild and unusual; they want it all. The catch? Whatever you decide to shoot, it has to be shot on one day, specifically July 24 (between 12:01AM and 11:59PM in your local time zone), then uploaded to the Life In A Day channel on YouTube for it to be considered for the documentary. The “most compelling and distinctive footage” will be used in the final documentary, and the producer of the submitted footage will receive a co-director credit.
“It is gonna be something unusual and it is gonna be something which has, I think, a kind of social value to it. It’s a unique kind of documentary,” says Macdonald. “It’ll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, two hundred years could look at that and say, ‘oh my God, that’s what it was like.’ A portrait of the world in a day.”
If you’re thinking about submitting a video, it is stressed that you capture quality audio and follow the YouTube community guidelines. Not to mention, there are a couple of questions they’d like you to answer in your video. Be sure to check out the Life In A Day channel on YouTube for details. As for content, Ridley Scott suggests “It should be personal. It must be personal. That’s what we’re looking for. The key of course is what appeals to you, as the author.”
The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011.
Matt passed this little tidbit my way this afternoon from our friends at Cnet.
YouTube is experimenting with adding a link to some local areas to create what they call a YouTube Direct Platform for local video bloggers and journalists.
According to the SF Weekly blog site, YouTube is apparently conducting an experiment in the Bay Area to get San Francisco citizenry and bloggers to participate in their own version of Local News Coverage.
Seems like an interesting idea if it will also link to the local TV station’s site. They’re all hurting for both viewers and ad revenue and this might give them a boost, albeit, it could also eliminate the need for local reporters who aren’t covering a whole lot of local news in the first place, but merely rehashing national news poorly.
Wanna see what it looks like when someone uploads and then downloads and again re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1000 times.
Looks pretty scary, huh? This is caused from compressing the video over and over again which causes generation loss. This is definitely an extreme case but as this example shows you need to be careful when compressing your videos, because your losing bits and pieces of data that ultimately effect the video over a series of compressed copies. To avoid this always keep a master copy and don’t forget that uncompressed direct copies do not lose quality.
Officially created in February 2005, YouTube celebrates the 5-year-anniversary of its May 2005 public launch this week by announcing it just hit the 2 billion viewers mark PER DAY. That’s a LOT of video, folks, proving that YouTube IS the big kid on the block.
YouTube was created by three guys working at PayPal – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, who came up with the idea of a quick easy way of getting videos online to share with family and friends. They registered the domain name YouTube.com on Valentine’s day in 2005 then began working on fleshing out the site for the public.
The first ever video on YouTube was an experimental 19-second video called “Me at the Zoo” of Karim, which was uploaded April 23, 2005.
YouTube wasn’t alone in the video sharing market even back then; it shared equal time with Vimeo, Viddler, Veoh among others. What set it apart was its ease of use and availability to the masses.
After their initial first experiments, the creators realized YouTube needed more than just video posting, so worked at getting social networking built. When they released the public beta launch in May. 2005, YouTube was attracting an average of 30-thousand views per day.
By November 2005,with an average of 20-thousand registered users, showing more than 2-million videos per day, they were able to stop using personal credit cards to finance their baby and received 3.5 million dollars from Sequoia Capital for funding.
After months of tweaks to the beta site, YouTube’s official debut was December 15, 2005. Amazingly, within just a few weeks, in January 2006, YouTube reached the 25-million views per day mark and nearly a year later, in October 2006, co-founders Chen and Hurley announced they sold YouTube to Google for 1.6 billion, which was the biggest purchase Google ever made at the time.
The well-know much-watched “Evolution of Dance”, was uploaded April 6, 2006 and created the viral video craze which was the most watched video of all time until just recently.
That same year, TIME magazine listed “You”, as in “you the masses” for its traditional person of the year award, acknowledging that the online video revolution was in full force.
YouTube did more than just make it easy for people to put short clips of mundane moments in their lives online for the world to watch, YouTube helped mold history and bring a voice to those who had none. From shut-ins to the oppressed, YouTube videos showed people discussing the emotional, physical and financial pain of dying from cancer; YouTube exposed the world to videos of protests and attacks in Iran at a time the mainstream media wasn’t allowed access; YouTube viewers shared collaborative efforts of people worldwide spreading words of peace and hugs, and sharing international musical creation.
More than 13-million viewers shared the adorable video of a baby dancing to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (put a Ring on It)” video, along with dozens of copies and thousands of other videos of some of the cutest babies dancing to mainstream pop music along with silly puppies and cute kittens. “Nora the Piano Playing Cat” has had more than 17-million views, and now has her own CD as a result.
The word YouTube has become so ubiquitous, that it has gone from being a noun to a verb and manufacturers of video production equipment from camcorders to editing software make a big point of advertising “Easy Upload to YouTube” as their number one selling point.
In the music world, YouTube has become the launch point for many aspiring musicians unable to get some attention from recording companies, and has brought life to old mixes. It has helped launch serious video producers trying to get notice who can’t find support from the mainstream media.
According to the YouTube site, today “About 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube each minute, equaling about 150,000 full length movies over the course of a week.”
YouTube airs sporting events to people in countries unable to see the games in their own TV channels, and YouTube has plans to show full length movies and TV shows. Happy Birthday, YouTube, we’re interested is seeing what the next 5 years will bring.
Gateway announced its newest line of notebooks: the NV Series. The NV Series has a sleek, ergonomic design and includes models for budget-conscious students and families, to systems packed with the latest technology for video editing and casual gaming, including…
- Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors as well as AMD Athlon and AMD Turion processors.
- Up to 4GB of DDR3 memory that is upgradeable to 8GB.
- The notebooks also feature media card readers that accept popular media cards (Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD) as well as large-capacity hard drives ranging from 320GB to 640GB of capacity, enabling customers to easily and quickly access, download, store and share their digital media content.
- The MyBackup function gives consumers a way to quickly and easily back-up all important files to another location such as a USB drive, external hard disk drive, or another hard drive partition.
Since all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the NV line is sure to include plenty of entertainment capabilities, such as…
- High Definition Ultrabright LCD widescreen 16:9 display. The NV5 15.6-inch display models boast a 1366×768 resolution, and the Gateway NV7 1600×900 resolution; great for HD movies and video.
- Blu-ray players for top-of-the-line movie-viewing (select models), as well as DVD and CD recording
- An integrated HD webcam with 1280×1025 resolution
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD graphics for PC gaming
- Seamless social networking capabilities, like the integrated “social networking” button which allows customers to access their social networks, including Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, with a single touch of a button.
The Gateway NV Series will be available in a variety of configurations with the MSRP starting at $529.99. The first model to be available will be the Gateway NV59C09u, with additional models in the line becoming available in the coming weeks.
This past July we told you about a new contest by the world renowned Guggenheim museum to find the best YouTube video art.
ficially created in February 2005, YouTube celebrates the 5-year-anniversary of its May 2005 public launch this week by announcing it just hit the 2 billion viewers mark PER DAY. That’s a LOT of video, folks, proving that YouTube IS the big kid on the block.
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