• January 20, 2006
  • Posted by Marc

Our Priority for 2006: Video

At the end of each year, Sara and I sit down over a couple glasses of wine and we begin to map out a few high level goals for the year that’s to follow. At the end of 2004, the goals included putting together the “Wooster Special Editions” limited edition books, more salons and get togethers at our flat, etc.

So last December, we sat down and decided that one of the major priorities for 2006 would be video content.  As broadband becomes more of the norm around the world, as more artists pick up a video camera to start to experiment with making short documentaries, and as more sites begin streaming user generated content, we feel that the Wooster site can play a strong role in becoming a place to discover grea videos about art and artists. In addition we want to spend more time shooting our own short documentaries and getting back in the groove of doing our audio podcasts.

So for the last couple of weeks we’ve been meeting off and on the folks at Current.tv, a new American cable television channel that has become one of our favorite channels to watch.  If you don’t know much about Current, either check out their website or if you have digital cable, try to find it on your television. It’s amazing.

We’re not exactly sure yet how video will play a role on the Wooster site. But we do know that it has to. If you have shot videos or have good links to video content on the web, send it our way for sure. If you have any ideas for us, let us know.

Fnally, if you’re interested in shooting some video of your work, one great resource to get some tips and suggestions is the “VC2 survival guide” on Current’s website.

Here’s a couple of video’s that we sent to us over the past few days:

From Mysterious Al in London, comes this link to a short (3 minute) documentary on Channel 4’s website about Ben Wilson, a guy who paints pictures on the chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London:

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From Font,. comes this link to a 54 minute film of dutch trains.

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(You can check out a ton of graffiti video on Google here)

Also on Current.tv, there’s a terrific profile of New York’s own Skewville:

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Send us you links. smile