http://arincrumley.com (r)evolution! Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:54:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Watch Video Today, March 1st 2010 OpenIndie launched in beta to the 100 filmmakers who provided over 12,000 dollars to have the site built by myself (Arin Crumley) and my co-founder Kieran Masterton. I was blown away by Kieran's quality of programming and design at launch. The site is truly inspiring ... http://arincrumley.com/openindie-launched-we-live-in-public-released This new years eve crystallized some big concepts for me. I wasn't planning to create new years resolutions but as I let my self sleep in recovering from the catastrophes of the day before the ways in which I'd like to improve came flying into my head. While coming to ... http://arincrumley.com/328 I'm headed to Madrid for a very short trip. Landing 10 am tomorrow and leaving 11:30 am the following day. Ridiculously short. I'm in the thick of preparing for a shoot this upcoming weekend so I'm really forced to ping over there then ping back. Normally ... http://arincrumley.com/25-and-a-half-hours-in-madrid You are not the only one struggling. Everyone is. And we can do something about it. But first you've got to get mad. Post a video or tweet saying, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more." Put @openindie and we'll ... http://arincrumley.com/first-you-have-get-mad-then-build-openindie During my talk at the Filmmakers Forum I presented OpenIndie.com to a room full of filmmakers and got very positive response including someone cutting me a check for 100 dollars to join the list of pioneering filmmakers that will launch the site.  I didn't have the heart to tell him ... http://arincrumley.com/paranormal-activity-demonstrates-studios-embracing-openindie-com-model As a tribute to the brave video journalists that risk imprisoned to bring us news from the front lines I have teamed up with DogWoof & The Co-Operative to produce a series of videos that teach people how to Be A VJ. The more video journalists there are the ... http://arincrumley.com/304 Exactly a year ago a room full of filmmaker and technologists got together to discuss what was wrong with the film industry and how we might go about fixing it. Parts of the discussion turned into almost a screaming debate as we all struggled to get our ideas heard by ... http://arincrumley.com/wine-cellar-heated-debate-on-state-of-industry I first saw this Ghandi quote on my friend Eugina's myspace profile several years back and vaguely remembered it from elementary but mostly it felt fresh to me and really thought it resonated. At the time I had been trying to talk about new film industry models which my ... http://arincrumley.com/be-the-change-bull-shit-just-kidding-of-course http://arincrumley.com/2-terabytea-a-microphone You can friend me on facebook for discussions like this we often have in the comments of status updates, or feel free to message me anytime, everyone helps me out so much that I of course want to do what ever I can to help you guys back. http://arincrumley.com/answering-a-couple-questions-about-the-gh1 Thank god for the internet and thank god for all of you. Thank you to everyone who contributed and/or asked others to do so. We reached our goal of 2,500 dollars and it keeps climbing. (see current status of campaign here) Amazing! This is huge for me and is opening my ... http://arincrumley.com/thank-god-for-the-internet-weve-met-our-kickstarter-goal A new video is in the works to post tonight giving us tomorrow to be the big final 24 hour count down to when our kick starter campaign ends at 10 AM on wednesday August 26th. So tonight I'm hoping to quickly resign up with iContact.com (is this the best?) ... http://arincrumley.com/need-1860-donated-by-aug-26th-10am-or-we-get-nothing If you haven't yet, follow me on twitter for more updates, quotes and filmmaking tips. http://arincrumley.com/finished-at-kushi-institute-then-went-to-stafford-springs-ct This song is 'Videotape' by Radio on 'In Rainbows' and is available in iTunes & amazon. http://arincrumley.com/a-sip-of-clarity We've gotten 595 dollars on kickstarter!!! Keep spreading the word, if we get to 2500 then we'll be able to get the lights and generator we need for our upcoming shoot. So here is more about the software I talk about in the above video that I hope a developer can start ... http://arincrumley.com/looking-for-video-software-developer-to-facilitate-gh1-workflow Search vimeo.com for "GH1" and you'll find great samples of this amazing camera. Here is my new philosophy, DV & HDV are for filmming weddings.  An SLR camera is an artists tool.  If DSLR cameras can now shoot beautiful HD video then it's time for all filmmakers to sell off their ... http://arincrumley.com/i-bought-a-pannasonic-gh1-today So today a lot shuffled around but the team is now locked. I'm heading out into the desert to shoot with Roger Ingraham, Tarynn Weihahn, Susan Buice & Josh Steinbauer and AJ Abucay will be my second camera operator. I'll write more about what the story and concept is later, but for ... http://arincrumley.com/shooting-at-burning-man-2009-production-blog I don't know what's worse, the situation in Burma, or the world finding out via smuggled footage what was going on and not doing anything about it. As in Iran there are other governments that open fire on their own citizens when the people try to have a say in how ... http://arincrumley.com/iran-has-grabbed-our-attention-now-we-should-also-look-at-burma After Alex Johnson and Lance Weiler worked their asses off for 6 months they've now completed 12 episodes of the Radar Series that have gone live on Babelgum. The episodes document innovative artists in snazzy 3 minute powerful mini documentaries. The basic concept is this series can be your Radar ... http://arincrumley.com/radar-party Today I speak at BTK in Berlin about the future of filmmaking and what my Berliner host Gabriel is calling Hypercubism.  He also has a clever name for editing video which he calls tesseracting.  So I think it's appropriate to have cut together close to real time my journey from ... http://arincrumley.com/meeting-ks12-in-berlin How do we do anything in life? How do we walk? How do we digest food? How the hell did we develop language and story telling? The answer? I don't have a clue. All I can tell is that we look around us at the objects and landscape and other creatures ... http://arincrumley.com/224 FIlmmakers and digital exhibitors both need each other. They both expect a lot out of each other. Sometimes it hasn't been communicated what the expectations are. Sometimes it's good in relationships to just step back and spell out the needs. What are the exhibitors needs? What are the filmmakers needs? ... http://arincrumley.com/cant-we-all-just-get-a-long I met up with Michael Morlan out at SXSW 2008 to talk about the RED camera. Thanks to Mike Hedge for filming. http://arincrumley.com/arin-crumley-michael-morlan http://arincrumley.com/out-of-jail-headed-to-youtube-live ... http://arincrumley.com/heading-to-becket-to-edit   DIYDays Boston Originally uploaded by stevegarfield Great attendance, great vibe and a really cool conversation. Todd Dagres really grabbed my attention and woke me up and gave me that feeling of, "oh my god guys, this is a DIY DAYS event!" I loved hearing lance break down all of the traditional deal ... http://arincrumley.com/diy-days-boston-was-a-huge-success ... http://arincrumley.com/hurricane-ike-sucked 3 DVD set with over 10 hours of keynotes, panels and case studies. To see a list of speakers and topics visit www.diydays.com To get a DVD make a donation to the project and receive your copy of DIY DAYS LA & SF. Pick the donation you'd like to make and ... http://arincrumley.com/diy-days-la-sf-dvd-set ... http://arincrumley.com/pre-post-as-the-dust-settles-arin-crumley-video-blog Wow, it's finally happened, a company has finally picked up where Susan and I left off with Four Eyed Monsters Heart Map allowing film fans to mobilize around a film they'd like to see in their local cinema. The effort is called MovieMobz and is being spear headed by a friend ... http://arincrumley.com/film-fans-mobilize-for-screenings-in-your-town ... http://arincrumley.com/arin-crumley-as-the-dust-settles-production-08_22_08 ... http://arincrumley.com/arin-crumley-as-the-dust-settles-pre-production-8-21-08 ... http://arincrumley.com/pre-production-blog-for-as-the-dust-settles FHTA invades San Francisco - Screenings and DIY DAYS http://arincrumley.com/fhta-invades-san-francisco Lance and I have put together another DIY DAYS event taking place in San Francisco on August 17th. The LA DIY DAYS event was a huge success and all of the videos of each presentation are up on the our From Here to Awesome Blip.TV account. Check out ... http://arincrumley.com/diy-days-sf I was one of the 20 people asked by the 20x2 organizers to answer the question "What's the difference" in 2 minutes. They said I could do a film, speak, play music, what ever I felt like and since I had recently had fun making music, I decided to ... http://arincrumley.com/whats-the-difference-20x2-performance-sxsw-2008 I went to this event last year to shoot video with my friend Isis Masoud who produced the 'Art for Life' portion of the conference. Sara Mayti shot photos of the whole event as well. We had a complete blast hanging out and ... http://arincrumley.com/the-power-of-natural-healing-im-going Mark Kostobi doesn't just make paintings. He also has a public access TV Game show dedicated to naming them called Title This. Watching at home I had now idea what to name these pantings, but once I was on the show getting 20 dollars per tittle I was 100 ... http://arincrumley.com/i-was-on-mark-kostabis-game-show-title-this I'm in chicago right now and starting today the new Four Eyed Monsters DVD that comes with a free CD and the new episodes is in Borders nationwide. Please support our filmmaking and come out and get this jam packed DVD/CD set!!!!! Also I'll be doing an appearance at at Borders in ... http://arincrumley.com/in-chicago-dvd-available-nation-wide-starting-today ... http://arincrumley.com/drexel-university-episodic-cliff-hangers-spontaneous-camera-attacks ... http://arincrumley.com/video-blog-nokia-college-tour-from-here-to-awesome-diy-workshop If you have a film you are self distributing you should strongly consider coming to the workshop that susan and i have been asked to put on at Boston University in the last week of May and first week of June. Details and registration here. http://arincrumley.com/diyworkshop Come to one of these talks, they should be fun and educational and I'll be giving away Four Eyed Monsters DVDs! April 21st, 1:00pm Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design: Drexel University University Crossings Room 028 N. 32nd St. and Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 April 23rd, 1:00pm University of Miami School of Communications Studio A 5100 ... http://arincrumley.com/nokiatour submit films | watch films | learn to make films | fest news | fest streamGet the special Embed code or quicktime download links here. This is a video about how film festivals are suppose to function as a filter to decide which films are seen by distributors and therefor ... http://arincrumley.com/whats-wrong-with-the-film-industry-part-1 *Do you plan on being at SXSW? Which talks do you think would be good to attend? Do you know of any good parties? Do you know of a place we could crash? Do you want to participate in our round table dinners discussing the media revolution. Do ... http://arincrumley.com/sxsw-2008-panels Formats: Quicktime iPod | Apple TV | .flv | YouTube | Blip | Vimeo HD I've been thinking a lot about clothing lately. I think there is a big potential for the whole clothing experience to be re-invented so we ... http://arincrumley.com/clothes-made-from-recycled-fabric Download this Song: Mp3 | AAC | .FLV | iPod Video | Apple TV Bookmark this Video: DIGG This is a mash up of real hate comments and hate mail I got in reaction to my last video. ... http://arincrumley.com/haters-in-a-hostile-world I've been exploring the macrobiotic diet since my friend Isis Masoud brought me to the Kushi Institute Summer conference in August 2007. I've recently been getting it down pretty good and making meals for friends.  As a result ... http://arincrumley.com/where-to-begin-with-macrobiotics This evening I was asked by Thomas over at Williamsboard.com what I think about the WGA strike. I shared a video I posted a month before the strike began about the opportunity creators have right now to make their own content. Then I gave him this answer as well: We ... http://arincrumley.com/my-thoughts-on-the-writers-strike Formats: iPod Quicktime | .flv | YouTube | Revver | DailyMotion | Blip | Veoh To track this case please subscribe to my video channel. To provide leads or turn in the goods, get in touch on my ... http://arincrumley.com/social-checks-and-balance-of-digital-karma-in-the-information-age