http://arincrumley.com (r)evolution! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:42:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 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 This panel was moderated by Ingrid Kopp of Shooting people as part of the Evil City Film festival back in October. Panelists include Leah Meyerhoff, JERRY RAPP, Arin Crumley and Susan Buice. Three very short clips were taken from the above video and posted to the new From Here to ... http://arincrumley.com/evil-city-film-festival-panel-filmmakers-tell-all Formats: .mov | .flv | YouTube Last week a film festival I co-founded called From Here to Awesome was introduced and got a lot of blogosphere attention. This is an interview that NewTeeVee conducted with Lance and I. After the interview they posted a raw ... http://arincrumley.com/from-here-to-awesome-interview-by-newteevee Quicktime iPod | .flv | .mp3 | YouTube | Blip | Vimeo | MySpace | Metacafe | Google | Revver | DailyMotion | Blip.tv | Veoh | Stupid Videos Forest Fire performes their song Fortune Teller at The Appartment in ... http://arincrumley.com/forest-fire-live-the-appartment-in-brooklyn-ny I was hit up by an online friend for some questions about the notion of grad school. Here is the correspondence. http://arincrumley.com/the-big-grad-school-question Quicktime | .flv | Blip | YouTube I was at The Art Party at Galapagos in December 2007 and the concepts in Brook Goldbergs art jumped out at me so I decided to record some video. Then the organizer of the Party offered to introduce me to Brook and ... http://arincrumley.com/art-installation-by-brook-goldberg-the-art-party *Update: Below is a correspondence demonstrating the need for artists to work together to understand a medium still in it's growing pains, the internet. Based on Andrew's and Dorians Comments I've re-edited the post to have no way that anyone could figure out who the artist is. ... http://arincrumley.com/music-video-art-the-internet-and-transparency Formats: Quicktime | YouTube | Blip | .flv | .mp3If you like Dorian Nuskind-Oder and Chris Elam's vision for the future of performance art please get everyone you know to go vote for them at ideablob.com where they can win ... http://arincrumley.com/the-future-of-performance-art-if-misnomer-gets-the-10k At the age of 16, Arin Crumley began experimenting with low-res digital video equipment, making short documentaries, and abstract video art to display behind his band’s electro concerts. Today, 11 years later, The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds the co-creation of the ... http://arincrumley.com/autobiography YouTube | .mov | .flv Karl Jacob, Sara Mayti, Brian Chirls, Amylin Loglisci, Brian Jacobs, Sharon Van Etten, Joe Griffin, Susan Buice, Josh Steinbauer, some british girls that randomly joined us, and myself all at my favorite karaoke place in New York called Sing Sing. Best Bday ever! And ... http://arincrumley.com/birthday-karaoke-sing-sing-12132007 Sharon Van Etten performs "Damn Right" to at the noisy bar in Brooklyn. The back room there is a little bit better but right at the bar in the front room it's hard to grab peoples attention on this particular night. Only some of the room is engaged ... http://arincrumley.com/sharon-van-etten-damn-right-galapagos-12192007 After a previous post I was asked to continue creating online film school style blogs so here goes: I got the following message on MySpace: ----------------- Original Message ----------------- From: Ryan Date: 18/12/2007 i am an aspiring filmmaker. the only one in my school. so its hard to shoot the movies i wanna shoot. because no one will ... http://arincrumley.com/troubled-high-schooler-needs-filmmaking-advice Brian Chirls emailed me about this wondering if I had any thoughts on what to submit. Right now I'm interested in so many different topics that narrowing down to one might be hard. But as it stands now, these are the ideas on the table. Potential Ideas: Peer to peer ... http://arincrumley.com/davos-seeks-ideas-to-change-the-world iPod Quicktime | .FLV | .MP3 | YouTube Sharon Van Etten invited me to her show sunday night at Zebulon and I decided to film it. I had captured an event that she was a part of two nights earlier but this was cool because ... http://arincrumley.com/sharon-van-etten-live-zebulon-in-brooklyn-ny-on-12-9-2007 *UPDATE: This video is temporarily set to private because the artist I'll refer to as Matt is concerned the footage doesn't reflect well on his music and wanted to not have this material I posted show up on the top 10 google results. In the interested of keeping ... http://arincrumley.com/rachel-mckinstry-sharon-van-etten-coco-karol  Quicktime HD  |  YouTube  |  mp3  |  flv  |  iPod Quicktime Real music, with real instruments. Novel thought.A friend Josh is in Woodpecker so I decided to go to their show and film it.Susan and I have been listening to their music pretty often while we are working on stuff and it ... http://arincrumley.com/video-of-woodpecker-live-petes-candy-store-in-brooklyn-12-6-2007-hd Here is what happened, we sent out 15,000 emails and bulletined to 20,000 friends about how it's a good idea to buy FEM DVD's this Xmas instead of supporting corporate America. We also re-designed our store to make buying the smoothest experience we can. http://foureyedmonsters.com/store The email costs 200 dollars to send using ... http://arincrumley.com/four-eyed-monsters-dvd-for-xmas-campaign A longtime online friend of mine Mike Krumlauf is making a feature film called External Memory and has two parts up on their youtube channel. He emailed me today asking for feedback and since I rarely have the time to take people up on that request, I thought I'd ... http://arincrumley.com/directing-advice-to-an-online-filmmaker-friend Your browser does not support JavaScript. Click to read the latest news. Your browser does not support JavaScript. Click to read the latest news. Your browser does not support JavaScript. Click to read the latest news. http://arincrumley.com/music Brian Chirls just posted a great blog post about web design for indie films and how Flash should really not be the design platform even if it is used for video playback and other embeddable objects. Four Eyed Monsters was done with Wordpress which is really a much better way to ... http://arincrumley.com/meta-data-for-film-websites-and-the-flash-design-question Why can't local movie theaters look at public lists of films that people want to see and book their theaters based on that information. Especially since digital projection should lower the cost of getting a digital print to zero if peer to peer video distribution technology continues to be adopted ... http://arincrumley.com/movies-i-want-to-see Today your movie preferences are stored in your Netflix Ratings, Your Amazon ratings, maybe a note book or maybe just in your head. Like most information online, if it's stored in a way that can be read by humans and by computers the information becomes more valuable. Movies I love: spout.com: Get ... http://arincrumley.com/movies-i-like Subtitles | YouTube | Blip | .m4v (iPod) | .mp3 | .flv This video was a panel moderated by Liz Rosenthal and included Lance Weiler, Jeremy Nathan and Matt Hanson as we all spoke about our thoughts on the future of distribution. Despite end of ... http://arincrumley.com/adventures-in-self-distribution-panel-power-to-the-pixel Matt Hanson talks about his project A Swarm of Angles and the general concepts behind collaboration in the digital era. I personally would love to see collaborative editing tools evolve to the point where you could upload raw footage and anyone could add to the meta data like it was ... http://arincrumley.com/visionary-matt-hanson-a-swarm-of-angles-case-study This presentation was by Jeremy Nathan from DV8 which is a production company trying to deviate from the normal production approach. The most interesting thing about South Africa is that there seems to be the chance to have that area of the world leap ahead embracing new technologies that the ... http://arincrumley.com/filmmaking-in-africa-jeremy-nathan ... http://arincrumley.com/diy-guru-and-pioneer-lance-weiler-head-trauma-case-study Translations | YouTube | .m4v (iPod) | .Mp3 | .flv | SubscribeThis talk has been evolving over the last year since we began to give it and during that time more things have happened including releasing the film on YouTube ... http://arincrumley.com/four-eyed-monsters-diy-distribution-case-study ... http://arincrumley.com/alternative-distribution-case-study-on-robert-greenwald Screen international and ScreenDaily.com editor Michael Gubbins hosts this Power to the Pixel Panel with Sara Pollack the film manager of YouTube, David Straus & Joe Neulight from Withoutabox, Kelly Devine ... http://arincrumley.com/new-distributors-and-the-need-for-a-universal-media-license Kelly Devine talks about how Renew Media has a new project called Reframe which is basically an aggregator for aggregators. The need for this comes from the fact that when someone like Amazon or iTunes or Netflix ... http://arincrumley.com/a-new-aggregator-for-aggregators-reframe-kelly-devine Sara Pollack addresses briefly what I hope will get a lot more attention in the future. YouTube's Discovery tools. The most enticing thing to filmmakers that YouTube has to offer is an audience base. But the reality is that often times amazing videos sit there with only 50 to 200 ... http://arincrumley.com/youtubes-role-in-the-future-of-film Paula Le Dieu from Magic Lantern talks about how personal story telling and passion can go very far despite pressure to be a be formal and rigid and act like a business person. She basically explains that it's good to be a loose cannon. Cool, I like that. ... http://arincrumley.com/passion-in-the-digital-era-is-everything-creative-commons New-Age theme and awkward delivery aside, there are some good ideas in there. Some attending the conference really enjoyed Joe Neulight & David Straus' presentation. Some really needed to hear what they were saying. Others were rolling their eyes or yawning the whole time. Personally, I felt a little embarrassed ... http://arincrumley.com/new-media-philosophy-101-by-withoutabox Michael Gubbins from Screen international talks about how the rest of the world thinks your crazy when you rant and rave about the new media revolution. I concur. http://arincrumley.com/michael-gubbins-sets-up-the-new-distributors-presenters Peter Buckingham breaks down the Digital Media Revolution. The difference between having no physical limitation with digital vs having a limited number of films reels you can shiplike limited theaters, limited DVD shelves and limited TV channels. He then explains the power of digital and the long-tail. ... http://arincrumley.com/the-digital-revolution-peter-buckingham-my-thoughts Quicktime | YouTube | Mp3 Ira Deutchman kicks off Power to the Pixel with a talk about what is wrong with the theatrical distribution system. He then continues with some solutions for how theatrical can be fixed. He talks about the advantages of digital ... http://arincrumley.com/theatrical-is-broken-ira-deutchman-presents-solutions ... http://arincrumley.com/power-to-the-pixel-director-liz-rosenthal-introduces-the-day