Category Archives: vlog

The Summer of Van Torre – Human Dog

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European Vacation (2005, 25.6 MB, 2:18 min.)

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Morning Routine (2005, 44.3 MB, 4:34 min.)

The Summer of Van Torre was hugely popular in 2005 in video blogging circles.
The wepisodes recount the life of Jon VanTorre, each week bringing him closer
to total cardiac arrest with Ether Baths, Spider-Man Nightmares, and Meat Sandwiches.
The series (which began in 2001) was presented online in 05 by Human Dog.

Here is an interview (2005, 67.5 MB, 13 min.) by Josh Leo with writers & directors
Jon VanTorre, Michael Schwartz and Chris Weagel.

2 More from Lumière et Son

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Helicoptics Farewell
Helicoptics Farewell (2010, 16MB, 1:02 min.)

Seas of Weighing
Seas of Weighing (2010, 10MB, 1:07 min.)

Original post

Last week’s

Lumière et Son Bow Out

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Checkout Art Fairs (2010, 8MB, 1:07 min.)

Blotting Paper
Blotting Paper (2010, 13MB, 1:06 min.)

I hadn’t realized that the splendid Lumière et Son project, which
we’ve raved about here before, was a time limited thing
but, sadly, yes & they’ve posted their last, which we repost here
above.
We’ve grabbed a few more, which we’ll post in the near future, but
do yourselves a favour and go & wallow in their site now…

Sam Renseiw –Two Recent Movies

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More Landscaping Views (2010, 54MB, 3:47 min)

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Art and Traffic (2010, 14MB, 1:00 min, silent)

We haven’t had anything from the indispensable Sam Renseiw
for a little while so, just to make Monday more tolerable for us all,
here are two recent pieces, both small gems.
I particularly like the Lumière, ‘Art and Traffic’

More from Shannon Noble

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Shanno (2010, 11MB, 36 secs)

Nice contrast to Newt – more worked.
The man has range.

Shannon Noble – Newt

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Newt (2010?, 47MB, 1:48 min)

We haven’t had anything from Shannon Noble for a long time.
He’s quite elusive. His blog springs up, then disappears, then appears
again under a different name. Currently most of his stuff just seems to
be sitting, unlinked, in a folder on his site.
His work is always interesting (in the strong sense that one can
always learn from it) and hardly ever showy. Maybe his lack of need to show off
or jump up and down saying look at me, even when he’d be justified in so doing
is tied in with his apparent reluctance to promote his work.
Don’t get me wrong -I approve of the former -it makes the viewer do some work and there
are rewards to be had here for doing that work.
Here’s the first of two pieces, a bit like Robert Croma’s piece earlier this week,
not at all in mood or content but simply in being by someone who clearly knows
exactly what they are doing.
The use of sound is both deeply eccentric and wonderful.
More next week.

Rupert Howe – The Wicker Man Remade

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The Wicker Man (2010, 12 MB, 1:09 min)

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The Wicker Man Live (2010, 7 MB, 3:31 min)

Rupert Howe is always doing interesting things.
He’s also an early adopter of the sort of tech that in-my-old-age I
would cautiously leave a few months to see how it turns
out, so many of the interesting things he does mystify me
somewhat at first.
SO.. here he seems to have got given (?) lots of extras
(in what universe does this occur?) to remake a section of
cult British horror film The Wicker Man on Hampstead Heath.
The results are jaw dropping in two ways.
Jaw droppingly charmingly-funny.
And jaw droppingly odd.
Most of his work is essentially some combination of these
two axes. ( Plus serious skills)
As an added bonus there a kind of Making-Of-The-Wicker-Man-Remake
which apparently was originally streamed live from his mobile.
I didn’t even know you could do that.
If anything the ‘making-of’ piece surpasses the substantive one on the
Howe strangeness scale. Even his friends & colleagues seem touched too
by a species of benign insanity.
Long may he flourish.

Amazing

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Amazing
Amazing (2005, 4.1MB, 2:02 min.)

I found this in my DVblog to-do folder & embarassingly
I can’t remember when or from where I downloaded it.*
If anyone can oblige please mail us.
Anyway, it made me laugh quite immoderately.

* Update -the splendid Sam Renseiw rides to the rescue with
this link.

Abe Linkoln/Triptych TV

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triplightz (2010, 2 MB, 5 sec silent palindrome loop)

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3skullstr (2010, 18 MB, 7 sec silent palindrome loop )

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skull3pth (2010, 2 MB, 7 sec silent palindrome loop)

Three new pieces from Abe Linkoln on the ever reliable,
ever astonishing Triptych TV

2 from Lumière et Son

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Time Travel (2010, 10 MB, 1:10 min)

A Right of Passage
A Right of Passage (2010, 14 MB, 1:04 min)

We’ve not hidden our enthusiasm here for the work,
always interesting ,often stunning, of Sam Renseiw.
Sam’s been a particularly deft & prolific exponent of the
Lumière form re-invented/discovered/conceptualised
by Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen and Brittany Shoot (of this manor).

Here the whole thing goes a stage further with a great
collaboration between Renseiw and British filmmaker/sound artist
Philip Sanderson, archived on a site called Lumière et Son
which title, for me at least, occasions both a groan and a kind of grudging admiration.

The work is great – Renseiw’s originals, with new found-sound additions
from Sanderson; playful, witty and perhaps even a a little profound,
in a Zen kind of way.

I hadn’t really clocked it properly until I saw a couple of these pieces
at a screening in London the other day.

Here’s one from that programme (the original of which
we posted here a while ago) plus another that especially
tickled me.
Splendid stuff & here’s to many more!

Simple Do

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Victor Robledo – Diarios de Luz

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Diario de Luz #15 (2006, 5.5MB, 1:48 min)

DiarioDeLuz #3
Diario de Luz #3 (2006, 5.3MB, 3:35 min)

Colombian artist & photographer Victor Robledo made a series
of these pieces in 2006 & posted them on a blog entirely given over to them .
Active since the mid Seventies, Robledo says
“The theme of my work has always been

Deaf Swedish Beaver TV

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Deaf Swedish Beaver TV (2010, 9MB, 1:03 min)

Sooooo un-PC on just soooo many levels
and quite quite wonderful too, a great Lumière from
DVblog’s own Brittany Shoot.

Pencil Face by SCADshorts

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Pencil Face (2008, 20MB, 3:28 min.)

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Hugo Heyrman – Body Language Sequences

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series 1, #10 (2006, 625KB, 1 sec. loop)

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series 1, #1 (2006, 564KB, 1 sec. loop)

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series 1, #20 (2006, 550KB, 1 sec. loop)

Attractive & interesting 2006 work from Belgian artist Hugo Heyrman
Despite a superficial similarity to the work of the late David Crawford
this work has a dynamic (and a charm) entirely its own.
Check out Heyrman’s Museums of the Mind site for more.

with wavering light – Brian Gibson

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with wavering light (2010, 31MB, 3:03 min.)

Delicate, beautiful & assured work from occasional contributor here,
Brian Gibson.
I do particularly love the recorded-as-live harmonium, which, unlike
so much of the current use of music in movie-making serves to somehow
open out, rather than close off, the piece’s field of meanings.

Sam Renseiw – Fragmented Occurences

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Fragmented Occurences (2010, 67MB, 4:33 min.)

It’s a little while since we featured anything from the splendid Sam
Renseiw, so here’s a recent piece.
In contrast to many of his films, which have an incredibly strong
sense of a particular place, this was apparently composed
from odds and ends of footage from various locations during the last
few months.
I think it works beautifully; it’s instructive to see Sam intervening,
perhaps a little more than usual, at the editing level.
(His camera work is always very distinctive – there’s often a sense
-true or not- that many pieces are largely composed in the shooting.)

Whatever the case, this is, as always, a wonderful and utterly distinctive voice.

PS This is our 1000th post of the new series. Many thanks to all who have sent words of encouragement & appreciation. It makes the time spent working on DVblog feel doubly worthwhile.

Steven Ball – Direct Language

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Direct Language 2.4 (2006, 6.5 MB, 2:55 min)

Direct Language 4.5
Direct Language 4.5 (2007, 7.5 MB, 1:20 min)

Direct Language 2.4
Direct Language 3.0 (2006, 1.5 MB, 52 sec, silent)

Strange fragments of worked over reality which
lodge in the unconscious like splinters.
From Steven Ball’s excellent Direct Language
project – well worth spending some time there.

More recent work from him soon.

suppendapo – Wreck & Salvage

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suppendapo (2009, 33 MB, 2:51 min)

Are You Alive?
Wanna Stay That Way?

By Wreck & Salvage.

MAGMA by Rocketboom – TV Guide for the web

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Magma by Rocketboom (2009, 53 MB, 6:22 min.)

The excellent new Magma.
Entry point and guide for online video.

4 from Littlewhile

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Tuilleries (2005, 480KB, 6 sec.)

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Star (2005, 692KB, 9 sec.)

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Divining (2005, 2.1MB, 30 sec.)

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Window (2005, 1MB, 14 sec.)

A few gems from Littlewhile, a vlog (no longer with us)
which featured non-fiction clips.

Videography – Auto Exposure and White/Black BGs

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Auto Exposure and White/Black BGs (2009, 23MB, 3:53 min.)

Educational video by Ian Parks.

Interior Footage with Canine

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Interior Footage with Canine (2009, 13 MB, 57 secs)

Exquisite Lumière from the ever reliable, ever astonishing, Sam Renseiw
at spacetwo : patalab.

A Game of Petanque with Sam Renseiw

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Patafilm 718 (2009, 30.9 MB, 2:40 min)

The Petanque Discussion
The Petanque Discussion (2009, 9.8 MB, 53 secs)

All his work is great but we can’t publish him every day
so we wait for the very finest.
Two Petanque themed beauties, the second
being a Lumière masterclass.

Robert Croma – Night Impromptu

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Night Impromptu (2009, 50.9 MB, 5:19 min)

Despite being a very fine still photographer there’s something
paradoxically counter-photographic about Robert Croma’s
video work.

Of course, as one would expect from a photographer, he’s extremely
sensitive to finish and the care which is lavished on the working over
of each of his movies is humbling and astonishing but what struck me,
getting this post ready, is how difficult it is to extract a poster image from
these that really prepares us for the coming movie as movie.
(Believe me – mostly this is not so hard, so many people semaphore
from every frame)
Then it further struck me that this a mark of the most profound cinematic
thinking, that despite the pieces’ great visual beauties they are conceived
austerely, with the greatest economy & most of all holistically; that is, entirely
at the level of the final moving image.
Of course here, as so often with Croma, finally it’s also a very moving image.

Private Screening

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Charlene Rule – Private Screening (2009, 10.9MB, 1:38)

Lovely view from Scratch TV.

Egg Meat Cheese – Aaron Valdez

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Egg Meat Cheese (2006, 11.6MB, 2:38 min.)

Aaron Valdez brings us this excellently
selected sampler from the American media diet.
(Videoblogging Week 2006, Day 2. Recorded 1:40 AM – 2 AM)

By Mica Scalin.

I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever – Donna Kuhn

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I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever (2009, 56MB 2:29 min)

Donna Kuhn has joined the little pantheon (Sondheim’s another, as is Sam Renseiw)
of people whose work I’m just going
to post regularly because they are great.
No apology, no argument.
If you can’t see it, the problem is yours.
Great. Great. Great.

David Byrne Bike Cam Through Times Square, NYC.

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David Byrne Bike Cam NYC (2007, 17MB, 4:55 min.)

David Byrne biked to Town Hall for his

History of video blogging – Vloggercon 2005

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europe-vloggercon (2005, 6.7MB, 1:35 min.)

by Anders from – randomshow.com.

also, history and Video blogging.