YouTube - The Simultania Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfHR8kI0uE
Hi, Everyone:
I found the above-linked project to be of some intrigue--an artist in Los Angeles is going to somehow physically "post" for viewing,
the time-synchronized, 1 minute video entries, all time stamped, from participants, all over the world, to be shot on Sat.,November 13, 2010,
at precisely 8 a.m. to 8:01 a.m., Los Angeles time.
As you will hear in her YouTube presentation, she wants to capture the real-time realities we are each
experiencing, "Simultaneously" via a "one-minute" capture, wherever the shooter is at that "one-minute-moment" in time....
to somehow reflect the various visual (and presumably audio) sensations we and our cameras see,
in parallel to everyone else's during the specified time.
I caught her call-in last Saturday on Leo Laporte's "Tech Guy Labs" radio show....she sounded passionate
and dedicated to this project, so I signed up.
I think it would be pretty amazing if some of you fellow members also checked it out, so she won't simply
receive thousands of shaky, poor-quality cell-phone video clips after all the trouble / expense she is exerting.
The finalized project, upon inspection, should yield some extraordinary footage--I wonder what you all think?
John Reilly
The "Simultania Project"
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Re: The "Simultania Project"
Hi everybody, and thanks so much John for posting about the Simultania Project! This is Erin Cooney, the artist behind the installation.
First of all, let me say how helpful it has been to go through this website just in terms of learning about this medium. This is an incredible resource and I'm so happy to have found it.
So John described the project really well. It's about having people from all over the world film the same 1-minute-moment in time on Sat., Nov. 13, and then assembling the footage into an installation that plays back all those simultaneous perspectives together and in sync. It's about experiencing simultaneous realities.
The good news is that speaking on Leo Laporte's show has bumped me over the 100 participant mark. More good news is that I'm going to do an interview with NPR's Talk of the Nation about the project on Wednesday, Nov. 10, which means I'll be getting a lot more submissions. So far, I've got people signed up from 20+ countries.
What would be AMAZING would be to get people like you who work in this medium as professionals to take part so that the installation will have some beautifully shot footage. I would certainly give credits.
I'm especially trying to get nature-lovers to film because I want the natural world to be included in the installation to remind viewers that people-less places are always in existence too, even in the midst of our hectic lives. I'm also looking for good audio recordings as audio is going to be a big part of this too. Mostly, I just want people to shoot whatever they want. I've been telling people that it's an opportunity to show what it's like to experience the world from your unique point of view.
The installation will be shown in the spring of 2011 on the website at http://www.simultaniaproject.com. It will also be exhibited at the Streaming Museum, online (http://www.streamingmuseum.org), and at locations within its network of international screens in public spaces. (New York, Europe, South Africa and others.) I'm also in talks with a space out here in LA.
Here's the website: http://www.simultaniaproject.com and on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/simultania. And here's audio from me talking to Leo Laporte on his show last Saturday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphmXvPV ... ture=email
Thanks everybody!
Erin Cooney
First of all, let me say how helpful it has been to go through this website just in terms of learning about this medium. This is an incredible resource and I'm so happy to have found it.
So John described the project really well. It's about having people from all over the world film the same 1-minute-moment in time on Sat., Nov. 13, and then assembling the footage into an installation that plays back all those simultaneous perspectives together and in sync. It's about experiencing simultaneous realities.
The good news is that speaking on Leo Laporte's show has bumped me over the 100 participant mark. More good news is that I'm going to do an interview with NPR's Talk of the Nation about the project on Wednesday, Nov. 10, which means I'll be getting a lot more submissions. So far, I've got people signed up from 20+ countries.
What would be AMAZING would be to get people like you who work in this medium as professionals to take part so that the installation will have some beautifully shot footage. I would certainly give credits.
I'm especially trying to get nature-lovers to film because I want the natural world to be included in the installation to remind viewers that people-less places are always in existence too, even in the midst of our hectic lives. I'm also looking for good audio recordings as audio is going to be a big part of this too. Mostly, I just want people to shoot whatever they want. I've been telling people that it's an opportunity to show what it's like to experience the world from your unique point of view.
The installation will be shown in the spring of 2011 on the website at http://www.simultaniaproject.com. It will also be exhibited at the Streaming Museum, online (http://www.streamingmuseum.org), and at locations within its network of international screens in public spaces. (New York, Europe, South Africa and others.) I'm also in talks with a space out here in LA.
Here's the website: http://www.simultaniaproject.com and on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/simultania. And here's audio from me talking to Leo Laporte on his show last Saturday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphmXvPV ... ture=email
Thanks everybody!
Erin Cooney