long photo

I'm writing a presentation for 2gether08 tomorrow and I'm trying to squeeze some long photographs in. Mostly because I don't have anything new to say, but if I say it infront of things that move people might not notice.

I always feel I want to put music on them, because music smears this gloss of meaning on everything, even if entirely spurious. Somehow the niceness of flickr makes me feel like I shouldn't abuse anyone's music rights so I've been using electroplankton to add soundtracks, it's perfect for those fragmenty, moody bits of sound you need, and doesn't make you agonise about whether you got it just right.

These clouds definitely benefit from some luminloops.

As does maneki neko. (And big points to flickr who make embedding this stuff ludicrously easy.)

Strangely I've shot all these on my camera, despite a nice PR bloke sending me a flip video a while back. I've been carrying it around for weeks and have never once found a moment to use it, it seems like a device too far. My camera does video perfectly well, and the flip doesn't do anything clever like time-lapse as the N95 does. (Though it always seems to give up halfway through shooting something.)

Comments

[Anne]

Lovely.

[andrew]

Regarding getting the music "just right" you can never tell until you test it. The soundtrack of 2001 a Space Odyssey (the Strauss waltz when the space ship docks) was just tacked on as it was the only music they had lying around when they did the rushes. But when it was screened the critics raved about the choice.

[S]

Hi Russell,
I was at 2gether this morning, and just wanted to say that I enjoyed your presentation immensely (this is taking into consideration that I have the shortest attention span in the world!)

I'm a uni student - still clueless about what to make of myself when the real world rolls round, but your presentation was very inspiring, so I just wanted to say thanks :)

p.s. I didn't manage to write the Howard Gossage quote down - could I get it off you?!

[Rob Hinchcliffe]

Hey Russell

Brilliant presentation.

Any chance of making it available here?

Thanks a lot.

[Emma]

I can't seem to see the embedded photos on my browser - maybe it doesn't work on older versions of Firefox?