1,000 Flipcams in Newark

Click Here To Link To Knight Foundation Project

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ml21ZWGqCg[/youtube]

As you may recall, some time ago I had an idea to try and place 1,000 flipcams in Gaza.

While I am still working on that one, (which is a bit tough for its political issues), I developed a similar idea to place 1,000 flipcams in Newark, New Jersey and run the results through a giant video wall.

It’s a marriage of journalism and art and video.  The democratization of video.  A place where, as my friend Williams College art professor Liz McGowan says, ‘the public and private merge’.

We’re coming down to the wire now with the Knight Foundation (who I hope will fund this effort).

Please take a moment and take a look at the proposal (if you haven’t done so already), and vote the ‘5 stars’ if you are so inclined.

many thanks.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

4 Comments
  • Michael Rosenblum November 23, 2009

    Yeah, I have the most views, but I am only 5th in ratings. You can only rate once.
    Still 5th out of 240 or something is not bad. Lets hope they come across.

  • Michael Rosenblum November 23, 2009

    Hi Kenny
    Yeah, the concept is to run all the videos concurrently but iso one audio at a time. I got this idea from TIMECODE by Mike Figgis. He ran 4 quadrants of video simultaneously but when you watched your eye followed the sound. Same here.

    • kenny November 23, 2009

      Ohhhhh…that’s cool. Looks like you have the most views, or was it highest rated so far? How often can someone rate it?

  • kenny November 23, 2009

    Is there going to be any way to hear the audio of the projects? Maybe like at the car stereo section of Best Buy – you press a button of the video you want to hear. Or maybe all the monitors have headphone jacks that you can plug in to? Just seems like the actual STORY is wasted if you just have the images.