Media Assets

GEN 230 Creative Expression: Literary Arts - Fall 2008

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The leading online resource and industry directory for film, television, video and digital media production. Developed as a tool for people to locate production products, services and professionals.

Wikipedia's Public domain resources

Examples and models

augmented poetry

mixing media, crossing genres, appropriating "nonliterary" elements, and otherwise expanding your horizons as a writer

The Electronic Literature Directory

database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.

The ELD provides easy access to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. ELD users can also enjoy the enhancements that the new technology brings to traditional literature, such as streaming audio readings of poetry.

Word Circuits

This is a watering hole for new media poetry and fiction -- indigenously electronic work that couldn't be realized in print. Hypertext is the mainstay here, but we also deal in more exotic forms of cybertext, which exploit such innovations as text-generating algorithms or animated text that moves and mutates on the screen. Welcome to the world of hypertextual, interactive, self-generating, kinetic, and multimedia poetry and fiction.

Petterd and Caney's Archiving Imagination

Robert Kendall's Hypertext, Interactive, and Animated Poetry

Candles for a Street Corner

Jim Andrew's Interactive Audio for the Web

The Hands of Mary Joe

David Knoebel's Click Poetry

The Wall Poems of Leiden

“poetics” statement (i.e., rationale)

augmented fiction/stories

Sunday-Bloody-Sunday

American Ghosts

Sleepless in Seattle mashed as a horror movie

Tomato Patch's 2003

Wikipedia's interactive fiction

Hotel Dusk: Novel or Game?
by Clive Thompson
Wired, February 12, 2007

Miracle -- low-budget documentary

student videos from Indiana Univ. (IUPUI) -- Maddie Gets a Bath and Nathan and Twisted and Smoke -- low-budget documentaries/commercials, what used to be called "home videos" that can now be edited

digital fiction and interactive narratives

dreaming methods

babel

Born magazine

XPT

fiction-related videos on YouTube

low-budget, easy to produce

Help Wanted - multiple characters played by one actor

Fussball WM 2006 World Cup Netherlands vs. Germany

Rendevous and The proposal -- get some friends to do some costumes and silent acting while you hold the camera. Note the conscious attempt for the make-up and costuming to be not quite realistic. Make "bad" acting a virtue.

Medieval Helpdesk

poetry-related videos on YouTube

poem

Eye poem narration

poem in a foreign language -- Arabic 1 | Arabic 2 -- listen to the rhythms and rhymes and to the differences between the two, both in the same language -- compare them as performances: setting, costuming, music, actors, characters (actors' roles).

Bjork's Pagan Poetry -- note the heavy video filters and camera close-ups: one costume, one backdrop, one lighting set-up, one fan to blow air. A very low-budget, low-tech production, and very effective. Often, the budget/resource constraints cause interesting results.

Grey Sky Birds

October

Bare når hun er her

Poem

ich weiss

I fiori degli Scudi

Where to get poetry and other texts

Plagiarist.com - recent poetry

Project Gutenberg - public domain poetry

Internet Archive's Text Archive and Audio Books Poetry Archive

Wikipedia's Dub poetry

Wikipedia's Cut-up technique

The Freesound Project's Poetry tag

Lyrics Sites

AZLyrics.com - General lyrics site. Pop and rock, old and new, A to Z

DarkLyrics.com - Metal lyrics (death, doom, thrash/speed, black, grindcore, metalcore, ...)

UrbanLyrics.com - Hip-hop, r&b, soul, gospel, reggae

OldieLyrics.com - Lyrics to old songs from '60s, '70s, '80s...

LyricsTop.com - Today's top hits, the hottest songs/albums

Punk Related

PureVolume.com - Free music downloads for many new punk/emo/hardcore bands

SmartPunk.com - Punk music merchandise

InterPunk.com - Punk music merchandise

Amazon.com - General store, but has some rare punk items too

AbsolutePunk.net - A lot of punk/emo-related info

ThePunkSite.com - Punk reviews, interviews, articles, news and much more

TooFastOnline.com - Punk rock clothing

Punk Centre - Interactive discussion, reviews and data on the latest punk, rock, emo & ska bands

Punk FM - Punk Rock Radio - 1976 - 1979

Other Lyrics Sites

STLyrics.com - Soundtrack Lyrics

LyricsFreak.com - Large Lyrics Archive

Lyred Lyrics - Huge lyrics searchable archive updated daily. Over 140.000 songs! Karaoke software with MP3 support.

LyricsMansion.com - Western and Eastern Lyrics for All Genres

CowboyLyrics.com - Country Lyrics and Tabs

Where to get images

best bet: Google Images

Public Domain Images

Morgue File - Providing "...free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.

Flickr's Creative Commons pool - Search the photos people are sharing on flickr by the type of CC license.

Image*After

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture...and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

Stock.xchng - Close to 200,000 photos.

Barclaey, a web design company, has a laundry list of sites from expensive to free.

F ree Digital Photos - completely free photos which can be used for any design project.

Photocase

Photo Home - Nice pictures and you have three downloads free per day.

PhotoPost and Ofoto

National Library of Medicine's Images from the History of Medicine

Sources for Historical Medical Films

Where to get audio (music and spoken word)

search Google for "backing track" or "accompaniment track" or "jam track"

Where Music Will Be Coming From
by Kevin Kelly
Appeared in New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2002

Creating music is hard work. Creating music that is widely appreciated and constantly in demand is harder still. It may seem ludicrous to suggest to a working musician that in this new online world, music is becoming a commodity that is traded, cocreated and coproduced by a networked audience. How can an unskilled population create something that will be appreciated by many?

The partial answer is that most of us won't. It will still be a rare person who can write and play music that everyone swoons over. Those hit musicians will have their own economics. But most music, like most photography, needn't appeal to everyone. Most photographs taken in the world are taken by amateurs, and the images are of interest only to themselves or their families. Music does not have to be widely popular to be desired.

Open Media Directory

A free resource for finding legal, podsafe music and video

Here are some places where you can find music or video snippets that are always safe to include in your podcast or videoblog.

LibriVox - free audiobooks from the public domain.

Wikipedia's Dub music

Wikipedia's Cut-up technique

Wikipedia's Sampling (music) - reusing existing sound recordings in creating new works

Wikipedia's Mashup (music)

Wikipedia's List of Sampled Songs

Internet Archive's Live Music Archive

ccMixter - sample packs

Dub.com

BeatPick - Free Indie Music and Music Licensing (download & license pre-cleared music)

Mercora

Mercora's mission is to catalog and organize the world's music and make it universally searchable and legally listenable. Quite simply: Mercora has built the world's largest and legal music radio network composed almost entirely of music resident on people's computers. Our strategy is to:

* Create the world's largest music catalog by leveraging peer-to-peer technologies and user contributed content.

* Unleash the music by building technologies that make this content available to anyone on the network in the form of CD-quality broadcasts.

* Delight the listener by providing great search, discovery, personalization and community services.

* Uphold the letter and spirit of the copyright law by building compliance and reporting into our products and services and paying performance royalties to organizations that represent songwriters and music record labels.

Let's Talk Music

At letstalkmusic.com we believe that around the world there are thousands of musicians, songwriters and producers who are extremely talented but for one reason or another do not get the exposure they or the music deserve.

At letstalkmusic.com we believe that because of that, there are millions of people who are not enjoying some great music because they simply never get to hear it.

At letstalkmusic we believe that the advent of the internet has changed everything. We believe that with the right vehicle people who make music can now get it heard by a much larger audience. We believe that people can get it heard by an audience who can make a difference.

At letstalkmusic we plan to be that vehicle.

Where to get video

YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video

How to get videos off YouTube and other such sites:

web-based - Zamzar.com

download softare to your computer - Miro

capture video streams (sports sites, etc.) - CamStudio

ManiaTV, Brightcove, SpotRunner, Visible World

Open Media Directory

A free resource for finding legal, podsafe music and video

Here are some places where you can find music or video snippets that are always safe to include in your podcast or videoblog.

After Google bought YouTube in Fall 2006, they made it more difficult to get the videos in a form where you could mix and mash them.

You can get the first minute of a video from any of the sites below by using Neoretix's Tube Hunter. If you pay $19.95, you can download all of as many videos as you want to. TubeHunter gives you a choice of formats (such as MPEG, AVI, DivX, iPOD MP4, MOV, Flash SWF, Sony PSP, MP3, WAV, OGG, 3GP and 3G2) that you can then mix and mash.

YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Flurl, Bebo, Break, VSocial, Grouper, TopFreeMusicDownloads, Bolt, Yikers, Revver, Guba, Vidilife and Blip.tv.

At Metacafe, you can get video in .wmv format. First, download their player, Metacafe Pro 1.1. After installing it, use it to download the video you want. Then right-click on the video's thumbnail and choose Save video file as ... Put it into your project folder. It will be a .wmv file that you can import into Movie Maker.

Internet Archive's Moving Images Archive

DownloadTV.com

Public Domain Torrents

BBC's Creative Archive

Find it. Rip it. Mix it. Share it. Come and get it.

BBC's Backstage

Build what you want using BBC content

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.

Broadcast Machine

Publish your videos into channels

Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to thousands, using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. It is free, open source, and designed for easy installation.

The Intergalactic Mashup King
by John Pavlus
Wired, July 2006

Werner Herzog’s new film, The Wild Blue Yonder, is the world’s first undersea outer-space sci-fi documentary. ...

The result isn’t quite documentary, isn’t quite fiction – call it a cine-mashup. ...

He doesn’t recall exactly what inspired him to stitch the underwater footage together with NASA’s material, but something clicked. “I saw a film very clearly in front of me,” Herzog says. In his reimagining, the shuttle astronauts are no longer deploying a probe – they’re embarking on a one-way mission to a planet in the distant Andromeda galaxy. And Kaiser’s jellyfish are native not to the Antarctic but to that alien world, with its liquid helium atmosphere and frozen sky. Herzog’s name for this exotic place: the Wild Blue Yonder.

“I knew it would defy all the rules of whatever a major studio might expect from a science fiction film,” Herzog says. ...

In the film’s end credits, the very first title card thanks “NASA, for its sense of poetry.”

virtual worlds

an emerging social phenomenon called "virtual worlds" -- computer-generated, persistent, immersive, and representational social platforms. Currently, the most popular virtual worlds are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), such as Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies. However, there are many other old and new varieties of virtual worlds.

Wikipedia's Virtual economy

A virtual economy (or sometimes synthetic economy) is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually in the context of an Internet game. People enter these virtual economies recreationally rather than by necessity; however, some people do interact with them for "real" economic benefit.

Synthetic World Economic Data
by Edward Castronova

eBay category 1654, Internet Games, contains auctions for items like magic wands that only exist inside multi-user online communities such as role-playing games. Currencies from these synthetic worlds can be bought and sold in open exchange markets.

Player Auctions

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The WGBH Lab

an online destination for independent media makers to produce and showcase innovative content for public media outlets with a focus on short duration and small formats.

machinima

Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences (view the Shockwave demo)

Machinima's Channels

capture software

Realtime Video Capture Software - Fraps

standalone -- Moviestorm



modified: September 3, 2008 by Douglas Anderson http://toLearn.net/gen230/media.htm