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Accelerating Serendipity

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Channel: Justin Hall · 2013 · People & Blogs

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I am using video to accelerate serendipity! I didn't plan my career so far; now I'm engineering conversation and self-presentation to help me find my next cause or undertaking.  This video explains that I don't have an answer for "what am I doing with my life" - I only have a method to ask the question.  And you are a part of the method!  Thank you for watching!

This is the first of my weekly videos that started with storyboards. It's also the first video of this series with multicam-syncing: I shot this episode with my 4 megapixel Sony HDR-SR1 video camera, and shot the scene with my 8 megapixel iPhone5 - then synced 'em together so you can see how my greenscreen setup looks in action.  I think I'm getting better with these tools!  My computer is 5 years old; I'm hoping that a new computer later this year will make me appear to be more skilled in video production.  Right now I can't have a web browser open while I'm running Final Cut Pro X to edit videos, so that makes research and clip-gathering a bit slow.  It forces me to be disciplined about multitasking and work on the basics of storytelling in moving pictures!

Music from FreeMusicArchive.org:

"Bird" by James Pants
"Presenterator" by Kevin MacLeod
"Hawaiian Hula Melody" by Johnny Noble's Hawaiians

Footage:

RouletteWheel courtesy of BottledVideo.com

Footage of me dancing by Greg Richardson, shot at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sunday 6 October 2013. String Cheese Incident provided the dance incentive

Justin / Mount Fuji illustration 2001 by Kenji Eno - R.I.P.

Photo of Howard Rheingold in Tokyo fall 2001 video-chatting by mobile phone with Scott Fisher and Mimi Ito over the world's first 3G network

University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Division - class of 2007 group photo taken fall of 2004

Footage from Muybral project - fractal Muybridge - USC IMD 2005?

Footage from "presenting PMOG at Aula summer 2006"

GameLayers team photograph from November 2008 by Beth Amann. Illustrations for A Story of GameLayers by Colin Adams.

Have a look inside an internet games startup: www.links.net/vita/gamelayers/ - thanks to everyone who worked with GameLayers or played our games.

These are but a few exemplary moments of early 21st century internet video, on YouTube.com:
- Jenna Marbles: "How To Avoid Talking To People You Don't Want To Talk To"
- Susan Boyle: "Britain's Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 - Saturday 11th April"
- PSY: "GANGNAM STYLE"
- Charlie & Harry: "Charlie bit my finger - again !"

Fire provider was youtube.com/user/BroBryce2009; twas his clip TimothyLakeFire001

Red & White Target courtesy of www.targets.ws

Clouds & Sunset time-lapse free from OrangeHD.com

Television and grid of screens are from Alex Free Stock Video

Huge thanks to Ken Stone for his free ebooks on Final Cut Pro X.

As ever, more context here: http://www.links.net/

Please consider supporting the production of future videos: http://patreon.com/justin - thanks for watching!

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