18 01, 2008

Video Compression

By |2016-01-12T21:11:29+02:00January 18th, 2008|technology, tutorial|2 Comments

This is a short introduction to Video Compression techniques by using free software tools. These include video codecs and VirtuaDub. Here is another Tutorial for HandBrake [>>] (easy to use, less technical jargon). What do we call Video Compression Video Compression refers to the methods for reducing the quantity of data used to represent video. It is a straight forward combination of image compression and motion compensation. To compress a video file we need two things: a video codec and a video editing tool. What is a codec A codec is short for COder/DECoder and is basically a small piece of software that is used to Encode and Decode video. In order to compress a video file you need to download and install the relevant codecs on your system. In our case, download and install a codec-pack that includes all of the codecs that will will need for the rest [...]

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14 01, 2008

ert-archives

By |2016-01-12T21:11:29+02:00January 14th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments

A few days ago, the ERT made publicly available a small part of its audiovisual archive: http://www.ert-archives.gr Although this move is considered an important first step towards the public availability of a unique collection, the administrative (?) decision to stream the material over a proprietary, commercial product made open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented communities to protest. We must never forget that ERT is sustained by a form of obligatory taxation were greek residents have been contributing to the accumulation of this cultural wealth. We all wonder, who is behind all these? Who's decision was to design such a platform? Here is how it is done: http://www.ert-archives.gr/wpasV2/public/index.aspx DIGITIZATION OF ARCHIVES Minister of State and Government Spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos, Minister of Economy and Finance George Alogoskoufis, and Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) [>>] President Christos Panagopoulos, presented a pilot project on December 10 for the documentation and digitalization of ERT's historic audio-visual archives. [>>] [...]

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14 01, 2008

How Philosophers Die

By |2016-01-12T21:11:30+02:00January 14th, 2008|philosophy|0 Comments

It is a piece of ancient wisdom that to philosophise is to learn how to die. From Socrates onwards, the philosopher is the person who has no fear of death, but accepts their fate with calm and contentment. Yet, how do philosophers themselves die? This song will explain and the answers are unexpectedly and darkly funny? As some of you might recognize, this song is also an indirect homage to Brian Eno. Taken from the show Sex, Death and Desire, written and directed by John Simmons of Ouch! Media and founding member of Critchley and Simmons.

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8 01, 2008

the corporation – zeitgeist

By |2016-01-12T21:11:30+02:00January 8th, 2008|documentaries, politics, religion|3 Comments

During the christmas break, I 've had the chance to watch the following documentaries: The corporation (2003, Achbar) WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. Along with the groundbreaking 145-minute theatrical version of the film, the two-disc DVD has [...]

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8 01, 2008

Bingo The Clown-O, Yes you ARE Bingo!

By |2016-01-12T21:11:30+02:00January 8th, 2008|animation, art, philosophy|0 Comments

(1998, Chris Landreth) Ideal ego and the ego ideal. The image you assume and the symbolic point which give you a place and supplies the point from which you are looked at. A nice example of the interaction of the Lacanian "three registers of human reality": the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. Bingo is based on a short play, Disregard This Play, by Chicago's Neo-Futurist Theater Company. The story is a little ditty of existentialist hell in which the central character, Dave, is told he is a clown. At first he denies, then he argues, then he dispairs, and ultimately, he concedes.

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4 01, 2008

Nietzschean Aphorisms

By |2016-01-12T21:11:30+02:00January 4th, 2008|philosophy|0 Comments

Aphorisms in action: On authors "I will never again read an author of whom I suspect that he wanted to make a book, but only those whose thoughts unexpectedly became a book." "Real thoughts of real poets always go about with a veil on, like Egyptian women." "Paradoxes are only assertions that carry no convictions. The author has made them wishing to appear brilliant, or to mislead, or above all to pose." On readers "A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents." "Nowadays the text often disappears under the (reader's) interpretation." "The weakness of modern personality comes out in the measureless overflow of criticism." Happy new year! μο.

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