http://ambidextrousmag.org/issues/09/ is the magazine link, and you can read our piece here (pdf):
I’m very pleased with this piece. It really encapsulated a lot of what we wanted to say at a fairly minimalist length.
Here’s one I made earlier. Hit “unmute” to hear it.
Not perfect, but much improved, audio synch. Turns out that Google Video preserves synch much better on uploaded .mov files than on uploaded .mp4 files.
Basically this is an hour of Marcin of Open Source Ecology and I discussing the long term prospects for long term economic and political freedom driven by free and open source hardware and technology designs. It’s pretty much the best single source for our thinking on the long term future.
Well worth an hour of your time.
Click here for the main interview discussion:
http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A501
Here are the supporting links:
1. Global Village Construction Set (and weblog):
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=198
2. Open Source Technology pattern language:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Pattern_Language
3. Development page:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press
and overview:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview
4. Year 1 of our Life at Factor e Farm
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=First_Year_at_Factor_e_Farm
5. Economic model:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
We learn that if you want to run a business, you must generate your own power. The Municipal power is on for perhaps 3 or 4 hours during the day, on a good day. This turned out to be so, not only in Tombua, but throughout the country.
(from half way through)
See the whole thing here: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5462339#post5462339
The bit about power is really important. Either solar, maybe wind, or big batteries you can charge off the grid while it’s up (a dubious option at best) will changes these places.
Radically.
Things get intense when we get into old soldier stuff.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5512848&postcount=598
Deep.
Click here for the main interview discussion:
http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A501
Here are the supporting links:
1. Global Village Construction Set (and weblog):
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=198
2. Open Source Technology pattern language:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Pattern_Language
3. Development page:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press
and overview:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview
4. Year 1 of our Life at Factor e Farm
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=First_Year_at_Factor_e_Farm
5. Economic model:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
Word to Jonathan who’s been my video guru these many months.
Here are my five notes (most of which he won’t approve of 
)
1> The only thing that’s worse than bad video is no video at all.
2> Properly synchronizing sound and images is nearly bloody impossible, and, worse, even if it’s right on your computer, once it’s on youtube, it’ll be screwed up again, I don’t know why.
3> I have no idea how to manage all the files. It’s a mess. I guess it’s usually a separate job, like “archive manager.” I don’t even know what that person is called.
4> Audio is key. One of the great lessons Jon taught me was that the continuity of video is generated by the audio - if it would sound right as a radio piece, it’ll be fine. The images hang off the narrative thread of the audio. This was a considerable enlightenment.
5> It’s really fun to make films, even if they’re not technically great, because film is how serious people communicate. Films, and of course, books.
I might have to try the book thing next year.
But, for now, I’ve got two hour-long films compressing. Both of them are essentially unedited - straight shot discussions or monologs that would probably work fine as radio pieces, but for now, they’re video. Somehow just making those work seems to have taken forever, largely due to a massive mess of Little Things. But it’s close enough for now, and maybe later either I’ll get better at it (some formal training?) or somebody who knows what they’re doing will take over.
Video matters.
One will be up on STAR-TIDES and the other will be up on Global Swadeshi Network tomorrow.
http://www.digitalpicturezone.com/digital-pictures/25-amazing-light-graffiti-pictures/
Basically, long exposure time, bright light, draw in the air, make a picture that looks magic. Gorgeous results. I wonder if they’re different on film.
It’s just fine. It’s no great meditation upon aging, but people have aged. It’s perhaps not the most inspired of the plots, but it’s not breathtakingly stupid…
in short, it works. You’ll enjoy yourself. Go see it.
Smari, this is particularly for you.