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Monday, January 13, 2003 |
Sniffing for WiFi:  The ultimate Warchalking accessory: the credit-card sized WiFi sniffer from iDetect that can tell you with the press of a button whether a wireless networks is present and how strong the signal is. [Gizmodo]
11:53:36 AM 
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"Orange Dungarees is a living community founded by four former convicts.They where the top management of the New York Conti drug Cartel. After two years they escaped from the Green Haven. Now their residence is somewhere in the South Pacific."
10:57:43 AM
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Weblog TV
During the weekend we were viewing Adam's Family dailies footage and discussing what "crutches" we can use. In this case, a crutch is a "technical event" that helps (or prods) the television viewer to understand a scene or situation. Typically this is done with a voice over or a caption in the lower third of the screen.
This is where I always insert a plug for the most excellent article about television manipulation I've ever read: The Zen TV Experiment.
In our case, we're producing a reality show. So, if Patricia is walking around outside wearing a surgical mask, we don't want to just turn to the camera and say "Patricia's wearing a mask so the cold air doesn't irritate her lungs, which could kick off a nasty coughing spell".
That would surely rip the viewer out of the 'reality' of the show. The same results ensue with a voice over and/or caption. These are both tools that are used to [at the very least] 'tune' your visual perception into almost anything the producers want you to percieve. For example, if you see a shot of me looking off in the distance, you might think I'm in deep thought about global events. Throw a voice over in "..Adam is a bit angry today..." and you can literally make the viewer believe something that isn't, or never took place. Not the definition of "reality".
While I feel a lot of things should be left to personal interpretation, I don't want the viewer left with too many unanswered questions either.
In the aforementioned case of the surgical mask I recalled I had blogged about it the day before.
Bing!
Show the blog post. I'm not quite sure yet how I want this to look, but even if I went to the extreme of showing me typing and a voice-over ala Sex and the City [video] it's still reality, because I wrote the post about a real event.
Regardless of the visual form we choose to show this information, it comes with some beautiful "bonus coupons."
Presuming I blog about events that have been video-taped (most are thanks to inexpensive DV cameras), the blog becomes more like a script. A script that is written before the show is put together. As far as I know this is the first time a weblog (or any interactive element) comes first, before the show is aired. Imagine how important comments become on my weblog! A post that has a lot of feedback will probably make it into the show.
And finally, we're working with a distributed production team on this program, using mostly Apple technology and Internet. Final Cut Pro, Firewire, iChat mpeg4. Now my weblog[s] are an integrated part of the process as well the final product.
Inhaling my own fumes again...
8:12:29 AM
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