Haunting, beautiful, inspirational. Points out the beauty and importance of video and the ability to share content on the internet. It’s long. It’s not for everybody. Stick with it and I know you will be enlightened by the end. Also, take heart, less bizarre multimedia links can be found under the Notable Multimedia links on [...]
Haunting, beautiful, inspirational. Points out the beauty and importance of video and the ability to share content on the internet. It’s long. It’s not for everybody. Stick with it and I know you will be enlightened by the end.
Also, take heart, less bizarre multimedia links can be found under the Notable Multimedia links on the side-bar. This is less a multimedia piece than a human story that could provide multimedia shooters inspiration on how to tell a video story. Finally, There are a few more folks from the multimedia team who are coming on-line to share their observations and perspectives. So if you are getting tired of my ‘artsy-fartsy’ posts, hold-on help is coming. Meanwhile, enjoy.
-r
p.s. Zach Wise is going to post a fun tutorial on the use of time-lapse photography and I’m working on a video compression tutorial.
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Thanks for posting the link.
Wow.
If this is ‘artsy-fartsy’ give me more.
What a wonderful, amazing, insightful, fascinating project.
It is the first time that I could see the world from a autistic person’s perspective.
This video was a little long for my taste, but I was moved by it nevertheless.
It does indeed illustrate the “beauty and importance” of video. When it comes to multimedia I am still unashamedly still-centric, and all too often I see multimedia projects that I think were weakened (and lengthened needlessly) by the use of video, where still images could have made a stronger impact.
That’s definitely not the case here… the audio would have been almost ineffective without the motion of the video to accompany it. I’m slowly coming around to video, partly because I have started to study projects like this to figure out what makes them work. Different tools for different projects and figuring out which is most appropriate… I guess that’s all part of the learning curve.
I’ll second the “wow.” The movement and sounds seemed to both represent reality and create poetry — the series of revelations in the second half were really well crafted and made the work truly enlightening… mind blowing, actually.
I finally found time to watch this. I’m blown away. It raises profound questions about the nature of language and communication. It brings to mind philosophical questions I hadn’t thought of since studying Wittgenstein in college.
Not that it’s anywhere near the same thing, but I’ve often felt that the language of pictures that I speak doesn’t translate to a lot of editors in the newsroom. Way back when I worked for a time as a picture editor, it was extremely frustrating to take a really cool picture into the news meeting only to have it gruffly dismissed by the Executive Editor with a “I don’t get it.” He and I didn’t speak the same language.
Art and images and music are languages and more and more people speak them, I think. It’s frustrating dealing with word people who don’t understand what you’re saying.
But to have a language disconnect throughout life must be tough. This video gives a little lesson in the grammar of autism.
It seems like forever since I’ve seen a video, documentary or film that has actually taken me to a place i’ve never been and taught me something totallly new about life.
It’s changing my who concept of ‘this much i know is true’ and I am in awe.
Thank you for posting this. It’s inspiring!
CNN just showed an interview of Amanda Baggs, the 26-year-old autistic woman in the video, with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. According to Dr. Gupta, it was Amanda who shot, produced, and posted the video on YouTube.
CNN has a story about Amanda on their website, but unfortunately I don’t see the interview with Dr. Gupta posted yet. I do see a report on his page that there was going to be a story about Amanda on AC360 on Wednesday night, but unfortunately I missed it. Both links are well-worth checking out.