Video & Stock - Elizabeth May

Leader of Canadian Green Party, Elizabeth May shared her thoughts with me regarding the success of Sweden's Pirate Party. Does Canada need a Pirate Party? I've posted concerns about the effectiveness of single issue candidates running in Canada to R4NT.com.

I also followed Elizabeth around between Calgary Stampede breakfasts, to collect some stock footage of her pancake flipping. Between Marborough Mall and Chinook Centre, a series of tweets were posted by concerned supporters, that Elizabeth was forgetting about animal rights for the sake of a photo op at a rodeo (she was not, in fact, attending the rodeo).

The interaction between Elizabeth and her daughter (Victoria Cate) was quite interesting as they spotted the tweets, and formulated a response. This led to a quick discussion about social media, her daughter's role in helping manage it, and how tools like Twitter and Facebook facilitate communication between candidates and their supporters.

Stock footage of Elizabeth May's visit to Calgary can be found on Internet Archive concerning copyright and volunteering, fund-raising and the economy. All footage is creative commons licensed. Stock footage of Calgary Stampede breakfasts, and her family's management of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is currently uploading to Internet Archive.

Video - CBC Rally in Calgary

On 2009-04-17, Calgarians headed to CBC's broadcast building on Memorial Drive to show their support for CBC, and to protest lack of support of CBC by the (currently conservative) federal government. I carted down a sign and videocamera, and after waving at traffic for 10 minutes ("is this what we do?") started asking fellow attendees questions about the CBC. The finished video is embedded in a R4NT.com blog post of a fictional nature.

Possibly the best point on the subject of CBC funding was articulated by DJ Kelly and Wil Knoll (but unfortunately captured by IndieCalgary.com and not myself): (paraphrased)

Although the CBC has become more self sufficient in its reliance on its ad revenue there was never an expectation of self sufficiency when the CBC was first created, and it is not fair to have that expectation now. CBC has been lucky that ad revenue has offset rising costs to taxpayers, but we're here to say we'll gladly pay for our CBC, and return to the original model which does not depend on ad revenues.

CBC currently costs Canadian taxpayers $34 per year, per citizen. I'm happy to pay that. In fact, as I explore this world of blogging, video production and avoiding anything that resembles what an investigative journalist would actually do, I'm quite certain that strong public broadcasting is key to maintaining a democracy through this transition period from newspapers to... whatever will replace newspapers.

Various remix friendly version of CBC Rally in Calgary and raw footage are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Stock - Night Driving Time lapse

Time lapse stock footage of me and Gary driving at night. Camera is mounted in back seat on a tripod, looking forward. This was shot while collecting footage for R4NT.com's review of WATCHMEN.

A 1280x720 resolution 311 MB MPEG-4 master of this footage can be downloaded from Internet Archive.

This footage has no audio.

Stock - Apple Store MacBook Theft

Stock footage shot of myself running out of an Apple Store with a MacBook box. I'd bought the MacBook earlier for iPhone development, but when asking for permission to shoot in the store I was told they have a policy against that. So I was only able to get an external shot at I run out. Intended as a quick visual gag in upcoming video.

A 640x360 MPEG-4 placeholder is available, as well as the 1440x1080i AVCHD SONY HDR-SR1 raw footage (70 MB).

Yes, this is an 8 second clip.

Stock - HDV Sunset

Ocean sunset (shot in Cuba) available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Original footage is 532 MB MPEG-2, or grab one of the sped up derivatives found on Internet Archive.

Stock - House Demolitions

My balcony had an excellent view of houses across the street as they were being knocked down. If you are going to download any of these clips, be sure to save-link-as and not try open anything in-browser. The files are all quite large (raw footage crazily so).

When	2000-02-06	2007-10-13
Camera	JVC HD-GR1	Sony HDR-SR1
Capture	MPEG-2	AVCHD
Resolution	1280 x 720 @ 30p	1440 x 1080 @ 60i
Google Preview	x04, x64	x04, x64
Raw Footage x01	01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07	01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
Windows Media	x04, x16, x64	x04, x16, x64
QuickTime/MP4	x04, x16, x64	x04

I'm placing the raw and timelapse footage under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. If you would like to use this footage to create a non-CC licensed video, please contact me for permission. And if you DO use it to create CC licensed content, let me know so I can check it out!

Cory Ondrejka on Second Life 20060913

Cory Ondrejka gave a lecture on 2006-09-13 on Second Life, and allowed me to video tape. This was originally for internal use by Cambrian House, but some other attendees asked if they could get a copy. Posting to IA seemed to be the easiest way to faciliate that. This is just raw footage, and IA isn't the most convenient platform for casual viewing, so I'll post to YouTube or GoogleVideo if enough people express interest in viewing.

Downloadable 720p and MPEG-4 copies are hosted on Internet Archive.

Stock - Timelapse of London Tube

In 2006-07, I traveled around Europe including London. Took quite a few timelapse shots, and the first I'm posting is that of a ride in the London Transit/Tube system. Was hoping the stopping and starting of the car would be a bit more obvious, and could potentially be put in sync with some electronica. Now reviewing the footage I don't think that would quite work. Hopefully someone can put it to good use.

Internet Archive is hosting the various speeds, all in QuickTime 7 (H.264) format, HD resolution. The black edges which appear are me stabilizing the footage in post.

This x064 speed version is 70MB, and probably the best clip to get a feel for what the footage looks like, as it is a middle speed.

Stock: Calgary Sunrise

Timelapse shot of Calgary sunrise sped up 100x. Or is it a sunset? I'll never tell. Ok, its a sunrise.

Internet Archive is hosting:
  Windows Media Video (preview),
  MPEG-4 (preview, playable in QuickTime),
  MPEG-2 (720p HD, for production).

Stock: Robin in Nest

Robin sitting in nest. Almost completely static, but I was unable to break the HD MPEG-2 original down into a smaller sized clip.

MPEG-4 (QuickTime preview), MPEG-2 (HD 1280x720x30p).