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 - Calgary Hearts Dubya

This is the video accompanying my R4NT.com article of the same name. It was created to highlight the fact, George Bush will be speaking at Calgary TELUS Convention Centre on March 17 2009. A protest is scheduled for 11:30 AM in front of the convention centre.

Recyclable footage can be found at Internet Archive (the 661 MB MPEG-4 is the highest quality available at 1280x720). And a 640x360 MPEG-4 render is also available on Blip.TV.

The video is placed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Video - DemoCampCalgary #13

You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video. DemoCamp Calgary 13.

At Calgary's Seven Restolounge on 2009-02-24 the 13th DemoCampCalgary was held by BarCampCalgary. I indexed this video coverage of the DemoCamp, so by clicking on the name of a software title you can immediately skip to a particular demo...

• Population Control then NaviBlast by Stephen Gazzard.
• Solidjott by Ben Eadie.
• WineCollective by Adrian Bryksa & David Gluzman.
• Curse of the Pharaoh 2 then Adventures of Nubi by Jon Lam of PH03NIX New Media.
• Video Guestbook by Andrew Hanna.

For anyone wanting to use footage of their presentation in a video of their own, the 900 MB MPEG-4 master is available.

Video - Ours To Destroy vs R4NT

Ours To Destroy tried to perform at Broken City (Calgary), when they were finally asked some hard questions.

Entertainment Tonight! E! ExtraTV! They all caved when offered interviews, but not R4NT Magazine. We don't ask for interviews... we take interviews! Neo-nazi ties! Sex change operations! Ann Coulter love ins!

Its all right here, where Entertainment Tonight fears to tread.

Ours To Destroy allowed me to place the audio and video under a Creative Commons non-commercial share alike license.

The best source for recycling this footage is 592 MB Windows Media file, which is what Blip.Tv has transcoded into FLV and MPEG-4 data.

Video - Don Tapscott on Wikinomics

Cambrian House (my employer) hosted Don Tapscott in Calgary, Alberta on 2007-02-26. Don spoke about his book Wikinomics, an excellent overview of crowdsourcing.

For casual viewing I'd recommend streaming from Google Video or Blip.Tv. Or download the video in iPod format.

For remix, you'll want high quality copies in Windows Media or MPEG-4 QuickTime format, available on Internet Archive. This Don Tapscott footage is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.