I first posted a video to a website in late 2000. I was a new parent, working as a webmaster and teaching film studies. Actually making films and videos had become all about writing grants, making phone calls and waiting. So I started searching online for work that interested me, that would inspire me to just pick up the camera. Late one night, I found Adrian Miles' vog manifesto.
Here was a set of rules that, like “Dogma” for narrative filmmaking, was liberating in its constriction. My first posts wereall this and commute - personal, miniature and interactive in a very basic way. And it didn’t fit any commercial categories. I loved the idea of making work and leaving it out for anyone to discover. Solublefish.tv was my site to post (somewhat regularly) interactive video sketches and to begin the dialogue with others making video specifically for the web.
Then came RSS 2.0 and ANT and Mefeedia and the energy of the New York vlogging community and vloggers all over the world and…the rest is history.
So here we are, making conversation in cinema.
Taylor Street Studio is my work-space, where I try things out. It has now splintered into other vlogs that continue other specific cinematic conversations. Welcome.
Will Luers
email: wluers at taylorstreetstudio.com
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Taylor Street Studio:
A creative space to explore the storytelling possibilities and distribution models of online, networked and syndicated cinema. _____________________________________________________
Deep Maps:
How do these new forms of networked and syndicated cinema change our experience of space and landscape? What should a travel vlog look like? Mostly a vlog to deposit my own video encounters with place, but also to curate the work of others. _____________________________________________________
Look Round:
All ages video to encourage young vloggers. No birthday videos! _____________________________________________________
