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At the Pioneer this week: Vloggers Unite! (internet video in person)

Exciting stuff is happening in internet video, including among
videomakers based in New York City. Certainly, distribution is part of that, in how the internet facilitates immediate and relatively democratic distribution. But internet videomakers are also doing exciting things in representation, collaboration, and reception. Charlene Rule of ScratchVideo.tv, for example, is making an online video journal that is a beautiful and very nuanced poetic diary. ThePan.org nurtures a fascinating, far flung community of videomakers. TheBurg.tv, Man-Hole, and Young American Bodies are all flirting with different permutations on the serial. NYCSR.org approaches civic activism, and TurnHere.com is a sort of travelogue. It goes on and on.

And then, as a sort of corrective, you have the film LOL, which anchors 'Vloggers Unite!,' in a theatrical run LOL wasn't made of internet video, though some is integrated. LOL shows how people can get lost within all the different methods of communication, such as internet video, text messaging, instant messaging, email, and on and on. People can lose track of face to face communication. In the 'Vloggers Unite!'program, we're putting the problem next to the solution: internet video
programs will be presented by the people behind the internet videos. After all, this survey centers mostly on New York City vloggers; this is not a global, comprehensive survey. However, here, you have both the human and the technical presented together. Also, of course, the screen will be bigger than your computer or your handheld device, and the resolution will be better than a downloaded video.

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