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Desperate Housewives, Ryanne Hodson, USA, 2005

5 min.

In Hodson's personal video blog she discusses television, relationships and her affinity to recordings. The nature of the media is unconsciously engaged through Hodson's quirky monologue.

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"The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy" told by Frances Clark Sayers (1977), Frances Clark Sayers/Blue Heron Film and Video, USA, 1977
12 min.

Part of a larger folktale series, Frances Clark Sayers reflects on the nature of storytelling before reciting the tale of the "White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy" by Carl Sandburg. Glitches, both spoken and analog, are forever sealed into the narrative to perfectly exemplify the nature of storytelling in a digital manner.

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choreographic loop | vlog 002, Jose Nuno, Netherlands, 2005
2 min.

This is one of Nuno's earliest video blog entries. It is a gorgeous loop that captures two lovers “sharing some emotion through these compressed animated pixels”. The lovers enter stage left, embrace, break away, exit stage right and repeat.

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Dark Night Flick, Justin Hall, USA, 2005
10 min.

Pioneering blogger Justin Hall breaks down, recording his distress for his website. Having always shared his life with his audience, Justin exists in a space where his breakdown is at once real, simulated, mediated and entertaining. Hall's work is a provoking meditation on the nature of intimacy, privacy and media in contemporary life.

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Revenge, Shannon Noble, USA, 2005
2 min.

An example of “ revogging”, Noble combines vlogs by three individuals to create a dramatic new narrative. What is the nature of a personal story when anything can now be treated as a floating signifier?

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Come Join the Fun!, Trafalgar remix of Charles Keating original, USA, 2004
2.5 min.

A remix of George Putnam’s 1964 report “Perversion for Profit”, which is now available via the Prelinger Archives. The resulting video twists Putnam’s words into a demand for Americans to defend their right to distribute pornography. The video uses deft editing to sever Putnam’s form from his content, while highlighting broadcast media’s ability to manufacture sensationalism.

Kevin

Take One

Welcome to Prepossessing.

My main focus for this blog is to showcase internet video from a variety of sources. The site is technically a vlog but I do not plan to post work that I am producing myself. Instead, I see Prepossessing as a means to curate video programs on a variety of subjects.

My initial plan is to make distinct video exhibits comprised of work that is available on-line. The postings will resemble conventional art/independent video screenings with a set of five or six videos per program. I also plan to stick to specific themes or subject matter for each "screening".

I hope to keep fairly regular postings and commentary but I am sure things will be in flux as I figure things out and realize what I can and cannot do.

I hope Prepossessing will become my own personal on-line video exhibit.

Stay tuned.

Kevin