Shawn's Video Thing
About this original series
Videos from Shawn Rider.
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# Episodes
6 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of Shawn's Video Thing
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From the Archive: Beatnik Performed LIve at Mike...
This is an oldie but goodie, for sure. Back in 2002 DJ Funken Wagnalls, Patient Griselda and I were invited to perform at a literacy benefit organized by the English Dept at the University of Idaho. Back then, Moscow had a decent array of local bands making interesting music, everything from punk to hippie to Built To Spill meets Sonic Youth clones. We were the only hip hop group.We played a track I had originally done as a cyber-collaboration with two other DJs (John Johnston from Connecticut...
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Release date
Mar 22, 2008
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Runtime
04:26
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From the Archive: What It Means to be From Idaho
Back in 2003 or so, Sarah and I made a piece for a show called Geoscapes at the Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY. The show was curated by Chris Borkowski, our old pal who was at SUNY Buffalo at the time.The video was originally exhibited with no audio on a flat panel monitor mounted on the wall surrounded by arrangements of large-format digital prints. The entire piece was approximately 12 x 4 feet. The monitor displaying the video was only 17 inches. This was still in the very early d...
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Release date
Jan 21, 2008
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Runtime
03:42
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From the Archives: Imagine
Back in 2003 I made a video for a composer named Johnston's track "Imagine." Johnston and I met through the online musician community, Acid Planet, and we collaborated on several of my favorite tracks over the couple of years that we were really working together. This video was one of the last things we did together.The footage was (obviously) shot in the Paris metro. This was my first experiment with different timings on different video clips and spatial juxtaposition of video images. I retou...
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Release date
Jan 11, 2008
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Runtime
04:20
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From the Archive: The Dance Club Interview
So once upon a time back in 2003, Sarah took a course on women in the workplace. And for some reason (I can't claim any responsibility here) she decided to write an in-depth research piece on labor laws as they regard to dancers in strip clubs. Not surprisingly, exotic dancing is not known for its benefits.I had just finished a new media piece about masculinity that tried to combine several discreet types of writing/imagery. Sarah was looking for an interesting way to combine her primary resea...
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Release date
Jan 7, 2008
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Runtime
03:13
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From the Archive: Booth Babes
Back in 2001 Sarah and I teamed up with our friend Matt Blackburn to make a short film at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. We wanted to see what people would say about the whole "booth babes" phenomenon, which was an infamous component to the male-dominated E3 Expos. We were at E3, of course, with GamesFirst.com, and Matt was a videogame reviewer for the site. He agreed to be Sarah's sidekick and together they conducted interviews with all sorts of folks around the show.I...
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Release date
Jan 6, 2008
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Runtime
07:43
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From the Archive: L'Ecrivain
I made this in a few days as an animated GIF on my old P1 333 back in 1999. For some reason it seems a lot older than that. I remember that ImageReady couldn't handle that many frames in the GIF, so I had to use a command-line animated-gif builder and then conver the GIF to AVI to use in a video editor for the final machine. I am absolutely positive there was a better way to do this, but I was in an English course making a digital animation using a 1.2 megapixel Fugi digital camera I borrowed ...
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Release date
Jan 5, 2008
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Runtime
00:58
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