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When the head honchos at Flickr announced the arrival of video on the flickr blog back in April, there was, as one might expect, immediate controversy.
People started appending their usernames with such things as ‘says NO to video on Flickr’, changing their buddy icons to snappy protest slogans, and joining anti-video groups in their thousands. On the flip side, as you might imagine, there was the ‘We say YES to video on Flickr’ group (which, unfortunately, and perhaps understandably, failed to attract the same tens of thousands of members the others did), along with numerous video-dedicated groups who care not one jot about the internal war raging amongst some members and who simply embraced the opportunity to make another kind of art.
It’s impossible to cover all the groups that have sprung up (just do a quick search for ‘video’ and you’ll find them), but here are a couple. The Best Videos on Flickr group has nearly 800 members at the time of writing. Far from having any kind of screening process to ensure the arbitrary inclusion of the ‘best’, the group rules state you must “feel free to post any video”, so the obligatory kitteh vids and cute sunsets abound (just as they do in many of the biggest photo groups on Flickr). However, there are a few nuggets of interest in there, if you can be bothered to endure the lag to find them. Just a few minutes trawling through the pool led me to this:
which, in turn, led me to this group. Boasting to be a ‘celebration of video on Flickr’, and being invitation only (and moderated by Flickr’s own Heather Powazek Champ, I expected to be assailed by some pretty stunning stuff. Indeed, the first one in the pool managed to exceed my expectations, cleverly merging my love of teh kitteh with some witty Moo fun:
And then I found this:
And this, which I just bloody love but don’t know why:
I could go on, but I won’t (not least because so many of my favourite videos aren’t embeddable). Yeah, sure, there’s plenty of crappy videos on Flickr, but there are plenty of crappy photos on there too. To dismiss video out of hand is, in my opinion, closing yourself off to a whole wealth of different and interesting art.
After all, Flickr restricted the length of videos to 90 seconds, something that, I believe, goes a long way to ensuring most people treat them with the same artistic creativity they do their photographs. At only 90 seconds long, they are, essentially, a long photograph; an opportunity to explore a narrative more fully than a single photographic frame can do. When it comes down to it, it’s really quite simple. One of the main arguments put forward against the introduction of video was that it would turn Flickr into another Youtube, with, albeit short, moronic outbursts sullying the high-brow photographic community. But wait a minute, hang on now – just one look at the dross posted in some of the more popular groups and you realise that high-brow was in the minority long before video came along.
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When the head honchos at Flickr announced the arrival of video on the flickr blog back in April, there was, as one might expect, immediate controversy.
People started appending their usernames with such things as ‘says NO to video on Flickr’, changing their buddy icons to snappy protest slogans, and joining anti-video groups in their thousands. On the flip side, as you might imagine, there was the ‘We say YES to video on Flickr’ group (which, unfortunately, and perhaps understandably, failed to attract the same tens of thousands of members the others did), along with numerous video-dedicated groups who care not one jot about the internal war raging amongst some members and who simply embraced the opportunity to make another kind of art.
It’s impossible to cover all the groups that have sprung up (just do a quick search for ‘video’ and you’ll find them), but here are a couple. The Best Videos on Flickr group has nearly 800 members at the time of writing. Far from having any kind of screening process to ensure the arbitrary inclusion of the ‘best’, the group rules state you must “feel free to post any video”, so the obligatory kitteh vids and cute sunsets abound (just as they do in many of the biggest photo groups on Flickr). However, there are a few nuggets of interest in there, if you can be bothered to endure the lag to find them. Just a few minutes trawling through the pool led me to this:
which, in turn, led me to this group. Boasting to be a ‘celebration of video on Flickr’, and being invitation only (and moderated by Flickr’s own Heather Powazek Champ, I expected to be assailed by some pretty stunning stuff. Indeed, the first one in the pool managed to exceed my expectations, cleverly merging my love of teh kitteh with some witty Moo fun:
And then I found this:
And this, which I just bloody love but don’t know why:
I could go on, but I won’t (not least because so many of my favourite videos aren’t embeddable). Yeah, sure, there’s plenty of crappy videos on Flickr, but there are plenty of crappy photos on there too. To dismiss video out of hand is, in my opinion, closing yourself off to a whole wealth of different and interesting art.
After all, Flickr restricted the length of videos to 90 seconds, something that, I believe, goes a long way to ensuring most people treat them with the same artistic creativity they do their photographs. At only 90 seconds long, they are, essentially, a long photograph; an opportunity to explore a narrative more fully than a single photographic frame can do. When it comes down to it, it’s really quite simple. One of the main arguments put forward against the introduction of video was that it would turn Flickr into another Youtube, with, albeit short, moronic outbursts sullying the high-brow photographic community. But wait a minute, hang on now – just one look at the dross posted in some of the more popular groups and you realise that high-brow was in the minority long before video came along.
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