OK, I know last article was a while ago and I said it was the calm before the storm… well, its been a long calm, but I can safely say we’re ready to get started with this thing.

Next month, we’re going to unveil our new website.  We’ve refined our mission quite a bit.  Here it is:

To develop an online community interested in video innovation, through Cineclectic’s videos, blog, and through other work that we admire and post on the website; and to advertise Cineclectic’s video development and production services.

Our intention is to showcase one video per month, of our own creation, based on a certain theme.  We will then curate an exhibition based on this theme and video.  For example, one of the first projects we’ll be doing is a stop motion animation project.  Our video will be the centrepiece for an exhibition of stop motion animation videos.  We’ll also show you some behind the scenes videos, and some interviews with project collaborators.

As time grows on, our site will develop into a virtual museum for video, with exhibitions on all sorts of different themes.

We hope you’ll enjoy it.  Now back to work!

Hi All,

Now is the silence before the storm.  We’ve got three pretty killer projects in development at the moment, and I just can’t wait to get them out for you all to watch, enjoy, examine, berate, pull apart, and steal!  Without getting into too much detail, I’ll give you a clue about each of the three projects:

1.  Will harness the Mcor Printer for a truly unique video.





2.  Utilizes the power of Youtube Annotations to create an interactive video like you’ve never seen before.



3   Augmented Reality will allow Cineclectic to speak directly to you.



I hope you’re all as excited as I am!

-Joseph Campo

Just returned from a trip to record the good work of this year’s Pediheart Kenya Mission.  The Mission brings surgeons from the US to Mater Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, in order to teach surgeons there how to perform difficult heart surgeries and on children.  This year, they successfully accomplished over 20 procedures in 4 days, on children who would have otherwise died.

In addition to shooting a video for them, we also shot a video for Cineclectic, utilising their fluoroscopy machine.  Look out for it in the next few months.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these photos from the trip, and check out more at our flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cineclectic

One of the Children to Receive Surgery

A Mother and Child

Children Prepping for Surgery

Dr. Hani Hennein, founder of Pediheart

Heart Surgery

So excited about Immersive Media’s Dodeca 2360 camera, which captures 360º video that can then be placed in a flash player for the the end user to manipulate at will.  These are the cameras that Google has been using for the last few years in order to take all those photos that make up “street view” in Google Maps and Google Earth.

Check out for yourself how powerful this tool is, as CNN used the camera to shoot scenes from Haiti during the earthquake:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html

Or MuchMedia’s use of the tool to record live music concerts:

http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/mod30/implayer/index_chat.aspx

Vuzix, are you ready to make us some video glasses for this kind of video?  Then we’ll be truly immersed in the experience!

http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/index.html

I’m taking a trip to Kenya at the end of the month to follow an amazing organisation called Pediheart, which sponsors US surgeons to travel to third world countries to perform paediatric heart surgeries, and teach local surgeons how to do the surgeries.  Its a wonderful cause, not just charitable but empowering.

My trip there is primarily designed to document the good work they’re doing, but the surgeons have agreed to help me create a Cineclectic project around ultrasound and fluoroscopy scanning.

The use of medical equipment to create art isn’t new.  As Dr. Alex Golden (who will be participating in the Kenya Mission) pointed out to me, many people have created artwork with X-Rays.  Some of the most stunning X-Ray art comes from artist Nick Veasey.  Check out this video.

Our hope is to take the spirit of this kind of work and apply it to video.  Stay tuned to see what we come up with, and if you have any ideas to contribute, we’d love to hear them!