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!

Just took a brilliant trip down to Dublin to meet some of the companies that will be competing in the finals of the Irish Times Innovation Awards.  Very exciting stuff, and hopefully we’ll have a chance to collaborate with a few of them on Cineclectic projects.

I found this today, and figuratively jumped for joy that the platform they use to create content is open source:

If you want to create your own interactive programming, all you have to do is download Shapeshifter Media’s free software at: http://www.shapeshift.tv

I can’t wait to give it a crack (although I’m a bit disappointed its not a Mac program, grrr).  If there’s anyone out there who’s creating content with Shapeshifter Media, or if you’re thinking you’d like to, let us know and we’ll see if we can feature it on the site.  Who knows, maybe there’s a commission in it for you.