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1. Brian Ulrich Nov 26 2006 / 7pm

   I’ve been working on a series of videos in this style for some time now on the El trains here in Chicago. You can see a small excerpt here:
   http://www.notifbutwhen.com/NIBW/untitled.mov
   Hopefully I’ll have time to finish this soon.
2. raul Nov 27 2006 / 12pm

   Do you know Chelovek’s Man with a Movie Camera? It’s an hour and a half of what is essentially brilliant street photography…
3. Michael David Murphy Nov 29 2006 / 4pm

   Thanks for the tip, Raul. Netflix has it.
4. Nils Jorgensen Nov 30 2006 / 2pm

   …I like the man walking, actually quite funny.

   I can see the day when we stills photographers are going to be asked to shoot video for our various publications, (instead of stills), as the move from newsprint to web continues. In fact it has already happened for some of my colleagues.
5. Nils Jorgensen Nov 30 2006 / 2pm

   …and very much like your train video too, Brian.
6. Ron Diorio Dec 01 2006 / 6am

   I have recently begun to collect video and have yet shift my aethetic work flow to engage with it. I have attempted a few more static image to video but looking to explore this more.
7. Kevin Bjorke Dec 02 2006 / 3am

   I trust you’ve looked at sites like mediastorm?

   Before Baraka and Koyanisquatsi there was James Benning’s “11×14″ which blew me away back in my school days. Today the internet finally gives this sorts of thing a more functional venue.

   I also like Brian’s train video very much.

   There was an Erwitt-direceted car commercial a year or two ago. Looked like a collection of std Erwitt stuff then revelaed the commercial message. Telling in the way that sort of street photography style is so easily interchanged with commercial imagery.
8. Michael David Murphy Dec 03 2006 / 7pm

   Just watched the Man With A Movie Camera, Raul. Great stuff. Thanks for the recommendation. I’d never heard of it.

   Thanks for the link to your video work, Brian. Excited to see where it goes.
9. Peter Feldhaus Dec 11 2006 / 4am

   The German artist Katja Stuke uses partly street videos to create photographed stills from TV screen.
   This method allows her to capture very specific moments in street life: http://www.ks68.de
10. Eddie Apr 07 2007 / 5pm

    Thought I’d pass this along, I just saw an exhibit at the museum for photography in Berlin that seems in tune with this idea. It was Raymond Depardon’s “Villes, Cities, Stadts”, which included a massive room with 12 projectors showing 5-minute uncut videos he made of street life in 12 cities around the world. For many of them he would just stay in one spot and follow people as they walked around or did their thing, moving from one person to the next sort of as though a torch was being passed. It was very meditative and definitely felt “street.”
    Here’s someone’s photo of the installation on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/397728669/
    Don’t know where the exhibit is going next but there is a book out with the still images that were also in the exhibit: http://shopping.icp.org/store/product.html?product_id=26449
11. Michael David Murphy Apr 08 2007 / 10pm

    Keep us updated about that if you can, Eddie. Looks very interesting.
12. shane j montgomery Dec 10 2007 / 2am

    saw this at moca sd - pretty amazing, i think you’ll dig it: http://www.wrichmond.com/current.htm

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