The MediaMentor's Text Blog: 20091121

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic
enthusiast as well as professional.

We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for
multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your
only limitation is your imagination.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

Video editing with open source tools

http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/node/35

"Mapping CCTV around Whitehall", 2008

"Mapping CCTV around Whitehall", 2008, is, as its name implies, a
performance of mapping Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras
around the UK's parliament in London and a video record of that
performance by Ambient.tv's Manu Luksch.

Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of "Mapping
CCTV In Whitehall" has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with
a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a
recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under
anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The
second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being
taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on
the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV (....Artists! Sexy Arses!).
This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up
what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective
encapsulation of the project's ideas and aesthetics.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=366

UNESCO Guidelines for broadcasting regulation

These Guidelines seek to set out the main principles that underlie the
regulation of broadcasting and the aspects of broadcasting that can be
regulated. The book is aimed at governments and regulators and sets out
'best practice' as informed by an international analysis of what currently
is done.

(Source:UNESCO,2009)

PDF

http://zunia.org/index.php?id=11728&tx_dgcontent_pi1[tt_news]=292586&cHash=622040631d

http://bit.ly/NkKvi

Direct download URL
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183285e.pdf