Blogs Go Pro - Using Weblogs On Commercial Sites
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Webl0gs.com closes bl0gs
Webl0gs.com closes bl0gs
06/14/2004 09:14 PM Dave Winer has closed up what may be several thousand weblogs hosted
at weblogs.com, a pioneer weblogging service. Dave has announced he'll
package up the shuttered sites in importable form, if owners ask him
before July 1. Dave's audio blog post explains why he had to do this
and had to do it without warning anyone. People in the comments are
being appropriately appreciative for the years of service Dave gave
them, but, wow, it's a shock. We could use a page that lists the new
homes for the old sites as they are rebuilt.......
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
04/08/2005 06:39 PMMy my, what an interesting week this has been: First,
Blogilista goes
commercial, and now
Pirkka-magazine has launched a number
of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts
with violent distrust and
confusion.
I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th
e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form,
not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish
polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher
dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom
feeds for all blogs! Way!
However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just
dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look
at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap
on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's
difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other
bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that
bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on
the subject than you. And they know it.
Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do
they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they
really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that
comes with the format?
You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a
personal media. You need to let people write with their own
voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all
the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a
personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you
have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä
likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.
Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will
grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.
(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging
.info/, and Scoble's Corporat
e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting
articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes
away credibility from the author.)
(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on
blogilista.fi: get
a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it
contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's
*gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is
- an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal
blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods
to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If
you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds,
and make your own personal bloglist.
Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around
blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better
understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we
can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about
your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company
products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some
bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential;
some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make
many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just
for
...
Blogs, Everyone? Webl0gs Are Here to
Stay, but Where Are They Headed?
Blogs, Everyone? Webl0gs Are Here to
Stay, but Where Are They Headed?
04/01/2005 06:59 AMBlogs, Everyone? Weblogs Are Here to Stay, but Where Are They
Headed?http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1172.cfm Recently, blogs have been credited with everything from CBS News
anchorman Dan Rather's departure, to unauthorized previews of the
latest Apple Computer products, to new transparency in presidential
campaigns. The big question is whether blogs, short for weblogs, have
the staying power to become more than just online diaries. Will
bloggers upend the mainstream media? What legal protections should
bloggers have? Is there a blogger business model? While no definitive
answers exist just yet, experts at Wharton advise questioners to be
patient. Blogging, they note, will be around for a long time. This
will be added to my presentation
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators.
Joho the Blog: Webl0gs.com closes bl0gs
Joho the Blog: Webl0gs.com closes bl0gs
06/15/2004 03:14 PMDavid Weinberger .. what a shock .. concludes ..
asked
hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002739.html
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Critic Sites Are Not Commercial
Critic Sites Are Not Commercial
08/06/2004 06:45 PMYear ago, we wrote about the case of
Uzi
Nissan vs. Nissan Motors. Uzi Nissan happened to own the domain
name Nissan.com, which he used to run his own computing business. In
the dispute, Nissan Motors apparently noted that, in talking about the
case on the site, Uzi Nissan was engaged in "commercial speech" which
was designed to take business away from them, and therefore, he was
violating their trademark. However, the Court of Appeals today ruled
that
sites critical of a company are not engaged in
"commercial speech", meaning that any site designed to criticize
the actions of a company may not be violating that company's
trademark. The court found that a lower court ruling prohibiting Uzi
Nissan from talking about the case was an improper violation of Uzi
Nissan's free speech.
"About webl0gs.com-hosted sites"
"About webl0gs.com-hosted sites"
06/15/2004 10:23 AMBLOGS! Die Webl0gs – Literatur und
Journalismus im Internet
BLOGS! Die Webl0gs – Literatur und
Journalismus im Internet
01/04/2004 09:34 AMblog
book
schwarzkopf-schwarzkopf.de/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.schwa
rzkopf-schwarzkopf.de/szene/2004/blogs.html
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"Transition plan for webl0gs.com-hosted
sites"
"Transition plan for webl0gs.com-hosted
sites"
06/18/2004 04:59 AMthis investigative work on webl0gs that
are fronts for porn sites
this investigative work on webl0gs that
are fronts for porn sites
11/17/2003 06:39 PMdiscussion already happening on idly.org .. Porn Sites Hiding Behind
Blogs .. Adam
Gessaman
idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_behind_blogs.php
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SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in
Webl0gs and News Sites
SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in
Webl0gs and News Sites
06/17/2004 06:40 AMIf my mail is any indication, the hot topic nowadays is how to use the
power of RSS feeds to track specific topics instead of having to track
specific blogs....
Webl0gs, Inc., Worlds Largest Blog
Publisher, Announces Three New Blogs on
Satellite Radio (droxy.com), Flash
(flashinsider.com), and SAS
(sas.webl0gsinc.com).
Webl0gs, Inc., Worlds Largest Blog
Publisher, Announces Three New Blogs on
Satellite Radio (droxy.com), Flash
(flashinsider.com), and SAS
(sas.webl0gsinc.com).
12/17/2004 06:44 PMWeblogs, Inc., The Worlds Largest Blog Publisher, Announces the
Launch of 64th through 66th Weblogs, focused on Satellite and Digital
Radio (droxy.com), Flash (flashinsider.com), SAS (sas.weblogsinc.com).
[PRWEB Dec 15, 2004]
Sites help put bl0gs in readers' sights
Sites help put bl0gs in readers' sights
03/27/2005 08:09 AMLos Angeles Times Mar 27 2005 12:02PM GMT
"Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs"
"Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs"
11/18/2003 10:22 AMWeb Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs
Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby
Blogs
04/22/2004 01:13 AMWebjay.org lets people create music playlists; Microsoft has a site
that lets lurkers follow the hottest newsgroups; Trixie Update, a
`baby blog' with detailed charts.
Some Candidates Turn To Blogs to Place
Ads: Sites are Low-Cost, Reach Thousands
Some Candidates Turn To Blogs to Place
Ads: Sites are Low-Cost, Reach Thousands
04/20/2004 07:17 AMplacing ads on weblogs .. blogs for advertising .. Blogs and
blogadds
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20561-2004Apr17.html
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SiteFilter thinks bl0gs are porn, chat
sites or worse and censors them
SiteFilter thinks bl0gs are porn, chat
sites or worse and censors them
07/22/2004 02:31 AMA couple days after discovering that the SiteFilter censorware in use
at his hotel was blockign MeFi, Metafilter Matt ruminates on the
general suckitude that is censorware, especially in light of the fact
that SiteFilter's crappy blacklist is mandatory in the libraries of
the State of Georgia.
I tried all sorts of blogs, both new and old, political and tech, but
the ones that were blocked were completely random. Like I said before,
waxy.org is blocked (screenshot), but similar sites are not. Gawker is
blocked (screenshot), but no other gawker media site is (wonkette and
gizmodo are fine). Acts of Volition seemed strange to block
(screenshot), since it's a pretty tightly focused tech/design blog. On
the purely humorous side, Oliver Willis is considered not a "Chat"
site like the rest of the blocked blogs, but a "Sex" site
(screenshot). I bet the #joiito army is not going to be happy when
they hear that Joi Ito's site is blocked (screenshot).
LinkNew Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape
New Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape
06/06/2005 12:14 AMLyra Researchs new report, "Commercial Printing: An Overview of
Production and Wide-Format," is essential reading for vendors in the
commercial printing market. The report focuses on key trends in
commercial printing, including sharp increases in sales of eco-solvent
or mild solvent wide-format printers, declining prices for wide-format
devices, and inexpensive Chinese wide-format printer products entering
the European and U.S. markets. On the narrow-format side, acquisitions
by key players have taken center stage. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]
Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over
Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over
07/29/2004 05:21 PMfun post about the blogger
breakfast
boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?
03/29/2005 07:22 AMInternal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External
Blogs?http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm
Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog
behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on
content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an
feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I.
Pacifici's
LLRX.com.
Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs
Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs
06/06/2004 06:45 PMKansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago BlogPulse.com offers a
blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google
to search for blog and keywords of interest. ...
Scam sites start spoofing secure sites
Scam sites start spoofing secure sites
12/12/2003 10:26 AMPersonal Computer World Dec 12 2003 9:16AM ET
the best commercial ever
the best commercial ever
05/31/2004 08:39 AMVanilla Coke Commercial
myenjoyzone.com/vanillacoke/tvc.htm
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How many webl0gs are there in the UK?
How many webl0gs are there in the UK?
12/09/2003 10:54 AMRight. For a whole range of reasons, I'm getting increasingly
interested in finding out how many weblogs there are in the UK. If we
could demonstrate that a large number of UK-based webloggers exist,
then it could have a whole range of effects: it could encourage
publishers to find constructive ways to engage with the community,
could encourage UK-based people/companies to get more involved in
building weblog-based software (or to spend time thinking around Denton-esque micro-publishing
ventures like Gawker, Fleshbot and Gizmodo). All kinds of stuff.
Now there's no really useful way of effectively measuring these
things, but it occurs to me that we'd probably be able to motivate a
good number of people to make themselves known as weblogers if
everyone who read this post stuck up a mention/plug for one or more of
the major geographical portals onto their sites. So I'm going to
wander off now and check that I'm listed on:
And please - if you've got ten minutes and are interested in
helping to uncover the lost continent of UK webloggers out there, then
stick something on your site about this too.
Webl0gs, Inc.
Webl0gs, Inc.
04/15/2005 04:52 AMWeblogs, Inc. Home Page - www.weblogsinc.com .. weblog
'trade-publishing' .. Jason Calacanis .. weblogsinc .. blurb .. WIN ..
It
weblogsinc.com
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Webl0gs.com Needs Help
Webl0gs.com Needs Help
12/17/2004 06:37 PMAs anyone who pings it knows,
weblogs.com is not holding up well
under the strain of the blogosphere’s
growth curve.
Today Dave Winer is
asking for help in getting it re-engineered. He seems to be
convinced that it has to be done in C; I wouldn’t be surprised if a
smart PHP or Java (
Velocity
maybe?) implementation could carry the load just as well. On the other
hand, for someone who’s never
written an Apache module, this
would be a simple one, it’s a useful skill, and that’s about as
close to the metal as you can get. In any case, I’m pretty sure
Dave’s right that it wouldn’t be a good idea for a big company
(like Sun, for example) to step up and say “we’ll do it” because
the suspicion of cheating from outsiders, and the temptation to tilt
the table a little for insiders, would both be a real issue. A pity,
because a big company (like Sun, for example) already has the
infrastructure to support this and wouldn’t even notice the
bandwidth. And a pity because I already know how to write Apache
modules and would like to learn Velocity. I’m dubious that the
notion of “one central place that everyone pings” is going to hold
up for the long term, but for the time being it’s useful and would
be a good project for anyone with the cycles to spare.
"old.webl0gs.com"
"old.webl0gs.com"
06/17/2004 11:32 AMwebl0gs come webl0gs go
webl0gs come webl0gs go
06/16/2004 01:23 PMThe most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot
fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and
your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.
Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all
early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs.
This included php.weblogs.com.
Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the
weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company
that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial
strain on him.
I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this
in perpetuity. My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it
comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've
only exchanged a couple of emails with him.
I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because
the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my
contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting
service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the
site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most
important open source project to sourceforge, to
http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.
Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:
Subject: php.weblogs.com
From: "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com
Date: Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am
To: jlim#natsoft.com
Priority: Normal
Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special
arrangements
with Dave to keep it running.
Lawrence
I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise.
Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave
emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course
I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with
that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible
though, and I have no expectations about this either.
For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's
a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie
Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always
bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy
Weather or Come Rain or
Shine.
I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about
this issue. RSS seems the best
way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down
at random times.
old.webl0gs.com
old.webl0gs.com
06/14/2004 03:50 AMold.weblogs.com
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"Webl0gs.com"
"Webl0gs.com"
02/17/2004 08:53 AMMore on the webl0gs.com/rss
More on the webl0gs.com/rss
03/13/2003 10:16 AMDave Winer again:: "Second, I believe it was a mistake to spec the new
element as part of the blogChannel...
"certain webl0gs"
"certain webl0gs"
06/05/2004 09:07 AMCommercial Music
Commercial Music
03/13/2003 10:17 AMThis is a living, breathing weblog entry. Actually, it's the
never-ending comments that make this so. I actually wrote about...
New iPod Commercial
New iPod Commercial
05/03/2004 07:29 PMA
new iPod Commercial has cropped up on the .mac page of Jeff
Garden. Anyone with any information regarding the source of this video
or an opinion to express about it may do so in the comments below.
Why free for commercial use?
Why free for commercial use?
06/27/2004 07:38 PMWhen writing my last entry, I remembered a question that some
people ask me. Why choose the Creative Commons license
that allows people to use content free for commercial use? I think
people have some sort of instinctive reaction toward the notion that
someone could "exploit" their work to make money. One question to ask
is, will you make less money because of it or more? They have to give
you attribution so more people will know about you and your work. I
would rather have people copy and quote my blog without worrying about
asking for permission. I would love to appear in commercial magazines,
books, websites and newspapers. Yes, fair use allows these people to
quote me without asking permission, but fair use must be defended in
court and some countries don't even have fair use. As a practical
matter, fair use really only gets you the right to hire a lawyer. The
CC license allows people to use stuff from my blog without fear
because they know my intention and it is clear legally as
well.
The next question is, then why not make it completely
free? A good way to understand this is to look at the differences
between the GNU Free Document License that Wikipedia uses and
the by-sa
(attribution share-alike) Creative Commons license Wikitravel uses.
There is some overlap and lots of nuances, but generally speaking the
GNU license is more about creating an ever growing body of work which
must remain free and allows commercial reprinting with limitations
basically in order to allow people to charge for reprinting the
document. The Wikipedia
copyright page says:
Wikipedia
The goal of Wikipedia is to create
an information source in an encyclopedia format that is freely
available. The license we use grants free access to our content in the
same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is
known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied,
modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same
freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia
article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author
credit requirement). Wikipedia articles therefore will remain free
forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions,
most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
Wikitravel has a page on why they didn't choose the GNU Free
Document License.
Wikitravel
The GFDL was developed to support
making Free Content versions of software manuals, textbooks, and other
large references. Its requirements for what you have to distribute
with a document under the GFDL -- such a copy of the GFDL and a
changelog, as well as "transparent" (i.e. source) versions if you
distribute over 100 copies -- aren't really all that onerous for large
volumes of text.
But for Wikitravel, we really want to have each article
redistributable on its own. Wikitravel articles can be as small as 1-2
printed pages. For such small documents, it just doesn't make sense to
require people to pass out another 10 pages of legalese text, as well
as floppy disks or CDs full of Wiki markup.
Consider these small "publishers" who would distribute stacks of
photocopied printouts of Wikitravel articles:
• Local tourist offices
• Hotels or guesthouses
• Helpful travellers
• Teachers
• Exchange student programs
• Wedding or event planners
Burdening these publishers with restrictions meant for software
documentation or textbooks would mean that they'd either ignore our
license -- a bad precedent to set -- or, more likely, just not use our
work.
We make our content Free so we can collaborate on this wiki, but
also because we want it to be seen and used. We can't serve travellers
with useful information if they can't get to that information in the
first place.
A lightweight alternative
The license we've chosen, the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0, is much easier and more lightweight. We
think that using the Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 license (by-sa) meets
our goal of having copyleft protection on Wikitravel content, without
putting an excessive burden on small publishers. All that needs to be
included are copyright notices and the URL of the license; this can be
done in a short paragraph at the end of the article.
The big downside of not using the GFDL is that GFDL content --
like Wikipedia articles -- cannot be included in Wikitravel articles.
This is a restriction of the GFDL -- you're not allowed to change the
license for the content, unless you're the original copyright holder.
This is kind of a pain for contributors, but we figured it was better
to make it easy for users and distributors to comply with our
license.
Creative Commons is planning to issue a new revision of their
suite of licenses some time in the winter of 2003-2004. Compatibility
with other Free licenses is "a top priority", and we can expect that
some time after that version change, articles created on Wikitravel
can be distributed under the GFDL. So, even though we can't include
GFDL work into Wikitravel, other Free Content authors can include
Wikitravel content into their work.
In Wikipedia's case,
the main use case is having it available online and I think for that
the GFDL works best. In the case of Wikitravel where they would like
to see their work expand into the physical world in small bits, I
think the CC by-sa works well. I think they both picked the right
licenses.
They point out one of the biggest problems with many of these
copyleft licenses. They usually require the creator of a derivative
work or the distributor to use the same license and even if the work
can be tampered with, the license can not. This makes it hard if not
impossible to mix with other licenses. The "share-alike" attribute in
the CC license the Wikitravel uses serves this function and is similar
to GPL and GFDL licenses in this regard. This is important in keeping
the "spirit" of the original intent going and in the case of Wikipedia
and Wikitravel which are group efforts, this is quite important. In my
case, I would rather allow people who use my works to have maximum
freedom so I have not included "share-alike" to my license. This
allows people to mix my content with other types of licenses.
FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial
FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial
09/15/2004 11:25 AMThe New York Post reports that McDonald's has enlisted the legendary
graffiti team Tats Cru to develop wall murals designed to appeal to
urban Latino...
Commercial PHP Implementation
Commercial PHP Implementation
07/02/2004 02:51 PMGolf GTI commercial and Elsewhere
Golf GTI commercial and Elsewhere
03/14/2005 04:25 PMWhen I first watched the cool new VW Golf GTI commercial featuring an updated Gene Kelly
poppin' and lockin', I guess I wasn't paying that much attention to
it.
Then the other day a friend IMed me and asked, "hey have you seen
this Golf GTI commercial with that guy from the crazy
Kollaboration video?"
"It's the same guy? I know that guy!" I watched the video again and
sure enough, Gene Kelly was dancing with the unmistakable style of Elsewhere, aka
David Bernal. After a quick search, I found a message board post from Elsewhere himself that it was indeed
him in the commerical:
yup that was me along with Crumbs and another popper
named Jay Walker.
I emailed David to ask him about the experience and he graciously
took the time to answer a few questions.
Jason: How did you get the Golf GTI gig? Audition or had
someone seen your stuff and specifically wanted you for it?
David: They specifically wanted to use me for it. I had done
a Heineken Commercial several months prior and the special effects
people for that commercial were going to do the effects for this VW
commercial. I got an email asking me if I could dance in the rain with
a prosthetic mask on and several weeks later I was in London doing
just that.
jkottke: That scene from Singin' in the Rain is one of the
most famous in film, and certainly the most famous dance number in
film. What was it like to be a part of an attempt to recreate and
update it?
David: It was an honor and a privilege being one of the
dancers in this commercial. Gene Kelly was a great dancer, singer and
actor which is a lot more than I have to offer. It's extremely
flattering having a commercial that essentially implies that my moves
are an updated version of Gene's dance skills.
jkottke: Some folks have complained about the crassness of
using a dead guy's likeness to sell automobiles. As one of the actors
playing the deceased, do you have any thoughts on that?
David: Yeah it's kind of weird, but imo it kind of comes
with the territory when you're a legend. I don't know if Gene would be
too hot about the whole thing but obviously the Gene Kelly Estate
approved it, so it's apparently not that crass to them.
jkottke: I've
read that you often freestyle when you dance, making it up as you
go along, but that you also have little micro-routines that you rely
on as you do. In shooting the commercial, how much of the choreography
was scripted and how much did you get to ad lib? How much did you need
to change your style much based on specific shots from the original
film or Gene's style?
David:It was different for each shot. For example with the
close-ups they would say just do a bunch of wavy stuff, so I would
simply freestyle with some waves. Most of the full body shots were
more routine based. They would specifically want me to do a list of
moves, but to connect everything I would naturally freestyle.
I didn't have to change my dancing stylistically at all. They
wanted me to dance the way that I dance. In fact they had us watch the
original Singing in the Rain scene so many times that I started
unconsciously moving a bit like Gene Kelly. The director at one point
even told me that I was moving too much like Gene and I needed to move
more like me.
If anything the parameters and conditions of the shoot
inadvertently changed my style. The sound stage was cold and we had to
dance under artificial rain for hours. To avoid freezing we wore wet
suits under our already thick, tight costumes. This restricted my
movement a lot. My shoes were quite uncomfortable and fake flooring we
danced on was soft and spongy. I had to keep my head up and smile
constantly which was very unnatural for me. Yet the biggest difficulty
for me was the rigid time restraints. Since it was a commercial we had
to do a lot within a small amount of time. This forced me to speed up
my style more than I usually do.
jkottke: Thanks, David.
You can see more of David's stuff on the Detours Video site, by purchasing some
DVDs, or by doing a search for "david
elsewhere".
No More Commercial Radio... Ever!
No More Commercial Radio... Ever!
02/13/2004 12:46 AMToday I listened to Radio
Paradise on my ride home from work. I lost the signal once but was
able to immediately log back into it. Yesterday I listened to The Beat Basement on the
ride home, and I didn't lose the signal once. How? Through PocketTunes on my Treo 600,
which was plugged into the cassette adapter so it sounded great coming
through my car's speakers.
How incredibly fantabulous and perwonderfect is it to be
able to listen to internet radio streams in the car? I can't make up
enough words to describe it! I guess I don't have to worry about
getting satellite radio anymore....
(I will, however, add my voice to the chorus asking for Live365 support in PTunes!)
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