Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from “everyday people”, in what he is apparently calling the “democratization of film”. The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an “assignment” will be announced online for each act, adn then people will have 4 weeks to create their submission.
The central thread (theme) will apparently be based around the way music tells the story of humanity, and different media can be submitted - text, music, video, or images - which you can check out at http://www.nokiaproductions.com.
Nokia will choose 25 submissions, and people will then vote online for the Top 10, of which Spike himself will choose the winners.The final, complete, film will premiere later in the year in LA.
Given I have a newborn that occupies all of my non-working time (!), I am not quite sure how I managed to find the time to slot in this bit of (delete as applicable) research/twiddling/tweaking/testing - however, I thought I would share the results…
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about: some guy went postal at Virgina Tech, a University in America, and killed 32 people. He then turned the gun on himself.
I kind of feel like shit posting this. I don’t mean to promote Nokia by mentioning the death of 33 students, but I do want to make a point that the ever advancing pieces of technology in our pockets are changing how conversations are taking place.
I wish I could have recorded what Jamal said on CNN, I’m watching this live by the way, it went something like this: "I want to share what happened here today with the world."
Nice photo’s Mark! The colors don’t seem to be as rich as I was hoping for. People who have been to multiple auto shows know how much care is put into the paint job, and I wasn’t feeling that in your pictures.
Sorry you had to experience this:
My main complaint about the camera software is the time it takes from
pressing the shutter button to the camera saving the image takes
abnormally way too long.
I know how bad it was on my N93. It totally ruined the picture taking experience for me.
This was in one of my two catch up articles, but it seriously deserves it’s own post.
Nsights is a new site dedicated to N series devices and their capabilities. I would tell you what my favorite episode is, but I haven’t watched all of them yet. I’m trying to get as much blogging done as I possibly can on my 3 hour dinner break.
The part that personally interests me in some of these newer Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones is VoIP. Nokia has implemented the SIP standard and since the latest versions of the firmware it has STUN support which makes it more robust when used with free SIP services from around the globe (as opposed to an Asterisk server at the same side of your firewall). I tried the phone with Gizmo, VoIPBuster, FWD and Ekiga. Except Ekiga’s Linux client which seems to be having some trouble communicating correctly with Nokia’s client, all the other services worked perfectly. I am able to call my mom and little brother in Greece for just $0.02 per minute while AT&T (NYSE: T) charges me about 40c per minute plus a $0.50 connection fee. Sure there is more lag with these "cheaper" VoIP services than there is with Vonage or a real landline, but for these call prices they well worth the hassle.
My question is why aren’t carriers using this technology to pass the savings onto consumers?
Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from “everyday people”, in what he is apparently calling the “democratization of film”. The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an “assignment” will be announced online for each act, adn then people will have 4 weeks to create their submission.
