Computational Culture

I had the opportunity to experiment a little bit with the Nokia 3250 (that mobile that you can fold to turn it into a music player or a camcorder). Nokia made a straightforward design on that one: you can not only make movies, but it comes also with a tiny video-editor. You can make your cuttings on-the-fly and (not tested) but theoretically there should also be some API to load the videos directly into youtube, your blog or somewhere else.

There are always pioneers, when new media emerge. In Paris there is the Pocket Films Festival the second time this year. Martin passed me a link to the Mobile FilmMakers Webpage. It is a sort of online-academie powered by Nokia with the focus on how-to make mobile movies. Seems that Nokia really hooks on that stuff and tries to extend his pole-position in that field.

Enhancements on the usability and the GUI are still required, but the mobile stuff available in stores is getting more and more interesting for creative uses and abuses. Experimentation and exploration on various new formats these days: portable gaming, podcast, videocast, moblogging and now mo-vlogging seem to make blogs an established medium in the new media circus.