The SIAB people have released a number of wordpress blog themes customised for publishing video:
The Video Producer theme series will feature WordPress themes that are designed from the ground up to break the “blog diary” format and allow video creators to display their work differently from what is usually seen on most blogs, while retaining the flexibility and functionality that the WordPress core already provides.
After some recent writing on videodefunct about what it is, I recognised even more the work VD is doing as part of a growing movement towards customised video themes for blogs. I see in the distant future a plethora of choices as this development becomes more and more accessible.
We got together a vlogging workshop/presentation at Montevideo in Amsterdam.
Videodefunct and Showinabox: Hitting vlogging with a hammer
date: Thursday Jan 17 from 12.00 – 17.00
place: Workspace in the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264 Amsterdam
A workshop presented in two parts that looks at knocking vlogging into shape and bashing it into oblivion. The videodefunct collective focus on poetic approaches towards the way video is presented and curated by inverting the blog interface. Showinthebox aim to improve vlogging accessibility and aesthetic control with a user-friendly toolkit. Both projects use the open source blogging application WordPress and question whether vlogs need to move beyond the constraints of blogs.
1200 – 1400 Videodefunct (Keith Deverell and Seth Keen)
1400 – 1600 Showinthebox (Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson)
1600 – 1700 Vlogging panel discussion
links
http://greyspace.com.au/blog/
http://keithdeverell.net
http://www.videodefunct.net/
http://www.videodefunct.net/pedestrian/player/
http://www.videodefunct.net/theInvertedPedestrian/
http://www.videodefunct.net/banter
http://www.videodefunct.net/theDrunkenTruth/
This post was originally written on a now defunct wiki in 01/07.
Wildcat is “the one and only” original version of wordpress (WP) customised by David Wolf. The version uses customised templates,css and custom fields, working with an original theme by Nicole Dominic. The web site The Guild as an example. David works with customised fields - quote from the wordpress web site:
WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data.
He describes how he utilises this WP feature on his blog http://dpwolf.net/blog/2005/09/the-guild-website/ the guild website quote:
For each of the ads I make a regular post, storing a lot of information in custom fields, such as: the url of a thumbnail image; the url of a poster movie and the url of the movie itself. I store this information here rather than in the actual post text in order to separate content from styling and presentation, allowing me to refer to the same clip in a number of different ways from different areas of the site.
