A very Jungle Book Christmas Baby

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Yes It looks like Vik will give birth to a human baby any day now. I am checking the sky's for a stork hoping that this is really how it happens and the birth pool is just a place to keep the storks favorite food safe - like frogs and insects and apparently small mammals. But I know that the scans have shown a very human mammal wriggling inside Vik tum and the pronounce bump was hard to miss.

Have a Happy Christmas everyone and see you on the other side of the new year.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: junglebook, christmas, baby, newborn

Fungus

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Vik and I walked around our garden today in the short hours that I wasn't working. All I can say is that fungus was found, amazing colourful weird alien fungus. A great day.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: fungus, thecommonpeople, vik bennett, the common people

Blogging from a Mac Widget

I am taking a break from baking cakes and gluten free bread (recipies at the wildwomen.ning) and experimention with google apps and other online sevices in an attempt to use them with schools, groups and online collaborators. I wonder does this have a spell chechker. Thant a no then.

Horse

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On the way to the train station I walk passed a field with this amazing horse in it. Early morning light streaming accros the Cumbrian hills nearly blinded me, a nice moment of reflection as I stood still becoming a human tripod letting the image pass in front of me and the camera.

Lumiere Rules

• 60 seconds max.
• Fixed camera
• No audio
• No zoom
• No edit
• No effects
• Read manifesto

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: lumumierevideo, cumbria, adamclarke, the common people

Brief Encounters with my camera

For those of you wondering what I am doing at the moment below is a short outline of a up and coming project called 'Points of Reference' apart from that I am working madly on various projects with young people all around the (Cumbrian) county. I will update shortly with news as soon as my new Laptop arrives :-).

Please join the flickr group! and add your images.

POINTS OF REFERENCE

An onboard and online collective photography workshop. Help create a series of black and white mosaic portraits of passengers using an image bank of landscape photography all taken from the windows of trains and at stations. The artist will be travelling around the Bay throughout the festival engaging and enlisting members of the public to participate in the project. Don’t forget to take your camera or cameraphone on your next walk or train journey and get snapping!

Find out how you can contribute your pictures of the coast and countryside and see the results of his activities at www.flickr.com/groups/points-of-reference

Adam's travel schedule is as follows:

Saturday 20th October
d.Lancaster 1100 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1155
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1222 a.Carnforth 1306
d.Carnforth 1415 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1510
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1528 a.Grange-over-Sands 1603
d.Grange-over-Sands 1632 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1709
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1814 a.Lancaster 1917

Sunday 21st October
The artist will be based at Lancaster Station

Monday 22nd October
d.Lancaster 0545 a.Barrow-in-Furness 0705
d.Barrow-in-Furness 0758 a.Lancaster 0900
d.Lancaster 1025 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1228
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1256 a.Lancaster 1359

Wednesday 24th October
d.Lancaster 1111 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1216
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1256 a.Lancaster 1359
d.Lancaster 1404 a.Barrow-in-Furness 1507
d.Barrow-in-Furness 1528 a.Lancaster 1633

_{Image: Adam Clarke – ‘Points of Reference’, 2007}

The Road to Whitehaven

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Vik and I go over the top of the Wrynose and Hardknot passes that lead to Whitehaven. The last invasion of the British Mainland occurred in Whitehaven in 1778 when John Paul Jones, father of the American Navy, invaded the port

http://www.rediscoverwhitehaven.com/interesting-facts.htm

An other interesting fact is that Viks grandfather used to open the gates for the landed gentry in this area, before having to relocate the family to London docks when the mines shut down. 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: whitehaven, cumbria, the common people, adamclarke, adam clarke, victoriabennett, vik, victoria bennett

Lumiere - The Field (re post)

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I just reposted this because it got stuck in some servers craw and wouldn't work.

ho hum - start again.

I made this in late summer and have only just found the time to post it up, I have really enjoyed other peoples videos using these rules and obstructions.

 

Lumiere Rules

• 60 seconds max.
• Fixed camera
• No audio
• No zoom
• No edit
• No effects
• Read manifesto »

 

 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: lumierevideo

Forensic

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This is a little experiment I did yesterday. Not feeling much like going out in the cold weather, I decided to see what I could create using text from a recent poem, found vlog clips from the commonpeople trashcan and an hour or exploring garageband. I have long been fascinated by the relationship between poetry and film, and I am quite pleased with this initial creation. Plus, usually I have Adam on hand for technical guidance but this time, I tried it out solo. Which seeing as my techie-ness goes about as far as a pen and paper, was a challenge in having the confidence in simply letting myself explore, make and play. Hope you enjoy the result.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: poet, poem, poetry, experimental, victoriabennett, vik, victoria, victoria bennett, vik bennett

Climate Change Explorer - Plasticine Opinions

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The Climate Change debate got really heated during my residency at Dowdales, with different media messages about the causes of global warming - some say it is all our faults for relying on carbon based fuels and then others tell us that it is because of natural events, such as solar flares and volcanoes. I decided that because this was the Climate Change EXPLORER project, I would do just that and explore the opinions of climate change held by the young people involved.

Plasticine Opinions is a series of collaborative films made with Year 9 students from Dowdales School during the project. The students made Plasticine avatars and gave an opinion about climate change in their own words.

 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: climatechangeexplorer, climatechange, climate change, plasticine, dowdales, video

Climate Change Explorer - Rabbits are Winners

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Rabbits at Moor House in Upper Teesdale are increasing in number - we believe because of climate change ... Some animals are winners and some are losers when the climate changes. Rabbits are Winners.

This was a collaborative film made with the students of Dowdales School during the Climate Change Explorer Project.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: climate change, rabbits, ecn, the common people, adam clarke, dowdales

Climate Change Explorer - Paul Rose Interview

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My usual videoblogging has taken second place since February this year, as I have been working as the Artist in Residence on a project called Climate Change Explorer.

I am now reaching the end of this part of the residency. Through it, I have had the privilege of working in a fantastic school here in the North West of England called Dowdales and with the scientists at the Environmental Change Network at Lancaster University.

Over the last few months, I have made many videos in collaboration with young people and professionals in the field of climate change. One by one I will be posting them here.

To introduce the project, I am starting the series with An Interview with Paul Rose International Explorer, Expedition Leader, Fieldwork Expert,  Speaker and BBC TV Presenter.

I hope you will join me for the exploration!
Adam

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: climate change explorer, the common people, thecommonpeople, dowdales, cce, helix arts, cumbria, arts in education

Alien lunch

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I have been very busy with work and as a nice break and to celebrate my Dads 65th birthday the family traveled to France and also had a day trip to Belgium. After the buying of fags and chocolate we looked for somewhere to eat and found this charming restaurant. I  always tell people to carry a camera where ever they go, because sometimes you need to record the strange and unusual things that just pop up out of the mundane.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: predator, alien, belgium, movies, science fiction, lunch, holiday

Adam Clarke with Queen Victoria

Adam Clarke with Queen Victoria
Originally uploaded by storey_gallery.

Jason Minsky is currently working on a project for Storey Gallery INSIDE OUT, a series of projects taking place outside the gallery whilst building work takes place. This image is from a performance Jason did at Art07 as part of his project.

Yes that is me in the Oz outfit. On the right.

Art07 Unsung Heroes Finalists

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Gill and Ruth nominated Vik for the Art07 Awards in the "Unsung heroes" category for her work with Wild Women Press (dot) com. She was selected from 130 nomination and announced as one of the 4 finalists in this category. She goes forward now to the finals which will be announced on the 17th October 2007.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: art07, vlog, victoria_bennett, victoriabennett, vik_bennett, award, unsung, heroes

Art Strike 1

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Art07 Kendal Art Strike Support the Strike part one

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Tags: art, 07, arts council, art strike, fold gallery

Art Strike 2

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Art07 Kendal Art Strike Support the Strike part two

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Tags: art 07, arts council, art, strike, fold gallery

Art Strike 3

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Art07 Kendal Art Strike Support the Strike part three

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Tags: art, 07, kendal, fold gallery, arts council

The Patti Smith Mpg's - two

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Poetry, flashing and prayer

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Tags: patti, smith, kendal, brewery, poet, poem, poetry, women, arts, international

The Patti Smith Mpg's

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Rough and ready unique footage of Patti Smith's first unofficial gig on her UK tour. The night before her tour started, she was booked to give a poetry reading at the Women's International Arts Festival in Kendal, but, being Patti Smith, she decided to treat us to a poetry and acoustic set with her band. An intimate setting (we were literally 2 ft away) with extraordinary stuff from and extraordinary woman....

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: patti, smith, kendal, arts, festival, women, international, brewery, poetry, poem, are, you, experienced

Beacheads - Washed Up

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Episode one Washed up

Music by the Hexyl Circle

http://ccmixter.org/media/people/iandsmith/profile

 Voice By Adam Calrke & Peter Adams

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Tags: killzone, machinima

Beacheads

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My first little baby steps into machinima...using killzone as an engine.

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Tags: killzone, machinima

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 6

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I found this on a beach.

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Tags: videobloggingweek2007, victoriabennett, victoria bennett, vik bennett, vlog, videoblog, vlogging, adam clarke, adam_clarke, the common people

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 5

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Vik and Adam Save The World

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Tags: videobloggingweek2007, victoriabennett, victoria bennett, vik bennett, videoblog, vlogging, vlog, adam clarke, adam_clarke, the common people

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 4

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Sometimes, it seems we are talking from different planets...

perhaps it is all this videoblogging?

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: videobloggingweek2007, victoriabennett, victoria bennett, vik bennett, vlog, videoblog, vlogging, adam clarke, adam_clarke

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 3

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Vik and I do some make the bed and recycle, but not in that order.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: videobloggingweek2007, victoriabennett, victoria bennett, vik bennett, vlog, videoblog, vlogging, adam clarke, adam_clarke, the common people, recycle, bed making

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 2

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Monday morning a sale on at K Village, we are there. Shoes and sunnys.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: victoria bennett, vik bennett, videobloggingweek2007, adam_clarke, the common people

Video Blogging Week 07 Day 1

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The Theme this year for us is us each video will have Vik and Myself (Adam) in conversation or just there in frame.

So to start with a trip that we had yesterday to Drigg a low level (nuclear) waste facillity, with a twist at the end. 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: videobloggingweek2007, waste, nuclear, adam clarke, vik bennett, the common people, cumbria, cars

What does the moss have to say

What does the moss have to say
Originally uploaded by Adam Clarke.

Vox Popping nature

Virtual Band

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A little experiment in creating a screencast showing ideas for a 90 min multimedia workshop.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: screencast, adam clarke

Open Source

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A little experiment in screencasting and a look into the mystery that is Open Source

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Tags: the common people, open source, screencast, philcampbell

Life, Death, Prizes

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Starting to experiment again.....

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Tags: life, death, prizes, adam clarke, experimental, england

Pink Moon

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Photos of the Lunar eclipse.

An evening of fruity beers and walking in the dark.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: lunar, eclipse, cumbria, moon

Malt Loaf 1

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The Beginnings...

This episode talks about. How we made the show, and how people can get involved.

Hope you enjoy are first show...

Made by, The Common People and Clever Dog Productions

Filmed in Cumbria, UK

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: zombies, climate change, peter adams, adam clarke, malt loaf

death of winter

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Crows call the death of winter

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Tags: crows, cumbria

Big Ears

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Peter, explaining Red Nose Day. And Ears too!

http://www.walkears.com/get_your_ears.asp

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Tags: comic relief, peter adams, the common people, charity

Land of Cars

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While in OZ one of my cousin insisted I experienced my first and quite possibly only Motor Car show, what followed was lung full's of burnt rubber and a sunburnt neck. My simple Pommie brain being starved of air turned unnaturally to thoughts of the environment and climate change.

Return from OZ

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Well I've return from my adventures in Oz, and spent time with family and friends there. My Parents took me on a "whorl wind" tour to many differnt places here is the first....

My little sis - in the return to OZ

DSC00537
Originally uploaded by Zoolafizz.

My camera is packed and I'm ready to go. My sister who has just visited the great OZ has just come back with pictures of her own, her is one of her with a Koala induced stupid grin.

Rockingham Beach

Rockingham Beach, originally uploaded by Zoolafizz.

This is where I am going to be for the next two weeks

my sister took this picture while she was out there.

The Accidental Pilgrims: Part Five

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Vik will write this up later...

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: angela dickson, victoria bennett, convent, poor clares, poor clares arundel, accidental pilgrims, the common people

The Twelve Vlogs of Christmas - Twelfth Day

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On the Twelfth Day of Christmas,

my true love gave to me

Eleven Fragging Spartans

Ten India Dancers

Nine Jingling Bells

Eight Ball-a-spinning

Seven Maps by Daniel

Six Jocks-a-Playing

Five Gold Vloggies

Four Calling Carps

Three French Maids

Two Convent Girls and

a Route to Sustainability.

Thanks to:

Sakya Monastery Vlog - http://sakya.blip.tv/

http://www.thisspartanlife.com/

Ryanne - http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/

Chris Pirillo - http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/11/30/nine-video-networks-shootout/

Joanna - Game - http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Daniel Liss - http://pouringdown.tv/

Josh on Sports - http://www.joshleo.com/vlog/

Galacticast - http://www.galacticast.com/2006/11/13/five-vloggies/

Carp Caviar - http://bottomunion.com/blog/

http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/

http://sustainableroute.com/

Merry Christmas

From the Common People

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: 12 days of christmas, sakya monastery vlog

The Twelve Vlogs of Christmas - Eleventh Day

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On the Elventh Day of Christmas,

my true love gave to me

Eleven Fragging Spartans

Ten India Dancers

Nine Jingling Bells

Eight Ball-a-spinning

Seven Maps by Daniel

Six Jocks-a-Playing

Five Gold Vloggies

Four Calling Carps

Three French Maids

Two Convent Girls and

a Route to Sustainability.

Thanks to:

http://www.thisspartanlife.com/

Ryanne - http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/

Chris Pirillo - http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/11/30/nine-video-networks-shootout/

Joanna - Game - http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Daniel Liss - http://pouringdown.tv/

Josh on Sports - http://www.joshleo.com/vlog/

Galacticast - http://www.galacticast.com/2006/11/13/five-vloggies/

Carp Caviar - http://bottomunion.com/blog/

http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/

http://sustainableroute.com/

Merry Christmas

From the Common People

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: 12 days of christmas

The Twelve Vlogs of Christmas - Tenth Day

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On the Tenth Day of Christmas,

my true love gave to me

Ten India Dancers

Nine Jingling Bells

Eight Ball-a-spinning

Seven Maps by Daniel

Six Jocks-a-Playing

Five Gold Vloggies

Four Calling Carps

Three French Maids

Two Convent Girls and

a Route to Sustainability.

Thanks to:

Ryanne - http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/

Chris Pirillo - http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/11/30/nine-video-networks-shootout/

Joanna - Game - http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Daniel Liss - http://pouringdown.tv/

Josh on Sports - http://www.joshleo.com/vlog/

Galacticast - http://www.galacticast.com/2006/11/13/five-vloggies/

Carp Caviar - http://bottomunion.com/blog/

http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/

http://sustainableroute.com/

Merry Christmas

From the Common People

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: carp caviar season 2 promo, ryanne, 12 days of christmas, carpcaviar, french maid tv, five gold vloggies, galacticast, chris pirillo, pouringdowntv

The Twelve Vlogs of Christmas - Ninth Day

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On the Ninth Day of Christmas,

my true love gave to me

Nine Jingling Bells

Eight Ball-a-spinning

Seven Maps by Daniel

Six Jocks-a-Playing

Five Gold Vloggies

Four Calling Carps

Three French Maids

Two Convent Girls and

a Route to Sustainability.

Thanks to:

Chris Pirillo - http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/11/30/nine-video-networks-shootout/

Joanna - Game - http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Daniel Liss - http://pouringdown.tv/

Josh on Sports - http://www.joshleo.com/vlog/

Galacticast - http://www.galacticast.com/2006/11/13/five-vloggies/

Carp Caviar - http://bottomunion.com/blog/

http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/

http://sustainableroute.com/

Merry Christmas

From the Common People

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: 12 days of christmas, carpcaviar, christmas, pouringdowntv, french maid tv, five gold vloggies, galacticast, chris pirillo

The Twelve Vlogs of Christmas - Eighth Day

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On the Eighth Day of Christmas,

my true love gave to me

Eight Ball-a-spinning

Seven Maps by Daniel

Six Jocks-a-Playing

Five Gold Vloggies

Four Calling Carps

Three French Maids

Two Convent Girls and

a Route to Sustainability.

Thanks to:

Joanna - Game - http://rustedgate.blogspot.com/

Daniel Liss - http://pouringdown.tv/

Josh on Sports - http://www.joshleo.com/vlog/

Galacticast - http://www.galacticast.com/2006/11/13/five-vloggies/

Carp Caviar - http://bottomunion.com/blog/

http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/

http://sustainableroute.com/

Merry Christmas

From the Common People

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: 12 days of christmas, rustedgate, carpcaviar, christmas, french maid tv, five gold vloggies, galacticast, pouringdowntv