@jpbturbo it is funny that even after the most hardcore zen + ninja + gamera tamer + samurai on mushrooms mind training - not me case - you will always still project tons of stuff into the images, their meaning, their way in and out. I say this based in my experience and I learn. Josh good that you cut my speedy tunnel with something completely different, you put the finger there... to stop, to go on, dreaming or awake, dreaming while awake, to stop but playing, maybe recording, stopped and playing, that's it!!!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev chiiiiiirs mate

BTW, my friend H. professor at culumbia univ loved the corpse, she laughed a lot (I was surprised), asked lots of nice techy questions and said she wanted to show her father. just transmitting guys

gashô

PS
don't know what happened, the x264 (that took hours!!!) was 1880 heigh... recoding now

SENT PM to all participants with very HQ x264 1080 downloadable link

This was one highly anticipated video on our end, good job to all involved. I thought it was going to be silent which is why no horns were blasting; given the proximity to the mummy's head, that was probably a good thing.

@alienhead That underground Irish jig cracked me up, as did @jazzroy 's interpretation, hahahaha.

Looking forward to the next round...

How about a 10 second rant about some pre-agreed topic, subject must spit to emphasize their point, subject must be in motion (in addition to earth's rotation)

@maxr

How about make contest for each small shot?

So each day any number of people can send their variant. And you cut public version selecting only one of them.

But. In same time you make secret versions (using other variants). And you can see them only by participating :-)

I hate to say it...but that's pure garbage. I say this even though I like the idea of surrealsim. But this corpse format has the same problem that "improv acting" has - sometimes it's good and sometimes its bad...but it's never going to be as good as a passionate and intelligent person or group of persons who write a script and rewrite and rewrite until you have real gold. Then the same process in shooting and editing.

I suggest to be softer. No need to call something garbage :-) It is just like a game, fun and intended for participation.

As for passionate group of guys who write script, etc. We had one. Problem is they did not produced anything.

@matt_gh2 I don't quite get your "criticism". It seems you're judging the corpse for what it's not (or what you think it should be?). There's a big difference between a simple experiment and calling something a masterful contribution to culture. I don't recall anyone claiming in this discussion thread that we're the next Kubrick or even making a quantum leap in cinema. In fact its quite the opposite, right in the beginning @maxr made it pretty clear what an "exquisite corpse" is and where it came from and if you understand it, yes its a pretty crude concept. So, reading into it more than that is pretty pointless and possibly more absurd than the corpse itself. Beyond that though, I'm still glad to hear the responses. There have been some good suggestions on how to "script" or "score" future experiments.

@maxr Trust me, I truly appreciate the spirit of everyone who participated. Very positive people, all very cool, and with a good spirit of adventure. Combine that with the interest in surrealism and you have a lot of interesting people.

But my question to you is this: why are all these people very very interested in film. The answer: they've seen films that have inspired them. Films they considered great. Question: why did they pick up cameras...what do they really want? Answer: they want to make great films themselves.

My point is this: this technique of the corpse leads nowhere towards that goal.

If you say it's all for "fun only"...merely a "game"...then I say "that's cool too". But for those who have ambition to produce something great...I say you need to be focused...and focused in a way different than the corpse technique. And yes...you can still attack a goal with ambition all while doing so with a sense of fun and freedom.

No offense intended towards anyone - merely my personal view on what techniqiues yield the best films. The films that have inspired us all to pick up our cameras.

I wish you all the best in all your future projects.

Rock on, Matt

@VK Yes and no.

Matt you're maybe right about

for those who have ambition to produce something great...I say you need to be focused...and focused in a way different than the corpse technique

But you're also missing that this is supposed to be just a voluntary and amicable exchange of videos between fellow PV forumners.
Now, perhaps we're starting with the wrong foot (I love this phrase in the movies and then they start shooting like crazy).

Would you be kind enough to elaborate a "technique" that could allow us to, in your words, attack a goal with ambition all while doing so with a sense of fun and freedom with the constrains of distance and little time? And pretty please I beg you not to answer (me) with a yes and no... out of respect ;-)... like the one I have for you. I'm not being cynic, ironic or paternalistic

Relief offtopic, I pray at this time tomorrow I'll be soooo high I can scratch god's fluffy balls

@maxr & @Alienhead & @VK You all make good points. @maxr LOL re "perhaps we got off on the wrong foot"...yeah, that seems to come right before the guns blaze (True Romance?). Fully understand where you all are coming from in terms of "game" mindsight. All cool. In terms of technique I just merely had in mind what most people do for filmmaking, which involves writing, rewriting, casting, rehearsing, shooting, reshooting, editing, re-editing. I think that can be done with an attitude of fun and freedom, along with the goal and ambition of the film. Distance and time constraints are a bitch obviously, so everyone has to do what they can. Guess we were talking apples and oranges ("game" focus for fun, vs film production). All good - no harm no foul - hope no offense was taken.

If you do it right, and you don't need drugs to do it right, you'll be "high" enough to scratch his forehead...and then float high enough that you forget him. That's one spot where great ideas may come from.

@maxr Haha - Diehard style eh? Watched that a few years back - it held up pretty good.

"Dare to be stupid", Weird Al Yankovic sung.

OK, I assume there are many more that think this project has resulted in garbage. Luckily they don't all feel the need to mention that. I at least was very interested to see what it would end up like, but I do not consider myself to be able to Judge whether it is good or bad. I may like or dislike it.

If you like it, or perhaps miss something you expected, you can provide feedback which may effect in a next project or step getting better (in "your" way or to your eyes or ears).

I41 have camera(s) because I like to record images. It mainly started with windmills in 2003 when digital cameras were not yet all around. (I never owned an analog camera before that.)

I may be able to shoot some nice stills, video is another story. But I also like the possibility and was more or less forced to use that when my first GH1 refused to take any other (good exposed) stills.

Since I am not that experienced in video, my target isn't to create great movies. I try to put some fun into my clips, get it out of them or simply record moving images of what I also like to take stills of. It's a way of passing time and putting attention to something, just having a small target other than this "great production".

So, I do not post very often, here is just a clip I shot a few weeks ago. You may enjoy this if you can understand the dutch language. (I haven't yet heard of any Google live vocal translation service.) If you don't know what I am saying (improv'ing?), it may be a very boring experience watching these images. On the other hand, you might also create your own story around them or based on them.

My suggestion for any new project would be: create a narrative as sound, just someone telling a story. Have participants shoot images for this story. The collector and dealer (the manager, one person) can then select parts of these clips and mix them together to a story, which could result in very funny movies, but of course, there is no guarantee. And even if it is not a pleasure for those who watch it (and do or don't speak their minds), the process of creating by itself could be a joy to all participants.

Oh, I laughed my ass off while typing this message.

Of course, that is not true, but it was just an attempt to be funny.

At least, I had some fun myself, even if it was only for setting up some good reasoning.

I'll leave you all in confusion.

LOL, after reading this message, here it (finally) is, this clip I mentioned:

Da's ff schrikken. Schrijft er ineens iemand Nederlands tegen me.

Practice delivers art, toch?

Altijd weer Rome, ze hebben die Autodrop veel te lekker gemaakt, want alle wegen leiden naar Rome.