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After working like mad editing an audio slideshow, I was just thinking about how video effects used to be so simple.

The look of 80s technology can be recreated today. But nothing will compare to classics - like the running in front of a screen scene from Der Kommissar.

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Trigger: Falco

Some have complained about this slideshow of 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art because it doesn’t include women of color.  A valid point, but I say all the more reason to create your own presentation.

The beauty of easy editing/instant publishing technologies (Jumpcut is one) is that the tools are now available to everyone. The only limit is your imagination!

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Trigger: Women in art

I was reading about the Austrian filmmaker in London who made an entire movie from live images captured by CCTV cameras… and I was thinking how much I love the idea of creating films without using a standard video camera.

Jumpcut is one free tool available for amateur moviemakers. For a choppy, high-intensity slideshow, still pictures can be edited together with an audio track to produce a fluid film.

The set up looks like FinalCut Pro (the editing program favored by indepedent and semi-professional filmmakers), except the functions are much more basic. It’s as easy as uploading individual pictures or video clips, adding an mp3 track, and playing with the timing and special effects until the desired look is achieved. To test out Jumpcut, I made a video for triggerhappymedia.net:

UPDATE! Jumpcut went under. Too bad.
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Trigger: Jumpcut
Video credits: Thanks to Rayme and Miranda July for inspiration, Royksopp for the music, and existenz.it for some wicked pics.

As the presidential election draws near, the media is taking a renewed interest in all things France.

Click here for an excellent report from the housing estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb whose name will forever be associated with the burning cars and rioting of fall 2005.

This slideshow is particularly striking because of the way it’s presented. The use of still photography underlines how the government has also been still- idle- in addressing the horrendous quality of life in the suburbs.

The pairing of the photographs with a fluid audio track underlines the volatility of the environment. The urgency for change is clear, as is the desperation of the French citizens who are still considered aliens in their own country.

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Trigger: ‘After the riots’ by Angelique Chrisafis and Dan Chung