YouTube Play searched for the world’s most creative art videos and after 23,000 submissions and 125 finalists, we’re excited to announce that the 25 winners have been announced overnight in New York at a special celebratory event at the Guggenheim Museum. Two Australian entries were among the winning 25: Keith Loutit's tilt-shift/time-lapse piece entitled 'Bathtub IV' and Nick Bertke's 'Gardyn'. Australian singer Megan Washington, who features as the singer in 'Bathtub IV', also performed live at the event in New York.
The winning entries will have their videos projected onto the Guggenheim Museum, and the final videos will also be on display from 22nd-24th October in the Museum. You can see the entries at the Play website.
Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube Team
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Tools to visualise access to information
Editor's Note: This is a cross-post from the Official Google Blog.
Like all companies, Google’s services occasionally experience traffic disruptions. Our new traffic tracking tool helps us and others track whether these interruptions are related to mechanical outages or are government-induced. Each traffic graph shows historic traffic patterns for a given country and service. Graphs are updated as data is collected, then normalized and scaled in units of 0 to 100. This new tool—which is global and includes China—will replace the Mainland China service availability chart, which showed product access for China alone. By showing outages, the traffic graphs visualise disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut. For example, the graphs show that YouTube has been inaccessible in Iran since June 12, 2009, following the disputed presidential election.
Free expression is one of our core values. We believe that more information means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual. Free expression is, of course, also at the heart of Google’s business. Our products are specifically designed to help people create, communicate, share opinions and find information across the globe. We hope this step toward greater transparency—and these tools—will help in ongoing discussions about the free flow of information.
When Google’s services are blocked or filtered, we can’t serve our users effectively. That’s why we act every day to maximise free expression and access to information. To promote transparency around this flow of information, we’ve built an interactive online Transparency Report with tools that allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked. We believe that this kind of transparency can be a deterrent to censorship.
Like all companies, Google’s services occasionally experience traffic disruptions. Our new traffic tracking tool helps us and others track whether these interruptions are related to mechanical outages or are government-induced. Each traffic graph shows historic traffic patterns for a given country and service. Graphs are updated as data is collected, then normalized and scaled in units of 0 to 100. This new tool—which is global and includes China—will replace the Mainland China service availability chart, which showed product access for China alone. By showing outages, the traffic graphs visualise disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut. For example, the graphs show that YouTube has been inaccessible in Iran since June 12, 2009, following the disputed presidential election.
In April we also created a website that shows the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests for Google to take down or censor content. Today we’re updating this interactive Government Requests map with data from the first six months of 2010. We’ve also updated our analysis of the trends we saw across the data over the past six months. The new data for 2010 now includes the number of individual items asked to be removed, per country (for example, there may be many URLs per a single request.) You can learn more about trends in the data here. We view this as a concrete step that, we hope, will encourage both companies and governments to be similarly transparent.
Free expression is one of our core values. We believe that more information means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual. Free expression is, of course, also at the heart of Google’s business. Our products are specifically designed to help people create, communicate, share opinions and find information across the globe. We hope this step toward greater transparency—and these tools—will help in ongoing discussions about the free flow of information.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Four Australian finalists announced in YouTube Play
Back in June, YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in New York organised a historic, international contest called YouTube Play searching for the world’s most creative art videos. We received more than 23,000 entries, and today, the YouTube Play channel will reopen featuring videos from the shortlisted artists, covering animation, motion graphics, documentary work and music videos.
We’re especially excited to showcase here the four Australian finalists, whose work is truly inspired, and ranges from Darcy Prendergast’s evocative stop motion glow sticks and Yanni Kronenberg & Lucinda Schreiber’s stunning chalkboard animation, to Keith Loutit’s time lapse film techniques and Nick Bertke’s feet-tapping electronica piece, ‘Gardyn’.
These finalists will have their videos on show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, 2010 with simultaneous presentations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice.
“Autumn Story” by Yanni Kronenberg and Lucinda Schreiber.
Yanni Kronenberg is a freelance photographer and director and Lucinda Schreiber is an award-winning Sydney-based illustrator, animator and director.
“Bathtub IV”, Keith Loutit.
Known as the pioneer of the tilt-shift / time-lapse technique, Loutit is a Sydney-based photographer and short filmmaker who first recognised how time and focus combine to support the powerful illusion of miniaturisation in film.
“Gardyn”, Pogo (Nick Bertke)
Pogo is an electronic music artist living in Perth. He is known for his work recording small sounds from a film or a specific scene, and sequencing the sounds together to form a new piece of music. In “Gardyn”, Pogo uses syllables of his mother's voice and the sounds of her backyard to create a beautiful video and soundtrack.
“Lucky”, Darcy Prendergast
Darcy Prendergast is a director that founded Dee Pee Studios, an award-winning Melbourne-based clay animation house. Darcy utilises a glow stick or coloured torch to draw an image in the sky that is captured into a video frame. This film took over 6 months to shoot.
The next stage for these finalists is to have their work judged by YouTube Play’s jury — including iconic performance artist Laurie Anderson, Japanese fine artist Takashi Murakami, music group Animal Collective, and The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky — who will pick the top 20 videos for the Guggenheim exhibit.
Darcy Prendergast is a director that founded Dee Pee Studios, an award-winning Melbourne-based clay animation house. Darcy utilises a glow stick or coloured torch to draw an image in the sky that is captured into a video frame. This film took over 6 months to shoot.
The next stage for these finalists is to have their work judged by YouTube Play’s jury — including iconic performance artist Laurie Anderson, Japanese fine artist Takashi Murakami, music group Animal Collective, and The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky — who will pick the top 20 videos for the Guggenheim exhibit.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Collaboration (and coffee) with ISOC
Google engineers often wear multiple hats. As well as being a Google software engineer, I'm a founding member and director of the Australian chapter of the Internet Society. So I was doubly glad to hear that Google Australia has become a Silver sponsor of ISOC Australia.
Google this week hosted the annual ISOC Australia Board strategy meeting. Board members were apparently impressed with "Big Red", the espresso coffee machine in the Engineering section. Apart from frothing cappuccinos, the meeting was also a great opportunity to use the collaborative aspects of Google Apps. Board members in different locations participated in editing our strategy plans via Google Docs, over teleconference.
ISOC Australia's motto is "The Internet is for Everyone". ISOC and Google Australia are committed to promoting the development of the Internet, based on the local needs of Australian consumers.
Ed: Among other Australian industry organisations, we're also a proud member of the Internet Industry Association, which provides input to Governments to enhance access, equity, reliability and growth of the internet medium within Australia. Our Australian Engineering Director, Alan Noble, published an article in The Australian newspaper this morning about the development of the IT industry in Australia.
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