North Street Productions

I've gotten many a laugh from "It's Jerry Time" since a friend of mine first showed it to me. It's a very creative use of animating cut-out photos to show the bizarre experiences of Jerry, an average joe from Buffalo, NY. Start from the very first episode and watch them chronologically - that way you really see his persona build.

The presentation is dry but I get the feeling that most of the stuff actually happened to him. Apparently he writes the stories and takes photos while his brother animates the images and puts the whole thing together. It's worth checking out the "Scrapbook" page to get a bigger picture of Jerry and his influences.

"It's Jerry Time" is a great example of creative video story telling and has even been nominated for an Emmy. It's also the perfect kind of installment project for the web.

Amazing hand silhouette work makes this a pretty fascinating piece. Time and time again I'm blown away at how effective utter simplicity can be. The sell is pretty mediocre but the medium is impressive.

This is an interesting video about how camera lenses are made. It gives a real sense of just how amazing the cameras we buy are, and why they cost what they do.

This is the article that is quoted in "Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us" video last post. It appeared in Wired magazine in 2005 and thoroughly explores the web from its inception as one growing, learning machine as well as poses some very intriguing ideas about what it's likely to become.

The article obviously influenced the creation of "Web 2.0..." and gives you an idea of how the video was conceived.

This is a great read and is extremely pertinent on the most human level. I feel like I have gained some real insight into our changing times.

(P.S. The article is 5 pages but worth reading every bit. Print it to read later if it helps!)

This is a very clever video produced by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University that shows the power of the web from hypertexting to html to xml/Web 2.0 as well as what it all means to us.

The way in which the information is presented is the most unique thing about this video because the "narrator" communicates through typing within various web settings as well as using specific hypertext. This style of using the subject matter to present the subject itself is a very unique idea - one I have not seen before in multimedia.