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Workshop on Solar Vagabonds at London Hackspace
Don't miss tomorrow's workshop on solar panels this Friday 17th February at 6.30pm at London Hackspace
"The solar vagabond": Move your office to a beach or mountain-top far away from the power lines and keep connected. I have been testing and working with solar tech for years and will do a presentation of new and old toys. With advice on which gear to buy/not buy for your laptop/mobile. Feel free to bring your own gear!
Visit Hamish's blog for more examples and how to's.
Thousands protest in Trafalgar Square
Rally calls time on dictators in Syria, Egypt, Bahrain....
Activists from countries across the region took to a huge stage to share their stories of struggle and perseverance in the face of violent suppression. Speakers were there from Egypt, Libya, Syria, Palestine and Bahrain. The huge crowd was made up of trade unionists, students, Amnesty International supporters and other ordinary people from across the UK who gathered in a day of "solidarity and defiance".
visionOntv was there to interview the activists. Catch all the interviews here.
"Shoot & Go" with visionOntv's new citizen journalism tool
visionOntv is rolling out a new citizen journalism template, the "SHOOT & GO" INTERVIEW, which enables you to do rapid-turnaround interviews with just a smart phone.
This Saturday we shot 6 interviews and distributed them all the same day.
Below is Tanya O'Carroll's blogpost of her experience:
Mobile reporting in action: notes from a beginner
I joined visionOntv this weekend at the Amnesty demonstration in Trafalgar Square standing 'In Solidarity' and 'In Defiance' with the people of the Middle East and North Africa.
After learning a few of the basics in the no-edit mobile news report, I had a go at shooting and conducting interviews with activists and demonstrators.....
Read how it went on Tanya's blog.
Media maker on the road
If you won't to find out about all things technical to do with lightweight tec journalism, or you have a thought to be a media vagabond check out some of the posts on Hamish's blog. Such as should you use a iphone for citizen journalism? Would you like to move your office to a beach or high-up on a mountainside? Or a review of a HTC mobile for citizen journalism.
Granny hipsters reminisce about Facebook
What will we remember of the social media revolution in sixty years time?
"An entertaining video from Storyful's Curators Pick, my daily spot to find whatever is quirky and current on the social web. This one is an ad for Social Media Week 2012.
...Aging hipsters reminisce about the social media revolution from year 2062...The granny's opening statement - "When we were young the Internet was f***ing awesome. You could get away with anything" - might be a throwaway quip, but growing information controls online could mean we know a very different Internet in 60 years time..."
Read more on Tanya's blog. For more videos like this visit our Headmix channel.
UPDATE: we are having issues with our RSS feeds
This might mean that embeded video players might not work. we are working on fixing this.
Disabled fight back with central London blockade
Dozens of protesters against the Welfare Reform Bill and cuts to disability benefits and services blockaded Oxford Street on 28 January 2012. A number of wheelchair users chained themselves together at 12 noon, joined by activists from Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC), UK Uncut, The Black Triangle Campaign and other disability rights groups. Traffic was stopped on Regents Street at the height of Saturday shopping.
Photos by Lily Poveda. Read more
The Trials of the 1% @occupiedjustice
BRISTOL RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Bristol Radical Film Festival screens some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Taking place over the course of a week, the festival hosts screenings in a variety of community-based venues, culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube. The variety of venues reflects the festival's aim to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and in the community.
visionOntv is running a MAKING NEWS ROADSHOW to train video citizen journalists on Saturday 3 March at 10am. SIGN UP here
visionOntv's Hamish Campbell is attending the screening of his film GREENHAM: THE MAKING OF A MONUMENT on Tuesday 28 February.
The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. In the wake of the recession and the unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it, recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to help.
For more information, visit http://www.bristolradicalfilm.
visionOntv supports the wikipedia blackout
Today every page of the English-language wikipedia is offline. This is to protest the STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP ACT (PIPA) currently winding their way through the US legislature. Both these bills would do well-documented damage to the internet and to civil rights, both in the US and the rest of world. Catch a video on this on plugandplay.
Like wikipedia, visionOntv distributes creative commons material, where the copyright is owned by the producers. Like wikipedians, we monitor films we put out for copyright violation. And like wikipedia, we are adamantly opposed to this legislation, and to other laws being passed around the world at the behest of large entertainments corporations. We consider these laws to threaten the restraint not only of our basic trade, but of the freedoms on which we all rely.
