Believe it or not, but I'm actually blogging over the free Wifi on the BoltBus. The connection is decent, although this return trip doesn't have power outlets. I know I haven't blogged here in a while, but I have been really busy, running around like a chicken trying to find its head.

So while we await "more" I will leave you with this: I'm searching for tweets. I was previously searching flickr for images, and now I'm searching for tweets. Maybe my new "status message" should be "searching."

Incidentally, did you know that if you type the word "google" into Google, you can break the Internet?

Here is my first tweet search - more to come. - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sleep 

Last week I watched Michael Mann's Manhunter. It's a real gem of a movie starring William Peterson ( CSI Las Vegas ). Manhunter is essentially the prequel to Silence of the Lambs and was remade and titled Red Dragon in 2002. Although I really like Anthony Hopkins as the venerable Dr. Lecter, I have to say, Mann's highly stylized version from 1986 is still my favorite. All this Michael Mann business of course lead me to watching a few episodes of Miami Vice ( which I posted about here ) and so naturally I have been taking a few screen captures. Not really sure where I'm going with this, but I really liked this one which was only on screen for a second and is fitting with yesterday's post about surveillance.

It's interesting how these things all tie themselves together. Last semester at MICA, we had a few visiting artists who sort of hit the nail on the head. Flickr searches, surveillance in cinema, photo archives--it's all beginning to meld together. The above image was captured on my laptop screen at 1440 x 900 pixels. As you can see the actual image area is cropped to TV format, and additionally cropped by the original editor for the in-camera surveillance effect. Not too may pixels to work with!

I just ran into this music video on the web. The band ran around to different locations where they knew they would be recorded on surveillance video cameras and performed. Then, because of England's version of the US Freedom of Information Act, they were entitled to the footage. Pretty cool idea I guess!

Here is some more info at The Future of Media blog.

With the recent announcement of the new iPhone 3GS I am really curious to see how this whole video blogging trend takes off. Will we see video-tweets? I haven't seen much in the way of video samples from the iPhone as of yet, but I hear it's pretty nice. I know, not 720p HD, but still, it's a phone!

Regardless of how good or bad the iPhone video quality will turn out to be, I am sure it will spawn a new community of video-bloggers. People will have this thing wherever they go, and probably some type of ability to upload video to Flickr.com and other photo/video sharing websites.