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Grouper Grotto
December 09, 2005

Santas Ghetto is an exhibition that features new "rubbish drawings" by Ian, works by 3D, Banksy, David Shrigley, Jamie Hewlett, Gee Vaucher, Stanley Donwood, Sickboy, Chris Cunningham, Anthony Micallef, Space Invader, Paul Insect, Simon Munnery, and many more... there was a similar thing last year in Charing Cross Rd. I believe...

Open daily from 10am - 8pm.
[9pm on Thursdays, 5pm on Sundays]
1st December - 24th December
9 Berwick St, Soho, London W1.

Despite not having completed any videos yet I have been looking at the options for when I do. The Greatest Journal seemed a good bet to start with, but looking around it seems an absolute waste of time - just a bunch of kids posting rubbish off their mobiles and the odd bit of crap porn. Google Video Beta may be better, but I haven't looked at it much.

The advantage The Greatest Journal had was the code to paste your vids into a web age of your choice. With Google there is of course tagging, which Greatest Journal is sorely lacking, and it obviously aims to go down the TV archiving route. there are TV clips on Greatest Journal but they aren't official... Google, you can be assured, will be a lot more mature than Greatest Journal in the long run.

Today though I happened across Grouper - Which looks to be aiming to be in the Flickr league. Another option that's only in Beta, but with a lot more homework done before its launch. It doesn't seem to view too well in Firefox or Flock, with neither of them being able to find the correct plug-in to view the video's.

Best then to install the Grouper app and do everything from there. You can compose your own "Groovies" [shame they didn't call them Groupies!] within the app, from stills, movies and audio, with a few zoom/pan style effects and publish them to the public or specified friends in private groups. You get your own Profile page as well and any shared vids come complete with code for others to put them in their web pages or wherever they want to use them.

So, if you're going to join in, try and do something constructive and put some time and effort into it - the last thing thing the world needs is terabytes of files of lo-fi vids of kids arsing about after a couple of Bacardi Breezers!

And look out for my first effort. It won't be much... Stop-frame, about 3 minutes, called 1-2-3-4. I've got a bit of a way to go yet! But I'll lay off the Breezers until it's finished!

Fancy that... Yahoo buy del.icio.us and the Guardian reports it before Tom Coates!
Actually, I take that back - I think he got there first! Phew!

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