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matty555 Wrote:I have windows movie maker which is alright , I can download videos from youtube if thats what you mean.
well we could use that to edit them if someone else doesnt got they program required for it.
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
I haven't done anything to it, so yeah. I will give the password to 1 person and they can do whatever, that is, if you guys even want to use it. So whoever you decide to lead the operation I will give the password to.
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
If no-one else wants to lead it, I will, but my organizational and technical skills are probably less than adequate. If anyone else has been thinking about it, now is the time to say.
i well but id need videos sent in. but i can do techincal stuff and im always on the computer
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
Is there really nobody on the site who wants to make videos? This idea has come up a number of times but it never goes anywhere. Youtube and numerous other sites have millions of people uploading things. You'd think the biggest problem would be quality, not a lack of quantity.
I'm sure there are various reasons -- people not wanting to be on camera, not having a camera, not having other people who want to be filmed, not having an idea of what to record...
I propose that as a first step, whoever's interested help work out some ideas and write some scripts or scenarios. Then we find people to make them. I might be able to help with that. But how about we start with a list of ideas?
As soul mentioned, we should have some funny ones. I think there's also a place for something dramatic that involves two or more actors, like a conversation about school or self-education. And, videos that are informative, like video versions of some of the articles on the site, would be easy to make and useful.
I think the best way to get our message across would be videos with only a voice and a sideshow of pictures, possibly a small video or two in there. No-one has to be on camera then.
well im getting a job soon maybe i can buy a camera
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
How many views/subscribers do those text-only vids have? I mean, that's certainly one way to go, but actual video recording has a lot of potential to communicate. There's a reason it's so popular.
A variety of content is key though, there's no reason to argue against real video. Some people can do that and some people can do powerpoint. It's not like we're limited to one format. I personally think actual video, and good animation, is more effective than just text and more likely to get links and rise above the average stuff out there and get noticed.
Well, it'd be preferable to use a better video camera than a crappy web cam. I'd like to make some stuff that's pretty high quality, even if costs money and takes some work to track down actors. There's a reason film & tv attract so many viewers -- it can be a very powerful medium. And very little has ever been produced in film/tv/motion-video that effectively conveys the idea of questioning school.
A lot can be done with text and images, too -- definitely go for it. It's just a different approach.
But until someone makes vids, why not brainstorm some ideas for either method?
the problem isnt that no1 WANTS to do it, its that no1 KNOWS how 2 do it or dosent HAVE a camera, heres wat we do:
-give the password for use of a select group of ppl, PM people the password like alucard, avenger, me, classclown, Jonno, xcriteria, fire elf and any1 else who wants in, BUT NOT TO A NEWB!-they could be Justin...this way, production will go up and we can spread the word faster since we hav moar ppl on the same account
-Search videos on youtube that have to do with being against school and advertise SS, remember, SS is a non-profit organization so No, Your Not a Spambot
-Get avenger or some1 else to make a powerpoint or movie, dosent matter whichevar one
-???? (Do Nothing...?)
-PROFIT!
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
I'm working on one now. Just a slide show of student-abuse related pics that will end with the FER flag and a link. Sort of a more polished version of my last one.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Rebelnerd Wrote:I'm working on one now. Just a slide show of student-abuse related pics that will end with the FER flag and a link. Sort of a more polished version of my last one.
Huzzah!
Will it be on the SchoolSurvival channel?
What will the title be?
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rebelnerd Wrote:I'm working on one now. Just a slide show of student-abuse related pics that will end with the FER flag and a link. Sort of a more polished version of my last one.
Wats the FER flag look like?
NEED PICS PLZ
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
It's the black one with the white stripe and eagle, right?
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Rebelnerd Wrote:It's the black one with the white stripe and eagle, right?
IT BETTER BE!
if they get the wrong flag, our whole cause will tank, the flag is a symbol of SS and all it stands for.
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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Here is how I see it. 1 or 2 people have the password. 1 of those 2 people make videos regularly, and the other kinda runes it. And then for everyone else to submit videos they have to rapidshare them or something and the people can watch it and then upload it if they see fit.
Also, if nobody wants to make videos, I can make them if you want I guess. I have a crappy handheld camera I can carry around, a webcam, and a microphone. I would mostly want to make videos where I don't show my face, but yeah, if nobody else wants to I will make da videos, but I am not really the best, so yeah...
i got a webcam but not sure if can record. also got a microphone.
but power points would be good. all you really need to influence people is good pics and good music.
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
Rebelnerd Wrote:I'm working on one now. Just a slide show of student-abuse related pics that will end with the FER flag and a link. Sort of a more polished version of my last one.
Hey, seems like we're making decent progress. I can make a good Powerpoint and MAYBE a video of an acted unfair situation. Me and starwarspup are in the same school, maybe me and him could do something. But I'm 100% chance I can, and if we get the channel running, will, make a PowerPoint. I'm thinking of adding some rebellious music to it as well.
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(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote: Our Army is more professional than Amerika.
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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music would be good. i think we should like at the end of all our videos have a thing saying send us stories of what happened to you or if you got videos of unfiar treatment at a school send it to us and we well reconise its from you in it
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
Rebelnerd Wrote:I'm working on one now. Just a slide show of student-abuse related pics that will end with the FER flag and a link. Sort of a more polished version of my last one.
The Eagle needs to be black, or better yet, make the Eagle a Crow
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
I've got a vid ready, if you'd like to check it out. Not quite sure how to send it to you though, and I obviously don't have the password.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
There are a few ways to capture video from webcams -- any video editing software should capture, including windows movie maker, and there are some special capture programs.