<videovortex> vlog international

[Geert Lovink]

Global Voices Online » Vlog International: collaboration across borders

Monday, April 14th, 2008 @ 06:53 UTC
by Juliana Rincón Parra

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/14/vlog-international- 
collaboration-across-borders/

Vlog International is a project bringing together Spanish speaking  
vloggers: people submit their ideas, one is chosen and everyone records  
their piece, someone edits them together and they are published on  
their site. They began in 2006, when a group of friends got together to  
do a video homage for a vlogger friend [es]: it was through his website  
that everyone had met, and they wanted to recognize that fact publicly.  
The next project happened organically: the friend who had organized the  
first collaborative video was going through a rough spot in his life,  
and everyone else decided to record a birthday wish on video: they  
recorded themselves singing happy birthday, playing the song on  
instruments, dancing and sitting in front of cakes with candles, and  
that video can be found by following this link[es].

They began calling these experiences “Sancocho de Video“: sancocho is a  
name that refers to many different soups from all around Latin America.  
The latest video by the Vlog International group is about a walk around  
the block. Vloggers in Colombia, Israel, Canada, Germany and the USA  
all shared their surroundings. You can see it by clicking here or by  
pressing play on the following video.

Vlog International already has 31 collaborative videos up on their  
blip.tv page and they are always hoping to add more video bloggers to  
their site. All that is needed is for the person interested to make a 1  
minute video: 30 seconds explaining where they are and who they are,  
and 30 seconds recording the following “mission” video, then uploading  
the video and emailing them the link. Instructions in Spanish can be  
found here.

These videos have all been released under a Creative Commons license,  
and you can share in on the process by reading their wiki. Browsing  
through their different episodes is a great way to get a global  
perspective on the same issue. On the following video[es], the Vloggers  
take us on a tour away from the supermarkets and into the different  
traditional marketplaces of France, England, Italy, Germany, Mexico,  
Brazil, the USA, Chile, Spain and Colombia.