<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>These are vignettes of people in a type of environmental portraiture style. Florian in a vlog structure publishes candid interviews where he lets the people talk openly, along with short clips that he narrates their personal stories over the top of with subtitles in English and other written stories with supporting images. These posts viewed as a group begin to demonstrate his simple intention to provide his viewpoint on another country through a process of interaction with people with a video camera. The varying approaches used to capture these stories also begin to utilise the multi-format nature of a blog where there is a potential to document a subject in a number of ways used mixed-media. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><A href="http://www.1000stories.com">http://www.1000stories.com</A>/<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/otp/enindex.htm">http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/otp/enindex.htm</A><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Starting in New York on October 1, Florian Thalhofer, a new-media artist and documentary filmmaker from Berlin, will travel all over the United States by motorcycle (generously provided by BMW), while U.S. filmmaker Mark Simon will travel throughout Germany by car. During their month-long journeys, each filmmaker will write about his experiences, collect stories, and conduct interviews, all of which will be posted daily at www1000stories.com – their video log."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Their route will be determined by interested folks in the U.S. and in Germany who reply to their "Americans wanted"/ "Germans wanted" ad on the web. Readers are invited to get in touch via www1000stories.com to suggest itineraries and potential interview candidates and to comment on the project." </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">>></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">seth.keen@rmit.edu.au</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FE0"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 224); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>