“Can we own sand?” Changing paradigms in media consumption. – by Geoff Peters

Geoff Peters, an active contributor to independent media and content, talks about the change from a traditional “ownership” model of media consumption (CD’s, DVD’s) to the current cloud-based on-demand structures (Youtube, Netflix, Flickr, Facebook) that are emerging in prominence today.

Presented by the Best Run Toastmasters club at SAP in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Intro
Survey:
– How many of you have bought a CD or DVD in the last 2 months?
– How many have watched music or video on Youtube, for entertainment purposes, in the last 2 months?
– Closing of Blockbuster, Netflix ending their mail order service = is this a trend?
– In this speech I will talk about this new paradigm of on-demand, cloud based media consumption.

1. What is On Demand?
– When I go to Home Depot, I can buy a bag of sand. Say I want to create a rock garden in my living room. I can bring it home. That sand, a piece of nature, is now owned by me. Now I legally own part of nature.

– When you go to the beach, there is lots of sand.
– But the sand is part of nature, no-one owns it. You can go to the beach and enjoy the sand on-demand.

– New media is more like going to the beach. There is no need to take the beach home (my apartment can’t fit all the sand anyways). I don’t want to buy CD’s or DVD’s and bring them home

2. “From a Copy Economy to an Access Economy” – Gerd Leonhard
– What is the cloud? = your data is hosted by a third party
– Software examples: Gmail, Youtube, SAP On Demand, Netflix, Facebook. Not just hype.

3. Implications:
– With mobile, we are always online, even in car.
– Have access to everything, anywhere, at anytime.
– Revenue / monetization: Subscription based, or advertising.
– Everyone gets more connected and inter-dependent.

Conclusion: This is a paradigm shift – a dramatic change: “A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions”.
Cloud, on-demand, access, mobile, streaming – key features of media for the next 5 yrs.

Recorded on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V. Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 PC computer.

for more videos from Geoff Peters please visit:
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Thanks a lot for watching, see you next time!

Cheers,
Geoff

Occupy Vancouver Movement – October 19th 2011 interview

“This interview is all my opinions, and not that of the Occupy Vancouver movement. I DO NOT represent the Occupy Vancouver movement”

A short interview with Gabe from Occupy Vancouver protest/movement at the Vancouver Art Gallery on October 19th 2011.

occupyvancouver.com/

Filmed and edited by Geoff Peters of geoffmobile.com
A Birds in the House Production birdsinthehouse.com
Filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V and edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell computer.

Thank you to Gabe and the members of the Occupy Vancouver movement for your tireless energy in creating this opportunity for us to think about change and making our world and society a better place.

Closing music: Trout Lake drum circle performance recorded by Geoff Peters.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGOCrGlIYk

Note:
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Synth in the house photo behind the scenes Oct 2011

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Synth in the House

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A behind the scenes look at my recent photography session. Concept still life of a Roland JX-305 synth and a Japanese stuffed animal bird.

Photo details:

Concept photo for Intermediate Photography class at Langara College in Vancouver BC Canada, October 2011.

Taken with available light (no flash). Silver reflector was used to bounce light onto synthesizer. Tripod, long exposure, timer, and mirror lockup were used. Grey card used to set manual white balance and get initial exposure. Some exposure bracketing and in-camera-histogram/blinking highlights on camera were used to find the final exposures.

No post-processing beyond a simple RAW conversion to Jpeg was done; this is all done in-camera.
Used Adobe RGB Color Space.

Suggested music to go with this photo:

You’re Fired! – a short film by Geoff Peters and fellow students of Langara College

“You’re Fired” – probably the worst thing to hear from your boss. But maybe not at this company!

Created in one day by students of Langara College Continuing Studies digital video program, course “Sound on the Set” held in October 2011. Special thanks to our instructor Bojan Bodruzic.

langara.bc.ca/

Starring:
Employee – David
Boss, and director – Vic
Boom Operator – Khalid
Editing and camera – Geoff Peters
Script – Anonymous

A Geoffmobile.com and Birds in the House Production

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birdsinthehouse.com

(c) 2011 Geoff Peters

Music:

Start Again
by Alex Beroza 2011
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
ccmixter.org/reviews/AlexBeroza/31670

Technical Notes:
A Panasonic HVX camera was used for this film.
A large amount of gain was added to give a grainy/noisy gritty feel.
Audio for Vic was recorded on a wireless lapel mic.
Audio for David was recorded on a shotgun mic on a boom.
Both mics were plugged into the camera.
Some sound effects were added later (clock ticking, telephone ringing, sound of photocopier).
Edited with Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 and Soundtrack Pro. Compressed for Youtube using Premiere Pro CS 5.5.