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How to get totally energized…

…or how to work your ass off? Answer: State to an organizer of an event that you’re willing to record and produce movies during that 5-day event and get the job. Last week my municipality held an Open Innovation Festival in Enschede. It was held previously in Amsterdam and one person in particular thought it was such a [...]
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Stuff that Matters to Me and You

Tomorrow, Ton and I will host a group of 40 people in our home for a birthday unconference to celebrate Ton’s 40th. The theme Ton chose is “Working on stuff that matters.” It’s a theme that we both discussed for a longer time now. We feel the deep need to work on projects that have a [...]
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Watch my FabLab documentary now!

A ‘How I did it’ series of blogposts will follow, but for now I just want to show you what I’ve been passionately creating over the past few weeks. Take your time for this 14 minutes piece of work and enjoy watching it. A Shift: a documentary on FabLab in The Netherlands. from Elmine Wijnia on [...]
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My SHiFT viral on Portugese TV

How cool is that Bruno added the logo at the end.
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FabLab Stories

Two weeks ago I went to the FabLab in Utrecht and recorded stories by the people working there during that day. I collected six stories in total, enough to showcase stuff in the documentary. You can watch them all on the FabLabChannel @ 23video. Note that only one of them is in English, the rest in [...]
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A story on open innovation and FabLab

Joris van Tubergen talks on open innovation and FabLab from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo. The robot was created by Edwin Dertien: http://edwindertien.nl/More on the robot in English: http://hackaday.com/2009/02/20/flatpack-walker/Recorded at ProtoSpace: http://protospace.nl ____ I created this as part of the longer documentary that I’m working on. One of the decisions I have to make is whether I ask the [...]
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Experimenting with stop-motion

It’s been on my list for a while now, to experiment with stop-motion. Creating a viral for SHiFT using Lego is the perfect excuse to work a tad late. 73 pictures each displayed for 3 frames long. Here’s the result. SHiFT 2010: DIY from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
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Compromising is hard yet rewarding

At last I managed to publish part of the interview with Lilia I did in May last year. As I explained back then, there were some technical problems, especially with the sound, that makes the material less attractive for use. On and off I’ve been working on a solution, but without a result so far. Weird [...]
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The monstrous GB-devouring thing called HD (64)

With every new project I’m shooting with my Canon HD camera, I’m shocked to see how many GB’s are imported from the tapes. Part of my service is providing my clients with the raw material for future use, but not on tape, since one would need a camera for importing. My latest project is about 42GB [...]
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What a busy day looks like (60)

Today I’ve been filming at Protospace, the FabLab in Utrecht. I’m producing a short promotional clip for them and today was film-day. 7:30am: departure 9:45am: arrival in Utrecht 10:00am: finetuning the script 11am: start filming 4:30pm: packing up after last interview 5:15pm: drive home 7:45pm: buy take-a-way food 8:00pm: arrival and dinner Intensive day, but one well spent (about [...]
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    This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.

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