First Movie From Foo Camp: “Concentrated Foo”

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This movie is titled “Concentrated Foo” because it really seems to encapsulate the spirit of the conference. The film is unedited and shot entirely in sequence! It just worked out perfectly on its own. (As those of you who shoot video probably know, this almost never happens, so it’s quite exciting.)
The interviews within Concentrated Foo and all of the other movies are also available separately.
But first, a bit of explanation. The “session” in this case was taking apart a rental hybrid vehicle in order to see what makes it tick. I forget whether it was a Honda or a Toyota, but I’m sure someone will refresh my memory at some point.
There were self-imposed “rules,” however. For instance, no one was allowed to take anything apart that they weren’t reasonably sure they could put back together. The group was quite conservative in this respect. The team was meticulous about keeping the parts in order and even replacing each screw in its exact previous location, etc.
Other than that, it was a free-for-all 🙂
At that said, it was pretty amazing how far we took things apart — and how elegantly everything went right back together.
I was interviewing folks in-between documenting the car exploration.
There’s a lot more where this came from, but this ought to wet your whistle for a bit.
Foo A-Z

Concentrated Foo – All (Small – 64 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 20 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 21 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 24 MB)





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Foo Camp Movies and Interviews On The Way

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So I just got back from O’Reilly’s Foo Camp yesterday and will be posting a bunch o’ stuff early in the AM.
The first movie is titled “
Concentrated Foo” — and encapsulates the spirit of the conference in many ways. The film is unedited and shot entirely in sequence.
Foo Attendees: This film must not be confused with the footage of the “Wandercam” — a handheld that was roaming around the conference on its own from 9am on Saturday morning on. I myself have not looked at this footage yet, though I have digitized it.
That’s tomorrow’s little task 🙂
More on the Wandercam soon…
I’ve also created an
A-Z page for both my little foo movies and the interviews themselves within the movies, so we can keep track of them all. I’d hate for any of it to be “lost” because I had forgotten to link to it. So I’m linking to it from there first, and then if I have time I’ll link to stuff from here too.
Yeah all the above stuff I mention will be linked to in the am. Plus three movies from the “making of the RetarDEAD theme” video I shot in Seattle last weekend.
But now I gotta catch some zzzz. Lotsa great stuff I tell ya. I just can’t believe how great some of it came out.
But I’m a sentimental fool…
Back soon,
lisa

This Is A Blogmapper Test

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Here I am, almost ready to post the first batch of Foo Movies, and now I’ve gone and gotten sidetracked on Blogmapper, a tool for generating code to specify the latitude and longitude of a geographical location so you can include your coordinates within blog entries. I don’t know if I’m doing this right. But I suspect I’ll find out soon.

(Update 10/14/03: Aha! I forgot to include the necessary JavaScript. Testing again now…)

I’ve embedded this code in this entry:


<span style="display:none" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
<geo:lat>38.07306</geo:lat>
<geo:long>-122.693</geo:long>
</span>

38.07306-122.693

Just added this link for a test:

This is a test

Father Of British Guantanamo Bay Detainee Asks For Justice

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Emotional appeal from detainee’s father
In the BBC.

The father of one of the British detainees in Guantanamo Bay has made an emotional appeal for the release of his son…
He said his son should be punished if found guilty, but said he could not understand “under what law, under what human rights he has been kept there”.
He said: “I just want my son back. I do not say set him free, what I say is let him come back to this country he belongs to, where he was born, where he was brought up…
“If he isn’t found guilty he shouldn’t be there for a second. Why is this not happening what is wrong with our laws?”
Moazzam Begg, from Sparkbrook in Birmingham, was held by US forces in Pakistan in February 2002. He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay a year later.
The conference backed a call to the government to deliver “due process and justice” for those held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Red Cross Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Guantanamo Bay

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Guantanamo detentions blasted
In the BBC.

A senior Red Cross official has launched a rare attack on the US detention of al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Christophe Girod told the New York Times it was unacceptable that the 600 detainees should be held for open-ended terms without proper legal process.
His criticism came as a group of American former judges, diplomats and military officers called on the US Supreme Court to examine the legality of holding the foreign nationals for almost two years, without trial, charge or access to lawyers.
Mr Girod said the International Committee of the Red Cross was making the unusually blunt public statement because of a lack of action after previous private contacts with American officials.
“One cannot keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely,” he said during a visit to the US naval base where the Taleban and al-Qaeda suspects are being held…
Mr Girod is leading a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has just completed an inspection tour of the detention camp in Cuba.
Although he did not criticise any physical conditions at the camp, he said that it was intolerable that the complex was used as “an investigation centre, not a detention centre”.
“The open-endedness of the situation and its impact on the mental health of the population has become a major problem,” he told the New York Times.
Christine Huskey, an American lawyer representing 28 Kuwaiti inmates, told the BBC she had had “absolutely” no access to them.
“I represent a ghost,” she told the World Today programme.
In the past 18 months, 21 detainees have made 32 suicide attempts, and many more are being treated for depression, the New York Times says…
On Sunday a group including former American judges and military officials filed legal papers urging the US Supreme Court to intervene.
Don Guter, the US navy’s judge advocate general until last year, said it was not acceptable simply to hold suspected al-Qaeda or Taleban members until the US war on terror was over.
The argument filed to the Supreme Court by Mr Guter and others said: “The lives of American military forces may well be endangered by the United States’ failure to grant foreign prisoners in its custody the same rights that the United States insists be accorded to American prisoners held by foreigners.”
That view was backed by ex-prisoners-of-war, some of whom told the Supreme Court they owed their lives to the fact that their captors abided by the Geneva conventions.
On Wednesday an Australian lawyer representing some of the suspects said they were being submitted to torture.
US officials have denied torturing detainees, saying they are allowed to practise their religion and given good medical care.

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