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VIDEOGRAPHY
BECAUSE VIDEO MEANS "KNOWING". . . NOT MERELY "SEEING"

Videography Lab Mission Statement

To have common sense one must first have a sense of self. Our mission is to show how Modern Humans [and other organisms] can be studied from the historical perspective and context of communications [and dare we add transportation] technology and how "video", "vidya" & their ancient root "vid" provide evidence of language linkage between individuals today and their Stone Age ancestors.

articles of current interest

New Scientist (July 11, 2008) The Cell Phone Anthropologist ScienceDaily (Jun. 2, 2008) Wireless Vision Implant
Rolling Stone (May 29, 2008) China's All Seeing Eye
NY Times (May 4, 2008) Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

Communication / Transportation technology as classifier for "Ages of Man" using vector based icon analysis

ABSTRACT

            Careless deployment of archaic symbols and words leads to distraction (and often extinction) of common knowledge shared by modern humans for millennia.  This work analyzes one classic word “video”, resurrected from an archaic grave in the early 20th Century, without lexicographical scrutiny. Given the fertile environment of media and information technology, and the amplifying power of a combining word, “videography”, we will show how a system of social control based on perpetual warfare, manipulation of perceived reality, and total surveillance of the population has become the norm. We begin by reforming the "Ages of Man" from traditional mythology into eras affecting perception / communications.

Fore Age | Stone Age | Metal Age | Literacy Age | Industry Age | Videography Age | ? Age

.UNDERSTANDING VIDEOGRAPHY BEGINS WITH THE SANSKRIT ROOT - VID

The word "videography" gained notoriety in October 1972 when AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER magazine released a report titled "Videography: What Does It All Mean?" on "making film type production using electronic image recording and post production techniques". Following this report thousands of video makers around the world suddenly embraced "videography" as their term of art.
In the years that followed technologies emerged that expanded the scope of videography well beyond it's initial niche into mass markets. Some of these technologies are pictured below. Imaging technologies of all manner fell under the perview of videography as production and distribution became increasingly digital.

In the early 70s the common usage of "video" was mostly about the audio-video guys (usually wearing black pants and shoes with white socks) who set up the projectors to run the movies in school classrooms.

It was the combining of "video" with "graphy" that sparked the imagination of a large group of video makers and photographers around the world.

After initial publication of the videography article, Bob Kiger formed "The Videography Company" and began producing TV commercials, TV specials and documentaries as a boutique production company

The Videography Company began with productions and speaking engagements at UCLA and USC film schools, Brooks Institute of Photography and SONY Institute of Technology. Kiger and associates also taught Hollywood trade unions "tricks of the art". The company attracted a varietal succession of new production challenges.

The greatest challenge came, not from a wild special effect or even a competitive production company. It came in 1975 when "Industrial Photography" magazine published a column entitled "videography". Thus began:

Years would pass before Kiger began to understand the classic meaning of "video" which led him to rethink the philosophical and practical implications of videography. This epiphany came to him as he was bicycling down Haleakala Volcano on Maui!

In 1996 Miller Freeman (publishers of Videography Magazine at the time) released a book entitled: "THE AGE OF VIDEOGRAPHY" and yet today, 35 years after it's inception the word, "videography" still lacks definition. Try it sometime on your spellcheck :) Videography is contained on nearly 8,000,000 websites, and yet the world's major dictionaries have not given it proper lexicographical scrutiny.

Countless international companies use videography to sell endless amounts of gear. By the early 21st Century countless "videographers" around the globe from Al-Quaeda to ZZ-Top began to see the importance of being proficient in this art/science.

Today, Kiger researches and develops minimalist lifestyle and communications systems at Videography Labs in Oceanside, CA and is in full time pursuit of VID > VIDEO > VIDEOGRAPHY

The mission of Videography Lab is to clearly show that:

VIDEOGRAPHY is an interdisciplinary art/science that applies the theories and methods of writing to questions of knowing ... providing a technological interface between perception and communication.

There are profound implications to living in a "Cut & Paste" digital world.

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