VIDEOGRAPHY
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Videography Lab Mission Statement
To have common sense we must first have a sense of self. Our mission is to show how Modern Humans are losing "sense of self" to political, religious and cultural pressure at an alarming rate. This "sense of self" has been expressed for tens of thousands of years by the root "vid", meaning "knowing" [specifically knowledge gained by direct witnessing]. The root "vid" is the linguistic ancestor of "video" and "vidya - veda" . . . fundamental terms of philosophical and religious thought in Eastern and Western cultures. In this site we compile evidence that Modern Humans, now living in "The Age of Videography" [Miller Freeman Publishing 1996].
We contend that modern humans are affected by more diffuse information than individuals are biologically prepared to process. The answer to this dilemma is classic . . . "the truth will set you free". 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. items of current interest |
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ABSTRACT
Fore Age | Stone Age | Metal Age | Literacy Age | Industry Age | Videography Age | ? Age
.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 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.
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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
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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 Lab in Oceanside, CA and is in full time pursuit of VID > VIDEO > VIDEOGRAPHY
There are profound implications to living in "Cut & Paste" 'Age of Videography'.