Video collage: a storytelling breakthrough?

I hadn't heard of "revogging" until today. If vogs, or vlogs, are video blogs, revogging is the art of using other people's videoblogs and making something new.

Shannon Noble, a "Flame artist" from LA, has created a few. His best one, which went up just last week, borrowed unrelated video snippets from three video bloggers -- Mica, Charlene, and Jay -- to create a new narrative story. Here's the movie page directly.

Mica wrote in comments:

the idea of taking these unconnected clips of video made by people youve never met - and forming them into a story of your own conception, especially one so affecting, is amazing! Its so simple yet i feel that you have busted through a brick wall like the friggin hulk. Its so good make more more.. it's a new kind of movie. it's storytelling - reinvented. i'm going to go watch it again.

It's an interesting and creative reuse of others' works -- and just the tip of the personal media revolution. We hope the Open Media project leads to many more such efforts (with the creators' permission).

Cross-posted to Darknet.