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Yo Vimeo!

Time for another Weekend Project! Cue the not-yet-written Weekend Project theme song!

For this week's edition, all of us at Vimeo decided to incorporate two things we all depend upon for precious nourishment: food and stop motion animation!

So, whether you're chowing down on some turkey in Highland, Michigan, or snacking on chapulines in Oaxaca, Mexico, we want to see what's on your dinner table. And to jazz it up a little, we want to see it animated in stop motion.

Personally, about 90% of my diet is comprised of bagels and cream cheese or some combination of the two, so I put together this little ode to my favorite food.

The only rules are that your video focus on food and that it be a stop motion piece. Also, make sure that you add your video to the Weekend Project Group and please only add videos that were made for this project specifically.

And, of course, we're giving thanks! The winner will come away with a crisp Plus account (for Basic users) or 25,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.) The runner-up gets an extra 1 GB of upload capacity (for Basic users) or 10,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.)

Submissions are due on Tuesday (12/1) at 11:59 PM (EST).

Buen provecho!

Sam

Another month, another Vimeo Offline event!

This month's screening will be celebrating the art of live music videos from filmmakers Vincent Moon, Ray Concepcion, and music blogs La Blogotheque, Dig For Fire, The Black Cab Sessions, and many more.

Directly after the screening, the lovely Essie Jain will perform with her set recorded and projected live on the surrounding screens allowing the audience to witness the performance through the eyes of the camera. The recorded video will also be shown on Vimeo incase you can't make it.

Reservations are highly recommended.

Hope to see you there!

Howdy all,

We have two really cool announcements to make.

First, we are very excited to announce a new series of Vimeo Meet-ups at Brooklyn Bowl, New York's new premiere entertainment venue. These killer events will be held four times throughout the year and will allow Vimeo members a chance to get together, chill, bowl and watch awesome Vimeo videos projected on Brooklyn Bowl's state-of-the-art HD projection screens.

Second, we have teamed up with Brooklyn Bowl and Learned Evolution to give you Eye Candy for Strangers, an ongoing video series giving Vimeo members a chance to submit their work to be showcased at Brooklyn Bowl to thousands of weekly viewers. Videos chosen for the Eye Candy For Strangers series will continue to be used during live music performances, DJ sets, as well as normal bowling and bar hours. This series is a really great opportunity to get some exposure for your work, and we encourage everyone to submit!

All you have to do is join the Eye Candy for Strangers group, read the rules and submit your videos! It's that easy.

Our first event will be December 12th at Brooklyn Bowl, so mark your calenders! More details coming soon.

Howdy everybody,

I have some pretty cool news. First, our friends over at Carsonified have invited us to speak at their ultra-headie conference -- the Future Of Web Design-- and we most graciously accepted. I will be explaining the wisdom behind our ideas of cultivating community through design and the nuances involved. We're really excited and hopefully we might see a few of you there... which leads me to the second point:

Carsonified is giving away a free ticket to their awesome event! All you have to do is add a 30 second video explaining what you think the "future of web design is" to the Future of Web Design Group by the 1pm GMT on Thursday and the lucky winner will get a complimentary pass. You can make any sort of video, but style points will definitely go to the most awesome of awesome.

Also, if you can't make it, you will most likely be able to see snippets of the event on their Channel here on Vimeo.

Good luck and hope to see you there!

Greetings, minions. Another weekend is upon us, which means we have another project for you to sink your teeth into. And with the onset of Halloween, we want you to consider all things spooky in this eerie world in which we live. Make a video that gives us the spooks!

Don't go running off quite yet. There are a few rules to this spooky project.

All videos must contain:
1: The prop: Fake Blood. There are many cool tutorials online that teach you how to make fake blood. Please, keep it safe.

2: The line: "Is it alive?" Make sure this line is said at least once in your video.

3: The setting: Night-time. The WHOLE video must take place at night to make it more spooky. Make sure your video isn't too dark, so that we can see what's going on.

Other than that, you are free to to use any means to make the spookiest video you can. Give us the spooks, or else!

Videos are due Tuesday, November 3rd, by the spooky hour of midnight. Make sure you add it to the Weekend Project Group, as well as to our spooky Halloween Group.

The winner will come away with a shiny new Plus account (for Basic users) or 25,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.) The runner-up gets an extra 1 GB of upload capacity (for Basic users) or 10,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.)

Have fun, please be safe, and spook it up,
Spooky Steve


UPDATE:

Great job this weekend, everyone! All of the videos made were quite spooky. We have some spooky winners.

For the runner-up, we have Trey Cook with his piece about a spooky figure in his kitchen. Trey gets an extra 1GB of upload space.

And for the winner, Mr. Oz Smith takes away a spooky new Plus account for spooking us with his piece, "TV Dinner". Spooky!

Congratulations, guys! Hope everyone had a spooky Halloween weekend and thanks for participating!

Hey folks,

You may remember that a few weeks back we announced that we were testing our new Desktop Uploader application. Well, we've squashed a lot of bugs (thanks, early testers!), made the app quite stable, and now we're ready to move on to a public beta stage.

This means that you no longer need an invitation to download the Desktop Uploader. Just head on over to the download page, and you can grab your very own copy.

The Desktop Uploader is based on Adobe® AIR™ technology, so it works on a variety of operating systems. It allows you to upload multiple videos in one batch, pause and resume uploading, add titles, tags, descriptions, and basic privacy settings to your videos. We hope to add even more features in the near future. For those who are curious about how it works, the Uploader communicates with Vimeo entirely through our new API.

After you've installed the application, if you have any troubles, please use the "Report a bug" button in the application itself to let us know. We'll fix whatever problems remain during this public beta period with your help.

We hope you enjoy how easy it is to post videos to Vimeo with the Desktop Uploader!

Yo Vimeo!

Time to announce our latest and greatest Weekend Project! Since our last two projects were somewhat light on the editing side, we decided to ask you guys to flaunt your knack for continuity and show us how you cut. Before I can go any further, though, please take a moment to watch this awesome short from our friends, French Cassoulet.

For this Weekend Project, we are looking for you to submit your own short film that only uses "black transitions."

We're putting an extra emphasis on creativity and originality for this project. As you already saw, French Cassoulet took a great concept and ran with it. We want to see you take that same concept and run in a completely different direction.

Since our last Weekend Project had such a great turnout, we're offering the same prizes as the last time, which means the winner will come away with a shiny new Plus account (for Basic users) or 25,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.) The runner-up gets an extra 1 GB of upload capacity (for Basic users) or 10,000 HD Embeds (for Plus members.)

Your video can be any length and is due on Tuesday night at 11:59 PM. Also, make sure you add it to the Weekend Project Group.

Have a great weekend,
Sam

UPDATE:

Coming in a whopping four minutes before the deadline, this week's winner was last, but certainly not least. Fittingly, Adolfo Cantu-Villareal's video Offside is about another guy seriously running against the clock. This one's good for 25,000 HD embeds!

We also have two runners-up this week. Blackout by Saulo Valley and Death of Imagination by Stu. Both runners-up will receive an extra 1GB of upload capacity!

One last thing: We noticed that there may have been some confusion over the premise of this Weekend Project. Our original intent was for the videos to reinterpret the concept laid out in French Cassoulet's video. That said, we're sorry if we were not clear enough in our instructions and we will try harder in the future to make sure everything is clear, cut and dry.

Big thanks to ALL who submitted!

Another month, another Vimeo Offline event!

We’re trying a slightly different format for Vimeo Offline this week. Vimeo Artist, and long-time Vimeo member, Alex Itin will be taking us through his personal history on Vimeo using videos and spoken word. This screening will be part memoir, part screening, part conversation and part Vimeo time machine. Myself and a few others will be joining Alex during the conversation in the order we came into his life on Vimeo. Should be really cool and a boat-load of fun. So come and makes sure to say hi if we've never met before! Reservations recommended.

Monkey Town
Wednesday, October 21st - 8pm for free
58 north 3rd, Brooklyn

Hope to see you there!