Lifecasting (video stream) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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For the process of making molds and sculptures, see Lifecasting

Lifecasting is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media . Typically, lifecasting is transmitted through the medium of the Internet and can involve wearable technology Lifecasting reverses the concept of surveillance , giving rise to sousveillance through portability, personal experience capture, daily routines and interactive communication with viewers. edit Precursors

Jean-Luc Godard said, "Cinema is not a dream or a fantasy. It is life." In the pre-history of the lifecasting movement, the introduction of lightweight, portable cameras during the early 1960s, as used in the Cinéma vérité and Direct cinema movements, changed the nature of documentary filmmaking . Technological improvements in audio and the invention of smaller, less intrusive cameras brought about more naturalistic situations in documentary films by Robert Drew Richard Leacock the Maysles Brothers and others. While filmmakers such as Michel Auder Jonas Mekas and Ed Pincus created cinematic diaries, the sculptor Claes Oldenburg , in the early 1960s, had theatrical showings of his home movies. Andy Warhol , who once said, "I like boring things," introduced the notion that life could be captured simply by aiming a fixed camera at subjects usually regarded as "boring" and later projecting the unedited footage. The documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio observed that “with any cut at all, objectivity fades away.”

A milestone came in 1973 on PBS when ten million PBS viewers followed the lives of the Loud family each week on An American Family , a documentary series often cited as the beginning of reality television . Six years later, the series was satirized by Albert Brooks in his first feature film, Real Life (1979). edit Lifecasters

The first person to do lifecasting, i.e. stream continuous live first-person video from a wearable camera, was Steve Mann whose ...

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