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What was your New Year's resolution? Lose weight? Get fit? Quit drinking.... Same old, same old. Well, Londonist's former Editor, Mike Atherton got a bit more creative than that. He joined Semanal, committing to making one video a week in 2008. It's his first stab at vlogging (like blogging, but by video - geddit?) so he can certainly tick the resolution "try something new" and not have to buy an expensive musical instrument or enter psychoanalysis.
Semanal is a global project and anyone can join at any time, just as long as they can make a video a week. Founder, Rupert Howe, explains "Semanal is Spanish and Portuguese for 'weekly'. And I think it has a nice echo of the English word Seminal".
The videos can be about anything but Mike has kicked off with something downright Londonisty: Stompie, the SE1 tank. Watch and learn.
If you're inspired to join Semanal then let us know about your London vids.
Many thanks to Mike Atherton!
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Fantastic. Good job on showing Mike's great film - and also thanks a lot for pointing more people towards Semanal. It'd be great to get more Londoners joining in - there are people from all over the world already. As Mike's film shows, London is awesomely rich with inspiration for great personal video blog posts.
Semanal arose from a month of videoblogging every day for 30 days in November - about 40 video bloggers & artists created over 1000 films - quite a few of mine were London-centric. We're having a screening in Brighton this Saturday (Jan 12th) afternoon of some of the highlights, with a drinks & meetup afterwards.
very cool story. Id love to see more videos out of London. helps bring the ciy alive in a way that text sometimes can't.
Awesome! More videos on Londonist! More videos on Londonist!
Brilliant! Nice one, Mike.
Well I never. A great story and well told. The tank is often the subject of South London rumour. I remember it being driven through the streets of Brixton during the '96 riot... with a huge farmyard pig wearing a police helmet balanced on the barrel of the gun.
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