Semanal: One Video Per Week

By · January 7, 2008 at 18:01 pm · No comments · Miscellaneous · Report an error ·

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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  • twittervlog

    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.

  • jaydedman

    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.

  • tikichris

    Awesome! More videos on Londonist! More videos on Londonist!

  • Dave

    Brilliant! Nice one, Mike.

  • onionbagblogger

    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.

    Top video.

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