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I have been thinking about “farming frames” lately. If you are familiar with WoW, you know of the importance of farming. Farming primals, or farming rep, or farming mats for flasks. Now, after quitting that game, I started wondering about ways to farm for frames, and seeing the video I shoot, publish and store as references I can use at a later stage, instead of separate “pieces of pure art” or entertainment created for the spur of the moment.

How often do you remix your own older matieral? Not often, right? Me neither.

There are a few things I need to do.

1) Put more of my old videos on blip.tv and consequently tag them, and tag them well. Hopefully I will then find a way to create a system of reference that I can easily tap into at a later stage.

2) Find a way to publish my more random frame-farming sessions without it interfering too much with my regular audience, who might be more interested in whatever is going on in my life, or who wants more edited material maybe. Maybe just publishing it on blip.tv without linking to it? It would be almost like publishing photos on flickr without linking to the photos or using them on my blog, right?

This video was shot on my way home from a very enjoyable evening, talking about videoblogging. Very meta. I thought a lot about videoblogging as a form of “digital storytelling” then, and I remembered some of the earlier works of JD Lasica, and his focus on digital storytelling.

Am I telling stories with these videos? Is that a primary goal? I like to think of it more as frame-farming now. I just happen to publish them for you all to browse as well - following your own interest.

But that requires a good taxonomy, right?