Introducing: a comprehensive JF video archive!
Written on June 1, 2009 in Site updates & with 23 responses
Tags: multimedia, new features, Site updates, streaming video, video, videos
For the past couple of days, there have been hints to a new, new thing to be revealed on 01st June on this website; on its Twitter, Facebook and Myspace accounts. 33 people were given the link to test it and they provided very good and accurate feedback.
And this is what it was:
Click on the image or here to access it.
This project has two goals: just like the rest of this website, to follow and archive the career of a musician impressive in many ways and, of course, to make you all happy. Go there, click away, watch the videos, comment, rate, be nice and come back with any suggestions or recommendations you might have.
So far, the archive contains out of 250 videos of interviews, live footage, documentaries, instructional videos and misc. clips from 21 years of John's music career. They have all been adjucted as much as possible to achieve the best quality and they're streamed in .flv extention, with various levels of compression. In short, it's like Invisible Movement's own YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo; with a couple of differences: no user profiles, no own uploads, everything's hand-picked and fine-tuned by the webmaster.
There are at least 500 other videos in the review/adjuct/edit queue and that does not even include full shows, so I can asure you this section will always be in construction. And here's for filling it with fresh new material in August!
Many thanks to everyone who's been sending over their live video footage over the years. Now you know where it went and, of course, all of you are encouraged to send whatever you may have after making sure it's OK as there are some limitations.
Thank you for testing: Katie, Hrvoje, Eleni, Gizem, Matty, Máté, Sophus, Chris O, Jo, Emma, Tanya, Carole, Jill, Kyale, Petra, Biljana, Daniela, Abby, Bojana, Ivan, Shira, Maja, Mark, Nella, Silvia, Dora, Daria, Nick, "Cary the Mute", "Untitled #11" and Billy Erupto. Special thanks to Robert and Leni for their help with extracting some video and, though he didn't know about this, a very special thanks to Jason for always making the community a better place! A totally unrelated thanks goes to Sharon and Simon who somehow motivated me to sit down and finally start doing this after a long early May day. Thank you all. And happy birthday to Mira - 28 IS OLD.
(That was some good mood and spontaneous stuff, sorry!)
23 Reactions to Introducing: a comprehensive JF video archive!
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Nice Work and fantastic idea!!
Simply sensational, Iva! Thanks for putting in all this hard work to keep us crazy Fru-fans happy.
It looks amazing. Awesome job.
It's amazing Iva!!! Thanks for your effort!
wow! amazing! i love all of it. by the way i have a great name for it: frutube! what do you think?
Here it is! And it will grow as time passes, just like the website itself and the I-M community
Great job, Iva! 
really great idea, thank you
WOW!!!, the video archive as really made my day! really enjoyed going through some great videos. really should make the rest of the day easier now! ( i got to install my photography final degree show through out the rest of the day) GOOD WORK!
If I were John I would fly to Serbia and give you big old snog!
Wonderful How you keep expanding al this data, you're like a personal archivist! 
very cool indeed 
wow!!
wow wasnt expecting anything this big, awesome! thanks for all the effort
hm...now i have to decide between sunshine or this ....tough one
I bet you feel good now that it's all out there
Looks fantastic!! Well done!
(how to 'search' is now clear too, good choice, looks great)
iva:amazing job!!!absolutely fantastic!!
What a great idea! And so many videos to choose from
I love the page design, by the way.
See, even the OLD people like the new thing.
28 is the very end of life. I mean, in Sex And The City they'd have menopause at that age. Poor Carrie would probably jump off a building (after writing down the will so each of the gurlzzzz could get an equal number of her OMG shoes) after having had sex with 12 men to make up for the time she'll spend in purgatory afterwards.
In other words...birthday girl, you're toast. But that's OK, toast is good, especially with TostTopi melted cheese.
Hurray, it's up! And it looks really great, waaay better than that green. Thank you, Iva.
somethings really can put a smile on my face! thanks again for all the hard work, you know how much it is appreciated by everyone who has any decent taste!
Very but veru good! Really, is too amazing!
Oh wow! *clapity clapity* and a squeek of excitement! You've done a wonderful job. Thank you for all this hard work! Now I know I'm not going to get much sleep tonight..
Its great must have took a lot of hard work,well done!!!
Thank you so much!!! This makes it easier for someone like me who has a hard time with technology! And I can catch up to all the love people have for John as I'm still discovering his music! This will keep me busy! Thanks to everyone that contributed to this project. This is a great website and I have nothing but appreciation.
IVA!, The Video Archive is great! I'm finally seeing stuff that i've read about for years so for that and for all the hard work done on IMnet i just want to say thank you!!!!
Chris O
Great job!
It´s nice to have all of John´s performances in one place. Looking for videos on YouTube or Google video is a nuisance.