Ourmedia.org is a potentially transformative website that launched a few months ago with the help of lots of impressive advisors, including the noted film archivist Rick Prelinger. (If you’re not familiar with Rick’s work, go to his site RIGHT NOW.) As the Ourmedia FAQ explains, “People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia’s servers forever, as long as they’re willing to share their works with a global audience. … [Our] goal is to expose, advance and preserve digital creativity at the grassroots level. … We want to enable people anywhere in the world to tap into this rich repository of media and create image albums, movie and music jukeboxes and more.”

I haven’t spent much time on Ourmedia yet, because—warning!—it crashes Safari every time I try to load it. It seems to play well with Firefox, though, so yesterday I used that browser to do some poking around the site. One of the first things I unearthed was a fantastic and original music video for a song by Sam Bisbee, a guy I met a handful of times in the late ’80s or early ’90s when we were attending the same college. The video, which was directed by Tobias Perse, has an ingenious visual gimmick: It’s an animated video composed almost entirely of small photo prints, which accumulate swiftly into a big pile that’s occasionally refreshed by hands that reach into the frame. The song is called “You Are Here,” and it’s pretty catchy. I love this video. I’m going to link to the actual video file, instead of to the site itself, which should bypass the coding problem at Ourmedia that is causing Safari to crash. Here’s the video: