Hi Rob,
I had one of my photos on this blog a while ago, the basement barbershop shot in Washington Heights. I’d say it’s safest to go with Flickr video, if you go ahead with murky videos, because no one can go past minute and a half and the embed option is the same as the photos.

What would be interesting to me are videos of retailer/consumer behavior in our neighborhoods, cities, villages etc. – how people set up shop in the morning, advertise with a bull-horn (again, in Washington Heights), videos of catchy signs with the changing graphics, caricaturists on Times Square at work, shots of many hands feeling out fruits at a market etc.

As a murketing.com devotee I say start uploading! There is bound to be murky videos out there and you’re the man to hunt it down.

I agree, video would be tougher because it requires so much more time devotion on the viewer’s end. I prefer the glancing and instant gratification of the Flickr pics, but I’ve become enamored with my new Flip Mino am have been taking a lot more videos than pictures.

A possible approach could be examining the environmental impact of marketing on a micro level and how it adds up over time. (What I envision could be videos of people handing out flyers, which inevitably accumulate in the nearest trash can or are thrown on the ground.) People’s reactions to ads, be it complete disregard or avoidance, could be an approach.

I second the vote for flickr videos, the embedding is more pleasing to the eye and the 90sec limit lends itself to a “moving snapshot” sort of feel.

Perhaps you could encourage folks to start uploading appropriate flickr videos to the group and see what happens.