I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with my esteemed pals Oscar, Tanja and Barb who run the excellent food and sustainability vlog Freshtopia, along with videoblogging pals Ryanne & Jay. Tanja made a mean celery root soup that complimented Ryanne & Jay’s spiced squash soup made from organic veggies they picked from their garden. I had the easy job of bringing the organic chardonnay, so I could do my bad Gary Vaynerchuk impression. Good times!
December 17, 2007
September 18, 2006
Pure. Fucking. Brilliance. Ernesto owns you.
September 17, 2006
The past couple of weeks has been quite the blast. After returning from Burning Man, my new videographer friend from Seattle, Ali and I schemed on some video together. The Fighting Kite GETV episode is the result of such schemeing. Ali taught me plenty of new Final Cut power moves for my arsenal. The pen tool! Who knew? You probably did.
This past week I was down in LA with Irina to capture a bunch of interview material for a bunch of upcoming episodes. Thanks to Micki who got us access to the Revver Hollywood style launch party for the new 1.0 version of their service. Revver is a video hosting site much like blip, veoh or ourmedia with the added benefit of revenue sharing for content creators. They tag on a single still frame ad to the end of your video and split revenues with you 50/50 for all clicks. Popular vlogs like Ze Frank and Ask a Ninja use Revver and do pretty well for themselves from what I hear. Blip.tv is planning on offering something very similar soon, though they’re not quite there yet. The idea of giving video content producers a way to make money, even small amounts of money, is a huge incentive for lots of independent creative types.
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June 28, 2006
Wow, crazy media week it has been. I woke Monday morning to find myself in a Rocketboom segment (that’s me on the far left rocking the Ask a Ninja shirt). Rocketboom field correspondent and friend Bre Pettis was interviewing a guy at RoboGames who made a steambot and I just happened to be hanging out in the background. Violet and I were there doing our own videos for GETV which you can see here and here. Bre also interviews CTP on his Arca Musarithmica. Along with presenting crazy interactive musical robotic contraptions at RoboGames, CTP also officiated my best friend Jay’s wedding that weekend. It was a busy weekend for sure. Oh yeah, my best friend Jay got married. Big ups to him and Shiho on a happy future.
Then there’s all the craziness around digg. Digg 3.0 was released this week and to create some media buzz, Kevin Rose and the digg team had a launch party last week at a dark and hot (as in heat not as in the shit, though it was kinda nice) bar to show off the new and upcoming features. Irina and I were there doing our GETV thing, getting interviews with Kevin & the Stamen kids who are responsible for the brilliant visualizations you’ll see next month. So of course, our GETV episode gets dugg as does the bonus footage and we put blip.tv, our awesome hosting provider, through the digg test. Twice. They rocked it of course and the result is tons of new people know about GETV. Of course the digg crowd is damn fickle and despite their harsh words for Irina, I know they’ll be back.
June 22, 2006
The vlogosphere keeps getting better, or I’m just discovering undiscoverd gems like Ze Frank’s the show. Ze’s show has been on my radar for a couple of weeks and now it’s down to daily must see viewing. Seriously, give up 2 minutes of your life and take in the fabulously fucked up essence that is Ze Frank. Describing him just won’t do it justice, so peek it yourself. He does everything you wish you could so you don’t have to, especially thinking.
June 8, 2006
I did a GETV episode with Vancouver’s favorite geek yoga instructor at the Netsquared conference last week. I’m experimenting with blip.tv’s Flash embed. Like YouTube but without the watermark and better licensing terms.
April 19, 2006
Day 7: Ok It’s been a week or so since Videoblogging Week ended, but since I missed doing a last video, I’m tossing this into the mix as it. This is the BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race on Easter Sunday down Lombard Street in San Francisco. Yeah, that really twisty one. I also pushed this out as a GETV episode, letting the streams cross.
Tag: videobloggingweek2006, byobw
April 10, 2006
Day 6: I stopped by the Alternative Press Expo, the annual gathering of independent comic and zine makers. Music borrowed from Plaid - Squance.
April 7, 2006
For day 5 of Videoblogging Week I’m digging up some never before seen footage I shot on December 13th last year. The scene is outside San Quentin State Prison the night of the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams. His execution was especially controversial as Williams had renounced gang life and had become an effective anti-gang activist. Thousands of anti-death penalty activists turned out in hopes of a last minute commutation of Williams’ sentence.
April 6, 2006
Day 4. I stopped into Coffee to the People in the Haight, a rad little place with free wifi, lots of power, board games, books on overthrowing the government and great coffee. I ran into MJ and we shoot the shit about stuff and shit.
