Echoplex Park

Unedited Peru Moments

2008-06-16T15:09:00.000-07:00

Here's a collection of unedited video that usually just sits on Flickr. Though normally I would just keep them on my Flickr page, there are members of my family who have never heard of Flickr. (Hi Mom!!)

So here are a couple unedited shots from there. I've resized them to be small so they don't take up the whole page. Head over to my flickr page if you want to see them in normal size as well as pictures from my time there as well.

More edited footage will be coming as the week goes on. Hopefully.

Goodbye To Bee - A Lip Dub

2008-06-16T12:36:00.000-07:00

The first of what will probably be plenty of videos of my time in Peru. This one is a LipDub that I made after spending 16hrs crossing the Andies, heading into Cusco, Peru. Came upon an epiphany while delirious for lack of sleep and dedicate this to B.

"Don't Hold Me Close
Youre Not The One
That I Can Most
Rely Upon
But I'll Be Here
When You Are Gone
And Maybe Time Will Just Make A Sweetheart Of You"

Music by Spiritualized

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The Shitter Song in Peru

2008-06-01T17:54:00.000-07:00

I´m in Peru!

At the moment, I´m in the town of Pisco, where a major earthquake hit and has decimated this area. People are living in tents; bathing in garbage; looting the homes. I´ve come here to work with Burners Without Borders, a relief organization that has grown out of many of us who participate at Burning Man.

I´ve embedded a video above that was shot last week here to promote one of our latest projects. (NOTE: I didn´t make the video and it was made the week prior of me arriving, but my videos are coming!) This project is about the creation of appropriate toilet facilities for families here in Pisco. The one above will be used by approximatly 130 familes. This is serious stuff, my friends. I don´t know about you, but I do most of my best thinking while sitting on the toilet. Think of all the help this will bring to this community!

For the past couple days, I have been making temporary schoolhouses made out of bamboo. Their school is demolished, and these will be used for the next year until the school is rebuilt.

Want to donate or help in some way? Check the Burners Without Borders website or shoot me an email. You can also find the org on such web2.0 sites like The Facebooks. Use your google, you know you can chip in. If this boy from the city can do it, you can too.

I miss my home and my life, but sometimes you have to put those things on hold.

Fugu Four Ways - Videoblogging Week 2008

2008-04-21T15:40:00.001-07:00

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Here is another installment of Schlomo Eats Something, this time its in Tokyo where I got to try out the dangerous pufferfish known as Fugu, co-starring my buddy Tajee.

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San Francisco Olympic Torch Run[ning from Protesters]

2008-04-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a video I made while at the Olympic Torch ceremony here in San Francisco. The end has a touching re-enactment from Jesse Keyes.

This was made for The Uptake, purveyors of fine Citizen Journalism nationwide.

MORE: I Am Fivestar also has some great coverage.

So does Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid. They were both on the other side of the "run" around AT&T Park.

How To Celebrate The Anniversary Of A War

2008-03-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

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On March 20th, 2008, 140 people in San Francisco, California were arrested for protesting downtown on the 5th Anniversary of our "War On Terror". This is my video of the demonstration that happened. Created for The Uptake. Special guest apperance by Steve Rhodes, photographer extrodinnare.

How did you celebrate the anniversary of the war?

Politics Online/Offline

2008-03-05T11:17:00.001-08:00

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Today I am in Washington, DC to moderate a panel for the Politics Online Conference with Jay Dedman. Our panel is called How Web Video Changes The Political Landscape. Joining us are representatives from Why Tuesday and The Uptake. Should be a good time and our panel starts in about an hour.

One thing I found interesting was for a conference that has the word "online" in the title, how difficult it was to actually connect to the Internet. This is a video of that experience.

A Day In Tokyo

2008-02-12T19:22:00.000-08:00

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One of the things I participated in during my visit to Tokyo was Xacti's Tokyo Hunt, which was a day of running around taking video with local videobloggers. You can see Tajee's video of some of our day here.

(My video of eating Fugu The Poison Fish is coming up. May not be that exciting to you, but it sure is for us diehard Simpsons fans:)

Poop And Politics

2008-02-06T11:32:00.000-08:00

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Here is one of the videos we made during our Super Tuesday coverage for The Uptake. This one takes place outside City Hall in San Francisco, where we met a man with a very large graph and pie chart, banging his hippie drum. Of course we had to talk to him!

Jackson West and I had a great time on Super Tuesday. We went to both Ron Paul's and Hillary Clinton's parties as well as did some exit polls at City Hall; sometimes we went live with some interviews. A great experience, and it will be interesting to see how these technologies change the way we give and receive information. Could be very powerful, or could just be more noise-- how they are used will decide that.

More of our Super Tuesday coverage (as well as other stories from around the country) can be found at The UpTake.

Does California Really Matter On Super Tuesday?

2008-02-04T19:36:00.000-08:00

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Jackson West and I will be shooting some video for The Uptake for Super Tuesday.

The video says it all, but what we are doing is running around San Francisco interviewing people at City Hall, at various campaign headquarters, and good citizens just like you. The Uptake will have a live feed on their site that will have reports from all over the country-- pretty damn cool!

So tune in and, more importantly, VOTE!

First Food In Tokyo

2008-02-01T01:29:00.000-08:00

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Here's the first of many videos about my trip to Tokyo last week. And believe me, this is definitely not the first food related video I'll make of my trip either. (Including a new episode of everyone's favorite show: Schlomo Eats Something, where I eat Fugu the Poison Fish!)

So this video is just 24hrs of what I ate during my first day... which is all I wanted to do my whole trip. Eat, eat, eat! Tajee, my friend who invited me out there and is the screenshot above, seemed impressed with how I would eat anything handed to me. If there is one thing about me, I ain't scared of no food!

Tokyo at 5:30 In The Morning

2008-01-27T04:50:00.000-08:00

Here's another quick video from Tokyo; this time it was made early in the morning after speaking at Video People 2008. Video People 2008, the first Videoblogging conference in Japan, was put together by the great folks at Voice Bank, and this video shows some of the fine folks who work there. I'm really proud of how good their event went, and the hospitality they have shown me on my first visit to Japan is humbling to this loud fat American. Tajee and her family even opened their house to me for the first couple days. Thanks Tajee's Mom!!

The next day was running around Tokyo for Tokyo Hunt, an afternoon event where we just shot whatever came to mind. Video of that and the rest of my trip is forthcoming, but for now I just need some sleep as I look out over the 34th floor of the hotel I just moved into a couple hours ago. Sleep awaits!

I'm in Tokyo!

2008-01-25T16:16:00.000-08:00

I'm in Tokyo this week to speak at Video People 2008, which is being produced by my good friend Tajee. I've never been to Japan before, so obviously I'M FREAKING OUT WITH EXCITEMENT!!!

Hopefully I can stop eating long enough to shoot some video. One thing I'm really looking forward to trying is Fugu, mainly because its one of my favorite moments in the Simpsons. If I don't come home, you know where to find me.

SantArchy!

2008-01-23T13:32:00.000-08:00

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A video of the Santa Rampage in San Francisco. Sure, its not Xmas time anymore, but really, you knew this videoblog wasn't the most timely of sites.

Speaking of Not So Timely Posts, supposedly I'm trying to make a personal video a week for The Semanal Project. Yeah, this one is for Week Two. I'll catch up.

Old Year Washoff

2008-01-07T13:26:00.000-08:00

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It's a new year so I only have one thing to say: CLEANSE THYSELF!

Building A Burning Man Bus

2007-11-07T19:05:00.000-08:00

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I'm enjoying making NaVloPoMo videos; keeps me on my toes and gets rid of footage I never used before. Good stuff all around. The structure for this one is based on the visual stylings of Senior Valdez. I tried to one of his tricks justice while still having it feel like something that would be on this site. You know, something for my mom. Hi mom!

This is a video of how we cut off the back walls and roof for Mr. Janky, our 40ft schoolbus we purchased earlier this year.

The Process Of Democracy

2007-11-06T11:35:00.000-08:00

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It's Voting Day here in San Francisco - and many other parts of America as well. Here is a look at our voting process; what do your ballots look like? I was kinda bummed that we can't blame anything on a dangling chad.

The Salmon Dance In Compression Hell

2007-11-03T10:59:00.000-07:00

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Here's a little dancing for you.

An Aside: This video was a pain to compress! I'm on Leopard, editing with FCP and they just don't like each other.

I finally had to run away from it so I can meet my daily quota for NaVloPoMo (worst. name. ever.) NaVloPoMo is about creation. It's forcing yourself to make a video everyday in November. I've decided I'm going to make videos that speak to different audiences, on different sites. November 1st was a password protected video for a couple people (I sent them the link). Yesterday, I made a quick video on Seesmic...but only because this video wasn't compressing right.

Anyway, its gonna be a long month.

Schlomo Eats Something - Wisconsin Version

2007-10-30T14:08:00.000-07:00

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When in Madison, Wisconsin, we went to the local Food And Wine Show where we got to meet Alice In Dairyland! Local food and wine! A debate about which is more important: Local or Organic! Alice gives her side of it, what do you think?

The Moldy Oldies

2007-10-10T15:45:00.000-07:00

After I put up this post, I got an email about wanting to see my early videoblogs.. Y'know, in case you wanted to see some sort of Portrait Of An Artist As Young Man sort of thing. (riiight)

Anyway, that's what the above flash player is configured to show you; (most, not nearly all) of my videos that I've put up on Echoplex Park for the last couple years. A lot has changed since then: people I was communicating with have left the web, reasons for making certain types of videos for this particular site had shifted, how I chose to communicate changed... The list is limitless.

So enjoy in all it's badly compressed glory... and I apologize for the advert bumpers between videos-- they are easily avoided by just skipping to the next video. I just couldn't figure out how to turn it off!

Rabbits and Weddings

2007-10-05T14:36:00.000-07:00

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Kairsten and I went to one of the more wacky weddings I've ever been to in my life: Tap-dancing guests, rabbit ears on everyone, a wedding band called The Stupeds(!), and it took place in an old folks home!

Be prepared for my next video: close-ups of people dancing. I have hours of footage on that subject. You've been warned!!

Lifecasting My Life Away

2007-09-26T14:13:00.000-07:00

So I've been given a betacode to a lifecasting site (what a dumb name, for what is essentially just live streaming video), and have set up an account for all the Evilvlog Editors. You can check out what they are up to by heading over here.

The above video was made by one of our viewers-- how cool is that?!? You can easily make clips because all of the footage is archived; all you have to do is enter the start and stop times of what you want to clip. In other words, if I did a live "show", I can export the episode for viewing later by just knowing what time of day I made it. Pretty neat.

This clip is me saying howdy to good buddy Chuck Olsen.

Honestly, I have no need to lifecast my life away. In fact, usually I'm in front of the camera getting wired on coffee and eating my breakfast. But in this age of New Media, that passes as entertainment for some people.

Feel the excitement!

A Curation Of Popularity

2007-09-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

This was an interesting collection for me to watch:

It's the blip.tv flash player set to the "most popular" setting. It's a set of my videos over at blip.tv, where I have been storing my videos since the beginning of this videoblog (them and in The Internet Archive), so I guess they would know more than any other site on how often a given clip has been viewed.

A couple surprises when I took a look at it: Evilvlog has the number two position. Who knew?

I have only watched the first five videos, but there are over 100 for you to watch in that player! (If you get bored of the one you are on, just hit fast-forward to the next one!)

What I don't have is the Quicktime equivalent to this sequence, but then again, I don't think you would want a bucket-load of videos falling into your RSS Reader.

60 Seconds Of Light - A Vigil

2007-09-10T22:53:00.000-07:00

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A vigil for the fallen.

Made for the 60 Seconds Of Light Project.

Packing The Truck For Burning Man - Redux

2007-08-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

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By now, you probably know that I'm off to Burning Man. I can't wait!

Here's an old video of my camp packing for the Playa. This video never fails to put a smile on my face; I can really feel our excitement of getting ourselves out of the city to the temporary habitat known as Black Rock City.