Cat Torture or Wheel of Fury?
My new roommates are maniacs. They’ve acquired this device. Anyone wanna take a guess as to what it does when not spinning cats right round like a record, baby?
How to Cure a Hangover
Ah yes, the age old question. It’s answered in this video that I was hired to shoot and edit with my pal Veronica for her new videoblog called Mahalo Daily. The show is a Mahalo production, the people powered search startup founded by Jason Calacanis that aims to give Google a bit of competition. This was a fun one and for those who’ve been to the Hat Factory, you’ll recognize the set. Be sure to stay through the end for the fun tasty outtake.
Video Salon Redux kicks off Thursday
I’m putting together a new monthly event in San Francisco focused on video creators. Co-produced with Michael O’Rourke of Dimension 7, the first one happens this Thursday. I know kind of last minute, but this only the first. The model for this is Dorkbot (thanks karen!) where there are a few presentations and then an open time for anyone to announce or show something followed by mingling, schmoozing and drinking. The idea is to create a space where video creators of all walks of life can present their latest works and absorb what others are doing. The full deets are here on Upcoming. Hope you can make it.
A Day at Oil Beach
A container ship hit the San Francisco Bay Bridge last week and released 58,000 gallons of crude bunker oil into the bay. I took a walk along Ocean Beach, which is on the Pacific Ocean side of San Francisco, to see if I could find anything amiss. If anyone knows why the jelly fish are washing up, I’d love to hear about it. This was shot with the amazing and resilient Sanyo Xacti E1, which I love.
Vote for my question on ATT’s spying please!
With my friends Susie, Kim, Ori and Dan, I shot this video question for our presidential hopefuls that have agreed to answer video questions from the unwashed masses of the Internet. We went to the ATT office in San Francisco (611 Folsom Street) where the well documented “secret” room controlled by NSA is located. All of ATT’s internet traffic (ie your email, web surfing habits, etc) goes through a fiber optic splitter where the NSA has equipment that presumably fishes for whatever they like to fish for.
Our video was submitted to 10 Questions, a site that allows you to vote for the top 10 questions that will be submitted to the candidates. We are currently in fifth place, so please vote for us. The leading questions on net neutrality, religion, and medical marijuana are great as well so I can’t say don’t vote for them. You don’t have to register or anything to vote on the videos, so please take a few minutes to watch and vote on a few videos. The deadline is November 14th, then the top 10 questions go to the candidates whose answers will also be posted. Pretty cool idea.
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Cranky Geeks
I’m making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows on the tubes. Well, ok, just one show, and it was Wednesday last week on Cranky Geeks, John Dvorak’s weekly talking head geek show thing. I guested with Keith Teare, CEO of Edgeio, which does something with distributed classified ads. Josh Wolf was also a guest recently on a show dedicated to the subject of citizen journalism. Definitely recommend that one.
Straight outta Xobni
This very untypical recruitment video I did for Xobni is finally live. Xobni is a Y Combinator startup focused on making email more useful. Matt Brezina at Xobni wrote the script and came up with the scenarios. I shot and edited the piece. I’m paid by StandoutJobs, a startup out of Montreal, that’s focused on making recruitment more relevant. Here’s Valleywag’s take.
Paul Addis, attention whore or terrorist?
While on the playa this year, I came across Ranger Sasquatch who was quoted in the SF Chronicle’s coverage of the early burning of the man, “I think, frankly, an attention whore has made a plea for attention.” Pava finds out that Sasquatch has another label for Addis.
