Preeminent law professor and Internet’s best friend Lawrence Lessig released this brilliant video on why he’s choosing Obama over Hillary. It’s done in Lessig’s unique powerpoint presentation style and reinforces why I love this man’s brain. Very much worth the 20 minutes.
Here’s the second video in the series that Ryan Junell and I produced in support of Barack Obama. Ryan illustrated and animated this, he pulled in some friends for the character voices and type treatment, I came up with the script.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
That is the question I asked a cross-section of freaks at the Laughing Squid Paradise Lost party. Knowing Scott Beale and the communities that he has tracked over the past 10 years, I thought it’d be fun to find out how people first crossed paths with the entity known as Laughing Squid. Some people first knew of the Squid from what was originally called the Alpha Squids mailing list, some people know it as the generous web host, some from Burning Man, others from Scott’s event photography and even some newbies only from recent parties. The answers are as varied as the people brave enough to offer them up.
