Apperceptions

Here is a quick introduction to using Google Code to find Wordpress themes and plugins. A little tongue in cheek, but I think it gets the basics across. In this episode, we re in search of the elusive videowrangler and pledgedrive plugins. Click the thumbnail for the full-sized Quicktime version (mp4). Here s a direct link to the Quicktime video and to the Internet Archive details page.

The weather changed a bit today. The San Francisco Bay area is known for this. Yesterday was postcard pretty and we all got out for a nice walk. Tonight, it is windy and stormy and I m so glad to be cozy and warm inside. Here is our forth video for Videoblogging Week 2008 Technorati: videobloggingweek2008

I drove up to the bay area today to meet with the other Outhinkers in Tiburon and plan next steps for Ourmedia, SpinXpress and Bid4Vid. We took a break in the evening to get a bite to eat and a few tequila shots. Barely time left today for a Videoblogging Week 2008 video, so here s a short taste from our dinner with fellow twitter friends Dave Toole (musicality), Eric Zimmerman (ezwrighter) and Chris Ritke (critke). Here is our third video for Videoblogging Week 2008 Technorati: videobloggingweek2008

We had a fun time at the Videoblogging 101 workshop at the Santa Barbara Public Access station this last weekend. Here is our second video for Videoblogging Week 2008 Technorati: videobloggingweek2008

Here is our first video for Videoblogging Week 2008 Technorati: videobloggingweek2008

One of my favorite things for the past three years running has been Bottom Union s Carp Caviar video collaborations. Here is my first contribution for this year. The soundtrack is A Walk through the Powerhouse by Two Zombies Later and acquired via the Strange and Unusual Music from the Exotica Mailing List and the Internet Archive. Film footage from the Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive.

Richard Schave from the LA Drupal Group discusses how Drupal might be used to help relate and recommend content. Here s a video recording of Richard s Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007 session. Click the pic to view the vid Formats: Quicktime (iPod), Quicktime (iPhone), Quicktime (Flash) Sites: archive.org, ourmedia.org

Richard Schave from the LA Drupal Group discusses how Drupal might be used to help relate and recommend content. Here s a video recording of Richard s Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007 session. Click the pic to view the vid Formats: Quicktime (iPod), Quicktime (iPhone), Quicktime (Flash) Sites: archive.org, ourmedia.org

Our good friend Jacob Redding stopped by to participate at DrupalCampLA 2007. He gave us a brief open source, pep talk during the opening session. Good stuff. Since then, I met Richard Stallman at BarCampLA 2007 and have become more interested in open source, and more importantly, free software. Here s a video recording of Jacob s presentation. Click the pic to view the vid Formats: Quicktime (iPod), Quicktime (iPhone)

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Click the pic to view the vid Steve IM d me and said to check out how he was broadcasting from his kitchen using his Nokia phone. Too cool for school!!! I screencap ed it. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: apperceptions, digitaldojo, spinxpress, stevegarfield

Click the pic to view the vid And on the seventh day they rested It s the end of Videoblogging Week 2007 and saturday morning at the Ojai Digital Dojo. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: digitaldojo, apperceptions, vbweek2007, videoblogging2007, meetups, video conference

Click the pic to view the vid Our friend Jim Joseph of ihatetodance.com and ihatetodance.blogspot.com invited us down to Culver City in Los Angeles for dinner. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: ihatetodance, apperceptions, digitaldojo, videobloggingweek2007, vbweek2007, culver city los angles

Click the pic to view the vid I m cheating today and meeting up with my wife Alicia. Ha! Alicia is building a new website and I asked her to tell us about it. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: alicia, videobloggingweek2007, vlog, vbweek2007, apperceptions, digitaldojo

Click the pic to view the vid I met up with Tyler Suchman of OjaiBlog.com and OjaiPost.com for lunch at the Jolly Kone in Ojai. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: tyler suchman, digitaldojo, apperceptions, videobloggingweek2007, vbweek2007, vlog, ojai

Click the pic to view the vid Some friends twittered about a Flashmob. It was Pillow Fight Club LA. I got there just as the police were arriving. It may seem like a harmless prank, but there is serious hacking going on here. I call it play to practice . Note how the RSS calendar event feeds get worked out in the end. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: pillowfightclub, los angeles, geeks, digitaldojo, apperceptions, vbweek2007, videobloggingweek2007, vlog

Click the pic to view the vid Yesterday, I drove down to LA after the Super Happy Vlog House and met up with some fellow Drupalers. Drupal is a really cool CMS or community/content management system. It s also the center of a very active user community. We met a Phileppe s in LA and I got some great sandwitches and met up with some good friends and met lots of newbies. I gave a presentation of Ourmedia. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: ladrupal, digitaldojo, apperceptions, vbweek2007, videobloggingweek2007, vlog, drupal, los angeles, pheleppes

Reposted from Ourmedia.org I have decided on a theme for VBWeek2007. It s meetups. I m going to post videos from seven meetups over the next week. So that means I have to find some meetups to videoblog. Here s the first one. It s Super Happy Vlog House. Click here to play video Link to Ourmedia details page Link to Archive details page

Click the pic to view the vid A little taste of DrupalCon and the Open Source CMS summit at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Californi. March 2007. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: drupalcon, drupal, oscms, 2007, yahoo!

Click the pic to view the vid. A little taste of DrupalCon and the Open Source CMS summit at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Californi. March 2007. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: drupalcon, drupal, oscms, 2007, yahoo!

Click the pic to view the vid. Alicia made me a great breakfast the other morning. One of the most important ingrediants is love. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: alicia, ojai, digitaldojo, apperceptions, breakfast, love

Click the pic to view the vid Do you pay attention to animal signs? Lately, there have been a number of sign involving birds of prey. The other day my wife and I were relaxing in the dojo when suddenly a friend dropped by for a minute. It s always good to have the proper tools handy and ready to go. I can t tell how long it seemed to take to reach the few inches to my camera Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: apperceptions, digitaldojo, falcon, animal sign. ojai

Click the pic to view the vid. Do you pay attention to animal signs?? Lately, there have been a number of sign involving birds of prey. The other day my wife an i were relaxing in the dojo when suddenly a friend dropped by for a minute.? It's always good to have the proper tools handy and ready to go.? I can't tell how long it seemed to take to reach the few inches to my camera... Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: apperceptions, digitaldojo, falcon, animal sign. ojai

Click the pic to view the vid. A number of interesting topics were discussed yesterday in a SpinFlow organized video conference about collaborative videblogging and distributed production. Michael Verdi discusses some lessons he learned about shooting direct-to-file with the newer digital video cameras.? Michael and Ryanne Hodson are the authors of "Secrets of Videoblogging" and the creators of the famous Freevlog.org site.? Michael recently joined the SpinXpress team at Outhink Media. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: michaelverdi, freevlog, videoconference, vlogging, spinxflow

Click the pic to view the vid. A number of interesting topics were discussed yesterday in a SpinFlow organized video conference about collaborative videblogging and distributed production. Michael Verdi discusses some lessons he learned about shooting direct-to-file with the newer digital video cameras.? Michael and Ryanne Hodson are the authors of Secrets of Videoblogging and the creators of the famous Freevlog.org site.? Michael recently joined the SpinXpress team at Outhink Media. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: michaelverdi, freevlog, videoconference, vlogging, spinxflow

OK, Josh Leo tagged me and so now it's my turn: 1. I was a cub scout. My friend Ronnie sent a letter to JFK, inviting him to our Blue One of his aids sent us a nice rejection note. Here's a picture. I think he went to Dallas instead. 2. I love working with ceramics, especially Raku. I used to build kilns. Here's a video of a piece I made back in high school. 3. When I was 12, my friends and I used to cut through the KonTiki Motel's parking lot on our bikes. Our parents told us never to do that. Once, when all the other kids cut through the lot, I went around the safe way. I got hit by a car. I received a small settlement. Through the miracle of compound interest, it grew to pay for one year of college. 4. I started out as a studio art major in college. Then I went into photography. Then psychology, then social-psychology and then mathematics. 5. I was thrown out of the boy scouts. Ok, now I gotta go find five people to tag: Dave, Alicia, Chris, Tyler and Bill.

OK, Josh Leo tagged me and so now it s my turn: 1. I was a cub scout. My friend Ronnie sent a letter to JFK, inviting him to our Blue One of his aids sent us a nice rejection note. Here s a picture. I think he went to Dallas instead. 2. I love working with ceramics, especially Raku. I used to build kilns. Here s a video of a piece I made back in high school. 3. When I was 12, my friends and I used to cut through the KonTiki Motel s parking lot on our bikes. Our parents told us never to do that. Once, when all the other kids cut through the lot, I went around the safe way. I got hit by a car. I received a small settlement. Through the miracle of compound interest, it grew to pay for one year of college. 4. I started out as a studio art major in college. Then I went into photography. Then psychology, then social-psychology and then mathematics. 5. I was thrown out of the boy scouts. Ok, now I gotta go find five people to tag: Dave, Alicia, Chris, Tyler and Bill.

Click the pic to view the vid. A brief musical interlude in our story. Or is it? Here is a small little piece that highlights all the fine folks who are participating in this wonderful collaboration. Of course, I'm way too lazy to edit this much video. So I programmed it. First, I used PHP to grab the text and images from Erik's site and then wrote a small composition in Quartz Composer to manipulate the data (as javascript arrays) into the exported movie you see. A quick trip to the Internet Archive for the lively Ole! spanish trance soundtrack, import into iMovie and viola! :) Question: What's the widest, collaborative web page in the world? See if you can find it and you will discover something really wonderful. How does it relate to Carp Caviar. Find the Bluesfear Worm and you will know. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: carp caviar, spinflow, bottoom union, apperceptions, digital dojo

Click the pic to view the vid. A brief musical interlude in our story. Or is it? Here is a small little piece that highlights all the fine folks who are participating in this wonderful collaboration. Of course, I m way too lazy to edit this much video. So I programmed it. First, I used PHP to grab the text and images from Erik s site and then wrote a small composition in Quartz Composer to manipulate the data (as javascript arrays) into the exported movie you see. A quick trip to the Internet Archive for the lively Ole! spanish trance soundtrack, import into iMovie and viola! Question: What s the widest, collaborative web page in the world? See if you can find it and you will discover something really wonderful. How does it relate to Carp Caviar. Find the Bluesfear Worm and you will know. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: carp caviar, spinflow, bottoom union, apperceptions, digital dojo

Click the pic to view the vid. Erik says he needs 100 promos by December.To hear is to obey. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: bluefear, digitaldojo, carp caviar, apperceptions, baja