Echoplex Park Video Podcast

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.

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 Watch in Quicktime. Or, even more super cool, subscribe to my videos with my RSS Feed. It's made for iPod/iPhone/iWhatevers.

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. Also, feel free to subscribe to my videos in iTunes (there is a button on the top left!) or your favorite RSS Reader to get my videos in a timely fashion and on your iPod or iPhone or iWhateverYouHave!

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.

| Quicktime/iPhone 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?

Flash | Quicktime 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.

Flash | Quicktime/iPod/iPhone 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:)

Quicktime/iPod 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.

Quicktime/iPhone 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!

Quicktime/iPod 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!

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 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.

Flash Quicktime/iPod 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.

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

Flash | Quicktime | iPod 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.

| Quicktime | iPod 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.

Quicktime | iPod 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.

Click Pic for Flash | Click for Quicktime | iPod 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?

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!

Quicktime | iPod/iPhone 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!!

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!

Flash | Quicktime | iPod A vigil for the fallen. Made for the 60 Seconds Of Light Project.

Flash Version | Quicktime Version 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.

Here's a quick little video to invite you all to Jonny Goldstein's Par-tay, where I will be doing a live interview/chat about all things Schlomo. It's really easy to be a part of the discussion, just get an account with Operator11, hook up a mic and/or webcam, and join in on the adventure! We will be talking about Online Networks, the future of The Winnies, Vloggercon, my video podcasts that

Flash | Quicktime End of August means its once again time to pack the truck and head out to Burning Man. This year a couple of us decided to buy a bus and convert it into an art car, and this is my little video to my camp pleading some of them to come help us finish up. If you are going, come say hi! I'll be camping at 4:30 and F Street. (I think its called Freshwater this year.) Also,

Click Here For Flash|Quicktime The title says it all. Went to Gnomedex, and while I was there I made a series of videos to post on The Facebooks. (Which I seem to be posting a LOT of videos; there and Vimeo.) Can you feel the excitement?!? Thanks Chris and Ponzi for putting together something that would attract such a vibrant group of people! Featured herein are buddies Brian Walsh of Castfire

I just came back from a two week cross-country trip on a converted 40ft. schoolbus! Needless to say, I took a LOT of video. Today I started to catalog the clips, got bored, and stringed together a couple of them just for something to while away my Sunday afternoon. More vids are coming, as we saw and met some interesting folk out there in the world. This string of clips

It's time to prep for Bay To Breakers, the annual walk/run for San Francisco Freaks. For the last couple years, I've run with a pack of Elvises. Or Elvi, not sure what the plural of Elvis should be. My previous videos of the event can be found here: Year One, Year Two

It's Hump Day here at Videoblogging Week 2007, and I couldn't be happier with all the great videos I've been watching from the other participants. This video shows one of the things I do for a living; making media for the Internets. If you want to see more of my show Wink!, go check the other episodes here. videobloggingweek2007

Welcome to day 3 of Videoblogging Week! I warned you that I am pulling out footage I couldn't find a more suitable use for, and this video is no exception. Herein, you will find three minutes of footage taken over the course of one day. I really like these sorts of clips; seemingly desparate moments slammed together.... After all, that is part of what videoblogging is all