Michael Verdi

QuickTime vPIP Last week I was in Sausalito for work and on Friday, we had a BBQ out at Paradise Beach in Tiburon. If the video won t load, you probably just need the latest version of the Flash plugin - It s here if you need it.

QuickTime vPIP I hope that one day, I ll be as good as these girls. videobloggingweek2008

QuickTime vPIP Dylan got a goldfish. videobloggingweek2008

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QuickTime vPIP You will need the latest version of the Flash plugin to see the video - It s here if you need it. It s an Escalade pulling a taco trailer. Call now - 210-883-5097.

QuickTime vPIP You will need the latest version of the Flash plugin to see the video - It s here if you need it. Jay, Ryanne and their kitties (!) stopped in town for a few days as they make their way across country to their new home in Virginia. And since Jen is just up the road in Austin for a few more weeks she came over too. We ve been hanging out for two days working on Show In A Box and updating all kinds of stuff. I ve been working on rearranging my videos and websites and here s what I ve come up with: This site will be my personal stuff; graymattergravy.com will be a collection of artworks and reportsfromthefuture.com will be my blog about virtual worlds, videoblogging, machinima and the tech behind it all.

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| iPod | This is a tiny piece of a project that I ve been working on for months now. It was a lot of fun to do and I m pretty happy with the way it turned out. It a six-part machinima series based on . The website is done in flash (I built that too) and as the videos play, extra content becomes available. Part of the idea is that people can add on this story or create tangental stories so we kept all of our sets, props and avatars and put them in a backlot that is open to anyone via Second Life. You can check the whole thing out over here -> And because I ve been working like crazy on this for weeks, I m counting this as my first video for

| iPod | My daughters are over this videoblogging fad.

| iPod | Hello videoblog. I ve missed you.

| iPod | It s been almost a month since I posted anything - as usual, I ve just been working long hours. Recently I had to put together a reel. Normally, I m not crazy about doing that kind of thing but I had fun with this one and got some help from my .

| iPod | This is another style video so it doesn t have any sound. Not that it had some great sound on it to begin with - just distorted airplane rumble. The camera is a fixed as I could get it by holding it against the window. All the tilting is just the airplane making a big turn before landing at the Phoenix airport. It s also about 15 seconds longer than the 60 sec rule because I wanted to include the entire turn.

| iPod | Like the name says, this is just a test video for an upcoming project. There s no plan for Dylan to be in it (though she could) and you probably won t ever see this scene. I was just testing out my PhotoJPEG capture settings and playing with the look. I ll be posting more about as it gets closer to launching (early August?) but I will say that all the source video will be distributed under Creative Commons - Attribution and everyone will be invited to join in. Technical notes: This was shot in DV using my Canon HV20. The sound was captured with the Rode Video Mic. I captured everything in Final Cut Pro using a custom setup that brought the video in as PhotoJPEG at 640 X 360, 30fps. All told, I captured a little more than 4 minutes of source video that took up about 228MB of disc space instead of nearly 1GB.

| | iPod Lately it s become kind of hip to be green. Rockstars are singing about it, celebrities are driving hybrids and Hollywood is giving out Oscars. This is all good stuff, don t get me wrong. But one thing that doesn t seem to get talked much about is vegetarianism. Becoming a vegetarian may just be the one thing an individual can do that has the most positive impact on the environment. about the U.N. report and .

iPod | Basically this is just me testing out my new Canon HV20 camera while Dylan is acting silly. wants me to remind you all that this is supposed to be silent and that there is nothing wrong with your computer.

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| iPod | Here s another . This one was shot from my bathroom window last night.

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| iPod | Much of what I shot at was unusable uninteresting and poorly lit but I did get this bit on Sunday morning when we went to IHOP with Rupert. Some of this video came from of the same event. The music at the end is from an old radio show called, .

| iPod | Boy it s been a long time between videos. I d say I ve been busy (and I have) but there s more to it than that. Anyway, here s one. I ve got 5 more in the can. Let s see if I can t get them done before their time expires. By the way, I m still messing with the site after installing . Not really sure what size image works in the post - the Flash and iPod versions are 320 X 240 and the QuickTime file is 640 X 480 - so I sorta split the difference.

iPod | Flash 8 This is another SpinXpress related post (though it applies to more things than just SpinXpress). Last weekend we had a hack-a-thon at the Digital Dojo (Markus house) and shot a conversation about distributed production. This is an idea that I ve been really interested in and working on since I started videoblogging. The idea, basically, is that you can put together a great team to work on something if you can work via the internet and are not limited to those that live in close proximity. Of course you can still work with people face to face, it s just that you don t have to let geography stop you. In fact there might even be projects that require people to be distributed around the world and couldn t be done any other way. Anyway, I just thought I d share this conversation. I think it s the longest video I ve ever posted here but I think it s worth it. Some technical notes about the video: At the last minute I realized that we had 4 Xacti cameras on hand so we did an impromptu 4-camera shoot. I then put it together using the mulit-cam feature in Final Cut Pro. I think the result really captures the actual event really well.

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 I m tagging this one videobloggingweek2007 even though it s officially over. I made and uploaded it yesterday afternoon but didn t like it so I re-edited it a little this morning. Anyway, about 6 weeks ago I posted about working with nothing to show for it yet and now I do. Most of the time I was working on integrating spinxpress.com with the desktop application. It s pretty cool - changes in the software show up on the website and vice-versa. We also added a place to search for media by license. This means that if you are working on a project and need a photo from Flickr or a video for the Internet Archive you can find stuff with the particular Creative Commons license that you need to use it your project. It actually offers more granularity than the searches on the individual sites. Of course making something like this - it s never finished but check it out - SpinXpress.com SpinXpress.com/GetMedia. videobloggingweek2007

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 I can t get Dylan to make videoblogs anymore but I can occasionally get her to talk to me on video. A little more than two year ago she got Internet famous talking about getting braces. Now they re off and she s grown up a bunch. I think she looks like a model. videobloggingweek2007

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 This is some video from this year s SXSW. I don t have the names of the people who did the video thing or the people who did the Tesla coils. Maybe Bre knows since I think he put that particular party together. videobloggingweek2007

| Download QuickTime | HD/AppleTV Finally. Here s a second video for Videoblogging Week. I m not sure it was worth the wait. I m really just working out some machinima ideas. It feels like it s going to take a few more to see if it s really going anywhere. Tags: videobloggingweek2007, machinima, secondlife.

| Download QuickTime | HD/AppleTV I went back and forth a bunch of times about making and posting this - mostly because I doubt I have the time to make this good. I ve wanted to do something else with machinima and the characters I started to create previously, for months now. Of course there s always something that gets in the way. So I figured I d use videoblogging week to work out my ideas. I have no idea what happens in tomorrow s video (really today s video since this first one is late - 2am). So we ll see how it goes. nscape.tv is in the credits but not active yet. These videos may or may not end up there but I didn t want to have to change the ending if they do. Tags: videobloggingweek2007, machinima.

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 I totally forgot to write a post. Here s the link to Joe Mathlete Explains Today s Marmaduke in 500 words or less.

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 Rebecca and the girls came out to San Francisco for a few days (they just went back this morning) and we took advantage of the great weather. This is a short video from Muir Woods that I thought Jay would enjoy. Check out all of my photos from the last few days.

Full Size | iPod | Flash 8 People always ask me why we never see my wife Rebecca on my videoblog. I always say that she shows up here briefly on occasion but that she not really into being on video - especially when it s on the Internet. Well just for you, I got her on video the other day when we were driving up to Austin to see The Shins.

Ah, Youth http://missbhavens.blogspot.com/2007/02/ah-youth.html