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Yes, another cat video, in my quest to become a less controversial videoblogger.
After a five year break, we’re bringing back our old radio show A Walk in the Black Forest, and what better way to have a preproduction meeting than in front of a bowl of butter chicken and cheese naan.
There was a black out in Newtown this night, which was the night after I got back from Vloggercon 2006. Never found out why, maybe the Newtown Jihad…
Most large cities around the world have a well designed and popular public transport system, because we don’t need no steenkin’ automobiles…
Waking up on Sunday morning, expecting to head on over to Schlomo‘s for a brunch get together of the vlogtheory Yahoo! group. My brain doesn’t work that early, even if food is somehow involved, so it was just as well that nobody talked about vlog theory.
What’s videoblogging? The voices were somewhat less passionate in person than behind the safety of an email list. Personally I spent most of the time speaking to Randy about scrambled eggs and Andreas about bacon, and it was lot more interesting and productive than the usual brow beating that happens online.
Here’s a summary of most of the footage I shot at Vloggercon 2006. Dedicated to everyone who’s in it, most I know, a few I don’t. The song is Rocker by AC/DC, one of our greatest exports, from the album Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap.
And I finally figured out how to properly letterbox the iPod (m4v) version correctly, to preserve my widescreen aspect ratio. Amusingly, the 512×288 H.264 version is only slightly larger (17.6 MB) than the letterboxed 320×240 (MPEG4) version (14.6 MB). Remember to expand the window in FireAnt!
I don’t know how many people noticed, but the main hall of vloggercon had this amazing bright red tinted skylight. This, and the colour of the seating, carpet and wood panel walls, brought this amazing warmth to the space, bathing it in the colour of revolution. Which was nice, considering it was so damn cold outside.
As for the blue/grey, this was the backdrop for the Intel booth. And while I loved Ted‘s idea that they just come and listen, as the weekend went on we started to hear rumours of them not taking the listening too seriously, and in fact making fun of videoblogging and videobloggers in general. Obviously it takes more than a career in microprocessors and a bowl of choc chip cookies to understand how the world is changing. No matter, we’ll see them again in Oktober.
Out front of Road Node 101 House, there was this amazing tree, which refused to be shot front on.
Of all the footage I nabbed on my trip, I’m particularly proud of the 30 minutes of aircraft noise. If I had to sit through it, then so should you… accompanied by footage of our Thursday night dinner. Chicken Massala, yum yum…
I went to Vloggercon 2006. Did you? Here’s the first in a series of videos I shot while I was there.
Special thanks to Jan and Markus who let me sleep on their floor, Jen and Jan for helping me get around, Dave, Markus and Ryanne for various lifts in automobiles, Jay for the invite and support, all the people who were offended by me over the past year and yet still welcomed me, Josh, Andreas, Jen, Jan, Adam and Michael for their friendship, Chuck the peacemaker who made peace from peace, and all the nice folks I spoke to over the whole weekend, too many to mention, you know who you are.
Let friendship not detract us from the goal. We are the media.