This is an idea that I’ve been playing with for literally years now. It’s a talk show hosted by my Second Life avatar, Aren Mandala. This episode features our friend Poid who I first met when I did the Scion City stuff about a year and half ago. I actually know a few really cool artists through Second Life so I’m going to try to feature as many as possible. There’s a short meta story around the talk show that I’m telling which is a bit open ended so I’ll be publishing every week until it’s done. Please go watch the other videos - I’m having a blast with this.
Jen, Markus, Alicia and I are staying with Jay & Ryanne this week, just hanging out and working on stuff (or not working). Today I spent a lot of time playing with my editing process and trying out a few new things like stabilization with Motion and color grading in Color.
December 8, 2008 – 3:19 pm
January 2 - 3, 2009 I’ll be broadcasting on the web with artists from all over the world. Check out the website 24hours24artists.com. Subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on artists and schedule.
November 30, 2008 – 11:57 pm
Back in October I went to Ankara, Turkey to speak at the Video Vortex 3 conference. This was my first trip to Europe and it was amazing. Here are seven minutes of little moments from my 5 days there.
I thought about adding notes to the video but they felt out of place so I’m putting them here. The first half of the video is from the conference at Bilkent University and out at various places in Ankara. The second half of the video is from our trip to Cappadocia. On the way there we stopped at a huge dry salt lake (it kind of looks like the moon). The tunnel we crawled through was part of an underground city there in Cappadocia. The pop song at the beginning and end is one that we heard on the radio - the singer is encouraging listeners to make a video for the song and upload it to YouTube. I also have a bunch of pictures on Flickr.
November 12, 2008 – 10:46 pm
Before the girls were born, Rebecca and I had 6 cats and a great dane. The last of those, a cat named Judah, died about a year ago. He was strange; liked to be outside and would scratch or bite you if you tried to pet him so he didn’t really seem like “a pet.” He was more like some wild animal who came around, demanded food and left. We’ve been talking about getting a new cat for the last 6 months or so and after a trip to the shelter with the Girl Scouts the other day I guess it was time to find us one. Here she is. We’re still working on a name - trying out Joon.
