Fugu Four Ways - Videoblogging Week 2008

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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.


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San Francisco Olympic Torch Run[ning from Protesters]

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.

How To Celebrate The Anniversary Of A War

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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?

Politics Online/Offline

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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.

A Day In Tokyo

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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:)

Poop And Politics

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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.

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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!

First Food In Tokyo

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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!

Tokyo at 5:30 In The Morning

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!

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.