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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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:)

Building A Burning Man Bus

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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.

The Salmon Dance In Compression Hell

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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.

Schlomo Eats Something - Wisconsin Version

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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?

Rabbits and Weddings

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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!!

Packing The Truck For Burning Man - Redux

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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.

The Bus To Burning Man

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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, hopefully this will talk Chuck Olsen into coming out this year. You may also run into Halcyon and Micki!

Testing iMovie08 at Gnomedex

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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, Kris Krug of Too Many Cool Things To Mention, and Lisa from Intel.

An Aside: iMovie08 is a pretty confusing mess if you have already been using their previous versions. It's totally different, and from the little I have used it, it is not as intuitive as one might hope. And they have far too few options-- they didn't even include Star Wipe! For shame! Anyway, hopefully they will revamp it a little to put all of the features they took away from the previous version...because it may be a pretty package, it sure went downhill in functionality.

Outtakes From The Long Short Bus

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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 tell more to those who took the trip, than convey any great meaning to the Internets. So your mileage may vary in terms of entertainment value. The creation of a "more focused" video is forthcoming. Honest.

An Aside: I'll be heading up to Seattle, Washington for Gnomedex. If you are heading out there, ping me and hopefully we can get together over a beer!

Five Days Until Bay To Breakers

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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

VBW07 - Day 3 - Three Minutes Of A Day

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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 about.

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VBW07- Day 1 - Placing Bets

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Welcome to the first day of Videoblogging Week 2007 -- where I pull out scraps of video that I haven't dealt with for various reasons. Sometimes I'm missing a shot I wanted, sometimes I get bored with the material, sometimes I just fail at making something I enjoy.

Today's footage comes from going to the race tracks and betting on the horses. I'm not really a gambling man, but there's something special about a sunny day and a bunch of horses running around in circles.

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Hey, Let's Walk The Cat!

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I often get asked, "Schlomo, why don't you make more cat videos?" Well, I don't really have an answer for that, but in honor of Josh Leo, I give you my first one. And just to warn you, it may be the last.