The (mostly) video podcast, or videoblog, or vlog, of Schlomo Rabinowitz, Enabler to the Stars. If you got the need: email me at schlomoATgmailDOTcom or AIM: Schlomochat.
Here's a collection of unedited video that usually just sits on Flickr. Though normally I would just keep them on my Flickr page, there are members of my family who have never heard of Flickr. (Hi Mom!!)
So here are a couple unedited shots from there. I've resized them to be small so they don't take up the whole page. Head over to my flickr page if you want to see them in normal size as well as pictures from my time there as well.
More edited footage will be coming as the week goes on. Hopefully.
The first of what will probably be plenty of videos of my time in Peru. This one is a LipDub that I made after spending 16hrs crossing the Andies, heading into Cusco, Peru. Came upon an epiphany while delirious for lack of sleep and dedicate this to B.
"Don't Hold Me Close Youre Not The One That I Can Most Rely Upon But I'll Be Here When You Are Gone And Maybe Time Will Just Make A Sweetheart Of You"
Music by Spiritualized
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At the moment, I´m in the town of Pisco, where a major earthquake hit and has decimated this area. People are living in tents; bathing in garbage; looting the homes. I´ve come here to work with Burners Without Borders, a relief organization that has grown out of many of us who participate at Burning Man.
I´ve embedded a video above that was shot last week here to promote one of our latest projects. (NOTE: I didn´t make the video and it was made the week prior of me arriving, but my videos are coming!) This project is about the creation of appropriate toilet facilities for families here in Pisco. The one above will be used by approximatly 130 familes. This is serious stuff, my friends. I don´t know about you, but I do most of my best thinking while sitting on the toilet. Think of all the help this will bring to this community!
For the past couple days, I have been making temporary schoolhouses made out of bamboo. Their school is demolished, and these will be used for the next year until the school is rebuilt.
Want to donate or help in some way? Check the Burners Without Borders website or shoot me an email. You can also find the org on such web2.0 sites like The Facebooks. Use your google, you know you can chip in. If this boy from the city can do it, you can too.
I miss my home and my life, but sometimes you have to put those things on hold.
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!
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 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.
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.
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!
