Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Brief trip to Sonar Fest, Chicago, IL

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Panoramic of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Chicago,IL. The Sonar Festival's first year in Chicago ran from September 9-11, 2010.  I took off from St Louis Thursday, September 9th, via Amtrak, in hopes to catch a few acts that evening and head back early the next morning.  But the Amtrak broke ...

Missouri State Fair 2010

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Star Trek ride at the 2010 Missouri State Fair I'd never in 31 year attended a state fair.  We arrived too late to see any livestock, but State Fair livestock is for city folk.  I only got a chance to stumble around the carnival rides section. So go grab a ...

Hand-cranked wheelchairs from P.E.T. – Personal Energy Transportation

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

It took the NYC based internet culture program Rocketboom to point out the big-time, non-profit headquartered in my backyard of Columbia, Missouri. Personal Energy Transportation (or P.E.T.) makes hand-cranked wheelchairs for people have lost the use oftheir legs due to polio, landmine injury, etc. Even though most of their volunteers here work out of ...

Masked, meat-slapping Walmart dance

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Actually funnier than I'm about to describe it: Masked dude in spandex, slapping frozen meat and dancing in Walmart. [2 minutes, 29 seconds]

Livestream.com (embed test)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Watch live streaming video from youserved at livestream.com Here's a Livestream I'm sort of be helping out with. Hopefully streaming will be done live on this channel, not this weekend but next. This embed is also to test the stream on a different blog and on Macs because it skips and ...

HDMI cable truth

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

This post is for those who don't already know expensive HDMI cables are a complete rip-off, or for the visual learners among us.  Buy HDMI cables from newegg.com or monoprice.com for the love of all that is good and decent.  [via MintLive Blog via @gadgetboy via Gizmodo via LifeHacker via ...

5 Second Films Dot Com

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The Changeling from 5secondfilms.com There is nothing deceptive about http://5secondfilms.com. The site offers exactly what its URL says: films running five seconds long. There's a new one each weekday.  Many of the micro-shorts at 5secondfilms.com provide quite the chuckle.

Digital artifact from ‘The Eclipse’ trailer

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Captured while viewing "The Eclipse" trailer at 720p.  Extra creepy.

Brian Alfred

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Pleasant, thoughtful mix of stop-motion like type stuff, "live action" and animation from visual artist Brian Alfred with a soundtrack heavy on sound design including Columbia, Missouri's own Jon Sheffield. So why no HD version?

Man-Gifts at ‘What to get Guys.com’

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

A shout to Rob Stretch and his man gift site What to Get Guys.  Rob cherry-picks products for you, so when buying for males, go there first -- it saves time and prevents frustration while delighting all involved in the resulting consumption. He pointed me there to check the Digital Harinezumi Video Camera ...