Qik on iPhone 3GS Sneak Preview


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Webcam Backdrop at Boston Media Makers 07/05/09



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Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair


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Fourth of July Fireworks - Boston 2009



This video was shot with a Panasonic TS1 and edited with iMovie:



This video was streamed live via Qik on an iPhone 3GS and then cross posted to YouTube:



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This is my perfect day

As seen in Boston Globe, 07/04/09:

STEVE GARFIELD, Videoblogger on new media and technology, of Jamaica Plain:
7 a.m. Check e-mail, Twitter. Send Tweet: “Reminder, at 10 a.m., see everybody at Doyle’s.’’
10 a.m. Head to Doyle’s for meeting with the Boston Media Makers, a group of new media fanatics. Check out everyone’s new cameras and microphones. Order fruit pancakes.
1:30 p.m. Go home, work in the yard.
3:30 p.m. Jump on Orange Line with wife and find an open market or art show.
7:30 p.m. Dinner at Vee Vee in Jamaica Plain. Get North African vegetable stew. Chat with Dan, the owner.
9 p.m. Back home. Watch Conan and Jimmy Fallon on bedroom Tivo.

Photo Credit:
Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman.
[ I've asked the Globe to update the article online and to print a credit in the newspaper, as originally asked for in my submission. ]

Note:
Next Boston Media Makers meeting is Sunday July 5th at Doyles. Join us. It's not all about technology as the quote implies, it's more about people.

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Play Tweet Bricks

Play Tweet Bricks

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Jimmy Fallon on White House Blog

My photo of Jimmy Fallon from CES is on the White House blog.

www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Fighting-Foo-on-the-Fourth/

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Ireland Basketball Visits West Roxbury


The Irish Under-18 international basketball team visited the United States. In this stop they played West Roxbury.

Visit Basketball Ireland.

Filmed with a Panasonic TS1 and edited in iMovie 09.

Watch 'Ireland Basketball Visits West Roxbury' in Full HD 1280 x 720p.

Also on YouTube.

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Technologic Overkill - The First Music Video shot on an iPhone 3GS


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the hallway



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the hallway

the hallway, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

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Zaftig's Challah French Toast



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the hallway



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Michael Jackson rehearses with dancers during a June 23 session at the Staples Center


From CNN courtesy AEG LIve

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Most Blogs Are Crappy, Some Individual Posts Are Great
Tony Pierce, the blog editor for the LA Times says,

"I love blogs more than any other person -- but I'll be the first to tell you that most of them are crappy. Which isn't to say that individual posts can't be great, and I think that's where newspapers should focus.'

Pierce said he thinks blog networks are only the first step toward true engagement. Despite the hype over Web 2.0, not all content deserves to be highlighted for a newspaper's readership. To be truly innovative, he said, editors are going to have to roll up their sleeves and wade through drivel to find the gems."

From [ MediaShift . Newspapers Try Again with Local Blog Networks | PBS ]

Visit the full blog post to read a comment by my friend John Wilpers.

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Music Video Shot on iPhone


David Pogue says:

Oh dear. Earlier I linked to what was billed as the 1st music vid shot with iPhone. Apparently it wasn't--THIS was: Technologic Overkill - The First Music Video shot on an iPhone 3GS

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Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk with Steve Garfield



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Geo Geller at Personal Democracy Forum



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Selina McCusker at Personal Democrcy Forum



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NYC Skyline and Columbia Circle



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Michael Jackson's Last Rehearsal Was Taped
USA Today reports,

"Wednesday's rehearsal was videotaped, but it's unclear whether Jackson's performance will be made public, such as through the sale of a DVD."

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Michael Jackson Staples Center Rehearsal Video 6/24/09
From The Boston Globe article Probe of Jackson's death focuses on his physician this morning, I noticed this section:

"Randy Phillips, the chief executive of AEG Live, the concert promoter mounting the London shows... attended Jackson’s rehearsal at Staples Center on Wednesday night, when the entertainer was on stage for about three hours before leaving at 12:30 a.m.

“He was dancing as well or better than the 20-year-old dancers we surrounded him with,’’ the promoter said. “He was riveting. I thought we were home free. I thought this was going to be the greatest live show ever produced. He looked great.’’"

Was the rehearsal filmed for review? Where's the video?

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The State of Now at The 140 Characters Conference: Video Twitter


Best introduction ever, Jeffrey Hayzlett, "I know Stephen through Jimmy Fallon and I was up in Jimmy's office a few weeks ago and Jimmy and I were talking and he was talking about someone he likes to follow and he mentioned Stephen."

Here's the Video Twitter panel I was on at Jeff Pulver's 140 Character Conference.

Christian Payne (@Documentally)
Jeffrey Hayzlett (@JeffreyHayzlett) - CMO, Kodak
Steve Garfield (@stevegarfield)
Sukhjit Ghag (@sukhjit)

This was a great panel. I enjoyed it.

The whole conference was great.

At one point I went out in the hallway and there was just a handful of people out there. Unlike SXSW where the conference is about the hallways, the 140 Conference was about the sessions. Lots of new information, very interesting topics, and a broad range of people.

It was like film, interactive and music all rolled into one, plus with all the sessions being in one room, on one track, you knew you weren't missing anything by staying in the session.

Great job Jeff.

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Boston's Haymarket


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Boston's Holocaust Memorial


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1st iPhone 3GS Qik Videos
I got a pre-release of Qik for the iPhone 3GS. Here are my 1st videos, streaming over WiFi:



5:31



Second video, also 5:31. Making waffles. Video ends with "Yikes!" Tripod fell over.



1:12 Determining if iPhone is shutting off on me, or going to sleep. Video ends with "Whoa! OMG!" Tripod fell over again.



7:31 "It is focusing on the waffles, Wow!"



1:54 Testing auto-focus again.

Labels: auto-focus, iphone 3gs, nokia n95 att cell service qik, waffles

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Nantucket: Driving a Smart Car Day 2
The day on Nantucket started off foggy, which to a photographer means, let's get out there and shoot some photos.



I took a walk to the Brant Point Lighthouse. It's always fun to try and get a unique shot. This is one of the standard angles.



Here's a more creative shot.



All these photos were taken with the Apple iPhone 3GS. It now has selective focus so you can create shots that have depth of field. For this shot, I placed the iPhone on the beach and pressed my finger on the shells in the foreground to focus there. Fun shot!

Here's a movie where you can hear the fog horn and see the beach:



This next shot is of Sankaty Lighthouse. I used the selective focus again on these dasies.



This is my favorite shot of the day.

It was a sunny day on nantucket so we put the top down on the Smart car. If goes down with the press of a button. Very nice.



Here we are in Siasconset.

Next we drove to Madaket beach.

Here we are driving:



Here's the beach:



The water was freezing. I know because all the kids who were running into the ocean were screaming!



More driving:



That's the Surfside Beach Club. A nice place for dinner.

While sitting out in the sun I got a tweet from RD Sahl of @NECN and he wanted me to send in a photo of the sun. Here's one of two I sent.



Then I got a tweet from RD and Tim Kelley wanting to know what time I took the photo. Um, guys, you just asked me to take a photo. So the time I emailed it to you is the time I took it within a minute or two.

They used the photos on the 7 PM news.

Next we met a great group of Nantucket people at the first Nantucket Tweetup. It was held at currentVintage, an eclectic clothing, accessories and wine store right in town.













After the tweetup we had dinner at the two weeks old TOWN restaurant. It's got a very varied and interesting menu.



It's a nice place. Try it.

We ended the night at the White Elephant bar. I had a Cisco Brewers Moor Porter.



So good!

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