Boy and Fountain

Boy and Fountain - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

This boy had fun playing with the water bubbler at Jamaica Pond on Saturday June 9th during the 4th Annual Neighborwalk Celebration.

Watch Four Eyed Monsters on YouTube

My friends Arin and Susan have put their full length movie, Four Eyed Monsters, up for free on YouTube for a week.

Yay!

Spices of Life Sky Cam

Spices of Life Sky Cam - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

In this episode from the archives of Nina Simond's Spices of Life videoblog, I used a Nokia N93 as a Sky Cam. Fun times.

Watch it here:
Behind the Scenes: Mahi Mahi and Mango Salsa

FCC Rules Black Out On the Lot

FCC Rules Black Out On the Lot - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

When I went to watch a recorded episode of 'On The Lot' on my Comcast DVR, I got this message from the FCC.

Due to FCC rules, this program has been blacked out. Please tune to channel 811 WNAC for Fox HD programming

This message doesn't help me when I'm recording a show in my DVR. It's weird because the message came up about 6 minutes in, and then stayed on the screen for about 5 or 6 minutes.

What FCC rule could have blacked out this show?

Did you see it?

Comcast Set Top Box Firewire

MAKE: Blog: Export video from your set-top box to your Mac.

In case you were wondering how that Firewire port on your Motorola DCT-6412 is supposed to work.

Ambient Intimacy

Leisa Reichelt talks about Ambient Intimacy:

"Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me see what friends are eating for lunch, how they’ve redecorated their bedroom, their latest haircut. Twitter tells me when they’re hungry, what technology is currently frustrating them, who they’re having drinks with tonight."

She also recaps her Reboot psentation, talks our monkey brains and explains Dunbar's number in this post, Reboot 9.0 - Ambient Intimacy.

I have 225 twitter friends.

Is that 75 too many?

Quorn Village Center Stereographic Projection

Quorn Village Center Stereographic Projection - Originally uploaded on flickr by Joe Templeman.

This is so cool.

Lot's to learn if you want to make one yourself.

An Idiots Guide to Creating Small Planets.

PTGui is panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX.

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher.

Have you made one of these?

How to Promote on YouTube

Nalts explains How to Promote Your Videos on YouTube.

Good info.

Are you posting videos on YouTube?

Promote them here in the comments.

Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella

Testing out the Apple iTunes Music Store Link Maker.




Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella - Single - Umbrella (USA)

When Rihanna came out with SOS, I liked it immediately.

I like this song too. She did a great job on the MTV movie awards.

Do you like it?

Giuliani is Unreal

Derrick Z. Jackson has been writing the best commentary on the presidential debates, he talks about Rudy Giuliani today, A debate goes nuclear:

"Giuliani said, 'It's unthinkable that you would leave Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq and be able to fight the war on terror,' even though Saddam was not linked to 9/11 or Al Qaeda and did not have weapons of mass destruction. With nuclear statements like that, I doubt a lot of Muslims see these particular Christians as the ones to move them into modernity."

Derrick Z. Jackson is keeping it real.

I'm not happy with any of them.

They have no experience, are on the wrong side of issues, and are pandering to voters.

What do you think about the Democratic and Republican candidates?

Hugo the Maine Coon Cat

DSC_0146.JPG - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

This is Nina's cat Hugo.

More Hugo photos here.

People like cat photos on blogs, right?

The Globe's Here

The Globe's Here - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

A reporter and photographer from the Boston Globe captured the recording of a Spices of Life episode.

We had a lot of fun filming with Nina and her friends yesterday in Salem. Look for an article in next Wednesday's Food Section of the Boston Globe.

Laptop Portrait

Laptop Portrait - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Inspired by Television Portraits by Susan Lakin.

Try and make one of these on your laptop or TV. If you make one, post a link in the comments.

Hazy Pond

Hazy Pond - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Getting a Drink of Water

Getting a Drink of Water - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Boats

Boats - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Hear David Letterman's Joke Writer

In this interview, my friend Chumworth talks about his job as a fax joke writer for David Letterman. It's a great interview, and if you listen closely you'll hear him tell how he got his start. The Jay Leno joke writer he mentions is me!

Hear Chumworth Speak!:

"Jerry Lewis is big in France and - apparently - I’m big in … Sweden! Well, OK, I’m not but David Letterman sure is! A very nice lady named Christina from Sweden recently asked me if she could interview me for a podcast she does about pop culture called Voccine. She wanted to learn about the fascinating world of freelance monologue joke writing."

Watching iJustine

I spent some time watching iJustine this morning.

You can watch iJustine LIVE over here and chat too.

The tone her Treo made when she got a message reminded me of the internet video show Connect with i that I highlighted on Vlog Soup back on March. Justine started watching, along with over 250 people in her chat room. It was actually fun to watch together. I made a few new friends in her chat room. All she needs is a rear view mirror on her MacBook.

Boston Media Makers Report

Typing - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Head over to the Boston Media Makers blog for lots of meeting reports, pictures, and video from yesterday's meeting.

We had a great group join us, next meeting is July 1st.

Boston Media Makers This Morning

Lindsay Shah - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Boston Media Makers meets this morning at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain at 10:00 AM.

Watch LIVE on USTREAM.TV starting around 10:30 AM.