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April 26, 2006
Jonny Goldstein's Scratch Drawing video in the Make Movie Festival
Gosh, I love referring to myself in the third person. But enough about me, let's talk about the esteem in which media organs hold me. After getting word that I'm featured in the book Secrets of Video Blogging this morning, when I checked my email tonight, I find out my scratch drawing how-to video was featured in the Make Film Festival. Yes, I'm massive today. Now I have to do the dishes.
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I'm featured in a book: Secrets of Videoblogging
My friends Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi are about to publish their book, Secrets of Videoblogging, and I am one of the many vloggers used as examples in the book. The book looks beautiful with lots of color photos, and will be shipping soon. Here is a video preview. If you want to preorder it, you can do that here.
I can't wait to get my copy.
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April 25, 2006
Just bought my ticket
Just bought my plane ticket to Vloggercon 2006. It's going to be fun to press the flesh in meatspace. Ooooohh. Sticky.
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April 23, 2006
Water in my camera
After a rainy walk from the First Sunday film night, I noticed my camera viewfinder had water under it. Here I share that discovery with my soon to be famous comedy partner Erzsi Pongo. That's one of the First Sunday producers, actor, director, and comedian Victor Varnado in the background. As I look at the camera this morning, the water is still there, but the camera still seems to work.
Outro music by Dave Alpert.
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April 22, 2006
Dave Alpert Live Music Tracks
The other week I dragged my buddy Dave Alpert to a Boston Media Makers meeting and he met a fella named Ben who went to one of Dave's solo acoustic gigs and made some lo-fi recordings. I dig the bittersweet songs of love gone awry underlaid by the burbling of the barflies. You'll dig 'em too.
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April 18, 2006
Jonny Goldstein Presents BX21 at ITP at NYU
A week and a half ago, I had the pleasure of showing some of the work my students been doing to graduate students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. They were really blown away by the kind of video and audio the Bronx youth have been creating, and the way we are using the blog to display it and build our own online community. So now, BX21 participants can say that they've attended NYU (virtually!). Anyway, thanks to Shawn Van Every and his Producing Partipatory Media class for giving me the opportunity to share what been doing up in the Bronx.
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April 16, 2006
DC is so nice, four weeks out of the year
I've been out of action in DC for the last couple of days, on vacation in theory, in practice, waking up at 6AM to walk an out of town friend's dog. Anyway, due to limited internet access, I haven't posted anything lately. I
do have some juicy stuff that will go up soon though, I promise.
DC is so nice right now. Tons of flowers everywhere, temperatures in the 70's. It's nice now, between the dank cold of winter and the fetid oppressiveness of summer. I guess this time and a couple of weeks in the fall are the times when a chance visitor might come away with the mistaken impression that DC is some kind of weather paradise, not the summery sweat and wintery chill inducing swamp that it really is.
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April 10, 2006
Nothing funny about this: TB is back
TB seems so romantic when it's in the context of La Boheme (the 19th Century precursor to "Rent"). Well, it's not so romantic when people you are socially connected to start dying from it, right here in the US of A. In the past month, two acquaintances of mine tested positive for TB. One just has the latent version, which is not transmisible and does not manifest symptoms; one had the active version and died. According to Wikipedia, around 2 billion people have the TB bacteria in their bodies. Luckily, only a tiny fraction of them develop active TB. TB is spread by coughing. It's often treatable using a several month long heavy regimen of antibiotics, but there are drug resistant forms of the bacteria emerging. TB is a global problem. We can't wall ourselves off from it. I hope that public health systems around the world can get the support they need to work on this nasty, nasty, disease.
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April 05, 2006
Andy Carvin's New PBS Blog: Learning Now
At a recent Boston Media Makers meeting, Andy Carvin let it spill that he was going to be authoring a blog for PBS about learning, technology, and culture, called "Learning Now." He wanted to call it "Appetite for Construction" but I guess that was a little too edgy for PBS. The site should go live in mid-April. Andy will explore how the educational establishment grapples with new social media phenomena like Wikipedia, videobloggging, and MySpace. As someone who works with technology in public schools, I think a blog like this, with the kind of national exposure PBS will bring, is long overdue. It is time for people to start talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the way that the education world integrates, or gets swamped by, the new technology currents swirling around it. So, whatever your "Appetite for Construction," I hope you are ready for "Learning Now."
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April 04, 2006
Videoblogging Week 2006
This is the third year that Videoblogging Week 2006 is happening. During VB Week, this year April 3-9, vloggers attempt to post one new video per day. I'm scattering them around on different blogs. Todays post is over at BX21.org (a website where Bronx youth display their own self-made media) and deals with the topic of fair use. Check it out, and happy Videoblogging Week!
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April 03, 2006
Expression Du Jour
Took this at the April 2nd Boston Media Makers meeting. Despite my froglike expression, I had fun hearing about the various media ventures of those assembled, including Steve Garfield, Killer B, Andy Carvin, Dave Alpert, and David Tames. I gave a little presentation about the high school kids I've been making media with at bx21.org.
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April 01, 2006
Chillin' with Dave, holistically
I'm up in Boston chillin' with my friend Dave Alpert, songwriter, rockmeister, and unofficial mayor of the Back Bay. Spending time with Dave entails walking the streets of the Back Bay and bumping into Dave's 10,000 friends and acquaintances. Along with his musical exploits, Dave blogs at davealpert.com/blog, where he shares his thoughts on Craig's list dating ads, the Boston music legends and lowlifes, and other cool city ephemera.
I've been wanting to get him videoblogging for a long time, so we shot a little video today on one of my favorite topics, Holistic Healing while Dave held court at Espresso Royale.
Here's the video Dave made, it's Windows Media. It's pretty awesome, holistically speaking.
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