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Philly.com did this nice video feature about the Cardboard Tube Fighting League. I was pleasantly surprised that they opened it with footage of me using one of the tubes as a didgeridoo. It’s a fun watch, to see masses battling with cardboard tubes in front of the Philly Art Museum. Good times.

Indy Hall is a gem of a coworking community in Philadelphia. To find out how Indy Hall works, check out this video. I made it myself, and I plan on making a bunch more. For more info about what I’m up to on this front check jonnygoldstein.info.

This was shot at IndyHall in Philadelphia. The challenge: describe coworking in one word. People had a hard time with this, as coworking can be so many things. Plus I totally ambushed them. Here’s my whack at it: coworking is the phenomenon of a bunch of people who decide to work in the same physical [...]

My cousin, Yanni Goldthtein, Holithtic Healer, made an appearance at the Ace of Clubs in Manhattan last Saturday night singing “Wild Thing” as part of the Creamsicles Rock-and-Roll Variety Show.

Can I get some peace on Earth with that?

Here is one of the creators of TweetMobile, Jorge Just demonstrating his mashup between the microblogging service Twitter, and actual physical objects. Here’s how TweetMobile works: if you tweet certain words, that causes mechanical birds to flap around in real life. Check the video to see TweetMobile in action.

(Jonny Goldstein doing his Evard Munch impersonation at the Reichstag) I just got back from a brief trip to Germany to visit a relative. Look, I’m Jewish, so it’s no shock that the German brand does not resonate totally positively for me. I had a kind of multi-pronged discomfort with brand Germany that I have [...]

Some snippets of chaos as I walked around South Philly and Broad Street after the Phillies triumph over the Rays in the 2008 World Series. Not caught on camera: right after the winning out, a sixty year old chain smoking lady lifted her shirt to show everyone in the bar her (quite well preserved) assets! [...]

Look, it’s not what you think. Just check out this video, shot in the Strip District of Pittsburgh. Video Credit: Grace Piper

Justin Kownacki, John Carman, and Jim Russell schooled me in Pittsburghese, the local dialect in Iron City. This video focuses on the phrase “Yinz” which, if you read the Wikipedia article you will learn yinz is derived from “You ones”, which became “Y’uns”, which finally became “Yinz”. If you want to get really deep, check [...]