Posts Tagged ‘ video ’

This has been going around the bookish internets this week, and I love it. Love love love. (And look for some Hoopla action. It's a fabulous embroidery book.)
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Owen laughed, for REAL. I know he's my kid so I'm inclined to think his experience of minor milestones is fucking spectacular, but I'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy this. You may want to revisit it for a day that's really crappy, too. It's pretty much literally made of happy. (From the homepage, click through...
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I stumbled on a new service this morning. Pummelvision takes your Flickr, Tumblr or Facebook photos and creates a video of them. I thought it would be dumb, but it isn't. It is, as they assert, sort of like watching your life flash by. In a good way, really. I loved seeing how much...
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Last Thursday I spent the day doing very ugly arts and crafts with all sorts of interesting people as part of the Exhibition at the CreativeMix conference here in Vancouver. It was the first time in many, many years that I had to prepare a visual display for something, and here's the story of...
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Kids, my new iPhone takes video. And it, like, focuses. Thus I have entered the realm of people who take phone videos every day. Like, yesterday I filmed stuff for my next videoblog. But for now, I'd like you to properly meet Cleo. You've seen photos over the years, but you couldn't possibly tell how...
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Remember back when I launched a podcast? You know, the podcast that only ever had one episode? Yeah. Would you believe that I've wanted to play around with web video for years? I bet you would believe that, yes. And I bet you'd also understand why, given my one-episode podcast, I may have shied...
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And holy smokes, she's doing it right! I have some opinions about how-to/DIY-oriented video shows*. Some strong ones. And having just watched Diane's inaugural two-minute video, I'm compelled to shout to all the world that she's nailed the three most important rules I think MUST be followed to ensure the healthy progression of how-to video...
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It's been over a week since I returned home from a weekend in Portland better known as #craftgasm. It was the most fun I've had in recent memory, and I really can't find words to describe it beyond that. To spend a weekend with crafters of all sorts, all of whom live such amazingly...
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A sign of classic television: Not even the wee detail that Carter was President makes this seem outdated.
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Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0 Expo, NY, on building a personal brand online, but more, in my opinion, on approaching work and life with passion and vigour.
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