Contractor Bryan Roberts is building Florida’s first Earthship right here in Manatee County — and if you’re a college student (or have part of this summer free, anyway), you can participate in a Greencamp and learn the ins and outs of Earthship building yourself.
Local video genius Damen Shaqiri and I made this back in 2004. Totally loopy, an experiment in many ways. I forgot I had the file. What the heck. Maybe you'll get a kick out of it. (The book is totally obsolete, BTW. Desktop Linux has come a *long* way since 2004.
The infamous "throw the laptop into the ocean" scene was shot on Lido Key in Sarasota, FL. Not that it matters. We chose that beach because Mike, a guy who helped us with the production, needed some help putting a boat on a trailer (NOT the video kind) at the nearby Sarasota Sailing Squadron, and it was a convenient place for us to meet.
Naturally, you’ll want to go to Linux.com to see the story links Lisa mentions. Besides that, this is a pretty good example of how to make a “talking head” video interesting enough to watch for over four minutes, which isn’t the easiest task in the world.
roblimo | Tech, Videos | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Few people in the Bradenton area know that a lot of the videos I make — the ones for my “day job” — are about computer software. This is a fairly good sample of narrated software screen-capture video. It’s #1 from a set of 3. You can watch the others at Linux.com.
I own and wear a lot of Slashdot t-shirts, so it’s no wonder that people I meet here in Bradenton often ask me, “What’s a Slashdot?” Sometimes I try to answer them, but since this part of Florida is for the most part in about 1997 when it comes to IT & WWW technology, I tend to get a lot of blank stares when I try to explain Slashdot. More and more, I tend to just say, “It’s a discussion site for techies and you wouldn’t like it.” So I found this video on YouTube that’s about Slashdot and decided to post it here. If you don’t know what and why Slashdot is, it’ll probably confuse you more than it enlightens you, but what the hey! Slashdot’s as much of a cult as a website. It’s something you either get or don’t get. And so is this video by Carl Davis.
The 3rd annual WeMedia conference held by iFocos. I call this style a “video medley” because it uses snippets of a number of sessions and comments about the event in much the same way a musical medley uses parts of several songs to create a whole that may be greater than the sum of its parts.
