Last Friday we played some Poker at GabeB's. Mindcaster, bicycleMark and Richard Bluestein showed up as well. Richard grabbed the tape recorder and just put it on the table to a show. You can hear it here. I won a whole 10 euro that night! YEAH!!! It was actually just great to see Richard and the Mark(c)s all together.
I made the DLD book this year. How cool is that! Thanks to Guido for making this picture.
For those who are interested, I will be speaking on the panel "Transforming Media" being hosted by Divx at the Picnic Festival in Amsterdam. The panel is in the Engine room on Wed. 26 and is from 10:00 to 13:00. If you are there, give me a shout out!
Furthermore there are lots of interesting things to be seen at picnic, for free. If you have the time next week, check out the program. The conference track is 900+ euro (I know it's pricey) but you don't need that for all events.
This is a short video of an acrobatics act that wrapped up the Theater Festival in Amsterdam. over 30 theaters were participating. There were more plays than you can throw a stick at. It's at the scale of the Edinburgh's festival, but that's where the organizers are headed. Amazing that they got no funding from I Amsterdam. This is the kind of festival that needs more attention from the city and from sponsors. For more information check the TF1 website.
Theater Festival Amsterdam
People are always amazed at how much these reality shows and contests are so popular. It's not crazy. What we are seeing is true drama, that is not being acted. I don't care how good an actor you are, there is nothing like seeing real emotion, real drama or experiencing those fleeting moments that reality shows provide. As an example look at this clip to see this dorky mobile phone salesman bring tears (real emotion) to the crowd in this song contest.
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Neville Hobson gave me a ride back from the conference in belgium. We had a great talk on the way back about geek stuff but life as well. It's good to hear that his new company is working out well 4 him. We both feel it is an exciting time to be alive.
I have just arrived at the european communications summit in Brusseles. Lots of interesting people here, but i'm the only one without a suit. We'll see how it goes. Now we are listening to how the web 2.0 is changing publishing.
Eboman is a really interesting digital performance artist/dj/vj in the Netherlands.
iFranz just posted this cool picture of these new saddle bags for his bike he had made. I'm so jealous!!!
I've put together a pretty comprehensive list of video sharing sites for all of you to go and spread your videos on virally. A warning though is that most of there are just a simple youtube ripoff, with simple flash streaming, but a few have some really nice features on them. Some of my favorites are veoh, blip.tv, google video, twango vpod and dailymotion. If I've missed any (which I'm sure I have) please post them in the comments, and also let me know which are your favorite and why. Thanks and Have FUN!
iFilm
YouTube
MetaCafe
Blip.tv
Twango
Veoh
Buzznet
MySpace
Google Video
JumpCut
Uncutvideo AOL
Blinkx
Bolt
Break.com
Breaktaker
Brightcove
CarSpace
Clevver
ClipFish
Coull TV
Current TV
Dalealplay
Dave.tv
eSnips
Eyespot
TV.com
uGoto
Viddler
VideoJug
Videolog.tv
VideoSift
VideoVat
Vidiac
Phanfare
Canopy Channel
123 Video
One World TV
Gamevideos
Vpod.tv
Yahoo Video
vSocial
OurMedia
EyeSpot
Revver
Vimeo
Grouper
Videoegg
Cruxy.com
Pickle
Filecabi.net
Flukiest
flicklife.com
Flurl
Gkko
Glumbert
GoFish
Guba
Imeem
Kewego
Lulu TV
ManiaTV
MedicineFilms
MeraVideo
vidiLife
Vidivodo
ViralVideo
vMix
Vodpod
YouAreTV
Yourdailymedia
YourOpenMedia
Zabim
Zango
Zannel
Pyro.tv
Prettysleek
Dailymotion
CastPost
ClipShack
Zippyvideos
motionbox
Flixn
LiveVideo
sharewire.net
sevenload
Stage6
MotionTV
Nelsok
OnfuegO
Openvlog
Panjea
Photobucket
Pooxi
Porkolt
PureVideo
SelfcastTV
Sharkle
SmartVideoChannel
Spymac
Stickam
Streetfire
StupidVideos
Sumo.tv
SupportTube
Thatvideosite
AddictingClips
AtomFilms
Broadbandsports
Putfile
VideoCodeZone
PIXPO
Flixya
4shared.com
Motiono.com