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My Christmas Vlog on a Flip Mino HD

nathan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:50:34 +0000

MC bought me a swell gift for Christmas – the Flip Mino HD – a tiny wonder that delivers on the promise of high quality video in a small package. The only real issue I have with it is that being so small, it is difficult to keep steady. Perhaps with time and practice I’ll improve. However, the upside of the stealth profile is that almost no one notices I am filming them at all, allowing me to capture people in very natural moments. Also, according to my buddy noneck, you can hack your flip, adding a wide angle lens to it!

Anyhow, enjoy this four minute peek into my Christmas day revelry….

Christmas in the Colonies from natdefreitas on Vimeo.

This was definitely the year of gadgets for me, as I also was given a Polaroid Pogo mobile printer and a ThinkGeek Wifi Finder T-Shirt! More on these awesome toys in a later post…

Many thanks to Snr. Sufjan Stevens for the tune… go buy his Christmas album if you like it!

Interview My Family: What are your Thanksgiving Plans?

nathan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:58:25 +0000

I’m taking a short break from the usual interview method using the Screenflow application, to try our another approach: Video Blog Comments!

So, if you are member of my family, nuclear or extended, please watch the video below, and then leave a video comment by pressing the “ADD VIDEO COMMENT” button below.

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Interview My Family – Episode 8 – Robert

nathan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:50:52 +0000

My brother Robert calls in from his basement, where he was on flood watch, on the lookout for mysterious bubbling spring water emerging out of the ground. We reminisce about being “on the job” with the Vacaville Fire Department and look at photographs from his brief visit to Obama, Japan.

Interview My Family: Episode 7 "Sara with no H"

nathan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:44:01 +0000

Another day, another niece… you see I have a lot of them – nephews, too! Sara was eager to be interviewed after seeing her cousin Paloma on yesterday. We talk about the Phillies, gymnastics, webkinz, buildabearville and of course, the election!

Interview My Family: Episode 6 "Palomabama"

nathan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:37:42 +0000

Next up, my niece Paloma, who spent Tuesday night at Obama HQ in Sacramento with her mom counting electoral votes, dressed up at school recently as Thelma from Scooby Doo, thinks gay people are “just gay people”, and wants everyone to know that “Lice are going around!”.

Interview My Family: Episode 5 "Justine"

nathan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:33:44 +0000

It’s Obama-elect+1 day here and I’m hanging out with my cat Justine. I also let you know who I hope my next guest will be!

Interview My Family: Episode 4 "Dad and Larry"

nathan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:23:39 +0000

It’s election day, and I manage to catch my dad and my brother Larry for a few minutes of chat on the state of the world… this is a few hours pre-Obama victory, so we weren’t quite ready to call it yet…

Interview My Family: Episode 3 "Mikette"

nathan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:28:01 +0000

I convince my cousin to track down a computer with a working webcam so we can talk about surf photography and the election. We also have a surprise visit by a certain presidential candidate!

You can view the photos shown in the video here:

http://flickr.com/photos/svart_och_vit/sets/72157594463592041/

Interview My Family: Episode 1 "Becky" (for VloMo08)

nathan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:25:22 +0000

VloMo08 = Videoblogging Month 2008: “Post one video every day in November. That’s all you have to do…”

I am going to try to attempt this, with the help of my family, which some of you might know is quite large. My plan is, using this fun new screencasting tool I’ve been trying out, I’ll interview them via Skype… mostly just dialing them up when I see pop-up online, to catch them at a variety of unexpected moments, in the midst of their daily lives… real, raw, but most often just mundane.

Here’s the first episode with my sister Becky, who was the unwitting, but fortunately willing initial subject.

This is all captured and encoded in HD, so feel free to hit the fullscreen button on the lower right hand side of the player for the big picture!