2009 Burning Man Timelapse Video: day & night from atop a rickshaw
Now that WordCamp LA is over, it’s back to posting more about Burning Man 2009! This 2009 Burning Man video montage comes from the on-high vantage points of an airplane and then from atop a rickshaw. It’s edited from a day to night perspective. Check out the dust storms! From the shots of the fireworks and the Rocket, my guess is it’s from Friday’s Black Rock City excitement. What do you think?
Art Predator to Read at the Artists Union Gallery 730pm Tues. 9/15/09
That’s right, the Art Predator is reading LIVE and in PERSON tomorrow night, Tuesday Sept. 15 at the Artists Union Gallery, located in Ventura on the Beach Promenade near the parking garage: 330 So. California St.
An open mic follows my featured reading, so bring your work to share also! I look forward to hearing you read!
(I will probably be wearing more clothes, however–that photo of me reading is from Center Camp at Burning Man!)
I imagine I will read the poem read above which was selected by the on-line video poetry journal Guerilla Reads last year; I will probably read the poem below also Read more…
Ben Huh: guess some lol cats thought my blog post was a cheezburgr & ate it
I really did put up a live blog post about Ben Huh’s hilarious presentation on how to do, among other things, MPH (Mr. Potato Head) at WordCampLA 2009. But now it is nowhere to be found! Very strange. There is no way that I can imagine accidentally deleting it.
While I was liveblogging, I also tweeted some of his words. So, instead of that post, unless it turns up, I offer up an apology and these tweets (complete with typos), and including one directing traffic to the missing blog post! Hmmn, should I be suspicious??:
Ben Huh: your best bet is to google my name #wordcamp
LA11:06 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
Ben Huh: this is what you call a user generated presentaiton #wordcampla
11:06 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
Ben Huh: yeah, we have a business doing this
11:06 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
who is he? Ben Huh is the CEO for the funny cat and FAIL network…
11:07 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
Ben Huh: Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity
11:19 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
Ben Huh: Complexity has an inverse effect on your business’ ability to scale #wordcampLA
Ben Huh: If a significant component is lost, it’ll be ugly, but no one dies.
Ben Huh: If a significant component is added it’ll be ugly but everyone lives. #wordcampla
Ben Huh: You’ve seen our sites, but no one thinks of us a business. #wordcampLA
Ben Huh: outsource everything you don’t know how to do best #wordcampLA
love @benhuh –his presentation at #wordcamp had us rolling in the aisles!
11:38 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
my live blogging attempt to capture @benhuh? ‘s hilarious presentation at #wordcampla http://bit.ly/4oRIq211:40 AM Sep 12th from TweetDeck
love @benhuh?–his presentation at #wordcamp had us rolling in the aisles! http://bit.ly/4oRIq2
Hmmmn, a mystery. Any ideas? I’d love to hear them. I know that twitter can’t find me and my hashtags don’t show up any more (not since mid-WordCamp SF 2009), but there’s a whole slew of people with that problem.
Here’s a live blog post from Ben Huh’s presentation at WordCampSF 2008: https://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/wordcamp-sf-2008-good-will-virality-aka-viral-virility/
And here’s a slide share link for a previous presentation he did on building community:
UPDATE: I contacted WordPress, showed them that it had been published by sending them the link to it on google (which, when clicked was a 404 error), and Anthony at WordPress put it back up. A bunch of it is missing somehow but oh well….
Andrew Warner: Using video instead of relying on text to convey your message
Andrew Warner – “How To Add Video To Your Blog”
In his 20s, he used credit cards and ingenuity to create a $30+ mil / year (in sales) internet business with his younger brother. He created Mixergy to help ambitious people who love business as much as he does learn from a mix of experienced mentors. He does that by inviting speakers to live events and online interviews.
OK I’m going to admit that I’m starting to lose some steam here. Live blogging and tweeting on some coffee and a few muffins is not a great recipe for late afternoon alertness.
Fortunately Andrew Warner is super high energy and using video to supplement his talk.
He argues that anyone can do it. Buy a simple, super cheap camera like a Flip and do what you can quickly. People will put up with poor video quality but not poor audio, so invest in a Blue Snowball which costs about $100, and which has a condenser mic. Or check out a Zoom field recorder for audio which is ideal if you’re on the go, as recommended by someone in the audience.
One benefit of the Flip camera is it has the editing software right in it. You don’t need any fancy editing software–just use what comes with your computer or check out Camtasia for PC or Mac, or try out Screenflow which is $100 for a Mac or try it for free. Camtwist is a free software which lets it seem like you’re doing a 2 camera shoot using skype.
OK my mind is blown here. And he says he’s only showing us 1% of what’s possible.
I’m inspired. Let’s go make some movies!!
Reach out to him: mail (AT) awarner (DOT) com
To videotape yourself and get some distance farther than your arm, buy an X shot, a telescoping device to which you can attach your camera.
$19 Griffin technologies offers a mic or use a separate audio recorder.
Whew! The next session is on how to write a plug-in, so I’m over and out! Thanks for hanging with me at WordCamp LA!
Jim Turner – “Blogging For A Living”
Jim began blogging in early 2004 and soon became very passionate about blogging. His passion grew to the point where he wondered how he could take this passion and turn it into a business or a way to make a living to support his family, or at least supplement his income.
Jim started as a Daddy Blogger, writing about changing diapers and day to day life as a dad, just a guy who loved talking about his kids…who found an audience.
And now he’s paying his mortgage and making a living blogging.
How did he do it? Read more…
Ben Huh: your best bet is just to google my name
Who are you? The audience wants to know. Here’s his bio:
Ben Huh – “Business For Free and Profits For You”
Ben is the CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc., the company behind the hugely popular blogs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog and others. The success of his sites can be attributed to his knowledge of memes, viral content and crowd-sourcing.
If you don’t know who we are, we’re the ones who put up funny pictures of cats for a living, he says.
This is what you call a user generated presentation, he says.
Supposedly he went home early from the bar so he could work on his presentation. FAIL. The presentation won’t load. Hence, he’s just talking fast and loose and he is HILARIOUS!! I cannot type fast enough. And since this is LIVE. live blogging, a live unscripted presentation there won’t be a link to it later.
Now I gotta say, live blogging works when the system works. And this system here at LMU is NOT working. I just lost ten minutes of notes and jokes, a few of which I fortunately tweeted.
Fortunately, the right person over heard me complain about getting dropped about 30 minutes ago. He just got a phone call and I will likely be dropped again. Then will be able to stay on for 3 hours instead of 30 minutes.
MONDAY UPDATE: So who knows what happened, but at some point, as I was writing this, not only did I lose the rest of this blog post, which I recreated and then continued to write, but then, the blog post ENTIRELY disappeared! Today, I contacted WordPress supported and somehow, WordPress found this part of it and restored it. Guess something is better than nothing. Strange strange strange.
Failure is Job One: Micah Baldwin says “Go to the SEO panel”
Tony Adams of Yahoo SEO etc is on the other panel on SEO; Micah suggests that we go there. Micah says he’s lived a lot of failure so I guess he’s an expert. He thinks so. The idea behind the session as I understand it is to use failure to our advantage, to learn from it. He’s starting with video of Michael Jordan talking about all the ways he’s failed which concludes with “This is why I succeed.”
His own story has to do with twitter. He’s the one who started Follow Fridays. After he sent out a tweet that said he was the antiChrist of twitter–follow him and lose 10 followers. So he started Follow Friday. Read more…
I’m Shayne: WordPress MU & WP ecommerce
Speaker: Shayne Sanderson
WP & WPMU: Ecommerce
One of the big criticisms I hear about WordPress.com is that they don’t want you to make money off your site, . Well, it’s not that they don’t want you to make money–they just don’t want you to use WordPress.com, they want you to use WordPress.org. Doesn’t seem like that’s changed much but here’s an interesting option for making money using a WordPress platform–using WordPress MU.
Which is what Shayne wants to talk about. Read more…
Live Blogging From WordCamp LA 2009
Last weekend, dust storm white outs at Burning Man. This weekend, WordCampLA 2009! A bit extreme but I will bring you as much of it as I can! Then get back to writing about Burning Man…stay tuned!
Who’s speaking? Read more…
For this day of memorial, photos from Burning Man’s 2009 Temple
My friend Gary Stevens took these images of the Temple at Burning Man 2009. Once again, people placed pictures, poems, and other tokens to go up in flames on Sunday night.
This year you could walk up several ramps or climb stairs inside the Temple to experience the playa. The Temple also had a flame burning in its core. This view from on high directs you toward the Man and Center Camp.
I have to admit that the Temple didn’t move me as much this year as it has in other years. This year, we visited on Thursday night and it seemed like a disco inside, especially combined with the blaring of the music from the artcars ringing the perimeter. This sense of sacriledge made it easier to leave the Playa earlier than planned, before the Temple burn which I’d planned to attend with my nephew who lost his birth father last year. So when the second day of dust storms hit, we packed up and headed out. I’m sad that I missed that moment of prayer with him, for me, for the world. I did hear that it was a wonderful burn and that people respected the request for quiet from 7-9pm.
(Thanks, Gary, for letting me post some of your photos here today; more to follow of the Man and playa sites along with commentary. If you want copies of these images, please go to his site and ask him. If you’re interested in materials from this site, I appreciate that courtesy as well.)
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