Short videos about cool places
Weird, on Sunday Pradeep Sethi emailed me this cool video about Halfmoon Bay coffeehouses (all the stuff you see is real near our new home).
Then today the San Jose Mercury News has an article on TurnHere, the company who is doing a ton of these cool videos.
Funny enough how did I learn about this? My RSS feed? No. My email? No. Digg? No. Someone left a copy of the dead trees version on a coffee table in the office. Heheh, I guess that’s justice, huh?
Anyway, nice videos about cool places.
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September 5th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Well, if didn’t have email overload, yah coulda got it from me, as I know I sentcha a bit on this, 2005ish, when they first hit. You weren’t into video as much then, I guess…anyways, All Hail Dead Trees.
PS - I wish people’d Steadicam, and not MTV-jump-cut so much in travel videos, makes you sea-sick. Still pretty high productional values there.
September 5th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
PS - It’s that Inman News guy, and Marc Prager, of History Channel ‘Tactical to Practical’ fame. Good group of guys…some of the best, and they are all story-telling style! I’d work for them, just Steadicam more. :)
September 6th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Robert, since you don’t check your email and these comments are short I’ll use here. Apple just updated the iMac and Mac Mini lines. Are these what you had anticipated for their last announcements or are we still waiting for what you heard of? I think you can give a yay or nay without revealing anything. They have more new stuff coming at their Showtime event, so if these aren’t what you heard of, I guess we can expect them there.
September 6th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Turn Here is really fantastic. Great videos. Great idea. You know who is also doing “social travel” well is Pennsylvania. Check out Visit PA and look at the “playlists” For some reason PA has always done neat stuff here.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
The Turn Here crew submitted some Collections to PassThePOI so you could select videos by location
http://www.passthepoi.com/?s=turnhere
September 7th, 2006 at 6:14 am
[...] Turn Here hosts videos celebrating local businesses, primarily, such as restaurants. The format is familiar: two-three minutes, a mix of video and photography, minimal effects, all driven by a narrative voiceover. The Mercury News has an article on Turn Here. (thanks to Robert Scoble) Kodak has a story center on their website, devoted to narratives about photography and photo tips. [...]
September 8th, 2006 at 7:49 am
What makes a good podcast?
Here is a Bambi Francisco video podcast about Feedburner that is an excellent example of how to do it right. I wrote an earlier post The problem with podcasts and web video where I gave the reasons I do not watch video or listen to audio podcasts. My b…
September 9th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Scoble,
I am glad that you liked the video.
Just wanted to mention that the link to the video in your post actually goes to Mercury article and not the video.
Thanks & Have a great weekend!
Pradeep