aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Video update

Months ago I promised video blogging and took off with a camera to shoot. I posted my first 2 snippets (on [deleted by request] and Gay Media), successfully got them to Google (after some frustration; and still no Mac!) and not a thing since.

Here’s what’s up…

I’ve been working hard opening a new Media Lab for the college. We opened the day after Labor Day but the official grand opening is the week after next. The Media Lab includes webcasts and podcasts so that’s another thing keeping me busy.

There have been organizational and procedural obstacles to get by, lots of hardware and software to install and learn, a student staff to train and a student body to motivate, all while doing the regular work of the labs.

On the home front we’re still putting the house together from the summer renovations. Keeping busy there too.

So I’m looking forward to getting back to my video blogging; I imagine cool winter weekends working on the video already shot, finding out more about Our Media and Participatory Culture, and shooting more.

There’s lots of interesting stuff to shoot around here, but I’m still an old school video guy, and that takes time. But maybe the students will teach me and I’ll learn to be a free and easy video guy; find a new way and do my own version of Walking in LA.