Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth

On February 5, I spent the better part of the night working at NPR, helping out with online coverage of Super Tuesday 2008. One floor above us was Studio 4A, NPR's broadcast command center. Inside, dozens of NPR staff worked to bring live coverage of ...

Footage I shot for Rocketboom at the Washington DC protest against the Church of Scientology by the group known as Anonymous. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Third Generation Platform (.3gp), Flash Video (.flv)

On February 5, I spent the better part of the night working at NPR, helping out with online coverage of Super Tuesday 2008. One floor above us was Studio 4A, NPR's broadcast command center. Inside, dozens of NPR staff worked to bring live coverage of ...

Footage I shot for Rocketboom at the Washington DC protest against the Church of Scientology by the group known as Anonymous. Formats available: mp4, iPod, mobile, Flash

Video of me hand-feeding the giraffes of the Brevard Zoo in Viera, Florida.Formats available: mp4, iPod, mobile, Flash

View of Los Angeles from the Getty Museum on an unusually clear January day. To the center left of the picture is downtown LA, and if you look out over the Pacific Ocean towards the right, you can make out Catalina Island, more than 20 miles away.

When I visited my parents last February, I spent some time examining a small reel of 8mm film - footage from my the wedding of my grandparents, Cy Kaplan and Theresa Goldman, in December 1938. The film was practically falling apart, and much of it had ...

This is a short video I shot in the style of the Lumiere Brothers, who made experimental films in the late 1800s. Formats available: mp4, iPod, mobile

Right now I'm recording a demo of Utterz with a producer from Morning Edition. We just posted question to Twitter - "What are you doing for New Years and what do you wish you were doing?" - and we're asking it on Utterz as well to see what kind ...

Mobile post sent by acarvin using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3

I'm just testing out the mobile podcasting tool Utterz. It's similar to tools like Audioblogger and Audlink, both of which went defunct a while back, except that it does a much better job at letting you crosspost to other sites, such as your blog or your ...

Ever wondered how to make matzah balls? Want to become a king (or queen) of kneidlach? Just in time for Hanukkah 2008, here's a chance to watch me in action, demonstrating how to prepare my grandmother's matzah ball recipe. It's a very simple recipe, ...

Scenes from the 37th annual Scottish Christmas Walk, an annual holiday tradition in Alexandria, Virginia. Keep an eye out for a cameo by Virginia Sen. John Warner sporting a walking stick and kilt. -andyFormats available: mp4, mobile

Maggie Sansone plays her dulcimer as three girls dance at the Maryland Renaissance Fair earlier this autumn.Formats available: mp4, iPod, mobile, Flash

Christopher Lydon Live in the Studio, originally uploaded by andycarvin. They're back! Yesterday, Radio Open Source host Chris Lydon and producer Mary McGrath circulated an email announcing the return of the cutting-edge radio show, one of the ...

The human rights group Amnesty International has launched a new anti-torture campaign that's attempting to capitalize on the viral nature of Internet video to raise awareness about interrogation techniques reportedly used in Guantanamo Bay. The campaign, ...

Martin Luther King III talks about the role that African American bloggers and media outlets, particularly urban radio stations, played in raising the profile of the Jena 6 defendants, leading to the massive protests that took place last month in Jena, ...

On October 24th, IFOCOS and United Press International hosted a conference about journalism, activism and social media. Among the guest speakers was Martin Luther King III, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a veteran civil rights activist in ...

Last spring I borrowed a Nokia N93 video phone for a couple of months and shot some footage at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD. For some reason I totally forgot about the footage for many months, and just got around to editing the video. Better late ...