Jonnygoldstein Videos

Good tidings to all and be of good cheer, we wish you a merry Chrisma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-Solstice and a Happy New Year.

Here is my interview with one of the creators of TweetMobile, Jorge Just. Here's how TweetMobile works: if you tweet certain words, that causes mechanical birds to flap around in real life. Check the video to see TweetMobile in action.

Promo for Jonny's Par-tay featuring Dina Kaplan - Airing Wednesday, October 10th @ 9pm EST.

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Here's a quick little video to invite you all to Jonny Goldstein's Par-tay, where I will be doing a live interview/chat about all things Schlomo. It's really easy to be a part of the discussion, just get an account with Operator11, hook up a mic and/or webcam, and join in on the adventure! We will be talking about Online Networks, the future of The Winnies, Vloggercon, my video podcasts that I make for a living, and whatever else comes up. Excitement! Here's the deets: When: Weds, Aug 22, 9-9:40 Eastern Where: Right here at jonnygoldstein.com What you need: A computer connected to broadband with speakers or headphones. Stop on by! It's better than a rerun of the Hughleys!

This is my first time participating in Videoblogging Week, an annual ritual where people post a video a day for 7 days in a row. All I know about my videos this week is that they will combine video I shoot, animation I draw, and music by my frequent collaborator, John Sully.

Watch the videoFor a town of 7,000 people the middle of the Chihuahuan desert, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, has a lot to offer, even lox and bagels. They were missing a crucial ingredient though, so I had to accessorize with what was at hand. That's what this video is about. How did I get to the obscure hamlet of Truth or Consequences? My friends friends Mikey Sklar (who recently implanted an RFID chip into his hand) and Wendy Tremayne (The creator of the Swap-O-Rama-Rama events) moved there 9 months ago from NYC and they invited a bunch of their friends to come visit them over New Years. Truth or Consequences (known as T or C to the locals) is experiencing an influx of creative people from both coasts, attracted by the desert scenery, cheap real estate, and abundant natural hot springs. I thought T or C would make for a rich documentary subject, and I was not disappointed. The town is a mix of retirees, devout Christians (23 churches for 7,000 people), meth addicts, artists, New Age crystal gazers, and groovy entrepreneurs. Mikey and Wendy bought an RV park in the middle of town where they are building an Eco Lodge made with green building techniques using papercrete, shipping containers, and insulating industrial nanopaint, to make a "Green Hotel." The Eco Lodge will cater to people interested in spirituality, yoga, green technology, and techno-art. And the Eco-Lodge will also have a 108.1 degree outdoor hot spring to soak in. It should be open for business by September of 2007. Lot's of interesting folks converged for New Years, including Charles Hope, Limor Fried, Phil Torrone, Victoria Scott, and Scott Kildall. I really wanted to interview Mikey about the Eco Lodge, but he got sick and I wasn't able to. But I did get lots of good footage, pics, and even did some landscape drawing. And of course my research into the area included lots of soaking in outdoor hot springs with my wife. All in all, a truthfully consequential trip to Truth or Consequences.

There's nothing I like more than a good blog-o-spheric brouhaha, and we have one right now. At an internet media industry event known as VON, Dina Kaplan of Blip.TV challenged text bloggers to become video bloggers. One of them, Andy Abramson, took on the challenge and posted his first video. Alec Saunders, who was less than impressed with Andy's maiden effort, wrote a post addressed to Dina about why he doesn't plan to vlog. Various others have chimed in and I thought I would too, but in video form. Will Alec Saunders vlog? I don't know, but even if I don't persuade him, I enjoyed the wasabi peanuts I ate while shooting this. And that is a nose flute by the way.

I couldn't resist the extreme closeup when I tested the webcam of my new MacBook Pro. The nostril averse should not watch this.

Ryan Hodson asked me to put up a little preview about our educators event at Vloggercon 2006, so here it is.

ZipZapZop.com is news, music and entertainment for the Brave New World, hosted by Clark Saturn courtesy of Blip.tVToday's Topics: Schlomo and Dooser call in live, Josh Leo's ZZZ parody (CripCrapCrop), going on the Off, Off, Off Vegas show with Jonny Goldstein (or perhaps Yanni Goldthtein)on Monday (10pm, channel 56 Manhattan or live on MNN.org), Tao Te ChingNOTE: MNN.org, not mnn.com! Thanks, Jonny!