Can’t make it to the hinterlands of Tennessee? The good folks from AT&T are showing off their ability to show stuttering video via their high speed networks with a live video webcast of many of the acts from this year’s alt music festival and arts extravaganza happening about 200 miles north of Atlanta. Two of my faves - Ben Folds is on the air at 3pm ET today and Elvis Costello will be up at 6:30pm Saturday - will be featured. Unfortunately, neither Death Cab for Cutie or Radiohead will be streamed from the AT&T site. Link to AT&T’s ‘BlueRoom’ live streaming is here.
A few weeks ago Amy found an old recorder for Sam to play with. He immediately took to blowing through it, and in this video plays along with mom’s French horn. When he first began to get sounds out of it, he’d crack up every time he heard a noise come out. He’s a natural, I tell ya!
About a month ago, Sam began to show us the hand motions to the itsy-bitsy spider song. Here, he’s accompanied by our resident musician. Click on ‘play’ triangle to start video on the page.
I’ve spent some time this weekend working on digitizing and editing videos we’ve taken of Sam over the last six months. The big result of that project was a DVD with all the clips, but I’m slowly working on short outtakes for the blog. I’m using YouTube.com, one of many Web 2.0 sites allowing user-generated content like this to have a (free!) home on the web. This should make it easier for everyone to see these clips. Up first - Sam’s very first visit to the beach when we were in Sarasota in March, visiting Amy’s mom and dad. Click on the ‘play’ triangle in the image above to start video playback in this window - total run time is 2:47.
C|Net.com reports on a new feature user-generated content play YouTube rolled out yesterday - the ability to recieve and post content sent directly from mobile devices. As evidenced by the role Flickr has played in events like the London 7/7 bombings, still images have flown around the web like wildfire in our mobile-happy world. Video has been more challenging, although major news outlets have carried some of these grainy clips on-air and on-line. But this new feature at YouTube suggests the next major news story may include plenty of citizen journalism video coverage if this feature gets even modest adoption.
Talk about convergence! Girls and (fantasy) football, courtesy of the advertising geniuses at Weiden + Kennedy. ESPN.com fantasy football implements a tried-and-true way to get the attention of the coveted 18-34 male demographic - babes. Link to the videos here(Quicktime).
It’s movie day on Trotz.com. Here’s epic number two in the ongoing Sam Trotz saga. This time, 8-week-old Samuel has a fascinating conversation with Amy. If anyone out there can translate, please let us know what he’s trying to tell us. Link to video here (5MB, Quicktime required)
We love shooting video of little Sam. Trouble is, it’s too doggone time consuming to edit the good stuff out, package it up, and post it on the blog. Anyway, here’s a taste of Sam. He’s cooing, wiggling and generally being a great little baby of late. Click on this link to view the video. Editors Note: You’ll need to have Quicktime installed, but in case you don’t, it’s an easy download. The movie is fairly large - 15 megabytes - so a fast connection is suggested. It will take 20-30 seconds for the video to start, so please be patient.
With a quick turn-around, here is a Quicktime video of our house as it looked over the weekend during the Grant Park Candlelight Tour of Homes. I counted over 109 candles burning at one point - plus a few oil lamp menorahs. Whew! No fires were reported, but there were extinguishers in several handy locations, just in case. Click here for the movie!
Gotta love the technology - but it still seems odd to have no audio. Kinda like a silent movie. Anywho, here is the very first video of our baby, the advanced ultrasound taken at twenty weeks. The little one passed with flying colors, and you can count ten fingers - and ten toes! Baby rolls around a bit, moving hands, legs, and generally just looks like a perfect little one! Click here or on the image to watch the video.
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The good folks from AT&T are showing off their ability to show 
