Staying warm in an Extra Action band jacket: more images.
Which will soon become my *life* on spin cycle when March begins (with my upcoming ETech talk, and SXSW here and here speaking engagements)… It’s been a quiet weekend on Tiny Nibbles but a combo of all-work plus some really serious play behind the scenes…
The work has been all about my marching orders to finally put together a video (called a “demo reel”) which is basically like a video resume of all the videoblogging I’ve done. Well, not really all the work — to my amazement, there’s tons of VB-vlogging out there. But rather, trying to nail down highlights of … um, me. Which is a weird feeling, like putting together an ad for yourself. So starting last wednesday I began combing through vlog archives, and spent around 8 hours a day through saturday finally nailing down edits and scenes. It of course all culminated with a major iMovie bug that even stumped Apple’s service department (another day gone, lost to making the video). But I found a workaround: for the interested nerds, it was interpreting certain .mov clips and exporting them super-blown up, so you’d only see 1/4 of the screen, while other clips looked fine. The problem was never solved using Apple’s export function, but I got it to behave with total updates top to bottom on my computer, plus exporting to (only) QuickTime, with h264… Sheesh. I am NOT a technical person, I just solve problems…
But, I realized I have a few favorites from the archives worth re-sharing:
* GETV: Musee Mechanique: Mechanical Amusements From the Past
* GETV: Nerd Salon and Roomba Cockfights
(Check out the quality differences in our old + new GETV videos, wow!)
* me: The Smart Girl’s Guide to the MSM
* me: Sex Toy Gifts From Good Vibes
* me: Xacti Waterproof Field Test
* me: Prep For Maker Faire + SRL Home Movies
* me: Videoblogging Week Day 10 (aka “the cute little cow video”)
Then, the fun bits. Like going *insane* after midnight on saturday night with the Extra Action Marching Band at a private party downtown in a high-rise (see my photoset). Imagine how outofmymind happy I was to be hugged and harassed and nuzzled and told flat-out I was family, dammit, and then I put down the camera and hopped on a table, grabbed a pole and danced inappropriately with/under/on top of trumpet players.
Game party Flickr photoset; use this guest pass to see all images.
I also got to escape to the exclusive (!) White Wolf Games party, where I cruised around the bondage spaces (um, gamers sure can throw a party), hung out with the gorgeous and incredible (and Violet Wand electrified) Poni — the artist formerly known as Evil Ponygirl, who will NOT be appearing at the SF Fetish Ball — ugh, more hurtful name bullshit. Anyway, every touch from Poni tingled and she pet me warmly while we chatted, and it was sweet and fun, just like she is sweet and fun. I have video of go-go dancers, but I’m off the iMovie crack for a few days until I have my tolerance back… And hopefully I’ll have some sexy video for you, like this still image sample:
Now, back to our regularly scheduled blogging, work on my ETech presentation and more columnizing. Oh, and I cleaned out my sex toy treasure chests, so I should remember today to *leave the house* and get some new plastic bins for dildos and plugs, which I can then very Virgo-like subsequently label, “Too Big!” “Too Small!” and “Just Right!”
