more fun w/ stop motion – Luis and I put this 1 together for SPIN utilizing elements from January’s edition.
SPIN from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
more fun w/ stop motion – Luis and I put this 1 together for SPIN utilizing elements from January’s edition.
SPIN from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
A couple weeks ago (mid January of twenty ten), I went to shoot an interview in Arizona with Dr. Andrew Weil. Kevin Rose compiled a list of questions for Dr. Weil focused on the perspective of the geek, one who typically is indoors working at a computer most of the day (probably 90% of us). I was going to transcribe the interview word for word and post that, but instead, after long internal deliberation, decided that I would just post the interview in a video format, this way nobody would question my translating abilities and accuse my person of hacking the text words. This post is interesting in it’s timeliness as the previous post was on Kristin’s book – and his responses all pretty much match what she writes about in her nutrition guideline/cookbook. Enjoy!
Interview with Dr. Weil from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
As most of you know, Kristin recently self-published her 1st cookbook “Therapeutic Chef: Recipes to Prevent Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes.” – available via Amazon. While the title may sound a bit intense, I assure you that this book is for everyone, regardless of whether you’re trying to prevent illness or not. I have eaten the vast majority of these recipes and can say that beyond their therapeutic healthy value – they are all extremely tasty and satisfying – whether you’re a vegetarian or not.
I recently finished going through the book myself and thought that I should post a few of the pages that I think make this book so valuable. I will also include a few recipes that are in the book that you can try out, as well as some pages and recipes names of other personal favorites. Hope you enjoy!
Cover:
Therapeutic Chef – Book Cover (download)
Table of Contents:
Sample Pages and Recipes to try:
Easy Recipes for the Beginner – p 456
Roasted Red Pepper Dip – p 149
Pages and Recipes in the book that I highly recommend:
I was recently hanging out with @kevinrose and after a few beverages, he pulled up the AT&T voicemail message website. For the next hour, we played around with different messages, trying to compete for who could come up with the worst message that would annoy people calling to the point where they’d not want to leave a message. It was funny for awhile, but since I use my cell phone as a business phone as well, I finally had to pull it since I feared that potential clients might get confused and then not leave any message or contact info.
Anyway, here’s the site for you playing pleasure. Please feel free to post what you come up with here – or, as mentioned in the last diggnation episode, email your masterpieces to: fans@diggnation.com
Website: http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
My masterpiece: (I also pulled it into FCP to add a few delay effects before sending it off to the iphone). can be listened to hear:
http://bit.ly/voicemail_GlennMc
click once to listen to or right (control click) to save as.
Thank you and good luck to you and your endevours!
Glenn
Last Random Episode from China!
In this second part of Random (from the Yin bar roof in Beijing), Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose (and a little bit Glenn) speak of their favorite travel spots. Covering a wide range of places, they go into the where and why, giving some examples and good info on what to look for and occasionally look out for.
Let us know your favorite locations in the comments below – and why.
Thx from the Random Team!
Random – China Episode 2 Part B from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
a few weeks ago Luis – http://penabrand.com/ found a little project for he and I to do. he grabbed a bunch of construction paper and a matchbox car while I grabbed my light kit, Lumix G1 and a few cans of Mtn Dew beverage cans. here’s the end product. view here for quality, view here to give us a vote!
Mtn Dew Upload from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
photo montage from Burning Man. this is just a rough cut but i’ll post anyway since it’ll probably be awhile before I get back to it.
Burning Man rough cut from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
the following video clip is Random Episode 5 (or 6), Part 2 of 2, portion A. The whole thing is 45 minutes and based upon recent comments, it deemed appropriate to cut it into 2 twenty some minute segments. There was an easy place between topics to do such cutting. Thus, this first episode covers one main topic that we can call – “scammers and being scammed while out traveling”. Part 2 will be about “personal favorite places to travel to” and why.
Show Notes:
- open intro weird light video: kevin shooting a laser into a “7 Cups” vessel
- iphone commercial
- Yin Bar, Beijing – http://www.theemperor.com.cn/
- Travel Website: virtualtourist.com
China Part 2a from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
In case you haven’t seen any of the earlier posts, (Pre-China Trip, Random Ep 4 or some quick writes) we recently took a quick run out to China to taste and learn about Puerh tea (wikipedia link, recent Time article we’re sort of mentioned in) . Amazing trip. We had a great crew led by Austin @ 7 cups in Tucson and made our way around south eastern China, near Kunming. We’ll have more to share soon about Puerh, like, what it is, where it’s from, how it’s made and the making of some crazy paste/tar like substance (made from Puerh, not some kind of drug stuff) that is an old tradition and is making its way back – interesting stuff.
The following video segment is a continuation of the randomly shot randomian thought random show project with Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose. This time, we’re not in a library nor are we out on a boat dock fishing for fish – we’re on a street corner in Jinggu. At night. And it’s not really cold outside. It’s slightly humid with a dusty breeze coming out of the southwest. None the less.
Audio Note: Most of this was recorded with a Shure-VP88 stereo condenser mic (good with headphones). Apologies for when I don’t have it pointed in correct direction (sounds like they’re behind us). None the less (2).
Random Episode in China #1 from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
Other quick links:
Twitter posts – from Kevin @goodtea (see older posts for China links, some cool GPS location determination markers, not sure on accuracy)
From a tiny corner table at a busy Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco, Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose jump into another random brain spew episode by starting off with a little medical update on Tim’s recent ER visit for some elbow issues. See below for show notes – other topics, links.
The 4th Random Episode from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
Other topics include:
- the new (now old) iPhone 3GS, talking some about the new updates and then a short comparison with the Palm Pre.
- personal experiences with start-ups and pitching new ideas through avenues like Y Combinator.
- Demo days – five things you can do as a new startup to get your ideas in front of influencers.
- your website: per user metrics, unique visitors coming to your site – cost per acquisition, and lifetime value of the customer.
- learning new languages – discussion about the Living Language series.
China Travel – 1st couple days.
Day 1 – flight from SFO to Beijing. While on the flight, as well as right before getting off of the plane, we had medical type folk dot us in the forehead with a thermometer instrument that tested for high fevers slash swine flu evidence. This did not happen on the way back to the States – guess we’re not as concerned here in the US. Once we arrived, I was about to get up out of my seat on the plane only to notice that nobody else was moving about. I guess bad weather diverted us to somewhere in Inner Mongolia. After 5 hours on the tarmac, we now had missed our flight from Beijing to Kunming – and thus had to get a hotel room near the airport.
After finally getting the lights on in my room (several breakers had to be flipped), I checked in on Tim and Kevin to find Kevin wrapped up in his “skeeter-keeper-offer’ outfit that he had decided to wear to bed. Good call as there was plenty of blood evidence on the wall of skeeter massacres over the last few weeks – the blood was still yet fresh. Regardless, he still wakes to a fat lip – one created not by Tim and his sleep walking, punching motions, but by mosquito’s! Somehow his full jacket mechanism settled onto his face and a mosquito just happened to land there on that spot and hit Kevin in the lip.
Too bad it didn’t work out for Kevins new anti-skeeter outfit. However, it was probably more comforting to have that on and have a better chance at ignoring that crazy flying sound that mosquito’s make. How do they make that noise btw? What are they doing? How could it be such an annoying sound – is it just because of our association with what they create after they do their business? That itchy bumpy mound?
Ok, I’m done writing for now. Quick highlights and happenings right off the top of my head:
- drink lots of tea. On day 2, Tim is quoted as saying “hmm, this looks familiar” – about sitting down to Puerh tea tasting. Note – this is day 2.
- tea is good.
- toilets are bad. Well, I actually like the squat action – I hear/have read – that it’s way better/healthy/natural for the person as well. Regardless, it’s actually kind of comfortable.
- Glenn almost shoots Kevin in head during Roman candle firework battle – more on this later. Also – more pics are viewable here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtsalad/sets/72157621700273579/
I shall update later with a few more stories from the trip as well as some video action – we also shot 2 episodes of “Random” – so more to come.
Road Split
Alright, well, today is July 3rd, which would make tomorrow the 4th. It’s definitely a chill, Saturday style (but today is Friday) here in SF for the Holiday however, I’ve been racing around runnings errand duties all over, getting ready with last minute things before leaving tomorrow for China. So while 99% of the people in the city will be festive tomorrow eve, I will have begun a 27 hour flight, er, maybe it’s 11 hours, to Beijing. I’ve never been before so I’m sure I’m in for some intense new surroundings. Lucky for me though, especially being a bit of a crowd phobe, I then head out to a much more mellow corner in China, the Yunnan Province. This is where we’ll end up for a little over a week touring around checking out the origins of Puerh tea.
The following is a quick “Pre Trip” style compilation of what myself, Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose are doing before heading out.
China Pre-Trip Clip from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
Cut Interview from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
a couple of long long weeks ago i was in a place that i care not to care to discuss for more than a 7 or 8 minute period of time. it was a time that was as confusing as this and here is what went down when and how.
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This time around, we’re randomly taken to the world of books. Tim and Kevin reveal their top 5 favorite reads and why. Since I don’t want to spoil it, I’ll keep the book titles separate. Click here to see later.
Random Show with Tim and Kevin from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
Here’s a quickly tossed together video mixed with some still images from last weekends Bay to Breakers event in San Francisco. Headphones help this one out – audio is pretty bad/over modulated in a few sections but if you can get past those few short portions, it gets a little better. This video is also a bit hard to watch – so be warned, I did not have the best camera moves/steadiness that day. Also note: this video does nothing to convey the enormous event that B2B is. This is merely a tiny capture of what the day entailed for me (didn’t exactly get a lot of running in).
Bay to Breakers from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.