More Meta-Vlogging

Yes, yes, it's another vlogging venture from yours truly. This one features crude efforts at editing.

LINKS:
K-Drum's latest tirade.
Drum photo.
Voice by Lips.
Catherine's first vlog.

More to come, I'm sure.

UPDATE: See GFR's thoughts, which I largely endorse.

4/3/07 4:03PM del.icio.us this incoming links

Comments

first, editing. next, lighting.

Posted by: MP on April 3, 2007 04:11 PM

i hate you.

Posted by: catherine on April 3, 2007 04:11 PM

The trick is to indiscriminately and randomly employ trippy video filters and effects. Imagine your video being played at a club with no sound other than pulsing techno beats. Get to it!

Posted by: Petey on April 3, 2007 04:14 PM

See if you can figure out a way to keep your glasses from making you look like Max Headroom.

Posted by: Dan on April 3, 2007 04:19 PM

See if you can figure out a way to keep your glasses from making you look like Max Headroom.

It seems to be an intrinsic problem with using the iSight camera built into the laptop. The laptop gives off light, the light refelcts off the glasses, and there you go.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 3, 2007 04:23 PM

Is there some sort of tax code requirement that you must use the equipment a certain number of times by Date X before you can write it off?

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 3, 2007 04:29 PM

The laptop gives off light, the light refelcts off the glasses, and there you go.

Use the dimmer button to turn the light off the laptop?

Posted by: Kriston on April 3, 2007 04:38 PM

Is there any reason you need to wear glasses while Vlogging?

Posted by: Ikram on April 3, 2007 04:38 PM

Re. Bikini news, are you sure you have a face for vlogging?

Posted by: otto on April 3, 2007 04:47 PM

See what's the problem with vlogging? The comments are suddenly quibbles about lighting and your glasses. Write a blog and no-one writes to complain about the font. (Or maybe they do.)

Posted by: RichardA on April 3, 2007 04:49 PM

I miss Devo.

Posted by: Miracle Max on April 3, 2007 05:14 PM

The sound levels are wildly mismatched. I had to turn my stereo first up, then down, then up.

Posted by: Bryan on April 3, 2007 05:15 PM

Sounds to me like Drum would be one hell of an intimidating presence on Bloggingheads with a voice like that. Would Ann Althouse dare to go off on one of her crazy tirades if she were up against the Center-Left Robot Hitman? I don't think so.

Posted by: JP on April 3, 2007 05:15 PM

Write a blog and no-one writes to complain about the font. (Or maybe they do.)

As the guy who helped put together the templates on this site, I got a kick out of this (yes, there was complaining about the font, although Matt is the one who read those emails -- I just heard about em). Believe me, viewers/readers will complain about anything that can be expressed in human language.

Posted by: tom on April 3, 2007 05:27 PM

PLEASE STOP

Posted by: guy on April 3, 2007 05:33 PM

The Third Antinomy of the Vlog?

Posted by: Bryan on April 3, 2007 05:40 PM

Matt, I never noticed before how much you look like Hassan Nasrallah.

Posted by: Dan Kervick on April 3, 2007 05:53 PM

Well, I finally watched it, and I gotta say that the KDrum segment makes it as good as the hoodies vlog, which was pretty damn good itself.

You really ought to register the blogginghoodies.tv domain and start regularly having hoodie vlogs there.

Posted by: Petey on April 3, 2007 06:02 PM

Matt, on Passover it's "leavening" that is prohibited, not "levity."

kthx bye.

Posted by: jerry on April 3, 2007 06:59 PM

Vlog Warning to Matt: "They" can read your screen reflected in your glasses.

Posted by: ferd on April 3, 2007 07:01 PM

Almost perfect.

Somewhere on the web is a Flash thingy that shows a frog which moves its mouth when you speak (it uses the microphone). I just saw it recently.

If you could get video of that lip-syncing to the synthesized KDrum text, I think it'd be awesome.

Posted by: Jon H on April 3, 2007 07:39 PM

Not wanting to suck up to Matt - hell I'm just pissed (English for sloshed) - but that was really, really funny. I've always imagined Kevin Drum had Stephen Hawking's voice.

Kevin Hawkings (ne Drum) is still right about vlogging though. It's a pain in the arse.

Posted by: Mike on April 3, 2007 07:43 PM

Matt and Kevin,
The most horrifying thing about this was the "play again" button at its end.

Posted by: manowar on April 3, 2007 07:51 PM

I'm with Petey, I miss the hoodie. It makes you more intimidating in a crazy guy on the T kinda way.

Posted by: AJ on April 3, 2007 08:10 PM

Please, either take a film making course at your local junior college or abandon vblogging. Most vblogging so lacks visual sense to qualify as pure unfettered ego. Blog away, but save the camera for home movies, and don't inflict it on your otherwise supportive readers...like me.

Posted by: etaoin shrdlu on April 3, 2007 08:14 PM

See if you can figure out a way to make the rest of match your glasses in making you look like Max Headroom.

Posted by: Bruce Wilder on April 3, 2007 08:30 PM

Of course, you know your next step. Get your young niece or nephew to read a Drum post. Think pundit moments on the Daily Show, as read by children. Then cut in with your own thoughts. You can even get a little mean and start out with "isn't that view simply childish?"

Then, use Rocky of Rocky and Bullwinkle to frame Drum's points!

Posted by: JC on April 3, 2007 08:49 PM

Catherine,

"I hate you".

Now you've gotta make Matt pay. I suggest a public flogging, of course via vlogging.

Posted by: JC on April 3, 2007 08:52 PM

"Now you've gotta make Matt pay. I suggest a public flogging, of course via vlogging."

And have "Jesus Christ Superstar" playing in the background, as you bring the whip down on Matt. I think that probably is completely wrong and un-PC on at least ten different levels, as well as being rude, crude, and socially unacceptable.

Posted by: JC on April 3, 2007 08:57 PM

Not awesome? That chick was hot!

Posted by: Chad Okere on April 3, 2007 09:26 PM

Negative of vlogging: google video is blocked here in China.

Posted by: Jeremy on April 3, 2007 10:05 PM

It's hard to believe that the human race used to go through entire centuries without inventing any strikingly new media. So many media have been invented in my lifetime that I'm getting quite experienced at recognizing the stages.

Vlogging is in the dreaded forty-fonts-on-one-page, print-hello-over-and-over, hi-mom-this-is-email, blink-tag, hampster-dance, here's-what-I-ate-for-breakfast phase. It's brand new. We must all be patient while people figure out what sucks and what doesn't. Personal web sites were around for six or seven years before the technique for making them not-sucky (blogging) was recognized, formalized, and popularized.

Meanwhile, we can all have fun playing critic. Here's a suggestion: we've seen enough talking heads to last a lifetime. If you really want to vlog, try taking a camera for a walk around your neighborhood. Or start a pundit ping-pong league.

Another suggestion: don't get so fond of vlogging that you skip right over the other exciting new medium: podcasting. I'd far rather listen to audio snippets than watch talking-head video - not because the lighting is bad or the hoodie is too sinister, but because I can listen to audio while driving, washing dishes, or shoveling snow. If I'm actually sitting at the computer, I'd rather read your splendid prose myself than watch you read it to me.

Posted by: MikeB on April 3, 2007 11:11 PM

in the future, everything will be televised, so you, matt, vlogging whilst high are the tip of the spear.

Posted by: lucretius on April 4, 2007 12:50 AM

Which proves yet again that Steve Jobs can bring out the fool in everyone.

Posted by: JS on April 4, 2007 02:20 AM

Photogenic you're not. Perhaps, as suggested, with beter lighting? But I suggest a collaborative effort, wherein you write the copy, have it narrated by the proverbial stuffed shirt with the pleasant baritone, and then continue on with your editing learnings. You've totally got what it takes to put together some kick-ass pieces.

Posted by: jf on April 4, 2007 07:29 AM

And your point about being an "emerging medium"? Hello? When did you get out of bed and open the windows last?

Posted by: hdhouse on April 4, 2007 09:22 AM

Still too slow. It would have taken me 5 seconds to read that rebuttal.

Posted by: JD on April 4, 2007 01:12 PM

Also, a tip for video blogging or conferencing: place the camera/computer on a high surface so that you have to sit up and look up slightly at it. It makes you look much better.

Posted by: JD on April 4, 2007 01:14 PM

And invest in anti-reflective coating for your glasses, and possibly ditch the automatic tinting.

Posted by: bobbo on April 4, 2007 01:48 PM

I suggest brighter lighting, I think that would help a lot.

Also, the K-Drum robot voice was pretty funny!

Posted by: DanM on April 4, 2007 10:21 PM

Wait! Jeremy in China -- is that Jeremy Goldkorn of the mighty Danwei???

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