Viddler Business profile: Gamervision

I’m happy to say that I’ll be starting full-time at Viddler on Monday. One of the more exciting projects I’ll be doing involves hopping around to make video profiles of their various business customers. Embeded/linked above is the first video in this series—a profile of Gamervision—that I put together with the help of Jordan Oplinger. Super fun group of people over there at Gamervision. Excited to see who will be next.

Viddler Spotlight: Wine Library TV

In film school, while all the other kids were aspiring to be rockstar Hollywood directors, or trying to find a way to turn their hobby of making skateboarding videos into some kind of career, I was always much more fascinated with the web. To me, the internet was the only medium that provided a truly blank canvas. Once you get past all the videos of people getting hit in the wiener, it’s an incredibly powerful medium with zero barriers of entry. All you have to do is create something of value, be it informational value, artistic value, comedic value, whatever. Make something worth watching—even if it’s only worthwhile to a small handful of people—and you’ll be able to build some kind of audience. And besides, there are a lot of folks out there that like watching people get hit in the wiener. Let them have that.

When I was in 8th grade, long before things like YouTube and Viddler, I made videos and hosted them on my own website. Online video was my first love, and now she’s my sugarmama, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s why I was pumped a month ago today when I got to sit down with Gary Vaynerchuk, to get some history and insight about what he has been able to accomplish with online video. If I haven’t spammed you with it enough already elsewhere, I really recommend you give it a watch.

Introducing Viddler Subscriptions

Back when I was in high school, my idea of being defiant was to record an extremely sexually explicit rap song, make a music video where an asian dude lip syncs my lyrics and strips naked, and then submit the result as my final product for my video applications class. That’s actually still pretty close to my definition of defiance, though I no longer have classes and I no longer discriminate on the basis of race when deciding who can lip sync to my voice. Point is, there’s a kitchen in that video. I shot this new video for Viddler in that very kitchen. I thought that would be a good story. Guess not. Anyways, this video stars Aubie Merrylees. He’s great.

Viddler Spotlight: Engadget

My latest video in Viddler Spotlight series. Read my whole blog post about it over on the Viddler Blog.

Viddler Spotlight: Lehigh Valley Homes TV

In case I haven’t spammed you with this elsewhere by now, this is my latest video in the Viddler Spotlight series. These guys are real estate rockstars. If you’re a freelance video person in a small town, show this video to your favorite local business and convince them to hire you to step up their game online. I don’t know if these dudes have groupies, but they should.

Condo at the End of the World: Life Inside a Nuclear Missile Bunker

This is the best thing I’ve made in a long time. Shot by Jordan Oplinger, directed/edited by me. Made as a companion piece for an amazing editorial by Joseph L. Flatley.