Herro Flom Japan

I know I promised that my next work of art would be a podcast. Hey, I lied. I can't help it — videos are just so frikkin' easy to make! Post-production is simply connecting the Clie to my PC via USB and doing a cut & past job in QuickTime Pro. I save it as a self-contained hinted movie with MP4 video and audio encoding.

Well, I was in Shibuya a few nights ago after work to buy a wide angle lens so I can shoot panoramas. I didn't have my mics, but I did have my Sony Clie PEG-NX70V, which as you can see I'm really starting to enjoy using as a video camera. Even with plenty of other data on the 128MB Memory Stick (text articles off the web, e-books, WAV files from the voice recorder, Atok for handwriting recognition in Japanese, etc.) I still have enough room for about 40 minutes of video. Granted, it's only 160 X 112 pixels big, but it doesn't look bad at all when viewed at double size, does it?

So I decided to do a wee little videocast of a Japanese style fast food restaurant. This is really mundane stuff to me, but I know there will be lots of people diggin' it because it's different and it's a glimpse into the daily life here. I like that I can whip out my mics or camera practically anywhere and just start talking. It took a while to build up the guts, but I'm completely over the self-consciousness now!

OK, the next one will be a podcast, I promise.

VIDEO (10.3 MB)

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There's an iPod firmware update that makes it easier to organize podcasts.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/

Wow, the shit's really hitting the fan. Seems like lots of popular shows have been pod-dotted off the net.

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If anyone asks how to subscribe to podcasts in iTunes 4.9, feel free to refer them here. Or, you can swipe the Flash file and HTML and post it somewhere else.

…And the answer to your question is: I made it with Wink.

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I'm working with a friend to put together some album art to attach to the MP3 files. Here are my favorite rough drafts so far:

If anyone would like to play with us, the photos I take will be kept here.

Back in the 80's when Late Nite with David Letterman would cut to a commercial, they'd transition with a photograph of the Late Nite logo printed somewhere it shouldn't be, like the lid of a pizza box or on the side of a police car. I loved those photos. I'd stay up just to see them. So that's the kind of thing I want to do with this show's album art. It also gives me an excuse to take photos. Before coming to Japan, I used to be really into photography. Here are a few of my favorite photos I took in Ecuador when I was 17-18 years old.

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Ladies and gentlemen, iTunes 4.9:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/

Currently, the podcast directory is hidden in the iTunes store. In the navigation bar on the left, select "Movie Trailers" then "Soundtracks." On that page there's a link to Podcasts.

Here are the technical details for making your podcast iTunes compatible:

http://phobos.apple.com/static/podcast_specifications.pdf

HFJ isn't available yet. There's a way to submit a podcast's RSS feed for consideration, but please don't do it yet. I'm working on adding album art to all the previous episodes and moving them to another server so I don't wake up one morning and discover I owe Dreamhost for excess bandwidth.

In the meantime, you can subscribe manually by pasting the RSS feed into iTunes. It's under the "Advanced" menu.

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