Herro Flom Japan

It seems like the commonflicks.org experiment didn't turn out so well. After an entire day of downloading, my download is stuck at 83% complete. Bah.

Thanks to a tip from Flynn, the Disney Sea videocast (videoblog, inkernet home movie, whatever) is now available at ourmedia.org. BitTorrent client? You don't need no stinkin' BitTorrent client.

I'd like to attach the video to the RSS feed so ya'll who are subscribed will get it, but I suspect that might not be a good idea, considering it's a 63MB file.

The next piece of media I let loose into the wild will be a podcast.

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It's funny, lately I've been posting more frequently and promoting my podcast/videocast all over the place, but the number of subscribers is going down while at the same time I'm getting lots of positive feedback. Go figger.

I videoblogged my family's weekend trip to Tokyo Disney Sea. From the point of view of the video's host, I should have done more narration, but I was there as a husband and father, so I wanted to focus my attention on my family. As much as I love to share my life with all of yuns (that's plural for you), frankly, it's not a something that appeals to my wife and I respect that. I did have her listen to some of the audio I captured with the binaural mics and she was impressed, so at least she can understand the appeal. She is who she is, I am who I am, and that's that. There's no need evaluate the situation any deeper than that. That's where couples get in trouble.

Half way through the day it hit me that 90% of what you hear in Disneyland is, well…fake. It's a really, really well-done fake, but listening to a podcast recorded there, heck, you might as well be plugged directly into the PA system that's pumping out all the sound effects. I'm not a Disney hater; they're absolutely the best at what they do. I'll save the details for the next podcast.

In the meantime, I posted the video I shot to commonbits.org. To retrieve it, you'll need to learn how to use BitTorrent. There's a tutorial here. If you can't figure it out, don't worry about it; we're not talking Oscar award-winning cinematography here. It's not that great of a loss.

The guy running commonflix.org let me get away with it this time, but the content doesn't seem to be the kind of stuff that's normally hosted there. If anyone knows a more appropriate site to use, please let me know.

So the file linked to below is a torrent file that contains data used by programs like iPodderX (Mac), DopplerRadio (Win) or Azeurus (Java) to download the actual video.

disneysea.mp4.torrent

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I have to make this quick because I'm meeting the family at Tokyo Disneyland today. I filmed my commute to work yesterday. The file isn't any bigger than any of the MP3's I've posted.

Would you like to see more of these? Yes? No?

Also, I'd really like to be able to call Herro Flom Japan an "Award-Winning Podcast." Could you please nominate me for a People's Choice award in the soundseeing category? I'll mention it on my next podcast too.

VIDEO!

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Warning: This episode is neither work safe nor podsafe. It will corrupt your children and jeopardize your career. And if that weren't bad enough, it'll probably hurt your eardrums too.

Last night I had fish & chips with cider at an English pub in Akasaka, took a stroll, talked with a few kyakubiki (customer pullers), and finished up the evening with karaoke. Recently I showed off some photos of me when I was younger, and a friend told me I looked like Freddy Mercury when I was in college, so I chose a song from Queen to sing.

Rich "Freddy Mercury" Pav

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This will either be interesting or it will be the podcasting equivalent of sitting through a slide show of vacation photos. We'll see. I'm still figuring this stuff out.

Someone mentioned that my podcast reminded them of the weekly public radio program This American Life, so I decided to check it out. For the past two weeks I've been listening to it eight hours a day at work. So for this episode I decided to try to take a lesson from them. No way is it anywhere near as good as This American Life, but then again they have a team of 10 professional producers working full-time on every episode. And there's no background music in mine. Too much trouble.

Update: I fixed the broken link to the MP3 file.
Update: The last minute or so of the file didn't get uploaded. That's been fixed too.

Show notes:

• There are accompanying photos in the gallery.
• Calpis (Not "cow piss")

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