Category: Video

  • Video: 9 hours Capsule Hotel – A Monocle Report

    Quick video today – Monocle Magazine just posted an interesting video on a new Capsule Hotel in Japan. I’d love to stay at a place like this someday! From Monocle: The 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel unveiled in December 2009 by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp. Designed in a collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata…

  • Video: Sailing from San Diego to Catalina Island

    A few video clips from my recent sailing trip from San Diego to Catalina Island. Be sure to hit the full trip summary and photos.

  • Video: Swimming in La Jolla with the GoPro HD Camera

    Last week while I was in La Jolla, California, I took a swim with friend Talitha and tested out the GoPro HD Camera. Here’s a few clips. Listening to: M83 – Midnight City (Hype Machine Link)

  • How A Leica Lens Is Made

    I love getting into the tech of cameras. Digital cameras nowadays are incredibly sophisticated, and perform in an amazing range of situations. To illustrate the complexity of the process of creating a camera lens, here’s a quick video from Leica. Hopefully someday I’ll be able to use one of these when I get my hands…

  • Video: Flying the Cessna 172 and Aviat Husky with Nassau Flyers

    Video: Flying the Cessna 172 and Aviat Husky with Nassau Flyers

    Video from flying the Cessna 172 and Aviat Husky with Nassau Flyers. Related: Flying the Robinson R22 Helicopter

  • Tribeca Film Festival: Open 24 Hours

    Last night, thanks to friend Becca Matt and Time Out New York, I attended the Tribeca Film Festival shorts showcase “Open 24 Hours“. Overal the films were great, and there was an interesting Q&A with the film makers afterwards.

  • Launching Apollo 11 at 500fps

    Launching Apollo 11 at 500fps

    Spacecraftfilms.com presents an ultra slow-motion HD video of Apollo 11’s Saturn V launch from 1969, transferred from 16mm film. The footage shows intense heat effects from the launch, captured at 500 fps and providing a detailed 8-minute clip. The video, narrated by executive producer Mark Gray, encapsulates a mere 30 seconds of the actual event.

  • Video – Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold

    Video – Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold

    Lots of video posts lately. During my years in college at the University of Colorado at Boulder, I rock climbed a bunch – but always either bouldering close to the ground, or roped up. However, I had a small group of friends who would frequently “free solo”, and climb without a rope. On a number…

  • Sweater Trees at University of Texas

    Yesterday while biking from my place north of the UT campus down to pick up my SXSW Badge, I found an amazing stand of Sweater Trees. Usually these are seen one by one, but here there are entire forests of them…

  • Video: Energy & Dynamic Braking Demo from GE

    Amazing video for GE Ecomagination demonstrating differences in the energy contained within different objects. Great filming, graphic overlay, titles, music Energy: you can’t destroy it, but you can certainly waste it. That’s what most motorized vehicles do, including trains. Usually, the energy generated when you stop a moving vehicle is dissipated as heat, and is…

  • “Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle” Launch Documentary

    “Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle” Launch Documentary

    Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle is a new video from the NASA Glenn Research Center, and shows off incredible, slow motion footage from launching the Space Shuttle. This is possibly the most interesting collection of launch footage I’ve seen yet. Most of the footage is captured from “engineering cameras”, which site at strategic points on and…

  • Team Desertaxi Competes in the 2008 Mongol Rally

    Team Desertaxi Competes in the 2008 Mongol Rally

    During the summer months of 2008, I worked with Team Desertaxi in their bid for the 2008 Mongol Rally. As director of media and field communictaions, I designed, developed, and deployed their complete deep-field communications systems, which allowed them to live-blog from the heart of Mongolia, with their media showing up on a website I…

  • GE Gives Us Wind and Solar Power With Augmented Reality

    GE Gives Us Wind and Solar Power With Augmented Reality

    To promote it’s Smart Grid Technology, GE just put up its super cool Smart Grid augmented reality site. You simply print out a target image on a piece of paper, and show it to your webcam. The Augmented Reality flash element, powered by the FLAR Tool Kit, picks up on the target and shows you…

  • Video From The Austrian Hospice In Jerusalem, Israel

    In January, after traveling through Turkey in December with Kirk Henderson and Stephanie Safdi, I went to spend a few days in Israel. I didn’t shoot much video, but here’s one good one, from the roof of the Austrian Hospice, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Austrian Hospice Rooftop from Jeffrey D on…

  • Turkey 2008 – Video

    In December 2008, Kirk Henderson, Stephanie Safdi and I traveled through Turkey together. I brought along my excellent Canon G10 digital camera on the trip, and aside from taking about 1000 still photos, I also took about 30 minute of video from Turkey. I’ve edited down the video to a 12 minute reel, highlighting some…