Archive for January, 2009

Oscar Nominations and Winner Predictions 2009

It’s Oscar nominations day.

I know, I know – it’s all just a hideous, self-congratulatory, intellectually bankrupt fashion show. But I love it.

Today started off as a bad day, then the nominations cheered me up. And then technology brought me back down again. I tried three times to record a video to go with this, but my phone failed every time, so I’m just going with text.

Every year, my friend Lize and I swap Oscar predictions. This year, I thought I’d publish mine.

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Home Birth Video revlogged from RyanIsHungry

Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery
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Fantastic Home Birth Video, about planning for natural childbirth at home with a midwife and birth pool in Virginia. It’s a beautifully told video birth story with an in-depth discussion of homebirthing.

I wanted to make a video about our own experiences of having two home births, but we were too close to it, and I felt I’d be doing a bad job of emulating a RyanIsHungry video.

So I was very happy when Ryanne & Jay told me that they were making a video about their friends Katherine & Todd having a home birth – they’re by far the best people for the job. This is it – and it’s fantastic. I hope a lot of parents and professionals find it and use it. Kate and I have a cameo via video chat about halfway through.

Their original post of this home birth video is here, where you can read the accompanying text and leave comments.

LIVE right now! 24 Hours 24 Artists

Happy New Year!

I’ve been away – and in all the holiday excitement, I’ve totally forgotten to blog about this.

Michael Verdi is putting on a 24 hour webcast to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the theater company he’s involved with. He’s given an hour each to 24 different artists. I’ll be on at 7am Pacific Time – 3pm GMT/UTC on Saturday 3rd January.

Some of the performers are videobloggers, but there are a lot of other people from all over the world.

Check it out now at 24hours24artists.com

It’s midnight now – I need some sleep before my show!