Bill Weye

Tag: video

  • Face like a skelped erse

    Our pals in Scotland are still part of the United Kingdom this morning (good thing? bad thing? who knows?!). In recognition, let’s look at some Scottish insults and slang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgo-dYAgzSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRHaDi2E9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smu8nKXX0Bs

  • A Video Book Trailer From An Author With No Editor

    Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Bleeding Edge, is out. Because Pynchon’s a literary rockstar dude, I’m guessing people are afraid to say no to him. This book trailer is the result of that fear.

  • When professors go wild! Cell phone edition

    There seems to be an Web meme of capturing video of professors going crazy in live classes. Because more and more classes are video taped and posted online, more of these videos are surfacing. For your entertainment pleasure, and a holiday treat, I present a selection of my favorite professors going wild when cell phones…

  • Future of the textbook

    I saw an interesting presentation by the co-founders of Smarthistory.org, Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, sponsored by UMassOnline on October 1 (more, detailed info). Smarthistory.org is a project to create a Creative Commons based, online art history text book (Harris and Zucker are art history professors). You can watch the video of their presentation below.…

  • Troubleshooting Java problems on a Mac

    Mac users, just like Windows users, have issues with Java sometimes. Here’s a screencast that explains how you can begin the troubleshooting process before calling the friendly support person.

  • Creating quick watermarks in iMovie ’09

    You can find a lot of tutorials on how to create watermarks in iMovie ’09. Most of the tutorials require you to use an alpha image (transparency) like a png or gif file. My method is quick and easy, and doesn’t require creating an image. Watch how you can create a quick watermark for your…

  • Tax resistance in Western Massachusetts [VIDEO]

    In 1992 I made this 30 minute documentary about federal tax resisters in Western Massachusetts. The event precipitating the video was the arrest for nonpayment of taxes

  • Don’t drink craft beer in a catatonic state

    What’s the point of drinking a beer that tastes like water steeped with recycled copy paper and lemon? Beer should have a flavor profile that makes you ponder its origins, and daydream about the cool people who crafted it. If you can’t picture in your mind real people crafting that beverage, then you’re probably drinking…

  • No Fishin’ In The Ditch [video]

    I was doing my regular walk in Sunderland, MA, when I came upon what I thought was a nut fishing in a drainage ditch. Turns out she wasn’t a nut at all, but a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts Amherst doing research. This drainage ditch/brook overflows often, so Colleen Samson’s thesis project is…

  • Beck’s cool cover versions of INXS songs [VIDEO]

    It’s fasinating how musicans can take songs written by someone else into a whole new direction. One of my favorite cover songs is Aztec Camera’s version of Van Halen’s “Jump”. Here is Beck Hansen in the studio working on some INXS songs: “New Sensation,” “Devil Inside,” and “Guns in the Sky”.

  • Profiling a social enterprise: Memory Magic

    I needed to get a VHS tape transfered to DVD for a project you’ll see on this site soon. By word of mouth (Twitter, really) I found Memory Magic, a local business that provides all kinds of digital transfer services. The interesting thing about Memory Magic is that they’re run as a social enterprise by…

  • Farm Report – 20 March 2010 – before the first spear

    Asparagus is going to start popping soon in the Pioneer Valley. But what does it look like before you buy it at your local farm stand? Check out the video. Also, did you know that a popular movie and book begins its narrative in Western Mass? The Mosquito Coast, written by Paul Theroux (then made…

  • Begin a daily video podcast today

    Sometimes you should just jump into a new project. Especially when the plan is to work on the project for the long term, as I’m doing with Farm Report, a daily video podcast I started this morning. The production values of the video aren’t worked out yet, the format isn’t solid yet, but the general…

  • New Daily Video Podcast: Farm Report

    I’ve been thinking about doing a daily video podcast for a while now, inspired by two different people: ZeFrank (very popular daily video before people were really doing such things) and David Lynch (his daily [kind of] weather report). I now present to you, Farm Report. Why Farm Report? I live on a farm. They’re…

  • New Google bike maps in Western Mass [#westernma]

    Google is working on something cool for cyclists all over the United States: Google map directions for bike riders. They made the announcement as part of the National Bike Summit on March 10th. They’re working with the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy to include

  • Jenny 8. Lee on Chinese take-out food [VIDEO]

    Last week I interviewed Jennifer 8. Lee about Chinese take-out food after she was finished with her speaking engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She’s a former metro reporter for the New York Times who took a buy out package in late 2009, and now she’s doing freelance writing. Lee has a passion for…

  • Imagine a late night talk show with an audience of one [video]

    The other day Craig Ferguson, who hosts the Late Late Show on CBS, did his show without an audience (video below). Interesting. As he pointed out, he wasn’t the first late night host to do a show without an audience. I was glad to hear his history of late night television pretty much end with…

  • What Paul Newman taught me about reducing puffy face when vlogging [video]

    When video podcasting you need to look your best. Increasingly production values (how your video looks) are important. Picture quality is getting better even for the smallest video producer, which puts pressure on everybody to improve. Check out the lesson I learned from movie star Paul Newman on how to get rid of your puffy…