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The most recent meet-up was held at Podcamp NH. Many of the attendees had never been to a NH Media Makers before, so there were lots of news face and projects. We did a speed through of the normal meet-up but it was still a lot of fun. Check the comments to find out who showed up!
Wow. An incredible gathering of new and old faces. Lots of activity going on in New Hampshire!
Phil Kliger of Uncle Philms is developing a web series at Zerk.tv. He’s also doing music for a horror film. As always, Phil loves his handy Archos camera. Here is a surreal video Phil made this week at the meet-up!
Bryan White is the creator of B-movie review site Cinema-Suicide.com, also hosting Soundtrack Apocalisse. Just introduced an awesome t-shirt line (see below!). Beginning to see his blog quoted in press releases, promo, DVD materials. Seeing small websites like his own becoming a sincere marketing force. Producing a documentary on the excitingly dark history of Portsmouth. Read about him in the latest issue of The Wire.
Rob Jaques is a photographer and musican, santaplausible on Flickr. Just joined Twitter so follow him! Shawn Lampron is a writer, looking to be inspired, looking to get involved.
Georgene Nunn works for SellMyTimeShareNow.com. Just did a blog-for-pay push for RandomKitty.net and is getting a lot of response. Got all kinds of things going, including the development of a directory for farmers’ markets, farmers, and consumers of farm fresh products. She also took a bunch of her own notes on the meeting and posted them on her blog. Check out Georgene’s perspective of this month’s meet-up!
E. Christopher Clark is an author, family historian, and Internet geek. Creator of GeekForceFive.com, a blog covering Lost, NIN, Apple, Marvel Comics, and View Askew film productions. Has added a question series to the blog. Thinking about producing a podcast series. Just finished a week long sabattical to work on his next novel. Check out his first novel at EChristopherClark.com
Leslie Poston (@geechee_girl on Twitter) is from uptownuncorked.com She works to help everyone embrace social media. Submitted “Can social media save the world?” to SXSW. You can support LEslie by giving her a vote. Doing a twice a month podcast on Talkshoe about heavy issues facing technology and culture. Hears they are hiring at blorge.com
Deb Mcnally (debdebtig on every social media site you can think of) is a full time tech writer. She is also a farmer (23 hens, 3 turkeys, ducks, etc) NHeggs.blogspot.com Very interested in further developing the site. Lots of ideas (including a blogging chicken).
Nap is a Ruby web application developer, editor at ink19.com. An indie music, film and comic geek. Has a book coming out at the end of the month called Practical Rails Plugins (follow that link to pre-order it on Amazon!) (Seriously, do it!)
Brian Turnbull (@brianturnbull) is interest in live performance and studio photography. Photographed for the new CD by the Stone/Bratt Big Band. Also works on a newly launched collaborative resume review site at Razume.com Looking for ways to stay creative.
John Herman talked about the start of production on the upcoming web series: Thomas in Wonkyland (see above!), Gravityland Season 2, an improv comedy show every Tuesday, the 1 minute film festival held at Le60.org
Jill Silos is a history and film professor. Coming out with a book “Everybody Get Together: The Politics of Counter Culture” about freedom of assembly issues. Just invited to speak at a UN conference. Film critic for The Brattle. Learning to play guitar.
Chris Williams is from Newmarket Channel 13. Connecting with people who can add to his film making efforts. Working on a veteran series. Looking to do a whole lot more.
See everyone next month!
Another great meeting with a bunch of new faces, projects, and perspectives! (Thanks Leslie for typing up the meeting notes! Everyone: feel free to comment to correct misspellings, etc)
John Herman started the meeting with a demo of live web video casting with Mogulus (currently used for live web casting by Gravityland), Operator11, Ustream.tv, Stickam, and Qik. Group discussion revolved around new ways to use live casting, openness of companies to new ideas, pay-for-view, etc.
Leslie Poston (from Profy.com, SmokeRingsAndCoffeeStains.com, UptownUncorked.com) took wonderful notes and shared her insight on a variety of topics. She and John Herman will both be speaking at Podcamp Boston 3.
Kirk Membry (from spyboy.com) was here to check out what’s going on. Into research technology – seero.com – Also interested in video streaming on the road, geocoding of photos and videos, panoramic photos. John Herman offered walkamerica2008.blogspot.com (a friend who is casting his trek as he walks across America). Discussed concerns about 5GB a month camera phone limits – too little for 60 bucks a month!
Jon Briggs came to listen. Sound engineer and musician. Worked with John Herman on Gravityland.
Jack Herman (from barnhouselighting.com) sells reproduction lighting fixtures over the web. Recently added social media component via http://barnhouselighting.com/blog Enjoys arguing the impact of social media in business with Leslie (and others). Engaged in the discussion of whether social media will make money or not. Jack votes no.
Discussion meandered around engagement marketing and personality on the web. The Mars Pheonix Twitter page was mentioned.
Roger Goun – sskennel on Flickr, Twitter, etc – photographer, software engineer, politics – Latest project is an upcoming political blog called 21st Century Solutions (solutions for screwed up world). Subject experts being sought. Leslie suggested he check out talkshoe.com
Deb Mcnally – tech writer – debdebtig on many social networks – Has 23 hens, 3 turkeys, ducks, etc – Developing site for the local fresh eggs at nheggs.com Perhaps live cast of chickens laying – chicken/egg social groups were discussed – Will be Twittering chickens soon
John Mcnally – Got his wife (see above) started in computers. He is an instigator of great ideas – Former sysop of computercastlebbs, Dial in line telnet, etc.
Brianna Heeley – Getting back into filmmaking. Interested in production work, short films, documentaries, and scripts.
Jon Nunan (from cantwatchthis.com – dare him to watch bad movies!) Best bad movie was discussed. After the discussion, several media makers watched a video produced by John that involved a puppet made form a slab of raw meat.
Phil Kliger (from unclephilms.blip.tv, @unclephilms on Twitter) discussed his upcoming Rockin Sockumentary involving his family friendly rock band Tunebuggy. Tag line: Rock out with your sock out! Worked on Gravityland. Developing a background video for yoga dance based on Lilith/Woman Scorned and also a burlesque show! Arkos helmet camera is his rig of choice.
The latest gathering of the NH Media Makers was during the hottest day of the year (so far). We started off by chatting about Twitter, Plurk, and Snackr. The meeting was characterized by diverse and enriching conversation. Some topics mentioned during discussion are noted below. Everyone brought a unique perspective to the table.
Bill Rogers working on individual, client-based, and organizational web productions tied to environmental aims. Focuses on climate change solutions for broadcast on the web. http://www.NoworNeverMedia.org Also made/making a character-based documentary on Bode Miller called Flying Downhill… looking for partners on the evolving project. Mentioned: how to create conversation about global warming concerns, Ski Space, and Indie Go Go.
Roger Goun is working on a website for action-based grassroots. The concept: One president. Eight disastrous years. How do we begin to undo the damage? Looking for quality writers of political content. http://www.bushcatastrophe.com Mentioned: the attraction of dynamic media like images and video over text, Red Lasso as a potential resource for getting video on the site.
E. Christopher Clark is an author, family historian, and Internet geek. Creator of http://www.geekforcefive.com, a blog covering Lost, NIN, Apple, Marvel Comics, and View Askew film productions. Looking to create a Facebook application tied to the project. Chris presented on his book, Those little Bastards, and introduced his new website. Looking to start promoting the book online through audio podcasts and videos. Mentioned: Online resources for creating business cards like Moo via Flickr, David La Morte’s homemade business cards, the crossroads between self publishing and mainstream publishing.
Dan Freund working with a 3D motion graphics firm for architectural rendering, broadcast, film, and gaming arts: http://www.VFXdirect.com/reel Landing big projects that can’t even be blogged about yet… but we got to hear about them! Mentioned: Metaverse applications, regional filmmakers connecting with the larger industry, creating a political film festival.
Bryan White is the creator of http://www.cinema-suicide.com Lots of exciting development… both triumphs and failure. Launching a t-shirt line. Producing a film series at the Ioka Theater (first and last Friday of every month starting August 1st). Also developing a webisodic series about paranormal investigations. Looking for sponsors on all projects. Mentioned: local sponsor brainstorms (MSM to kick boxing schools), developing a site for horror film music.
John Herman will be attending Podcamp Boston 3. Currently producing the interactive web series Gravityland, and hosting the Energy Smackdown. Also in preproduction for a new webisodic inspired by a stage comedy show. Lots of production this summer.
Jack Herman manages a retail website at http://www.barnhouselighting.com Looking engaging, dynamic ways to engage his customers with New Media. Mentioned: ways college students can get free design software packages, bootlegging vs buying, issues of tech support, and Chris’s book, Those Little Bastards.
Leslie Poston is all about the side projects these days! She will also be attending PodCamp Boston 3! She is actively seeking names for her side project mentoring businesses in utilizing social media and the internet to improve their brand and broaden their reach. Writing for http://www.profy.com Mentioned: online business transparency, marketing, social media interest from mainstream businesses, Zappo Shoes, Gary V, the false death of the written word, Utterz, and Jott.
Closed the face-to-face gathering with a discussion about how to keep privy to the newest social media applications. Will continue the conversations online and next month. Join us!
The first gathering of the NH Media Makers was a huge success. Click on the image above to view a slide show of the event. As Georgene Nunn states on her blog Random Kitty:
“We had photographers, videographers, writers, entrepreneurs, search engine marketers, programmers, culture geeks, and often times most people were several of those things if not all of them! Had I been taking notes I’d have a lot more details about each person. Everybody I met was just terrific. There was a definite buzz in the air and I could tell a lot of really valuable connections were made. Separately we’ve got a ton of super ideas and talents, together we could really turn this area into a hub of internet and cultural activity.”
Or as Leslie Poston says on her blog Smoke Rings and Coffee Stains:
“It was definitely worth it! I got the chance to meet a variety of interesting people, from behind the scenes web developers to in your face interactive television web casters, fellow writers, vloggers and bloggers, movie junkies, internet political revolutionaries and more. I had a blast, and I can’t wait to see who comes to the next meeting.”
And here is a video reaction from Chris Clark of Geek Force Five:
Or here is a more surreal view of the meeting from Phil Kliger of Uncle Philms
And, finally, here are notes on the terrific folks that came to share:
John Herman talked about his interactive web-isodic Gravityland and Tuesday night at 7 PM he joins a team of comedians for an interactive live web comedy show on Mogulus. John is mentioned in the latest issue of The Wire.
Phil Kliger talked about how he recently submitted his documentary, Working on My Short Game, to the NH Film Festival. He also talked about his fun and handy Archos camera.
Roger Goun is a photographer, software engineer, and co-founder of Democracy for New Hampshire and ListenUp: NH, also co-lo at http://www.mv.net
Dan Freund is a media enthusiast who is beginning a 3D motion graphics company and keeping busy with lots of media productions. Always looking for people with great ideas.
Jon Briggs is a talented musician and he’s also the official sound guy for Gravityland.com
Nap is a Ruby web application developer, editor at ink19.com, and indie music, film and comic geek. Focusing on social media networks and writing a book about Ruby on Rails, he’s also looking for collaborators for ‘web experiments’
Andy Fling is a movie making enthusiast and in-house developer for buzgate.org. Very interested in making movies locally and creating a community around film making in NH. Recently won a Spotlight Award for Best Supporting Actor. Congrats Andy!
Georgene Nunn works for http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com. Looking for bloggers and all kinds of multi-media collaborative ideas for http://randomkitty.net
E. Christopher Clark is an author, family historian, and Internet geek. Creator of http://www.geekforcefive.com, a blog covering Lost, NIN, Apple, Marvel Comics, and View Askew film productions. How cool is that?! He’s currently thinking of producing a novel that embraces the concepts of social media.
Leslie Poston (@geechee_girl on Twitter) is from http://www.profy.com. She is a freelance writer about Web 2.0. She also works to help writers embrace social media.
Bryan White is the creator of http://www.cinema-suicide.com looking to network on original content, video, live casting, and other ways to push his site to the next level.
Jack Herman is the web master/co-owner of http://www.barnhouselighting.com. He’s excited by the world of web marketing, site optimization, and monetization. Looking for dynamic web ideas to develop a better reach to niche markets.
Jason Ruths is from http://revnh.com. He’s looking to start a revolution in NH. He’s passionate about getting corporations out of politics. Looking for collaborators.
Mike Mooney is from http://fmcrew.com He helped produce the popular web show What is Joppa? and is now working on a new project involving sci-fi and comedy. Also involved in the ongoing video adventures at http://glintofhope.com
Jon Wellington is a wedding videographer and improv comedian bringing his skills together to produce the comedic web show “Fox Burnahm.” When he announced that he was looking for people willing to die on camera, half of us raised our hands
The inaugural gathering of the NH Media Makers was hosted by John Herman (sideburns) with Mike Mooney (smirk), Dan Freund (silver cup), Nick Plante (pondering paper cup), Bryan White (scratching), Chris Clark (eyebrows), Phil Kliger (polarized glasses), Leslie Poston (curly), Roger Goun (beard), Georgene Nunn (no mug handle usage). Many people joined us.
NH Media Makers was inspired by the popular Boston Media Makers meet-up started by Steve Garfield.
