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Classic Scoble : Photowalking 8, part II, with Thomas Hawk: stunt bikes, tide pools, and surfers in Half Moon Bay

Robert Scoble — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:17:00 +0000

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people who showed up for the Photowalk. Next Photowalk, by the way, is on Sunday, April 29th, at the Half Moon Bay airport where we’ll be shooting some of 2,000 “dream machines.” You’re welcome to come along. Meet at the front gate of dream machines at 9 a.m., or call Scoble at 425-205-1921 to join in.

Tags: Photowalk, Half Moon Bay

Welcome to Classic ScobleShow

editor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:40:44 +0000

It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ubiquitous digital media creator by night). There was the Golden Gate Bridge walk (spread over three parts!), and then came pumpkins — lots of pumpkins. Somewhere between the Golden Gate Bridge and the pumpkin patch, conversations with entrepreneurs like b5media Founder and President Jeremy Wright and SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill.

There was lunch with Bill Gates and another lunch with Mark Cuban. We met folks from Salesforce and Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo and Maxthon. We met political bloggers and a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

But one of our favorites? It’s an interview with Microsoft’s Gary Flake on Photosynth.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Robert Scoble is still the author of the incredibly popular tech geek blog, Scobleizer.com. He’s also the managing director over at FastCompany.tv, where ScobleShow editor and producer Rocky Barbanica is also now a senior producer.

Since that fateful first ScobleShow, Agassi has moved on to found Project Better Place, in order to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change. Jonathan Schwartz is still at Sun, still blogging, and lots of the start-ups we met are still kicking around, some of them very successfully! It’s worth taking a few minutes to surf through the archives, or just wait to see what pops up in the Classic feed. Good for a few goofy laughs and a little insight into where we’ve been and where we might be going. Oh, and Thomas Hawk is still evangelizing for photo sharing and digital media, and still believes that the best pictures in the world have yet to be taken.

Tags: SAP, Shai Agassi, Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Thomas Hawk, b5media, Jeremy Wright, SmugMug, Don MacAskill, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Salesforce, Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo, Maxthon, Microsoft, Gary Flake, Photosynth, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com, FastCompany.tv, Rocky Barbanica, Project Better Place

Photowalking above Silicon Valley

Robert Scoble — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:29:28 +0000

This is a different kind of photowalking than we usually do. First, no Thomas Hawk. Second, we have a real, professional photographer (he even has the license plates to prove it). Third, we go for a nature walk up in the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. The photographer is Marc Silber, who also teaches photography and has an
[tag]eBook on how to make better photographs. He gives us tons of tips in this one-hour walk.

Tags: photowalking, Thomas Hawk, Long Ridge, Silicon Valley, Marc Silber

Photowalking tour of Stanford University

Robert Scoble — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:58:10 +0000

This is a real treat. Stanford University’s Ian Hsu setup a tour for a fairly large group of photographers. We met Patience Young, who gave us a tour of the Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte who told us a story about the Burghers of Calais, and Gabe Hoffman and the rest of the hybrid systems lab crew who showed us their quadrotor helicopters. Add in Thomas Hawk and tons of other cool photographers who joined us for the tour and you’ll not just get a great tour of Stanford University from a unique perspective but you’ll learn some photography tips from Thomas as well.

Special thanks go to our photowalkers who contributed their photos to this video:

Thomas Hawk
Robert Scoble
Chris Collins
Jeremy Franklin
Josh Thompson
Jeff Henderson
Jigar Champaneria
David Newman
Min Liu
Matt Roe
Dennis Goedegebuure
“Jadient” on Flickr

If I left anyone out, please accept my sincerest apology.

Tags: Stanford University, Ian Hsu, Patience Young, Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte, Burghers of Calais, Gabe Hoffman, quadrotor, Thomas Hawk, photographers, photography, photowalkers, Chris Collins, Jeremy Franklin, Josh Thompson, Jeff Henderson, Jigar Champaneria, David Newman, Min Liu, Matt Roe, Dennis Goedegebuure, Jadient, Flickr

Meet the STARMAC robotic helicopter at Stanford

Robert Scoble — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:55:53 +0000

During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check out. Anyway, here you meet the team: Gabe Hoffmann, Ph.D. candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Haomiao “H” Huang, Ph.D. candidate; Aeronautics and Astronautics; Steve Waslander, post doctoral scholar, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Vijay Pradeep, M.S. student, Mechanical Engineering and Mike Vitus, Ph.D. candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics. They fly it around and explain what it is. By the way, in the video they said it costs $10,000 to build one of these. The team did more research and found out that you could build one for about $3,000 now.

Tags: STARMAC, quadrotor, Gabe Hoffmann, Haomiao “H” Huang, Steve Waslander, Vijay Pradeep, Mike Vitus

Photowalking on the USS Hornet

Robert Scoble — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:15:53 +0000

The photo geeks visit the USS Hornet and come away with some good memories and a great set of photos. Thomas Hawk leads us around the decks of the famous aircraft carrier that played a key role in World War II and also picked up two of the Apollo crews.

Tags: Thomas Hawk

Photowalking 10: Maker Faire

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:00:13 +0000

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what goes on there. Thousands of people who make things from crafts to computers and lots of stuff in between. Legos, robots, weird cars and traveling machines, and lots more. Add in some entertainment and you have an event that’s lots of fun for photographers to shoot. Here you’ll meet some craft-makers and we film a Diet Coke explosive event too. Lots of fun. On Monday, I’ll have an interview up with the two guys who started Maker Faire, too, where you’ll hear about their future plans.

Tags: Flickr, Zooomr, Thomas Hawk, Maker Faire

Photowalking 9: Dream Machines

Robert Scoble — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:28:44 +0000

What do you get when you throw a productive photographer into a show with 2,000 machines? Sheer chaos, that’s what. Oh, and some great photos! Come along for Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines show, where you follow Thomas Hawk along for some of his photo shooting and get to meet some other photographers, too. Oh, and don’t miss all the photos that we shot at this event on Flickr — more than 500 photos are there. Which one is your favorite?

Tags: photographer, photos, Thomas Hawk

Photowalking 8, part II, with Thomas Hawk: stunt bikes, tide pools, and surfers in Half Moon Bay

Robert Scoble — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:17:54 +0000

Tags: Photowalk, Half Moon Bay

Photowalking 8 with Thomas Hawk: Printing, surfing in Half Moon Bay

Robert Scoble — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:43:29 +0000

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new Epson R2400 printer. Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, showed off his gear and skills and lots more happened in Half Moon Bay. If you’re interested in photography, you’ll probably enjoy this show a lot.

Tags: Photowalking, Thomas Hawk, Epson, Dave Sifry, Technorati, photography

Photowalking 7: Thomas Hawk tours Chinatown, Part II

Eddie Codel — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:54:28 +0000

This part two of the photowalking tour of San Francisco’s Chinatown district led by Thomas Hawk. Joining Thomas is Andy Williams, Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they document the streets and alleys of Chinatown.

Tags: photowalking, Thomas Hawk, Andy Williams, Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore

Photowalking 7: Thomas Hawk tours Chinatown, Part I

Eddie Codel — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:24:25 +0000

Thomas Hawk leads a photowalking tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown district. He’s joined by Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they capture the detailed visual landscape this section of the city has to offer. Podtech’s Eddie Codel runs camera on this one. This is part one of two videos.

Tags: Thomas Hawk, Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore

Photowalking 6, #2: SLAC tour, longest building

Robert Scoble — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:44:40 +0000

Here we continue the tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator by Bebo White. Follow photographer Thomas Hawk as he captures some great images of this wonderful building (the longest in the U.S.).

Tags: Stanford Linear Accelerator, Bebo White, Thomas Hawk

Photowalking 6: SLAC tour, the Klystron Gallery

Robert Scoble — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:37:43 +0000

Bebo White, one of the authors of the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, takes us on a tour of the longest building in the United States (maybe the world) with photographer Thomas Hawk and blogging guru Shel Israel. We’ve split this video up into two parts, this one gives you a good overview of the building.

Tags: Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Thomas Hawk, Shel Israel

Photowalking 5: Thomas Hawk takes us around Sacramento Train Museum, Part II

Robert Scoble — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:00:40 +0000

Thomas Hawk and about 25 others spent a fun day taking photos in Sacramento, Calif. at the California State Railroad Museum. Here’s part II.

Tags: Thomas Hawk, California State Railroad Museum

Photowalking 5: Thomas Hawk takes us around Sacramento Train Museum, Part I

Robert Scoble — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:25:37 +0000

Thomas Hawk and about 25 others spent a fun day taking photos in Sacramento, Calif. at the California State Railroad Museum. Here’s part I, Part II coming tomorrow.

Tags: Thomas Hawk, California State Railroad Museum

Photowalking #4: shooting Polaroid with Flickr’s Heather Champ

Robert Scoble — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:23:46 +0000

Heather Champ is one of our favorite photographers. Not only is she the community contact at Flickr, but she’s the co-founder of JPG Magazine. Here Thomas Hawk and I follow her around as she shows off how she makes unique images with Polaroid cameras. Neat stuff, although who knew we’d have an analog camera on Photowalking? Not me. Unfortunately we were having some problems with Heather’s microphone, sorry for the occasional pops.

Tags: Heather Champ, Flickr, JPG Magazine, Photowalking

Photowalking with Thomas Hawk: the Photoshop Lessons, Part II

Robert Scoble — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:33:14 +0000

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, continues her lessons of how to make your photos look better with Adobe Photoshop. In Part II, she goes into sharpening and other Photoshop techniques that you should know to make your photos better.

Tags: Jan Kabili, Photoshop Online TV

Photowalking with Thomas Hawk: the Photoshop Lessons, Part I

Robert Scoble — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:27:54 +0000

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, comes over to my house to teach Thomas Hawk a bunch of Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks. In Part I he gets schooled on Adobe Bridge, which is a great program to bring RAW images into your computer and do some basic pre-processing.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Jan Kabili, Photoshop Online TV, Thomas Hawk, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge

Vloggies Night in San Francisco

John Furrier — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:07:01 +0000

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is a short video showing the highlights.

Meanwhile, it was a huge night in for a new generation of media developers and videobloggers — a night to recognize and celebrate the great work of thousands of videobloggers and video developers. PodTech is proud to have put on the show and we’re excited to be developing some new video works and shows soon. We’re having fun and developing great friendships and business partnerships. Congratulations to all the winners and to all the videobloggers.

The night began with a special appearance from Jerry Zucker, who provided a short, funny and inspiring talk about how he, his brother David, and Jim Abrahams started. Kevin Marks captured it on video in the audience and posted it. Jerry compared how he got started (his early days were spent in his family’s basement) to the world of media today. He talks about how, in the beginning, it was about experimenting, playing and having fun, but they faced the additional challenge of getting people to see their stuff — they needed a theater. Today, the Internet makes that step a lot easier. “You have the possibility to take the stuff today and send it around the world… for almost nothing and the equipment is fantastic… This new technology will change the way we view entertainment,” Zucker said. “You are at the beginning of it.”

It was a great evening. Robert Scoble was blogging non-stop the entire night and has great posts here and here. Tom, whom I interviewed on the red couch at the party, has the first post of the night. Here are some amazing photos by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid who captured the event via photoblogging. Rene Bloggett has an indepth post with photos. Beachwalks, who captured three vloggies, has video up on their blog. Thomas Hawk was photowalking the show, too. As usual he has a great set of pics.

Coverage on Techmeme and the blogosphere will no doubt continue, as well.

PodTech would like to highlight the sponsors who contributed to make this event so special. Yahoo Video, Blip.TV, Guba.com, Revver, Webex, Dabble, Pandora, Intel and Café Du Nord.

Tags: Vloggies, PodTech, Jerry Zucker, Robert Scoble, Scott Beale, Laughing Squid, Beachwalks, Thomas Hawk

Photowalking #2, Part III: Trouble in the Pumpkin Patch

Robert Scoble — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:17:48 +0000

Here’s the third and last segment of our walk with Thomas Hawk around a Half Moon Bay pumpkin patch. It starts out with us almost getting kicked out of the store for filming. Lots of fun. Later you meet David Alpert, salesguy from Podtech who was following us around, and see our first Nikon on the show (we’ll try to get some of his photos up so you can see the difference). Thomas also shows off his new MooCards toward the end of the video.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Thomas Hawk, MooCards

Photowalking #2, Part II: Half Moon Bay Pumpkins

Robert Scoble — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:39:08 +0000

Half Moon Bay in California (just a few miles from Silicon Valley) is famous for pumpkins. Thomas and I got lucky with the light and scenery and he made more than 500 images in a little more than an hour, about 60 of which are keepers (he wrote about the day on his blog). Follow along and please post links to your favorite pumpkin photos here.

Click here for transcript.

Photowalking #2, Part I: cleaning the sensor

Robert Scoble — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:35:16 +0000

Thomas Hawk starts off a day of shooting in Half Moon Bay by cleaning his sensor on his Canon 5D. Over the next few days you’ll see the rest of Photowalking with Thomas Hawk and discover how he made 60 great images in just a little more than an hour.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Thomas Hawk

Photowalking with Thomas Hawk, Part IV (Urban Photography)

Robert Scoble — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:28:35 +0000

Here we change gears during our Photowalking series: we head into the city for some urban nighttime photography. You’ll get lots of tips on how to shoot at night.

Photowalking with Thomas Hawk, Part III

Robert Scoble — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:16:21 +0000

This is the third installment of the first photo shoot with Thomas Hawk as we walk around underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.

Tags: Thomas Hawk