In the Presence of Greatness

So by some fluke of nature (we’re still not sure how - maybe human intervention), the latest episode of Dear Toronto (a video podcast I co-producer with Ryan and Rebecca), Toronto Green Roof and Tree Tour ended up climbing to the #1 featured video on YouTube this week.

As a result we’ve been flooded with subscriber requests, comments (mostly inane, but hey) and we’re pretty damn surprised. It wasn’t until I checked out the featured videos tonight where I had a bit of a fanboy moment - as you can see on the left above next to our video - that’s freakin’ WEEZER with a video for a song off their new Red Album, Pork and Beans. Nice!

The funniest part about all of this is that we don’t even post our videos directly to YouTube - when we upload our stuff to Blip, it gets syndicated to a dozen or so other video services, one of which is YouTube. It’s really interesting to see certain channels getting more traction than others like this.

May 24, 2008 | Filed Under Video | 2 Comments 

Dear Toronto #11 - Metronauts

Freshly released mere hours before the TTC suddenly announced that they’re striking is Dear Toronto #11 - Metronauts. This one took quite a bit of time to put together, and the raw footage will be available soon at the Metronauts.ca (Creative Commons NC-SA licensed).

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Video | Leave a Comment 

Bax Bears World Tour

I covered the launch of the Bax Bears World Tour leg in Toronto both on blogTO and Dear Toronto this week.

April 3, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

What do you think of Dear Toronto?

Dear Toronto

After about a month or so, we’ve got 8 episodes posted at Dear Toronto with many more on the way over the next while. We’re going to try to stick to a release schedule of one episode minimum per week.

So I wanted to start a bit of a dialogue and get some feedback from you. What you think of the video we’ve posted so far? The content? The style of production? Our delivery formats? What would you like to see more/less of?

We’ve got a lot of ideas on how to improve things going forward, and changes in how we edit and produce video, but I’m interested in hearing some objective opinions. Sound off in the comments of this post.

March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 8 Comments