Urban Jacksonville

Don’t I look like I’m about to make sweet love to the microphone?

Arggg! What a crap editing job. Crap because they edited each person down to one little snippet. They took a hour panel and chopped it up to 20 minutes. Shaking head… They didn’t even include some of my best comments! Oh well maybe I can request the unedited version and throw that up.

tags: jacksonville, media landscape, media, technology, blogs, podcasting, rss

Video of Labor Day Fire in Springfield

I was sitting in my house watching the rest of Prison Break when the whole sky started glowing orange. I ran outside and caught most of the fire on video. I have to commend the Jacksonville fire department who arrived on the scene in minutes and extinguished the flame just as quick.

The Aftermath

tags: jacksonville, labor day, fire, springfield

Art by Mico Fuentes (Thanks Tones!)

Thief in the Knight 2 video and interviews

I headed down to the August Art Walk in Downtown Jacksonville for to shoot some video and do a couple of interviews. My first, and only, stop was the Thief in the Knight 2 show at the W.A. Knight building on Adams street.

I had the opportunity to talk with two of the artists, Shaun Thurston and Kenny Salvador. We talked about what Thief in the Knight is and how it came about. I tried to interview all the artists, but it was impossible to track them down with all the people coming in and out of the show. If you missed the show, I’m sorry, you really missed something amazing. B-boys, awesome art, free beer, cool people.

So you ask, what about next month? Can I head to Thief in the Knight in September? Well that is up in the air, if we are all lucky it will be around for another month.

I hope everyone will take a sec to check out the video. Also check out this July Art Walk video from downtownvision.

tags: jacksonville, art walk, thief in the knight 2, kenny salvadore, shaun thurston

As promised here is the Rob Roy video from Friday night’s Summer Time in the City at the Burrito Gallery. Warning: videos are not well lit, audio not safe for work, but sound quality is decent.

Rob Roy - Summer Time in the City

Other Videos from the Night:
Blakhart - Summer Time in the City
Simple Complexity - Summer Time in the City

tags: jacksonville, hiphop, burritogallery, simple complexity, blakhart, rob roy

Friday night I went to Summer Time in the City at the Burrito Gallery. I took video of three of the artists from Friday night’s show. Blakhart was definitely my favorite. He has an awesome flow that was unmatched by the other artists. Simple Complexity was my second favorite and Rob Roy, my third favorite. I will post the Rob Roy video tomorrow, I didn’t have time to edit them all last night.

Warning: videos are not well lit, audio not safe for work, but sound quality is decent.

Blakhart - Summer Time in the City
Simple Complexity - Summer Time in the City

tags: jacksonville, hiphop, burritogallery, simple complexity, blakhart, rob roy

Fountain installation in Klutho Park Video. In the video, I start talking at about 0:23 seconds.

tags: jacksonville, springfield, kluthopark

Did someone say smoozefest?

I was expecting something a bit different before I arrived at the grand opening party for the Lofts on Main. A presentation or maybe some discussion of how the project will impact the neighborhood. Oh well, you can’t argue with free beer.

Watch the video
This is the PR speech from the marketing guy. Gosh those lofts are going to be great! [sound of back-patting] He talks about pricing, amenities and the completion date. YouTube does some weird cropping when it compresses the video, so sorry about that.

tags: jacksonville, lofts on main, springfield, jmoma