Join us: DC Media Makers meet tonight, 6:30pm

Check details (and see you there!).

3 minutes: DC Media Makers rock at production party

It was GREAT with apt information shared and relationships made — including a Final Cut tutorial hosted by Ben Newman.

…and NBC’s Jim Long made a much anticipated appearance. Nice, down-to-earth guy.

See hip happenings here.
*coverage by DC Media Maker Jonny Goldstein

NPR Web 2.0 Strategist Andy Carvin takes on Valentines Day Massacre

DC Media Maker & Web 2.0/video guru Andy Carvin is on a mission: to build a Web 2.0 advisory board for NPR with major online thinkers.

Excellent!

…yet Mother Nature disagrees.

Will you be there? NBC’s Jim Long joins DC Media Makers tonight

Join DC Media Makers tonight for an open-to-public workshop. Local media makers (professional or amateur or just addicted…) will convene over Wifi to work and learn video production.

Will you be here?

Print mags embrace online video: in-house studios emerge to compete

Thanks to DC Media Maker Phil Shapiro for this intriguing, trend-revealing news.

Videoblogging turns to gold…just ‘Ask a Ninja’

We’ve talked about the concept of commercializing video in DC Media Makers e.g. placing sponsors while preserving content quality, etc. And it looks like those Ask a Ninja guys turned concept into gold.

*post dedicated to this ninja stud here.

DC Media Maker covers anti-war rally: Yanni keeps the peace!

This media maker’s keepin’ it real!

For more rally coverage/video by DC Media Makers, travel over here.

DC Media Maker Andy Carvin interviews Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Rev Jesse Jackson at anti war rally

Andy - a DC Media Maker - reported on behalf of Rocketboom today.

Much of today’s events were organized by United for Peace.

UPDATE:
Check-in for ongoing DC Media Maker coverage on this weekend’s protests.

2.5 minutes: war protest/peace rally at US Capitol + disturbing images

A few folks from DC Media Makers covered today’s protests and march.

See below clips from my source footage.

WARNING:
All footage and audio are from today’s events. One clip shows a mock hostage scene. Also some audio includes a young child voicing protest (I offer this in case you’d rather avoid said clips before screening…).

DC Media Makers cover Iraq war protest + Raging Grannies, Sean Penn, Jesse Jackson

DC Media Makers Andy Carvin, Carl Weaver, and myself shot a range of footage.

Andy and Carl secured press credentials and accessed speakers backstage like:
Sean Penn, Jesse Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, among others.

I observed the crowds & their messages of Bush’s impeachment, anti-occupation, & Raging Grannies for Peace. Footage forthcoming.

UPDATE: Americablog remarks on the protest’s slate of speakers.