In my last trip to Barcelona I visited the exposition CH€ about Ernesto Guevara.

Ernesto, later called “El Che” by the Cubans always caught my attention for 2 reasons: His Courage and his dedication to work until the last minute of his life.

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That two reasons, almost extinguished in most youngsters today, summed that he was one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution have made him one of my favorite heroes.

Video documentary:

Che Guevara, the body and the legend.

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Recorded with the mobile car holder.

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This last three days I’ve been sick and most of the time at home so I’ve been quite bored. Then I found the time to do two things:

• Making a plastic hoder to film from the car with my mobile (this one is the video that I’m presenting below)
• And the second: Turning and old window into an Acoustic blinded one with cheap materials. I have to work a bit more to present this entry…

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Make Internet TV: Introduction

Yesterday I sent an email to Dean Jansen, the Outreach Director of Miro, who commented on my last blog entry about the video downloader and administrator.
In that email apart of giving him my sincere feedback of the application, which I think is superb, I asked him what’s planned to return the investment. At a first glance as I see how slow the channels guide was, I though, WOW! this guys are generating so much traffic that it’s even killing their server. The guide is where they will make money and place on top the channels for a fee. I though wrong.
Dean replied to my question like this:

Our co-branding is our strategy for becoming self-sustaining:
http://getmiro.com/co-branding/

Simply great. I’m still amazed by Miro and the possibilities that opens for video creators in general.
Just a side comment, Joan Miro is also one of my favourite artist, and he lived a period of his life here in Mallorca. I took some photos when I went to see his place at the Pilar y Joan Miro Foundation and they are available on flickr if you wanna take a look.

Their slogan is “The only video player you need“. And after trying it out I completely agree!
The good thing is that is available for Linux, Mac and Windows so you can plug it in all your devices.
The url to try it out is: http://www.getmiro.com

Miro is a video player and video administrator that is integrated with  all the existing video sites as Youtube, Google video, dailymotion, blip.tv and more. The smart move they made, is that now they have a guide, where you can donwload tons of RSS’s channel feeds of your favourive vodcasts. I like for example the national geographic series of I didn’t know that:

Wacky industrial scientists Richard Ambrose and Jonny Philips’ insatiable quest for knowledge leads them to various hands-on tests like slicing open plasma TVs, making steel, and testing wallpaper paste by gluing themselves to a wall.

On the other side, about uploading your own videos, I wanted to comment also about the greatness of blip.tv’s FTP upload. Since at home I have a wireless connection that is intermitent and not stable, the normal HTTP upload within the site hangs and it’s almost imposible to upload a big video.
Using blip’s FTP feature, I left yesterday night 300 MB of video uploading, and when I woke up all the videos where already uploaded and converted to flash video in my blip.tv channel.

To convert your Youtube videos to mp4 format for your ipod I reccommend diwib . (Thx Ivan for pointing out Miro!)

CAUTION : Be aware that MIRO is highly addictive and is not recommended for work environments like offices and shared internet. Put the limit of video downloads to only ONE if you are in a place where you shouldn’t be downloading videos.