I had a bit of a celebratory weekend. To kick off, it was Clutch’s stag party, which pretty much involved a bunch of really great people – many of whom I hadn’t met before – drinking a fair bit, joking around and talking nonsense. Today it was Stef Lewandowski’s 30th birthday, and that was celebrated as a lunchtime roast at Stef’s house with a few friends.

Amogst a bunch of diverse, talented and interesting guests, Birmingham pro-blogger Pete Ashton from Created In Birmingham was in attendance. Stef had just been given seed funding for a brand new venture, and I had just come into possession of a decent video camera — so the idea was hatched to have Pete interview Stef, capture it on video and upload it to the internet. So here it is.

I suspect more of this sort of thing will start to happen now that the the Birmingham blog scene seems to have discovered online video.

Some other videos were captured this weekend, most of which are not suitable for public consumption (mostly because I’m still learning how to drive the machinery) and many of which are simply glimpses of an event that you had to have been there to make any sense of what is said.

But a couple of the videos are worth a look. Particularly this one – in which Pete Ashton explains why he plucked his eyebrows with a pair of pliers live on the internet.

You can see the original internet event itself.

On a technical note: Video sharing services online tend to significantly downgrade the quality of the image, which is disappointing when you have a cool new toy, but as far as I can tell, it’s easier than uploading and embedding the mp4 / mov files themselves. But I’d appreciate any advice on that.

I’m using MPEG Streamclip to convert the original .MOD files off the camera – and Quicktime Pro to top and tail the videos.