Steve Garfield's Video Blog

My Mom Can't Open It

Everytime I go over to my mom's, she's got a list of things for me to help her with.

This time she needed help with some Tylenol, Dental Floss and Shampoo.

The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 18 - Planting Pansies

This week Carol demonstrates how to plant pansies in pots.

Step 1 - Select a pot with a hole in the bottom for drainage
Step 2 - Add Potting Soil, we use Miracle Grow with Moisture Control
Step 3 - Loosen Roots, put plants in pot
Step 4 - Add Soil Moist to reduce the amount of watering you have to do
Step 5 - Fill pots with soil and pat down
Step 6 - Water

The combination of Miracle Grow with Moisture Control with Soil Moist might be overkill. We'll see.

The Carol and Steve Show - A new episode every Monday

How To: The Garfield Crane Shot

How To: The Garfield Crane Shot
Because of the overwhelming interest in how I did the crane shot in The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 17 - Car Wash, I've listed the steps here:

Parts Needed
1. REI UltraPod Tripod
2. Canon S400 ( or similar camera, these days I suggest the SD500 )
3. Broom Stick

Assembly
1. Attach tripod to camera
2. Attach Broom Stick to Tripod using velcro strip which is already attached to the tripod

Use
1. Turn on camera
2. Start recording close up
3. Carefully lift camera as high as you can in one smooth motion, keeping the viewfinder pointed at the subject

Thanks to Zack Branff for inspiring me to do this shot from the pet cemetary crane shot in his movie Garden State.

The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 17 - Car Wash

This week Carol does all the work, washing the car at the car wash.

Steve has fun filming it all, and introduces his exciting new camera move, "The Garfield Crane Shot".

Enjoy!

The Carol and Steve Show - A new episode every Monday, except when there's a Monday holiday in Boston.

Video Highlights

This is a message to anyone who might be reading this post to see what video blogging is all about.

I just woke up a little while ago and took a quick look at my email, and then refreshed ANT to take a look at some new videos.

If you were an ANT subscriber, you'd easily see the creativity and quality of the videobloggers that are out there, after subscribing to their feeds.

Watch these three new videos to get a sense of the type of things that people in this group are doing:

High School Reunion - Gabe and Gabe

Kleintje - Bottom Union

A Nature Hike - Josh Leo

Thanks for your interest,
--Steve