Steve Garfield's Video Blog

Spectacular Christmas Lights

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In this episode of the Carol and Steve Show, Carol and Steve visit a home on Boston that has 250,000 Christmas lights and pays an electric bill of $1,900 a month.

Read more in a recent Boston Globe article, Keeping alive these many lights of Christmas.

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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: christmas, boston, steve garfield, carol garfield

My Mom's Brain Age

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Millie tests out Brain Age on a Nintendo DS Lite. On the first test her brain is 80 years old. It's one year younger than she is! Thanks Nintendo for sending Brain Age and a Nintendo DS Lite to try out.

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Tags: nintendo, brain age

I Can't Open It IX

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Now down in Florida, Millie from My Mom's Blog has some trouble getting a Lemon Creme Cake out of it's package. She says, "It almost turned out to be a lemon."

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Tags: millie garfield, my moms blog, florida, cake

Boston Typewriter Orchestra

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I interviewed the Boston Typewriter Orchestra at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. These guys make music using old manual typewriters. I spoke with Derrik Albertelli who told me how the band got started and Alex Holman who talked about making music with a typewriter. I was there during their sound check for a show where they were opening for Boston favorites, The Dresden Dolls. You can hear Amanda Palmer in the backgroud at the start of the interview if you listen closely. This report originally aired on Rocketboom on December 12, 2006.

Formats available: Quicktime 640x480 (.mov), Quicktime 320x240 (.mov), Third Generation Platform Cellphone (.3gp)

Tags: boston typewriter orchestra, bto, boston, rocketboom, derrik albertelli, alex holman, steve garfield

Glass Walled Hallway

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At the the new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston there's a glass wall facing the harbor that is a special feature of the Founders Gallery, which spans the entire width of the north end of the exhibition space and connects east and west galleries. It was supposed to be composed of microscopic vertical lenses, where the glass would permit vision out when viewed from a perpendicular direction but block vision when viewed from an angle. That didn't happen.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: ica, ica boston, boston, museum, glass, hallway