Talks and TV
Newest first. Where I had a copy of the video, it’s hosted here so it won’t disappear with the next platform shutdown. Written press is on the press page, and exhibitions are on their own page.
2025
- Tasteland podcast, Ep. 72: “Minimum viable meme”, December 10, 2025. About an hour on memes as a business, software subcultures and the state of vibecoding.
2024
- Val Town coding livestream with Steve Krouse, May 2024. About 70 minutes of live coding, so it stays on YouTube.
2022
- Promptopia at Union Square Ventures, New York, October 19, 2022. A day of AI demos I organized with Andy Weissman at USV.
2018
Bond, San Francisco, March 9, 2018
Recorded by BackerKit at the Gray Area Grand Theater, for Bond, their conference on making a living as an independent creator. Original on YouTube.
2016
- Streaming Media East, New York, May 10–11, 2016. Speaker.
- A short, awkward interview shot by Forest Conner at the VHX office. It’s on the homepage.
2015
LDV Vision Summit, New York, May 2015
A 5-minute keynote on selling video directly to fans with VHX.
Recorded by LDV Capital. Original on YouTube.
2014
Digital Biscuit, 2014: “The power of DIY”
An on-stage interview about distributing films directly to your audience with VHX. I joined over a video link.
Recorded by Digital Biscuit.
2013
- VIFF Forum: “Power to the Indie: New Frontiers in Distribution, Marketing & Engagement”, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2013. Panel with Dylan Marchetti, Sara Kiener and Julie La’Bassiere, moderated by Trish Dolman. Over two hours long, so it stays on YouTube.
- An interview with Jamie Wilkinson: Internet love, viral videos and VHX.tv, by Justin Hall, October 2013.
2012
XOXO Festival, Portland, September 2012
A talk on VHX and self-distribution. Written up by Jon Lax and in the New York Times.
Recorded by XOXO Festival.
Innovators on the Move, December 2012
A short film about Casey Pugh and me hiring VHX’s first team and moving into our first office.
Made by Unpakt.
Watch.tv interview, Vimeo Festival, June 2012
Casey Pugh and I talk about VHX.
Interview by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff for Watch.tv.
2011
- ROFLCon Summit: “Emerging Platforms”, Portland, October 1, 2011. Panel moderated by Mike Rugnetta, with Christopher Poole, Ben Huh and Chris Menning. It runs over an hour, so it stays on Vimeo.
- youPIX, São Paulo, 2011. Speaker.
- SXSW 2011, Austin. Panelist, “Star Wars Uncut: The Force of Crowdsourcing.”
- SF New Media Film Festival, San Francisco. Panelist.
Hanging out with GigaOM, summer 2011
The pilot of GigaOM TV’s show recorded in Google Hangouts, two weeks after Hangouts launched. Casey Pugh and I show off some favorite web videos and talk about VHX.
Recorded by GigaOM.
Web 2.0 Expo SF, San Francisco, March 2011
A keynote where the cast of Know Your Meme performed an episode live.
With Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Patrick Davison and Mike Rugnetta. Recorded by O'Reilly.
2010
Vimeo Festival & Awards, New York, October 2010: “Internet Fame: Easy As 1,2,3”
A talk about my work, creative strategy, effort and reward ratios, and why I love judo and rap music. The “internet fame” headline was just to get you to click. I was also on a Star Wars Uncut panel there.
From the Inspiration Lightning Talks at the Vimeo Festival, edited and reuploaded with their blessing. Original on Vimeo.
- Open Video Conference, New York, October 2–3, 2010. Panelist on Star Wars Uncut and speaker on Graffiti Markup Language.
TEDxSOMA, San Francisco, September 24, 2010: “Google Alarm”
A demo of Google Alarm, the Firefox add-on that screams every time you send data to Google.
Recorded by TEDx Talks.
- TELE-INTERNET at Ars Electronica, Linz, September 2–6, 2010, curated by Aram Bartholl. FATCloud was in the program; I took part remotely. See exhibitions.
CNN International, August 2010
A live interview over Skype about Google Alarm.
Broadcast by CNN International. Screen-captured by me, original upload on Vimeo.
- Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, July 11, 2010. “Viral Videos in the Redwoods.”
- Web 2.0 Expo SF, San Francisco, May 5, 2010. “Internet Famous” panel with Ben Huh.
- ROFLCon II, MIT, Cambridge, May 1, 2010. Keynote panel, Mainstreaming the Web, with moot, Ben Huh, Kenyatta Cheese and Greg Rutter.
NewTeeVee, March 2010
Janko Roettgers asked me what it takes to make a video go viral, back when I was working on Know Your Meme.
Interview by Janko Roettgers for NewTeeVee.
- transmediale.10, Berlin, February 4, 2010. Talk, “Art 2.0.”
2008
- NBC New York and Current TV both ran segments on the Internet Famous class I taught at Parsons. Both are on the Internet Famous class page.