I’ve got something to show you…
No really, I have… It’s part one, (if you ignore my random posts from the weekend) of my uber-blogathon attempt to catch up with all my content from the past six weeks…
So, without further ado, here’s the first batch of footage that I’ve managed to throw together…
Hope you like it and, if you make it to the end…
The whole thing rocks in at about 11mins approx and it gets quite geeky in places 
…please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
What with this being my first proper attempt at this whole video-blogging malarky and y’know, all feedback is very, very welcome!
Tags: blogathon, c t moore, gisuser, gypsybandito, msjen, Nokia, Nokia House, Nokia HQ, nokiaopenlab08, rafe, stefan, whatleydude, womworld
October 20th, 2008 at 11:24
Dude you rock! I actually laughed aloud couple of times during the video…
Great stuff, but one huge mistake. The newspaper in Klaus K lobby…the one you couldn’t read…it was in Swedish!
Looking forward to see the rest…;-)
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:33
Janne – thanks for dropping by dude. Totally chuffed you watched the whole thing!
Re: *That* Newspaper… How was I supposed to know?! Why have Swedish Papers in FINLAND?! Hardly my fault..
(but thanks for pulling me up on it – hehehe)
More to follow soon..
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:52
Nice. Especially liked the GypsyBandito part.
FYI, Finland is a dual language country. The offical Languages are Finnish and Swedish (5% of the population are native Swedish speakers, although it is slightly different from the Swedish spoken in Sweden apparently).
You might have missed that road signs etc had dual names on them (one Finnish and one Swedish)
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October 20th, 2008 at 12:25
I could see me in there… oh wait, that was not the point.
Great video from OpenLab – still thinking about that weekend and everything that went on…
mp/m
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October 20th, 2008 at 13:10
James, I did watch the whole thing, including the “go away already” part.
Yes, we are officially bilingual here (in reality more like trilingual…) But that particular paper was from Sweden. Klaus K is an international hotel…I believe they had also Frankfurten Allgemaine, Financial Times and the likes.
(Sorry, The Sun and News of the World are not popular in Finland)
Where’s part 2? We want asap!
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October 20th, 2008 at 13:13
Finland looks intense
Keep ‘em coming man!
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October 20th, 2008 at 13:32
@mike – Glad you liked.
I’m yet to tell CT he appears in this video, hopefully he’ll find out himself.. 
…and dual language?! Jeez… No one tells me ANYTHING! 
@Mike Maddaloni – Thanks for tuning in dude, and where are you in the video? I’ll look out for you… Have you got round to writing anything up yet? I’m so glad I took all this footage.
@Janne – Part 2 is coming soon. I just need to edit it together. Tomorrow will be the actual opening keynote that I did… But I reckon you figured that one out already.
@Walt – WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT! Just you wait ’til I get to my Vegas write up!
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October 20th, 2008 at 14:14
@whatleydude, I would’ve noticed but I take the weekends away from the internet… seriously, it’s the best tech decision I’ve ever made…
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October 20th, 2008 at 14:28
hey, how come gisuser isn’t one of your tags??? Cheers
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October 20th, 2008 at 14:34
Hey James – Excellent post, I’m looking forward to the rest. I laughed when I saw the ‘sexy’ old phone – that was one of the first phones that we got as a company mobile for our MD.
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October 20th, 2008 at 14:48
Switch on video stabilisation on your N95
Love the idea of switching all Internet Kiosks to display your site!
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October 20th, 2008 at 15:03
Great video
Looking forward to your one tomorrow. I think my mobile phone actually belongs on the “museum” shelf, but I am working on that one. Finland looks great and definitely a fan of the tram.
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October 20th, 2008 at 15:08
@CT Moore – Nicely done Sir..
@Glenn – I’ll get on that at once!
@Andy – Hehe – that was definitely a museum piece – you don’t still have it do you?
@Terence – I think it was on already, maybe I just jitter too much
And thanks again to you all for watching the WHOLE thing! 11mins is no short amount of time these days.. Much thanks,
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October 20th, 2008 at 19:26
Brilliant stuff, really looking forward to tomorrow’s vid, so please don’t let us down! I just love how excited you are to be there
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October 20th, 2008 at 21:53
James,
Thanks for giving me several good laughs this afternoon. I love the flipping back and forth between James the sleepy Narrator and then Whatleydude Mobile Man about Town!
I still stand by my assertion that I don’t like the front keys on the N85, nor that it is a slider.
smiles, jen ;o)
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October 21st, 2008 at 02:26
Awesome! I’m not just saying this to prove I watched it all but the end bit was funny
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October 21st, 2008 at 06:03
Absolutely flaming superb James! Nokia House is a sex shop, I have never been myself yet, but plan a visit in 2009. Really enjoyed the video. The first part in Helsinki I watched the day you recorded it, and streamed it, I think, can’t remember now if you used QIK, or whether I watched if shortly after you recorded it. Anyway. Watch the N79, as Rafe made some good points. Its an invisible device, and it shouldn’t be under estimated.
I watched your video right to the end too, and was half expecting you to surprise us with something, but hey ho, guess we will have to wait a little more.
Keep up the good work James, your an inspiration to us all, especially Nokia enthusiasts like myself.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 05:23
Feel free to take your time posting more video. It’ll make me feel better about the fact that it’ll probably be a while, a long while, before I do anything with the video that I shot.
Thanks!
BTW, did you get the 360° spin effect by actually spinning around with your camera?
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