A 95 Second Tour of Current.TV’s Office

Current.TV Headquarters - A 95 Second Tour from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.

I had lunch with Ben Stein, a producer at Current TV today. Before we left, I stuck a camera in his face without warning and asked him to show me around. I think he did pretty great!

We met to talk about Jelly.

A Quick Video I made about Jelly

What is Jelly? from Amit Gupta and Vimeo.

Look at all the cool stuff people are working on! Made at yesterday’s Jelly.

I’m in Austin, Who Should I Meet?

Let me know if you know interesting people here!

Zach Klein of Vimeo/Connected Ventures Likes When it Rains

Zach Klein of Vimeo likes when it rains on Vimeo

I had lunch this week with my friend Zach Klein, who’s one of the partners at Connected Ventures, developers of College Humor, Busted Tees, and Vimeo.

Vimeo (an awesome site that’s like Flickr but for videos) was recently spun off into its own unit, and Zach told me about some really interesting work they’re doing to bring together users’ videos to tell better stories, and to enable citizen journalism. Unlike Youtube, Google Video, etc., Vimeo’s all about videos by your friends. That makes it a lot more interesting to me.

This is part of a series where I take 30 second videos of interesting people I meet. Here are the rest.

Michael Galpert of Photogami and Worth1000

Michael Galpert of Photogami and Worth1000 on Vimeo

I had coffee this week with Michael Galpert, COO of Photogami. Their parent company, Worth1000 runs the largest photoshop contest site on the net, and Photogami is their play to get into printing (on paper, on canvas, on plastic, whatever you want.) Kind of like QOOP, they’ll also let third parties plug into their architecture. Michael is working to convince printers to work with them on some really unique products. We’ll be hanging out at PMA next week.

This is part of a series where I take 30 second videos of interesting people I meet. Here are the rest.

Ben Lerer from Thrillist Loves His Job

Ben Lerer from Thrillist loves his job on Vimeo

I had lunch with Ben Lerer from Thrillist today. Ben runs an newsletter for guys that I subscribe to. It’s kind of like a guy’s Daily Candy. (In more ways than one — Thrillist has the same backers, Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group.)

We talked some email newsletter shop, something I don’t get to do very often! Thanks to my pal Noah Brier for the intro.

(Part of a series where I’m taking < 30 second video clips when I meet with interesting people.)

Kate McKean Got a Great Valentine and Mareen Fischinger Says “Goodbye, America!”

Kate McKean, Literary Agent, with a Valentine’s Story on Vimeo

Mareen Fischinger: “Goodbye, America!” on Vimeo

I’m trying a new thing where I’m gonna take video of interesting people I meet. (Here are some others including Shawn and Danny from Iridesco and Noah Brier.)

I met Kate McKean, a literary agent, at the Etsy Labs launch party; she repped Alison Sweet of Switch for her upcoming book of DIY and craft projects. At Photojojo, we’ve gotten asked a many times if we’d like to do a book so I met up with Kate tonight to ask a bunch of naïve questions about publishing.

I met Mareen Fischinger, a kick-ass photographer, last year when she visited NYC for a couple months working with a couple photographers. She ended up helping out with some Photojojo projects while she was here, and it was really sad to see her go. This video’s from December but I just put it up.

Noah Brier Likes Burritos

Noah Brier’s new business cards on Vimeo

I’m trying a new thing where I’m gonna take video of interesting people I meet. This is the first.

Noah Brier writes a great blog that I read when I read blogs. He also runs likemind, a totally awesome breakfast for interesting people who don’t mind getting up at 8am. I have never been.