{"id":1740,"date":"2008-12-22T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2008-12-22T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:07:36","slug":"videoblogging-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1740","title":{"rendered":"Videoblogging Singapore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to anyone coming to this site via the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mySingapore\">mySingapore Twitter stream<\/a>!  To provide you with some context, my name is Geoffrey Long and I&#8217;m the Communications Director for the US side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gambit.mit.edu\">Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab<\/a>.  In early December 2008 I flew from chilly Cambridge, Massachusetts to sunny Singapore to help our Singapore lab present at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/asia2008\/\">SIGGRAPH Asia 2008<\/a> and to see Singapore for the first time myself.  Armed with my trusty Canon PowerShot SD890 IS, I decided to keep a running videoblog of my experiences there &#150; and the results are below.  You can also find still photographs from my trip in <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/geoffreylong\/sets\/72157611256554491\/\">this Flickr album<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd now, the links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0801-the-kickoff.php\">SG0801: The kickoff!<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero gets things going from the tarmac at Logan International Airport in Boston.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0802-heathrow.php\">SG0802: Heathrow.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reflects on the pug ugliness of Heathrow Airport&#8217;s new Terminal 5, which looks like the Airport That IKEA Built &#8211; and not in a good way.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0803-singapore.php\">SG0803: Singapore!<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reaches Singapore at last, and realizes that the key to creating an airport that feels welcoming, as opposed to industrial and cold, is a combination of color and foliage.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0804-ihotel.php\">SG0804: iHotel.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our increasingly-exhausted hero sets up camp at the hotel in Singapore, and reflects on what he&#8217;s learned in one bewilderingly long day of travel.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0805-hiking-in-the-park.php\">SG0805: Hiking in the Park.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero makes the boneheaded mistake of scaling a set of steps up a huge hill at around 11AM near the Earth&#8217;s equator. *cough, wheeze*\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0806-the-spice-trail.php\">SG0806: The Spice Trail.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reveals his secret foodie nature and miraculously refrains from making a <i>Dune<\/i> joke.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0807-360-degrees-of-singapor.php\">SG0807: 360 Degrees of Singaporean History.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero does his best iPod commercial impersonation while literally surrounded by Singaporean history.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0808-christmas-on-orchard.php\">SG0808: Christmas on Orchard.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reports from one of the biggest, most impressive stretches of shopping space he&#8217;s ever seen.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0809-geekville.php\">SG0809: Geekville.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero, lost in one of the biggest malls he&#8217;s ever seen, discovers that days spent in meetings and setting up show booths are bad for blogging.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0810-siggraph.php\">SG0810: @SIGGRAPH.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reports from the expo floor, remarking on the apparent state of computer graphics in Singapore.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0811-let-it-rain-let-it-rain.php\">SG0811: Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain&#8230;<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero, weary but happy, relaxes outside the mall to the lovely sounds of a Christmas typhoon.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0812-digital-trees.php\">SG0812: Digital Trees?<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero reports in after the Lucasfilm Singapore party and marvels at a canopy of towering structures serving double duty as public art and public function.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0813-illuminated-kites.php\">SG0813: Illuminated.  Kites.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero is awestruck by the simple ingenuity of putting lights on kites.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0814-after-lucasfilm.php\">SG0814: After Lucasfilm.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero speaks briefly about his time visiting the Lucasfilm Animation Singapore offices. (Apologies for the sound quality, lighting quality and lack of content due to NDA &#8211; most of you can probably skip this one.)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0815-at-the-night-zoo.php\">SG0815: At the Night Zoo.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero pays a visit to Singapore&#8217;s famed Night Zoo and then discovers that his camera really doesn&#8217;t take video in the dark worth a dang. This footage of the fire show was the best I could do!\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0816-night-zoo-lucasfilm-and.php\">SG0816: Night Zoo, Lucasfilm and the Last Day.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero provides a recap of the Night Zoo and the Lucasfilm visit, sends a shout-out to Eddie Wong, and contemplates plans for the last full day in Singapore.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0817-malls-and-circuses.php\">SG0817: Malls and Circuses.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero expounds on the Singaporean love of shopping malls.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0818-the-asian-civilizations.php\">SG0818: The Asian Civilizations Museum.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero explores, among other things, a video triptych entering the Asian Civilizations Museum.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0819-the-merlion.php\">SG0819: The Merlion!<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero successfully completes his pilgrimage to the (in)famous Singapore Merlion.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0820-the-esplanade.php\">SG0820: The Esplanade.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero introduces the audience to the arts and shopping center that is Singapore&#8217;s Esplanade (and reveals that he&#8217;s not entirely sure about the preferred pronunciation of the word <i>esplanade<\/i>).\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/sg0821-signing-off-from-termin.php\">SG0821: Signing Off from Terminal 5.<\/a><\/strong> Wherein our hero brings this entire adventure very nearly full circle by signing off from London&#8217;s Heathrow airport, and begrudgingly revises his opinion of the earlier-maligned Terminal 5.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by, and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to anyone coming to this site via the mySingapore Twitter stream! To provide you with some context, my name is Geoffrey Long and I&#8217;m the Communications Director for the US side of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. In early December 2008 I flew from chilly Cambridge, Massachusetts to sunny Singapore to help our Singapore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-s4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}