Podcast 11 (remix) is now out–you can check it out on the pacificpelican.us podcast blog, or if you want to watch it quickly you can view the Flash video version at Webshots.

This is the second podcast shot entirely with my cell phone camera–the first was number seven. For earlier podcasts I had occasionally thrown in soundless video from my old Kodak EasyShare alongside my Samsung camera-phone video, and for podcast 6 at Yellowstone Jessica and I took a bit of the video with a borrowed point-and-shoot Canon Pro.

But one device was the anchor for the early podcasts. Essential video footage for most of them was taken with a Casio Exilim which really shined taking videos as well as photos, took quality sound recordings, and was both small and portable. Recently that camera, which we had used for a year and a half as our main video and still camera, broke and we needed a replacement.

As I mention on podcast 10, the new camera is a very cool Panasonic Lumix that has 10x optical zoom and lots of powerful features. As you can see from podcast number 10, which was the first podcast to use that camera, it also takes very good video.

However the Lumix takes QuickTime video that can be played on my desktop and even uploaded to my podcast server (as in number 10 which is just one uncut movie)–but I can’t edit and remix it with the software tools I currently have. So two more podcasts have been shot and produced but await mixing. For now here are the synopses: In podcast 8, Jessica and I visit Yosemite for our anniversary. In podcast 9, a car rams into the back of a bus that I am riding in the front of and I video the aftermath.

For now I think podcast 11 has some pretty interesting moments–and it’s a “remix” because I actually re-shot the “interlude” part (i.e. the first mix) and then added footage. One of the sequences is a sort of reference to my movie “The Dog of Geary Boulevard,” and another is taken from unused podcast 7 footage. The rest is totally new–more a sequence of random clips than anything, but feel free to surmise plot lines. Movies sort of write themselves in San Francisco.