Click above to watch the Christmas Special!We learned a valuable lesson about having expensive video equipment but shitty substandard hardware for rendering and encoding. We ended up releasing this almost 3 days after Christmas as a result. What a joke. We'll do better next time.
Let's play a game--
SPOT THE MISTAKES!
1) @36:52 - Subway sounds found their way into the interview
Dear Bitcoiners,
As I type this we are finishing up our last rounds of rendering and editing for the Christmas Special on BitTalk.TV.
What is the Christmas Special you ask? Well, I am a firm believer that everything should be interesting, thought provoking and entertaining and have noticed a huge stick firmly lodged up the buttox of the bitcoin community. To remedy this, I have spent much of my time making light of people's not-so-serious problems, keeping humor in conversations, and trying to weed out the self important money grubbing turtles.
What I have learned is that trolling is an art form, and as with any art form there are always idiots incapable of understanding and appreciating it. So, I decided to use my talents to bring some of that artform to a more appropriate medium-- video!
The Christmas Special represents myself, Vicente Santinavez (film), Mihai Alisie (marketing), Vitalik Buterin (editor), Vladimir Marchenko (security), GoWest (columnist), and all the rest of our legal, accounting and writers' belief that not only does this community need a better media outlet, but that when things are too serious, dry and boring (or when the host spends all his time looking at his cellphone) it doesn't really provide any value to anyone and it just serves to make everyone bored and shit themselves. This Christmas Special is our way of greeting the community proper and letting them know we are here to stay, with regular videos and even a magazine to boot.
We had a month to prepare but we wanted high quality equipment and there was also a death in my family, so scheduling got all fudged up and we ended up needing to rush a lot of it. Better late than never though, ey? I believe that this Christmas Special will have something for everyone (especially a few interviews with bitcoin businessmen never seen before and a few announcements no one knows about yet).
We're making this Christmas Special with entertainment in mind, but have left nuggets of education in it for both hard core bitcoiners and those right off the street.
Watch this thread and bittalk.tv for the Christmas Special airing on December 25th, 2011 - Christmas Day.
Happy Holidays!
Matthew N. Wright