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Archive for December, 2006

A Yelp Holiday Party

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

What is all this Yelping about? Why do Yelpers throw such great parties? What makes Yelpers such a passionate bunch? What the hell is Yelp anyway? All legitimate questions. GETV invades a recent Yelp holiday party at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in a vain attempt at getting to the bottom of […]

Xmas Special Music Video

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

After seeing Justin Timberlake’s brilliant gift idea on SNL last week, MC Slutsky didn’t want to leave the fella’s out in the cold. So, despite a horrific tone deafness, here is her rendition of this very special Christmas song. The track was laid down by Drown Radio aka Doc, a San Francisco electronic music artist […]

Running Fool is the Human Baton

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Ze Frank has a posse. That posse is known as Sports Racers. One Sports Racer by the name of RunningFool, or Luke as his parents might call him, is in the midst of tossing himself off from Sports Racer to Sports Racer in an attempt to travel across the United States. Completely organized from the […]

More Cocktail Robot Madness from Roboexotica 2006

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

GETV found its way to Vienna, Austria for the 8th annual Roboexotica cocktail robot festival, conference and awards show organized by the snarky drunkards at monochrom and SHIFZ. Violet Blue interviews some more creators of amazing cocktail bots. Episode links: Roboexotica, Violet Blue, monochrom, SHIFZ, Jonathan Moore (External Combustion Engine), Gordan Savicic & Leo Peschta […]

Roboexotica 2006 in Vienna

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

GETV found its way to Vienna, Austria for the 8th annual Roboexotica cocktail robot festival, conference and awards show organized by the snarky drunkards at monochrom and SHIFZ. Here is a sampling of a few drink faciliating machines. — Additional Roboexotica Video Footage — Episode links: Roboexotica, Violet Blue, monochrom, SHIFZ, Bureau of Philosophy, Chris […]

Roboexotica 2006: Clips

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Roboexotica, the festival for cocktail robots, is taking place in Vienna, Austria right. We are there covering the madness and are in the process of producing a couple of juicy segments for you. Until then, wet your appetite with these clips of five bots on display hosted by the almost voiceless Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom. […]

SF Zine Festivities

Monday, December 4th, 2006

GETV paid a visit to the annual San Francisco Zine Fest, where passionate zinesters, illustrators, artists and cross stichers of all stripes gather. Here’s a sampling of the festivities from this year’s event. Episode links: SF Zine Fest, François Vigneault, Julia Wertz, Mary Van Note, Brandon Hanvey, Pod Post, Kate Isenberg, Dana Steffe, King Cat