Meh Clipisode - Find something interesting nearby
17Hey, I’m trying out a new thing here. Click on this link on your phone (or tablet):
https://clipisode.co/invitation/5c369e
You’ll put in your @ username and then make a short video about whatever’s most interesting nearby. Got anything fun on your desk? Cool poster on the wall? Cute dog? Let’s see it! And tell us about it. Where’d you get it? Why do you like it?
You can just find something right away and very nearby or make one over the weekend. I’ll compile the best and post the results on Monday.
Let me know in here if this is working for you. It should be pretty self-explanatory and easy to do, but we’re still polishing it up.
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So the idea is to narrate over the video to answer the questions about what it is, where get it, etc?
@medz Sure, that sounds good.
@gnol Gee…I wonder what was in your video…
@medz There doesn’t appear to be a limit as to how many times I can send it, either!
Sent my fairly short video.
Here is some more info and some examples of a finished product.
https://clipisode.co/#how-it-works
This is going to be a fun idea to see the final product on. Can’t wait to see what everyone shares. Mine wasn’t cute but it is what is interesting here at the moment.
Just sent my attempt at an interesting video — not at my home but thought what I sent you was cute nonetheless I just uploaded it again thinking I could insert my narration of where this was at as this is self explanatory what was going on so you’ll get two of the same videos - sorry meh
/giphy uploaded video
Want some incentive to send in your video? I’ve got some of that fresh, new new swag, hot and ready. Be the first to get your hands on it.
@ChadP I sent in my video… Can you go ahead and send those now? k, thanks.
@ChadP I have already sent mine too but another being sent shortly —
@ChadP
@ChadP
Are those stickers? Magnets? Yes?
@ChadP @lichme lol
@ChadP I love purple.
@ChadP
Just saw the text for the image.
Stickers!!!
Woohoo!!!
Hmm. I’ll wait til I get home so I don’t get in trouble for making a video on my phone while at work. I need the job to buy stuff on meh
I sent one. Mainly because i have no idea what I’m looking at and it could be worth a share
Last one was probably too short, so I sent another with some neat things seen nearby.
Apparently my phone doesn’t do audio, but it’s pretty self explanatory.
Not sure mine is interesting but I wanted to see how it worked. Maybe I’ll find something better later.
i just sent a video but didn’t say a word. i wouldn’t have been heard over the band here at inkcarceration. by the way, the band was bad omens
and i am representing the mediocre community by wearing my casemates kickstarter shirt
So, where do these great works of videography end up after they are sent to Meh?
@heartny meh hq— they will be submitting them to “moon shuffles” - the red neck version of the art and movie venue called Sundance, where works of art are shown ! Ours will be works of irk however so people will have instant regrets seeing them…
@AttyVette Cool beans! Can’t wait to see how this turns out. Or maybe I can?
@heartny like how you said cool beans as I’m sure they’ll be a gas !
@AttyVette Hopefully they won’t be real stinkers.
I sent you an epic video that you will definitely find fascinating. It’s full of action and adventure and napping!
@dave episode is full, can’t do it. I was gonna upload concert footage live!
@lichme oops, let me figure that out.
Use part two if that first link is saying it’s full:
https://clpso.de/i4df46c
(@lichme)
@dave @Kidzandliz try the link @dave posted above
@dave - got this error message
“This episode has reached it’s limit! You’ll have to wait until Meh starts a new episode.”
If you figure out how to fix it, can you leave it open through sometime tomorrow as I am exhausted and need to go to bed. Or… fuko those of us left out? (grin).
Also will there be a way for us to view what others have submitted?
@Kidsandliz https://clpso.de/i4df46c
@AttyVette oops it says you need to use a cell phone and I am just about out of data. Need to save what I have to upload what I did. We used up way too much of my data while making our selfie (I wasn’t thinking of that when we spent so much time on facetime). Sigh.
@Kidsandliz you deserve a double Fuko for that selfie time then… you deserve it and that they be good Fukos too!
@Kidsandliz doesn’t your phone have WiFi capabilities?
@support Yes but it is refusing to log into the wifi in mom’s lobby. Since we have until tomorrow night I will try elsewhere to upload the attack Canadain geese except this time they weren’t attacking, instead they were walking away from me. When I got to mom’s they came up to the car - about 3x as many as I video’ed and intimidated my cats who were in a large dog cage (I had just gotten here and was unloading). Wish I had videotaped them then because it was really funny except that the cats went from “What is this? A new toy? Oh Cool.” to “OMG they might kill and eat me” (ears back, crouched and hissing).
@Kidsandliz @support of you can’t get it loaded, are you able to email it? You have my email address. I’d be happy to upload it for you?
@mehbee Thanks for your offer but it is on my phone so I have to somehow get it to log into wifi here as I don’t have enough data to get it off the phone and send it anywhere. Serves me right for only paying for 2 gig on a card, but normally I don’t use even 1 gig. What blew it for me is the facetime stuff we did for the selfie. And using my phone for navigation around mom’s instead of a map (which is what I usually use - while the phone is handy, it is a want and not a need to use it instead of a map). I should have thought ahead and bought a card with more data for the time I was going to be at mom’s. But I didn’t so too late now. To buy a new card and activate it early is an expensive gamble for a fuko I likely won’t get. Thanks again though. If I am out somewhere with free, no password wifi I will try from there if I have time. Or maybe eventually I won’t get timed out trying to log my phone into this (password protected) guest wifi in the lobby.
@Kidsandliz Good luck!
@Kidsandliz I really want to do this one but I only have two ideas and one requires me driving around tomorrow which I don’t think I can do and the other one I am not sure is an idea that qualifies. It’s more of something that I treasure that I would like to tell the story of rather than something cool. I’ve participated in a few activities this time and it’s been fun. I’ll take that as a win!
@mehbee Thanks. Still timing out and haven’t had a chance to go anywhere else to try. Maybe tomorrow I will chase them with my laptop and try to take a video that way. Or not. I didn’t post my blindfolded irk in time (saw fuko’s had been awarded when I went to upload) and missed a few others due to other responsibilities here. I’ll just blame the goat - Hey @PooltoyWolf all your fault!!!
@Kidsandliz @mehbee Oops I did it again~
@mehbee Thanks for your offer. I downloaded it to my computer and then attempted to email and got the error message that the file was bigger than 25mb so I couldn’t email it. Sigh.
@Kidsandliz Oh that’s too bad, I’m sorry you couldn’t get it submitted.
@mehbee
I sent @Kidsandliz a link to a site which allows large uploads, and on which URLs only work once before they get deleted.
Hopefully she sees it in time…
@mehbee @PlacidPenguin I saw it in time but on all 3 browsers it says it can’t establish a secure connection so refuses to connect me. I think it is all a giant plot to prevent me from entering. Sigh. I do appreciate the help the two of you have been though.
I’m really excited to see this. Will you upload tomorrow?
@evilstan60 @ChadP said he’d compile a list and post the best on Monday. I am guessing it will be Monday and only some of the videos will be posted.
I was going to make a clip of a surprise item, but the entries are full. I tried!!! Instead, here is a photo of Patrick Duffy from Step by Step.
@LemonTheCat
Im on like season 6 of a rewatch of that on hulu
Ok, I think the limit has been increased. Feel free to use either link.
I’ll be posting these Monday afternoon.
@dave Either link? What is the second link?
@Kidsandliz
https://clpso.de/i4df46c
Dang it! The new swag is calling to me, but I can’t get this to work on either my Fire tablet or my cell phone. Apparently neither one has the appropriate app required to send a reply. Any ideas, people? Phone is a Moto E with Android 4.4.4. THANK YOU.
@lordbowen Same thing here. I’ve been trying since Friday. My phone is an LG smartphone/android.
Giving up.
@lisaviolet @lordbowen
I’ve offered several people to send the video to me and I’d upload it for them (without looking at the video), but nobody has taken me up on the offer.
Oh well.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@lordbowen @PlacidPenguin What video? I don’t even get that far. I click the link @Dave gave us, click the “reply” button and nothing happens.
@dave @lisaviolet
You tried https://clipisode.co/invitation/4df46c ?
@dave @PlacidPenguin No, I’ll try it now.
Nope. Nothing happens.
@lisaviolet when you click reply, a button should show up with a selection of a video recorder.
@RiotDemon Nope. Nothing happens.
@RiotDemon Do I have to install it? lol!
@RiotDemon When I go there on my tablet, I have access to my documents and prime photos. No video.
@lisaviolet
Nothing like this?
@PlacidPenguin On my fire tablet, document and prime photos comes up. No camera or video.
Not even that comes up on my phone.
@lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin Maybe you need a phone?
@lisaviolet take a video beforehand and use the document button to upload it.
@PlacidPenguin @sammydog01
I have an LG smartphone in my hand running android.
@lisaviolet
I’ll get out my Nexus 5 and look.
What browser are you using?
@PlacidPenguin chrome
I’ll try installing firefox and see if that works. With chrome, nothing comes up hitting reply.
@PlacidPenguin It’s uploading. I guess I had access to my video stuff blocked on chrome or something. I’ll have to check in to it.
How long does it usually take to upload?
@PlacidPenguin It has uploading NaN%, is that normal?
@lisaviolet
Are you using a VPN? I had this issue last night.
@PlacidPenguin A wut?
@lisaviolet
Do you have a key icon in your status bar?
@PlacidPenguin Ha! Doing the Firefox install brought up the videos, but had that NaN% message which a little googling told me the video didn’t update.
But it gave me a clue as to why nothing showed up in Chrome. Went into Chrome settings, clicked on the camera settings and turned them on. Tried the clipisode again, did the reply thing, “camcorder” was now an option, I took a little video, no, I didn’t, new to this. I hadn’t pressed record, took another little video and it uploaded.
Thank you!
@lisaviolet
You’re welcome.
@lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 requires a phone. When I first tried it on my computer the error message says only works with a phone. On the other hand my phone is not doing me any good since I haven’t had a chance to go anywhere with free wifi to use my phone (out of data and refuses to connect to the lobby wifi at my mom’s never mind I am on it right now on my computer) to do this or send my video to others to upload for me. Sigh. I guess this entry of mine will go down the tubes.
@Kidsandliz @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01
I was using a phone. I needed to give the browser access to my camera to get it to work.
@PlacidPenguin Well I did what you suggested and downloaded them to my computer. Then I tried to send and it says they exceed the 25mg limit so I can’t attach them. Sigh. I guess I lose and lose and lose again. Thanks anyway.
@Kidsandliz
Well how big are they? I have alternative options for you.
@Kidsandliz How frustrating for you.
I have no idea how to preview videos so I apologize to whoever is sorting through this. That said I am having a complete blast! Thanks!
@sammydog01 I’m imagining hordes of robots.
@RiotDemon No but thanks for the suggestion!
@sammydog01 I hope you followed through!
@RiotDemon I sent in a clip of my favorite robot but the sound was bad. Maybe I had my hand over the mic? Oh well.
@RiotDemon I just realized I’ve been talking into the speaker and not the microphone. I’m an idiot.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 Who knew there would be such a steep learning curve, amiright?
@lisaviolet @RiotDemon When the camera first came on and showed my face I panicked. It took me a long time to try it again. Maybe @dave will do this again sometime when I have the technology down?
@sammydog01
/giphy user error
I’m trying to upload a video and it keeps on timing out at 19 percent. Is it me or the site? It’s a less than 30 second video which is also boring.
@mossygreen Mine are loading but are more like 10 seconds long.
@sammydog01 Intriguing. I’ll give a shorter video a try. Thanks!
@sammydog01 Ugh, it took, like, 20 minutes to upload, but it happened. Are yours taking that long?
@mossygreen @sammydog01
I had a 15 second video (along with a 6 second video), and each went quick…
@mossygreen Mine are taking a long time but I’m at a concert with 25,000 other people with phones. I don’t expect them to make the cut anyway.
So the video thing didn’t work for me. But I was able to get a photo of the interesting thing nearby. So let me set the stage for the picture. I live near D.C. and we have some friends visiting for the weekend. So we went down to the National Mall tonight to see some sights. We started down by the Lincoln Memorial and ventured past the reflecting pool up to the World War II memorial. As my children sat politely dipping their feet in the fountain as indicated by the National Park Service signs I examined my surroundings. Then it happened, I spotted the most meh worthy Fuko deserving subject for which to make a video and then the video failed. Sad face. But through the miracles of technology I was able to snap a quick photo. So without further fan fare here it is. Now you might not recognize this man right away but if you are an late night TV infomercial aficionado you will know him as the late Billy Mays Scotty Pippen if Mays was Michael Jordan, that’s right it’s current OxiClean pitchman, Anthony Sullivan. Alas like most As Seen on TV products he was gone in a flash. Yet it was still a meh worthy moment.
So meh let’s send the Fuko this way, this man has led to many regrets many of which might be in a Fuko. I’ll give you the photo for a Fuko. Well you can have the Photo but come on Send me a Fuko, please.
@chadp you know your jealous
I wanna do this with my big inflatable wolf but he’s deflated!! Maybe tomorrow, if there’s time?
@PooltoyWolf so your wolf has a deflated ego?
@AttyVette He’s frequently deflated :U
@PooltoyWolf airing on the side of caution I guess
@AttyVette
I just uploaded a few clips… Was there a preview button? I skipped it if there was. I hope they aren’t total garbage.
@RiotDemon I found it- there is a little play button after you record. I didn’t bother checking my stuff. Sorry again staffers.
OK, I got Mr. Whiskers his 15 seconds of fame.
@therealjrn so Cat got his tongue?
@AttyVette Nope! He’s a talker. If my clip makes the cut you’ll see!
@AttyVette @therealjrn He has is own Woot account so he’s a pretty cool cat. Hope to see him.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn so he is a real cool cat— “pawsome” I say… purr- dy smart of you both !!
@AttyVette @sammydog01 That was “punny”
@dave sent in another video part two -
Booo. Reached it’s limit so I can’t add one.
@savvysapphire did you try this link?
https://clpso.de/i4df46c
@therealjrn lol. Literally just found it. Not that what I uploaded is super interesting. But my cat wanted a few seconds of fame. And he actually played cute for the camera. I may try something else later…now I know I can enter more than one lol!!
@dave - I am having multiple fails trying to upload my videos of the attack geese at my mom’s and of my cats. My phone is refusing to connect to the lobby wifi at my mom’s (times out; problem is I am out of data since I only buy 2 gigs and have used most of it up on maps finding my way around to do stuff for mom), so it was suggested I connect my phone to my computer, download the files and then 2 people volunteered to upload them for me if I emailed them. The problem is the size limit for the files to email. I exceed them (tried every email account I have across several platforms). So can’t do it that way either. Can I just park it on youtube or something? I guess I earned an
“A” for effort“F” for fuko? .PS I most likely will not be online until Monday morning and I know you are going through these Monday morning but I will check the forum as early as I can (and later tonight if I am up).
@Kidsandliz
So you may not see any notifications until tomorrow about you being tagged…
@Kidsandliz did you try to email them to me or others? We can still try to post them
@AttyVette I can’t. I did download them to my computer after someone told me how to get them off my phone by connecting to the computer via a cord. I tried emailing but file is bigger than what I am allowed to email. I did whisper to @dave that I posted on youtube and sent the link since that is about all I could do.
@Kidsandliz
I gave you 3 anonymous file sharing websites, though you only tried one.
(At least, you only told me about the first one not working for you.)
@PlacidPenguin I must have somehow missed the other two. I’ll have to go look for that message. I haven’t had all that much time on the internet. Mom is taking a nap right now which is why I am on.
@PlacidPenguin I can’t find the post with the other two. I just saw the one that was .io and now I can’t find that one again either. Do you remember which thread? I searched but I guess whispers aren’t findable via the search function.
Sorry, whoever is delving through these. I sent another one!!! …but I’m new, so I’m just going to blame my obnoxiousness on that…
Ok. I uploaded 2. I tried for a different subject but couldn’t get the lighting to work to show what I wanted. I may have to experiment another day. The second video has a couple seconds of my intended subject but is not the focus. I did not describe them but they should not need too much unless it is more details of the topic.
I wonder how much run time will be waiting to be edited on Monday.
I just maybe uploaded a couple, no name on them, cats and a tree with birds. Some unexpected action, startled me, to say the least, so just ignore those if they show up.
Dang… had super interesting stuff this weekend but kept forgetting to have phone to check in on this one. Now at work everything is so boring (or is it so top secret?) that it isn’t worth trying.
@raccoon81 I hear ya. I didn’t have my phone with me this weekend when the space aliens landed…drats.
@therealjrn so the space aliens were aliens who were unfamiliar with your living space ? Were they spaced out too? Were they outta space aliens as there were too many of them?(Just keeping “space” with my pun count)
@AttyVette @therealjrn
@PlacidPenguin @therealjrn love this —-@PlacidPenguin just keeping space with this thread eh?
@PlacidPenguin On some thread - apparently not this one you whispered several places to upload the videos besides the one that ends in .io, then in a non-whipsered post said you hoped I’d see that in time, and for love nor money I can’t find where you did that.
Whew. You folks have quite the interesting things around.
Here’s the plan: I’m getting some help making 5 (five!) videos of your segments. Even with that I didn’t include every single video, but most are there. We’ll share them on the site next week.
Feel free to suggest future questions / topics we could use for this kind of thing.
@dave I’m looking forward to seeing them!
The Clipisode thing is dead-drop easy…mehbe it would increase participation in things like the Christmas video.
I’d like to see people’s pets or grand/children. Interesting weather too mehbe?
@dave I hope at least one of mine made it! My cats always wanted to be famous lol! I like how easy this was to do! However, I’m not sure it recorded sound, and if it did, sorry you had to listen to my voice, I didn’t switch to my customer service fake phone voice before I talked on the videos
@dave Are you sorry you expanded the limits yet?
@dave Question Suggestions:
-Favorite meh purchase?
-Whatcha eatin’?
-Favorite thing about about meh?
-What is the weirdest thing around you?
-Introduce yourself! (for the brave among us)
-Scavenger hunt (ex: find a blue stapler or find a meh logo IRL)
Edit:
And like @therealjrn said: Show your pets!
Hard to say how well (poorly) these would all work before seeing how the first one turns out.
@dave “Well, we used most, but we didn’t use yours, it really sucked.”
Hopes and dreams of being a famous director dashed.
@lisaviolet Reasons someone’s might not have gotten used:
@dave
Otherwise they would have been used?
I’m feeling all smirky inside.
@dave Aw, I was just teasin’ ya.
But it is nice that you clarified the reasons so people won’t feel bad.
@dave @sammydog01
Somebody used up all the slots early on…I wonder who that was?
@savvysapphire I’m glad I didn’t use my fake customer service voice. Apparently I get really high pitched for whatever reason. Sometimes I yell at myself in my head when I notice I’m doing it.
@therealjrn I couldn’t imagine who would do that. But maybe they were all really short videos?
@sammydog01 @therealjrn
Mine wouldn’t show up because it was boring and stupid. Just a wtf that’s not very worth watching with a lame joke that isn’t worth the payoff.
@dave Since I uploaded to youtube since I couldn’t get it where you wanted it (eg the whisper in this thread I sent you with them) was this good enough to be entered or did that disqualify me from being included?
@lisaviolet @therealjrn So many interesting things, am I right?
@dave Is one going to be the Ring video, or are you spreading the cursed segments throughout the series?
@Kidsandliz I know this sounds silly but I wasn’t able to figure out how to get the video from youtube into the Clipisode app. We’ll be doing these again, so I think there’ll be another chance. Sorry about that.
@dave You could always play the video on one screen and use a second device to record it into Clipisode. I’m sure the results would be appropriately meh
@dave Well considering all the problems I had I am not surprised. I left it open to the public and presumed that this meant someone could download it. Maybe not?
But not another chance for a fuko for entering… ( )
@dave @stardate820926 That is a good idea. I am so sorry I had no data and couldn’t get into the lobby wifi at mom’s with my phone to upload it where you wanted it. I just haven’t had time to run around to find public elsewhere wifi to do it there.
After HOURS of trying to get this to work, I finally succeeded, only to be too late. Insert multiple cuss words here.
@lordbowen &%!@?!
@lordbowen @therealjrn
I’m sorry this is over because today:
An emu tried to eat my turn signal lever
And I saw a Union soldier weaponize a dinosaur.
Video clips would have been more fun.
@sammydog01 I want a machine gun dinosaur.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 I asked my facebook friends to get me this. I don’t think they’re going to. Gosh, it’s only eleven grand and change. Free shipping with Prime.
@lisaviolet only 11k? Sheesh, what a steal!
@RiotDemon I know, right?
@lisaviolet @RiotDemon @sammydog01
Link?
@PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon @sammydog01
They’re temporarily out of stock.
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Toscano-NE100055-Jurassic-Brachiosaurus/dp/B00MNLWMTG/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1531960212&sr=8-13&keywords=dinosaur+statue
@lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon I’ll totally chip in a dollar. Do you have another 11,000 friends?
@PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon @sammydog01
Let me check my rolodex…nope. I’m a few thousand short.
@lisaviolet @RiotDemon @sammydog01
According to Misfit, I have 4 friends.
That’s 4 more than I’m aware of.
@lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 I’ll chip in two dollars.
@lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon I found this at the local thrift shop. I bet you have enough friends to buy it.
@PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon @sammydog01
I like that. I have three bucks pledged so far.