Yesterday afternoon, I did for me what could be called an internet first. I streamed live video content to the internet of my woodturning.it was really a great experience, and hopfully for my viewers as well. As all first live demo’s would go I got a piece of wood to turn all chucked up to my lathe and after just a few minutes of turning found many flaws and craks in the wood. Now, if i wasn’t live i would have just taken the piece off the lathe and dealt with it at another time. However, I was live, a bit nrvous i guess and i had people watching me flub my way through this junky piece of wood. I persisted on for about ten minutes until I decided that I would just start over with a new piece of wood, and that piece turned beautifully.

This piece of Mara Wood turned like butter and a beautiful bowl resulted in the final finishing. My friend Kes Woodward was viewing me from Alaska, and ultimatly the bowl will be getting sent to him. Kes later sent me an email that summed the whole experience up for me. He said “I take the internet for granted sometimes, the things you can do….but I am sitting here 5000 miles away from you watching you turn a bowl that I will be getting from start to finish, thats pretty cool”

Well Kes, I agree with you. It is very cool. Kes is also no stranger to the internet space as he uses seesmic, blogging and Utterz, to show the progression of his paintings as he works on them. We are using the media in different ways, but we ultimatly are achievig similar results. You can check out Kes Woodward’s blog and the other folks that I know of that were in the room chatting with me here:

Kes Woodward
Blog, Artist, Painter from Alaska.

Scott Roche
General Musings of an intelligent, spiritual traveller.

Michael Falkner

Craig McCreath
Amazing Photographer, Videographer, Blogger

Thanks for checking it out folks. I’ll be doing another one soon. If you are interested in receiving regular schedule updates of my live streaming, or you are interested in finding out when I begin to Publish video in Podcast format. Ping me at Keith@magicwoodworks.com

Keith Burtis

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