Scott Beale, LaughingSquid.com
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 running time 10:07
Scott Beale, the primary tentacle of LaughingSquid.com, has been at the center of the art and technology scene for almost as long as the Internet has been around. And boy, does have stories to tell...
Check out the Interactive Episode at VideoClix.tv
Scott Beale is a guy who seems to be everywhere and know everyone. His art, culture and technology site, laughingsquid.com, is extremely influential and universally adored, and his Squid List is an unbelievable resource of pretty much every event that you'd want to be a part of. And squid.us www.squid.us? Well, that's just weird.
You can't possibly do Scott Beale justice in a ten-minute interview, because he's at the center of so much. But in his awesome appearance on Internet Superstar, we talk about the how he uses Twitter to make a big cultural impact, his vast Flickr archives and how they're used and misused, and how he seems to be at every party ever thrown, anywhere.
We've got to have him back on soon to actually talk about >LaughingSquid...
Highlights
Martin Sargent
(
0:38, 0:38
)
best pictures
(
7:18, 7:18
)
Hamptons
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1:08, 1:08
)
squid
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1:12, 1:16, 9:13, 9:20, 1:12, 1:16, 9:13, 9:20
)
Martin Sargent
(
0:38, 0:38
)
best pictures
(
7:18, 7:18
)
Hamptons
(
1:08, 1:08
)
squid
(
1:12, 1:16, 9:13, 9:20, 1:12, 1:16, 9:13, 9:20
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" War. This episode of superstars. Coupon -- it. Yeah. -- make it easier and hot. Website -- go to the dot -- Yeah. And one quarter."
" And welcome to Internet superstar the show the covers the most important fascinating and just plain bunkers people and things online. Internet. Martin Sargent. It today we're talking with an absolute pillar of the gay community -- things went duck out there it primary -- to go it's got BI. Dylan's got great having you here on the examine mine it's our -- those. I have no idea how I'm supposed to do you any sort of justice and like an eight minute interview because it's got and I were talking on the phone that's right we talked a lot about fifteen minutes. -- even scratched the surface this too many articles on this -- mean. It's two minutes this nonsense quarters and Hamptons and you know it just goes -- and all of that was -- then of course there -- no laughing squid fantastic I had beaten. People are laughing squid dot com this fantastic blog about art technology and culture here in San Francisco and beyond what what I want to talk to you about is the fact."
" My perception of you that you seem to be everywhere want and know everybody at the same time how do you do it. It can get it why people think that that they assumed that you think they go to every event -- posted about her. Anything you know it's. I'm that is welcome it's not true let's get called pilot okay okay -- this -- the -- last night Tuesday and ray -- The fail party are you more of part of everything I had a party at home watching -- yeah I think -- to -- I'll go to parties that are local like you know I'm not gonna go drive San -- for liners you know at least payment that's closed in the you know. Interesting. So you want to have fell apart do it well look at I think -- right -- The promised by didn't fails is that success -- have to do it again. So they can actually -- this and this is based on the fail -- out there that it how to do different but the most important problem everything talk about actually has a back story and in the had -- collective twitter maybe it's probably appreciate well at the downtime. Image for twitter has become a cult icon. So it in the Alley celebrated news of does that Phil will fan club those guys of their last night actually -- what. Twitter feel about it let me get this failure I you know I don't have a choice -- basically but I think that you know. I mean no weather service can. You know how that much sort of very visible downtown and still be extremely popular and you know it's just gone into their out of -- member of like every social networking world times like how how is it that twitter despite all of its spell it's always -- and how is that the people like you people like me I want. It's still really into -- lives of the people migrate to something because you can't doesn't mean all those people over right the most is completely different service so. I think that's part of it in into the bin on long enough it could -- would just start now or even recently it would have had an uptake rate will also the first service of this type doing this just this type of micro blogging in. And in most of the other stuff that is -- a twitter clones. -- And I actually I wasn't planning on going out covering the protest actually -- want to go to my Dennis was on the street and I walked -- Chinese might come -- like this kind of interest in new was happening but. I got into it in this like this is pretty fascinating seeing the Chinese nationals facing off the that -- you know Tibetans and isolate them. I was crazy -- clearing you know updates and then people are telling other people who don't know me to follow me when I got home. I had messages from people in China thinking for covering it because they were getting coverage that they were you know through the local -- I don't like like wow that's. Just me going up to the menace getting sidetracked into this thing. Because until its its its -- like -- it's it's it's a better means of getting information out -- you know the hordes of like the Virginia Tech massacre and everything get people were fighting about about that through twitter -- they -- the regular mean you know disaster the next disaster is kind of sort of the killer -- for unfortunately. Notice they give Katrina the next cooking Katrina level or 9/11 thing. Twitter is going to be huge Reagan could I when the earthquake -- and raise some way. Ban -- on time didn't find any -- far less than that I read about it in god in his Drudge report anywhere else wasn't there isn't any quicker way to talked about many people once right even if you email some of them has look at him now. Great phone call for entry level work. This way if you put it out if you don't like you're good you there was -- something's in the middle big chunk of people are thousands of people see it. And so and things like -- they were -- Katrina there was still sell coverage to people. You could bypass sort of you know media blockade on information. We're going to see that unfortunately with the next big disaster hey let's -- an attack audience out there about what is your favorite twitter iPhone. Well that's easy it's it's hollow HA HLO what does that you and I haven't I don't know -- right about now it's it's so thumb. It's not a minute and native iPhone -- web based -- and it's just it's great I think would have to buy them you know and integrated because I had you know it has better functionality that -- itself what does it do it. They're just -- accessing whatever it's attending any need to do on it and it's very well laid out and you know it's funny to -- really interesting because. All the -- serves around it are actually better than twitter and certainly -- look better function better but it's busy guy that's the smart thing and that's with me is so successful because they have it you gravelly data and re purpose it in a better way. And then twitter is doing because they're just focusing on basically to stay up at the moment -- Features come later I present value actually used twitter and effect because not only you have these 14000 followers that's not that that that easy it's affecting you follow so many people -- now. All bailout ball back everyone yet it does pretty fast that I mean. Usually I have to have you know someone kind of you know and that sort of thing but still it's now the public we're -- people follow. I don't think I know 1400. People you know some organizations that. It does look pretty fast so you people make the mistake of thinking they put them in clear. It's like emailing their friends and does he mean once it goes by I don't go back and try to read what I missed it by just CAAC -- up up about something like that the same thing five times. Bad form and we both are constantly -- to help promote."
" Well -- actually does know how to promote his. Well I think about it look that's how we dug -- this that that I have the hardware -- plays and that this would listen please and that the -- you're announcing he's fantastic parties and everything the other thing is back before I even knew it seemed like every time I would go to Flickr it seem like you look at all the best pictures of every picture and outlook and -- like in the de facto photographer of web two point."
" People always say that and it's funny because I. I've shot a lot early on so any time there's some new thing you know cultural thing like you know like I come from a documentary background to burning man is the same way you know when that -- burning man she -- photos and video. And then with the with quicker it was. You know early to another pirates are using it. And they like our camp you know the very first or campy knock out these really interesting things happening over time they're not as you -- to have -- shot as much. Of that but the people still think that you know."
" And it's it's the logo of a -- yet you don't do it as much as part of the reason because. I know that you you publish your stuff you creative commons and people don't always described that they don't follow that effect I did read it we reviewed about OJ pop up. I don't know if you if you kept my bed until you're looking -- are good -- stealing your images even."
" Well it was a blogger -- G -- blog that didn't expect -- so what -- did in the old days doesn't last year -- blog post that was put on twitter so first I'll contact them to make an attempt to have -- you know. Practice you know. Funnier response than -- you know little public humiliation and where I'm all about in the event finishing with a what -- put it out there and what happened within minutes I had the people contact me with G four addresses I know someone there. Some is like go to contact Kevin Rose like I don't know where this guy's been but they can't happen. But again within one day or not same day -- we contacted from before the next day he'd had it fixed and the credit there."
" Okay what are the system works well it's guy knew what was going to happen we'd barely scratched the -- we come back some -- we were probably honest of the you know because having you are literally are. When I was into the studios that you are pillar in this community and it's a real pleasure out I have absolutely our Internet superstar. Thanks for your misery that's got this Levy want mad about -- about the Internet we're gonna talk about squid that you us what is with you in accordance. Paper more on what's got us doing pack a weeks worth -- want to thank god can laughing squid. Dot com hey that's going to have to do it for this edition of an Internet superstar join us tomorrow when we talk to the good folks from one of the -- that shows ever hit the Internet. The midwest opinion section I was probably what do you think that's tomorrow right here on Internet superstar we'll -- of that."
" Yeah. And it's. Yeah."
" Yeah."
" yeah."
" War. This episode of superstars. Coupon -- it. Yeah. -- make it easier and hot. Website -- go to the dot -- Yeah. And one quarter."
" And welcome to Internet superstar the show the covers the most important fascinating and just plain bunkers people and things online. Internet. Martin Sargent. It today we're talking with an absolute pillar of the gay community -- things went duck out there it primary -- to go it's got BI. Dylan's got great having you here on the examine mine it's our -- those. I have no idea how I'm supposed to do you any sort of justice and like an eight minute interview because it's got and I were talking on the phone that's right we talked a lot about fifteen minutes. -- even scratched the surface this too many articles on this -- mean. It's two minutes this nonsense quarters and Hamptons and you know it just goes -- and all of that was -- then of course there -- no laughing squid fantastic I had beaten. People are laughing squid dot com this fantastic blog about art technology and culture here in San Francisco and beyond what what I want to talk to you about is the fact."
" My perception of you that you seem to be everywhere want and know everybody at the same time how do you do it. It can get it why people think that that they assumed that you think they go to every event -- posted about her. Anything you know it's. I'm that is welcome it's not true let's get called pilot okay okay -- this -- the -- last night Tuesday and ray -- The fail party are you more of part of everything I had a party at home watching -- yeah I think -- to -- I'll go to parties that are local like you know I'm not gonna go drive San -- for liners you know at least payment that's closed in the you know. Interesting. So you want to have fell apart do it well look at I think -- right -- The promised by didn't fails is that success -- have to do it again. So they can actually -- this and this is based on the fail -- out there that it how to do different but the most important problem everything talk about actually has a back story and in the had -- collective twitter maybe it's probably appreciate well at the downtime. Image for twitter has become a cult icon. So it in the Alley celebrated news of does that Phil will fan club those guys of their last night actually -- what. Twitter feel about it let me get this failure I you know I don't have a choice -- basically but I think that you know. I mean no weather service can. You know how that much sort of very visible downtown and still be extremely popular and you know it's just gone into their out of -- member of like every social networking world times like how how is it that twitter despite all of its spell it's always -- and how is that the people like you people like me I want. It's still really into -- lives of the people migrate to something because you can't doesn't mean all those people over right the most is completely different service so. I think that's part of it in into the bin on long enough it could -- would just start now or even recently it would have had an uptake rate will also the first service of this type doing this just this type of micro blogging in. And in most of the other stuff that is -- a twitter clones. -- And I actually I wasn't planning on going out covering the protest actually -- want to go to my Dennis was on the street and I walked -- Chinese might come -- like this kind of interest in new was happening but. I got into it in this like this is pretty fascinating seeing the Chinese nationals facing off the that -- you know Tibetans and isolate them. I was crazy -- clearing you know updates and then people are telling other people who don't know me to follow me when I got home. I had messages from people in China thinking for covering it because they were getting coverage that they were you know through the local -- I don't like like wow that's. Just me going up to the menace getting sidetracked into this thing. Because until its its its -- like -- it's it's it's a better means of getting information out -- you know the hordes of like the Virginia Tech massacre and everything get people were fighting about about that through twitter -- they -- the regular mean you know disaster the next disaster is kind of sort of the killer -- for unfortunately. Notice they give Katrina the next cooking Katrina level or 9/11 thing. Twitter is going to be huge Reagan could I when the earthquake -- and raise some way. Ban -- on time didn't find any -- far less than that I read about it in god in his Drudge report anywhere else wasn't there isn't any quicker way to talked about many people once right even if you email some of them has look at him now. Great phone call for entry level work. This way if you put it out if you don't like you're good you there was -- something's in the middle big chunk of people are thousands of people see it. And so and things like -- they were -- Katrina there was still sell coverage to people. You could bypass sort of you know media blockade on information. We're going to see that unfortunately with the next big disaster hey let's -- an attack audience out there about what is your favorite twitter iPhone. Well that's easy it's it's hollow HA HLO what does that you and I haven't I don't know -- right about now it's it's so thumb. It's not a minute and native iPhone -- web based -- and it's just it's great I think would have to buy them you know and integrated because I had you know it has better functionality that -- itself what does it do it. They're just -- accessing whatever it's attending any need to do on it and it's very well laid out and you know it's funny to -- really interesting because. All the -- serves around it are actually better than twitter and certainly -- look better function better but it's busy guy that's the smart thing and that's with me is so successful because they have it you gravelly data and re purpose it in a better way. And then twitter is doing because they're just focusing on basically to stay up at the moment -- Features come later I present value actually used twitter and effect because not only you have these 14000 followers that's not that that that easy it's affecting you follow so many people -- now. All bailout ball back everyone yet it does pretty fast that I mean. Usually I have to have you know someone kind of you know and that sort of thing but still it's now the public we're -- people follow. I don't think I know 1400. People you know some organizations that. It does look pretty fast so you people make the mistake of thinking they put them in clear. It's like emailing their friends and does he mean once it goes by I don't go back and try to read what I missed it by just CAAC -- up up about something like that the same thing five times. Bad form and we both are constantly -- to help promote."
" Well -- actually does know how to promote his. Well I think about it look that's how we dug -- this that that I have the hardware -- plays and that this would listen please and that the -- you're announcing he's fantastic parties and everything the other thing is back before I even knew it seemed like every time I would go to Flickr it seem like you look at all the best pictures of every picture and outlook and -- like in the de facto photographer of web two point."
" People always say that and it's funny because I. I've shot a lot early on so any time there's some new thing you know cultural thing like you know like I come from a documentary background to burning man is the same way you know when that -- burning man she -- photos and video. And then with the with quicker it was. You know early to another pirates are using it. And they like our camp you know the very first or campy knock out these really interesting things happening over time they're not as you -- to have -- shot as much. Of that but the people still think that you know."
" And it's it's the logo of a -- yet you don't do it as much as part of the reason because. I know that you you publish your stuff you creative commons and people don't always described that they don't follow that effect I did read it we reviewed about OJ pop up. I don't know if you if you kept my bed until you're looking -- are good -- stealing your images even."
" Well it was a blogger -- G -- blog that didn't expect -- so what -- did in the old days doesn't last year -- blog post that was put on twitter so first I'll contact them to make an attempt to have -- you know. Practice you know. Funnier response than -- you know little public humiliation and where I'm all about in the event finishing with a what -- put it out there and what happened within minutes I had the people contact me with G four addresses I know someone there. Some is like go to contact Kevin Rose like I don't know where this guy's been but they can't happen. But again within one day or not same day -- we contacted from before the next day he'd had it fixed and the credit there."
" Okay what are the system works well it's guy knew what was going to happen we'd barely scratched the -- we come back some -- we were probably honest of the you know because having you are literally are. When I was into the studios that you are pillar in this community and it's a real pleasure out I have absolutely our Internet superstar. Thanks for your misery that's got this Levy want mad about -- about the Internet we're gonna talk about squid that you us what is with you in accordance. Paper more on what's got us doing pack a weeks worth -- want to thank god can laughing squid. Dot com hey that's going to have to do it for this edition of an Internet superstar join us tomorrow when we talk to the good folks from one of the -- that shows ever hit the Internet. The midwest opinion section I was probably what do you think that's tomorrow right here on Internet superstar we'll -- of that."
" Yeah. And it's. Yeah."
" Yeah."
" yeah."








