Remember last month when videographer Jacob Soboroff was trying out his new camera at the Cornfield park near Chinatown and ran into Huell Howser — and they videoed each other? Well, you'll be seeing more of Soboroff around here. He's joining the contributors to LAObserved and will be posting video from around Los Angeles, like the following piece he shot last week at the Gold Line tunnel ceremony in Boyle Heights. Mayor Villaraigosa was there and Soboroff cornered him for a little LAO chat, hard hat to hard hat.

Soboroff recently received his M.A. in political theory and philosophy at NYU. He has done advance work for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and presidential candidate Howard Dean, and this past political season interviewed Sen. John Kerry and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the nonpartisan election reform group Why Tuesday? He has politics in his family — his father is Steven Soboroff, who ran for mayor in 2001 and now runs Playa Vista (which has been advertising here for awhile.) Jacob has been a reader and email correspondent of LA Observed since the first year and I'm thrilled to have him as the first staff vlogger, as it were. He posted a welcome video over at Native Intelligence and his bio here.