Blogger really does anger me. I'm not going to lie and I can no longer hold it in. I thought I'd be really cool and host it myself.. but, obviously that wasn't in my best interest. It takes 3 years to republish and I've only been at this a month.
So, here I sit. Frustrated and wanting to punch Google with my fist of fury. I don't want to host it on their servers. Perhaps Wordpress is in order. Hmmmmm...
Ahhh so Desiree and I had our first photoshoot for mommypackmylunch.com. We've decided to stick with the name and make it work! So, obviously.. here is our first step. The next step will be actually redoing our site to be somewhat functionable!
I'll be posting a few more photos from the shoot at a some point this week.
Hosted by: ShawnSmith Title: #20 - Geek Riot - Live After Net@Nite Time: 01/28/07 10:10 PM EST Duration: 1:36:02 Description: Guest Brian from Alive in Baghdad. First show of our new co-host Justine Ezarik.
I'm listening to it right now, you know, since I might have forgotten what I said. The part where Skype killed me and I trail off into "yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah..." is pretty amazing.
I'm now hosting Nightline on ABC since my few second debut..
HA HA HA just kidding.
..but, this Thursday and Friday I did spend in Dallas, Texas filming a show for xTrain called 60 Second Guru.
Now, normally the show would be a tutorial teaching you something in 60 seconds. The topics that I chose were Online Video Editing, MySpace Popularity, Blogging Tips, and Creating Viral Videos. Basically these were shot in the style of videos that most people are used to seeing that Dez and I would typically create. This includes: running around the street doing parkour, dancing on the desk, mock myspace mirror shots, and even falling in random places.
The studio that we shot at was amazing! It's called Splash Media. Here's a video directly from YouTube about xTrain and Splash Media about their partnership:
Splash Media operates one of the most technologically advanced television studios in the world. We combine the best systems available with solid engineering and top-notch graphics. Since its launch in 2005, TSTN has received international acclaim for its content as well as its look, but the most common question asked by visitors is, “Where’s the studio?” TSTN programs are produced by only five or six people in the control room. Even more astounding is the number of crew on the floor in the studio: zero. Computer-guided cameras are all controlled by one person. The studio is a bluescreen room, and virtual reality sets are keyed into the final video feed. Camera moves are monitored by the virtual reality servers, where minute adjustments to the set give the studio depth. The final effect is flawless.
Moving right along with my media from the filming.. On the topic of "Creating Viral Videos", I mentioned that the "quickest and most painless way to create a viral video, is to make a video blog". Thus, here is my mockery of a typical video post you'd find on YouTube:
Last but not least, here's my version of the SplashMedia tour.
(Most of this footage was filmed 5 minutes before I ran out of the studio to catch my flight)
..no wifi but I'm wearing the best TSHIRT EVER!! Lots of treats coming up upon my return to Pittsburgh. Huge thanks to SplashMedia / XTrain for being so awesome dot com Seeeee yaaaaa in Pittsburgh.
Ah, here I am sitting by this wonderful power outlet in the Airport waiting for my flight to Dallas. This is the ONLY one in the near vicinity of my boarding gate. I searched under sandwiches, people and small children to find this wonderful treat to plug my Macbook Pro into.
Now, I'm sure if you are reading this, you'll also notice that there is nothing plugged into it.
FIRST: GeekRiot this Sunday at 10pm on Talkshoe. Be there or just be extremly not awesome whatsoever.
SECOND: I'll be in Dallas shooting some really sweet videos on Friday. That's about all the details I'm going to give you. For more information, stay tuned here and via Groovr for photo updates and more.
Tom Green proclaimed her "...the Clay Aiken of this competition" but to PTI, Justine E. is our web celeb. Known by Yahoo! visitors as "iJustine," she is a PTI 2004 Multimedia Technologies graduate. iJustine tapped her creative, video and editing skills to make it to the final five of Yahoo!'s Talent Show.
PTI featured us on a mass email to past/present PTI students about our success on the Yahoo! Talent Show last month. Be sure to check it out! [ read more ]
The Art of Tap Dancing includes a set of heel and toe taps with screws to convert your shoes into practice taps, and a 32-page book that provides the history and how-to of this lively and rhythmic art form.
This is seriously so funny. Neal and I were at Barnes and Noble Bookstore yesterday at work (getting some coffee) and I saw this little box on the self. It is a kit to convert your shoes into tapshoes. Honestly.. this is exactly what I need to live my life to the fullest extent.
[ Revver ] Check out our videos on Revver's Featured Creators
[ Yahoo! Video ] The infamous Apple video was featured on Yahoo! Videos today Juding by the comments, the Yahoo kids are still not fans of us
[ Geek Riot ] Hosted by Shawn Smith Description: Tonights guest is a rising star in the web geek world. She just placed 2nd in the Yahoo Talent Search and is now a Host on MacBreak. Join us for some geek chat.
[ Net@Nite ] Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte Leo and I discussed Twitter and Groovr for a few.
In other news, I'm 100% in love with the Flock browser. I'd like to proudly admit that here and now to everyone. It's just a bit faster than Firefox but is still Mozilla based. It integreates with most popular blogging websites and photosharing sites.
You can also drag and drop photos and links directly on to Myspace comments or drop them into a dock-like snippet station and save them for later.
It also has a built-in blog window that allows you to drag and drop anything content from the web directly into your blog entry.
Oh do I have some tasty treats right out of the amazing Jumpcut editor. I'm beginning to think every other word I type is Jumpcut. Perhaps some therapy is in order (new video concept?).
Anyways, let's move on with the videos, shall we?
I MET JUMPCUT (IRL) Random clips of Jumpcut and Macworld
Today was quite eventful and should allow for a few multimedia blog updates the next few days.
Beaver County Times [ timesonline.com ] and Go Magazine [ goburgh.com ] did an interview with me today about the various things I've been up to (our videos, the internet, Yahoo Talent Show, Macworld, etc).
After all was said and done, they mentioned that one of their favorite videos was the Parkour sketch Desiree and I did. I quickly called her up to join us and we taught them our version of Parkour.
Look for the Beaver Times parkour instruction / interview video tomorrow.
Check out our friends in Renzhe Parkour that we met via the Yahoo Talent Show if you want to see some real skills!
Last but not least, the iPhone video is currently featured on Yahoo Video:
Tonight was a post-podcamp meetup. It's really great to see what random projects everyone has been working on. If you don't know what Podcamp is, perhaps a Google search is in order?
So, they are basically just a lot of me, everyone from Jumpcut and the iPhone haha. I definitely took more video than photos. That seems to be a trend.
