A Kiss Could Be Deadly

So I was fortunate to fly out to L.A. over last weekend to help on the production of A Kiss Could Be Deadly's first music video. WOW. What an experience. First, the band ROCKS. Second, the entire crew was amazing. Third, I can't wait to see the final product.

My role was pretty unique, and more or less made up on the spot. Because we had a smaller crew, I helped out when needed with set work (Alfred Cooney). But mostly I assisted the Director (Chase Kenney), and the Producers. Based on my strong technical background, I was placed incharge of transfering 4-8 GB of data from the Panasonic P2 Cards onto a laptop, and an external drive. Talk about a stressful job. One mistake, and seveal hours of work could be lost. Also I was incharge of playback of both clips, and music for the band to rock to. This including taking thier single, and adding several seconds of beats to the front end. In addition I was in charge of setting up 7 tv's to a dvd player, and 2 tv's to a live feed of the band performing. Finally, my toughest job was bullshitting with the band, and making sure they new what was going on.

I want to wish the band the best of luck. If you have a MySpace account check them out. If you contact them, they'll email you all of their tracks. AWESOME!

Caribou to Server Free WiFi

Caribou Coffee will began serving free WiFi at their coffee shops. Unlike thier Starbucks competitors who still offer WiFi through T-mobile for a charge, Caribou's will be free for the first hour. After that, it will be a wallet breaking $1.50 in store credit for addtional usage.

I wonder if that means you buy a $4.00 coffee you're good for a little over 2 hours?

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Minnnesota Public Radio

This is a follow up post to Road Node 101. Our interview from the event made it's way onto Minnesota Public Radio. A special thanks to Kateri Jochum for coming to the event, and having a micrphone ready for recording.

Internet video bloggers connect in the real world (feature audio)

ROAD NODE 101

I was privelidged to get to meet Jan McLaughlin on Friday night at the Road Node 101 event held in Watertown, MN. This was a unique event with the following people in attendance:

• Cory Vandenberghe - Microbeer Podcast
• Klaas - Dutch Eagle Productions
• Adam Jochum - Crow River Coffee Co.
• Jan McLaughlin - Faux Press
• Kateri Jochum - MN Public Radio

This event was a peice of the much larger event coming up this weekend. NODE 101. There will be Node 101 events happening across the globe, including one in Watertown, MN. Adam is hosting this event at his coffee shop (Crow Wing Coffee).

Here are the details from ADAM JOCHUM organizer:
Greetings All! I own and operate a coffee shop in Watertown, MN. We have a new conference room in the back of the shop which should accommodate about 25-30 people. Please email 'cafn8ed.tv@gmail.com' with your contact information, whether you would be willing to present, etc. I have several years' experience in video production, mostly live event. We will join the video conference planned, and enjoy discussion and coffee.
WHAT: VLOGGER MEET UP, DISCUSSION, SCREENINGS, ETC, TBD..
WHERE: CROW RIVER COFFEE COMPANY, 104 LEWIS AVE N, WATERTOWN, MN 55388
WHEN: SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2006, 10am - 4pm CST.

Additional information about the group behind the event can found at NODE 101
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Omni-Tronics' Site Live

On Tuesday August 1st, 2006 the newly redesigned Omni-Tronics, Inc. web site went live. Omni-Tronics, Inc. specializes as a manufacturers' representatives for the electronics assembly industry. This was a unique project for me to work on because this was an industry I knew very little about before our first meeting. To which now, I know more....but I will leave to the experts over at Omni-Tronics, Inc. to better help answer any questions you may have.

This web site was redesigned by Dot Different. I recently accepted a job at Dot Different as a Sales Account Executive. Thus allowing Digital Ives to now be able to offer:

• Web Design
• Web Hosting
• E-commerce
• Pay-Per-Click
• Search Engine Optimization

Flickr-Online Photos

I'm surprised I haven't written about this web 2.0 application yet. It's been pretty well known, and in the news for quite a while. I started a profile on there several months ago, but really haven't taken the time until recently to start uploading some of my collections of photos.

Flickr makes it easy to upload, tag, and most importantly SHARE your photo's with other. Through the use of third party applications you can do a ton with your photo's once they're up. Anything from order prints, to make DVD's, to using your photo as stamp. Now how cool is that!

Check out the photo below. Clicking on it will take you to that "set's" slide show.

Snow Cross 2003

This was one of my first peices I did for Veldhiezen back in 2003. This was a montage of the Amsoil sponsored snowcross at Spirit Mountain.

Eyespot

This is one of the coolest MINI video programs out there. So here's the deal: everyone has these short 10 sec to 1 min mini clips from off their Cell phone, Camera, or Video camera. What do you do with them? If you want to edit them, or mash them up, add music to them, add photos to them; it's tough. You don't need a fancy editing program, all you need is Eyespot.

Eyespot allows you upload your clips (must be under 50 mb), upload photos, upload music. Then ONLINE it allows you to edit, mash up, add simple transitions, and simple effects. THERE IS NOT A PROGRAM TO DOWNLOAD. Finally Eyespot allows you to post to your blog, post to your Myspace account, or to your site. Also you can download your mash up Back to your computer (iPod version, Windows Media, Quick time).

As you can see from the video in the previous post the quality is great. I took a video that I had created in Final Cut, exported for iPod, uploaded, then was easily able to post. In addition I was able to bring it back down to my computer in a windows media format... for those that prefer Window's Media Player.

Mall of America

This was a recent project I did for the Mall of America (The Park at MOA). The goal of this project was to help introduce people to several of the rooms that are available to rent out for group events. This was also done in conjunction with several VR's (360 degree Virtual Realities). This was a really fun project to work on!

The Podcast Awards

I got wind of the Podcast awards through a Myspace message from one of the many podcasts I subcribe to. I thought I would check it out. Seems like a great start to a "people's award." Only problem I had with it, was that I have never heard of 99% of the podcasts. The only two I have heard of were The Good Beer Show and Diggnation.

Either way, get out and "rock the vote." Check out the message below from my friends over at The Good Beer Show.

The Good Beer Show is once again up for a People's Choice Podcast Award in the category of "food and drink". If it all possible, could you go to the podcast award site and vote for our show. The voting is going on now til August 11th. Your have to fill out a little information and they send out a confirmation email. A link must be followed from the email to make the vote count. You can vote every day til August 11th. GBS Tom and I had a blast receiving the award last year.

It would also be great if you slid this down your bulletin space to your friends.

Thanks
JeffreyT
Good Beer Show