The Stuper Adventures of ME

Article #15

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:11:00 -0600

This is a little more information about RSS feeds. This looks like where it's at. Vista's new Internet Explorer 7 will have RSS support. I need to get on the bandwagon and use this to my advantage.
OUT---AARON

Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:07:00 -0600

The best information on Web 2.0 is a two year old article from the people who coined the word, O'Reilly. A lot of good stuff in here about how the only companies that survived 1.0 already had 2.0 aspects going for them. Ahh yes, it also talks about how it puts good use to the long tail, so everyone's in.
Now for an example of a Web 2.0 company. Well, we all like YouTube, but how about something a little more educational like Wikipedia. Ok, for something really obscure: Twitter.

Article #14

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:11:00 -0600

I think I remember talking about this is class a while back, but the two billionaires who created Skype are at it again. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis unveiled the brand name and details of their latest project: Joost (juiced), the internet television.

Extra Credit

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:35:00 -0600

There are some software plugins to upconvert SD to HD. This One is for After Effects, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro and is called Instant HD. But you'll need to change it to progressive if not already. Try Fieldkit. Or you could get Kona3 hardware for 30x as much money.

MPEG-3 was to have targeted HDTV applications with sampling dimensions up to 1920 x 1080 x 30 fps and coded bitrates between 20 and 40 Mbit/sec. It was later discovered that with some fine tuning, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 syntax worked very well for HDTV rate video.

The Podcast!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:38:00 -0600

This is the link to the mp3. And the RSS is @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/geyck. I don't know everything about what all I did yet, but reading a bunch of tutorials I've got a good idea.

Article #13

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:22:00 -0600

And you thought that I was kidding when I said 'you' are Time's person of the year. With the invention of YouTube and more people on MySpace and things like that, everyone is shaping our world.

Article #12

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:34:00 -0600

Video games cure cancer!

Article #11

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:11:00 -0600

HD DVD vs. Blue Ray, the battle continues. HD gave Ray a one, two combo punch. Big Blue is still in the game but it looks doubtful that he'll be the victor.

Lonelygirl15

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:08:00 -0600

This Lonelygirl thing is an interesting idea. But can this be done again? Maybe not the same exact way. And with OK Go: YouTube was just getting started and OK got in at the bottom and got a lot of hits. Now I'm a big OK Go fan. Well, maybe not, but I do think they're pretty great. I can see now that this is just the start of this kind of thing. So what is the next new distribution channel? And who will be at the bottom of that as the icon? But with thousands and thousands of people out there posting things it's amazing that we still have web celebrities.

a. It is a girl (or so everyone beleaved) with a video blog. Tons of people got into it on YouTube. But actually Lonelygirl15 is more of an idea or company.
b. Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, Calif.; Miles Beckett, a doctor-turned-filmmaker; Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer; and an actress named Jessica Rose.
c. It sounds like a company named Creative Artists Agency thought up this idea.
d. A web-cam and a lot of creativity is all you need to make a mark in the world.
e. California and YouTube.
f. Now it's also on Revver, where it can make money.(Kinda like Brightcove)

Article #10

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:08:00 -0600

Carson Daily the new Al Gore? I kept coming across this "IYS" when going to the NBC website to watch my shows. In It's Your Show entries can be submitted for challenges or categories and the winners get money, and maybe put on NBC. I haven't quite figured this out yet.

Article #9

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:04:00 -0600

Matrixstream—A company into VOD and IPTV will offer 1080p channels.
SWEET!

Article #8

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:12:00 -0600

I found this article in Wired. This guy makes some pretty funny (but true) points about the real world versus the virtual world, and how the real one is slowly becoming virtual.

Video Production Company

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:20:00 -0600

These are all the things I could think of that I could get for $25 Gs. It would be pretty sweet to have all this killer equipment. Well here's the breakdown.

$3300 HDRFX1 Sony High Definition Digital Handycam Camcorder

$3100 HVR-A1 HiDef Camcorder

$400=$200 x 2 Tripod by DynaTran™ x2

$3000 Panasonic BT-H1700 17" Color Monitor

$250 Azden SGM-1000 Shotgun Microphone

$1300 Final Cut (5)Studio/Motion2/SoundtrackPro/DVD Studio Pro/Compressor

$2260 24v Dedolight lighting kit

$1000=$500 x 2 Cardioid Lav Mic Wireless

$2000=$1000 x 2 23" motitors

$6800=$2500 Mac Pro+$1600 (+2250GB Total Hard drive Space)+$2700 (+8GB Memory)

$130 Leather Chair

$70 "L" Desk

Which gives me $1390 left over for cables and other miscellanies things.

More On Product Life Cycles

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:12:00 -0600

I don't know if this means anything, but finding more equipment for my production company I found this article on life cycles that I wish I saw before Thursday. I'll always be learning, and now I just learned more of the stages of a cycle.
And look, I added this picture! ------------->

Concepts HW

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:53:00 -0600

A histogram is a graph representing the shadows and highlights of a picture. It shows the amounts of all the different shades of a picture. In Photoshop we learned how to manipulate this to get a better picture.
White balancing is basically telling the camera what "white" is and building all the other colors around it. I found a great link from DVXuser.com about using different colors for white balancing for some neat affects. Really cool.

Article #7

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:57:00 -0600

Youtube named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine.

The Long Tail

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:51:00 -0600

I really liked this Long Tail idea when I first heard of it. The concept is that the the sum of all the “unpopular” greatly out weigh the popular. For instance in the TV world the big 4 (yes, I count FOX), have the most popular and highest paid shows, but there’s far more viewers and money spent in the niche cable channels combined. Right now I don’t see how it could help me as a producer. Ok, I take that back. At first I was thinking about trying to hit all the less-knowns at once instead of competing with the big boys. But no, there is plenty of people to find my content if I aim for the people looking for it.
Some places I looked at was wikipedia and wired.

Brightcove

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:39:00 -0600

“The free service allows video programmers to build a commercial Internet television channel, syndicate it to other sites, generate advertising revenue and distribute the video over Brightcove's own distribution site.” This is an exript from internetnews. I find myself struggling to put thoughts into words.
The difference between Brightcove and the all-powerful YouTube is money can be made Brightcove. They share 50/50 the profits that are gained from advertisers with the content creators and 30/70 for pay-media, whereas the 30% goes to Brightcove. The sight is geared toward professionals and ‘prosumers’ wanting to get their content out there, and costumers looking for the right content. Because of all this they scrutinize all their incoming content, dividing it into categories for advertisers, and checking for copyright and content issues. For the serious producers.

Article #6

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:54:00 -0600

This isn't so much about technology in the media world, but a lawsuit between NBC and Emerson Electric about a garbage disposal mishap. It happened on one of my favorite shows, Heroes, when the cheerleader with Wolverine like powers mangles her hand in the InSinkErator. Now Emerson in all up set about it but it might be a PR thing.

CNNmoney.com

Article #4

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:49:00 -0500

Was buying YouTube a good thing for Google? These articles explain how it might be hard for the Goog to make advertising dough. One is from TheSteet.com and one from CNET talking about what MTV said about it. Eyeballs do not always equal money.

Media Trends Questions

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:36:00 -0500

The term "Surfing the net/web" originated from the term "channel surfing". And "channel surfing" is surfing only in a figurative sense in that it alludes to the moving easily and smoothly from one place to another. Like surfboarding.
Disruptive Technology: Automobiles over horses. Early roads were designed for horses, not cars. Nevertheless, the potential for greater convenience, reliability and speed offered by the motor car meant that the road system was eventually redesigned in its favor, after overcoming many obstacles.
Second Life is an online virtual world where a virtual person could do virtually anything. Starting with beta testers in March of 2002 it has grown to support over half a million members. The word of Second Life is split up into three main continents plus 1350 private islands totaling 83 square miles, and it's growing more every day. The open economy there is pretty incredible. You are given the tools to create anything you can imagine then copyright it to sell it to others. The currency is the Linden Dollar, or L$. The current exchange rate is 309L$ to 1 U.S. Dollar, and that varies like the stock market.

Article #3

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:09:00 -0500

Well, this one doesn't have much to do with video production. But it is about Google and Wisconsin, and we all know how much you love both. Google is now in the process of scanning many historic and medical books from UW Madison and making them available on the net. You may access the article here.

I was going to sent a link to an article about an LCD screen that can show three different pictures from different angles, but instead I found this one about a company called Trion developing an online game that specifically uses broadband to put you in a changing real time story. That article may be seen here.

Who is your daddy and what does he do?

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:37:00 -0500

Danger Mouse --- He's part of the band Gnarls Barkley, and the cool thing about them is they dress up as different themes every time they perform or make a music video. Everyone could follow that lead, it would make the world a much funnier place. But the other thing he did as a DJ was sampling sounds from The Beatles' White Album and mixed it with the lyrics in JZ's The Black Album to form the all new The Gray Album. Which would probably sound pretty sweet.

Faith Popcorn --- This chick from NY, NY is a "World Famous Trend Forecaster". She also runs BrainTrust.

www.wired.com --- Is where I get all my latest trends from... if I wasn't too busy being a trendsetter...

ADD --- Approximately 1.6 million elementary school-aged children have been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Extreme Makeover; Home Edition's Ty is one of them.

Mark Cuban --- See his mad ravings @ www.blogmaverick.com

The Roles of a Production

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:25:00 -0500

I found this site to be pretty helpful in understanding the different people it takes to get a movie/show together. This one lists the main crew of the PBS movie The Old Settler, what their job roles consist of, what they did specific, and great interviews.

www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/theoldsettler/prodroles/

The following takes place between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm

noreply@blogger.com (AWilliams) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:27:00 -0500

Well now. This is the first post in this here bloggy thing. I'm at a freind's house doing this. I do not yet have a connection at mine own house. I hope I'm doing this right.... i