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Today many thoughts wandered my mind about what I use everyday. My job (I have many but to keep this kinda short…) is basically internet production. I don’t know if that’s a real position, but I design, manage, test, websites all day. I also realized today how much I use the internet everyday. If the internet went down, I figure I would have significantly less to do. Sure I could still work on stuff locally, yet email, blogging, photo sharing, news reading… so on and so forth would not be possible.

Then onto more thoughts, after thinking all this I hit up one of my usual reads Zach Klein, specifically todays post on video. Video on the internet wasn’t anywhere near as popular as it was sayyyy a year ago?! Sure there was video like quicktime/windows files that are damn near impossible to watch on every computer. In this day and age the smart way to go is Flash. Vimeo one of Zach’s projects uses flash since their redesign, but I remember the days of the Windows Media/Quicktime files. Then every other online video site uses flash because it works in every browser that has flash player installed.

Towards the end he mentions this:

Aside, if I were a recent college grad without a job — I would startup a venture that produces 5/15/30 second ad spots for small to medium-sized companies. If popular video-sharing sites begin including pre-roll advertising before clips, there is going to be lots of new ad inventory, and lots of new advertisers who don’t have video creatives.

That is an amazing idea that many have shared. How would you get started in that kind of thing? I feel I could start something like that, especially by the time I graduate with a degree in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Digital Media. Anybody want to do a startup?

I suppose the whole purpose of this post was my short thoughts on how internet is attached to everyday life, with a little side on video.

P.S. Most of the time I forget to mention my various projects that I work on that make this blog dormant. Check out the Film or Video categories. Then head over to my daily music blog, MUSICGLOB.COM. Sooner or later I’ll update this site to showcases a few things.

Stories like this in Apple Pro is inspirational.

View story here.

On July 4th I went to the wild animal park with Kristi and we photographed and captured some amazing things. This is one of them…

Watch the lions “play” (warning: I guess it’s obscene? ehh not really it’s nature!)

Vimeo is a new awesome service made by the guys over at Connected Ventures. They have made things like Collegehumor.com, Busted Tees, Defunker, and a myriad of other things. I really like Vimeo because it is basically Flickr for video.

I had been waiting for months to see when it was open for sign up, and I found out when I checked today that it was open. I don’t know how long it has been open, but I am happy to have my account.

Head on over to my profile page to see my clips and stuff.

I present to you, “Writing an email.” A short film by Daniel Scally.

You will be seeing alot more films by me recently, especially because I really like the feature that you can subscribe to my video feed in iTunes 4.9 and watch it right there in iTunes. It will also download new videos that I post so you may watch for your viewing pleasure.


Check out all this good stuff:

Writing an email (Quicktime Movie)
Subscribe to my Video posts - Copy that link and subscribe to it in iTunes… or some other program that reads and plays videos and rss feeds.

I give to you, iMacs, a video for no particular reason. Putting off school work to make a short clip for no real reason at all except experimentation and fun, priceless.

Only available in .wmv format, sorry I’m getting my video editing knowledge together.

iMacs.wmv

This is one of the funniest things I have seen in Family Guy. That is saying alot because Family Guy is a hilarious show.

Everytime I see it I can’t help but laugh… so I think you should laugh too.

Watch Clip: Family Guy : Kool-Aid Man “OH YEAH”

Because Angela is just that awesome, she gets her own post right now. This is a video from a long time ago when we went to The Arcade Fire concert at the Troubadour. Twas a wonderful time.

Without further ado… I give you Angela flicking my head

*I think the movie is working now… it’s an AVI, let me know if it does not work*

I decided to edit some video footage I took the other day and decided to make a short film of the horror type. It is a really short film, with no real plot, yet I’ll hopefully be making films with plots soon.

As for the technical details, it was recorded on my digital camera, and made with Premiere and After Effects. Right now it is Quicktime format. Let me know if you need another type if you can’t play it.

Watch Scared of the CLA.mov Comments are appreciated.