A very cool ad from Japan (I think) about creativity and children:
I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so just watch it.
Later,
Chuck
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If you’re as old as I am, you remember mix tapes. You’d spend a bunch of time copying songs from cassettes or albums onto a blank cassette tape, and then give them to your steady or to your buddies. It was a lot of fun, and a great way to share new music.
Now, there’s an online site where you can create your own mix tapes and share them with friends. It’s called MixWit.com, and it’s a free site. Here’s a quick mix tape I made with some of the music I’ve been listening to lately:
The picture is from a trip my buddies and I took to Cancun way back in 1988, right in the meaty part of the mix tape phenomenom.
Check it out and make your own mix tapes!
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My wife and I just checked out 10 MPH, a great independent film from Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell. In the film, Hunter and Josh decide to drop out of their corporate life and discover America by traveling across the country on a Segue at 10 mph. This offbeat documentary was a hit with Michele, who is not really a big fan of indie films or documentaries.
We rented the film from NetFlix, and it was well worth the time spent watching it last night. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share it with you. Here’s a trailer:
Check out their site, and you can have $1 donated to their next film venture by signing up for OnStage.com via the link on their site. Support independent film and give yourself some choice. These two filmmakers are a couple of guys to watch over the next few years.
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We had a visitor at work today - a very large Turkey Buzzard. So, I went outside and took a picture with my mobile phone camera and uploaded it directly to the blog. Very cool technology.
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Scott Andrew’s new album, “Save You From Yourself,” is out and available at CD Baby. Scott has been very creative in getting his album recorded and promoted, utilizing his fanbase (including me!) to help pay for some of the recording and production costs (you can get a little more info by checking out this link on my site).
And, Scott has created a couple of acoustic videos of songs on the new album. I’ve posted them here:
I’ve had the album for about a month now, and I’ve been wearing out my CD player listening. Do yourself a favor and play the videos and then buy the album at CD Baby. Or, better yet, buy multiple copies of the album for friends, family, people on your street, and co-workers. And, the guy who sells you your paper down at the local Cumbies (if you’re from New England).
Later,
Chuck
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Video test of the Postie plugin. It looks like it uploads the video but doesn’t put the thumbnail there. Of course, not sure how that would happen anyways. I’ll look into other ways of doing this (including emailing the camera videos to YouTube or Facebook mobile).
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OK… what’s going on here?
Well, I’ve been playing with the Postie plugin from Economy Size Geek, and it’s really cool. It allows me to take a picture on my cell phone and send it to my blog via a text message (although in this case, it’s really a pix message from Verizon). Since I upgraded my phone plan to include unlimited txt and pix messages (Marissa wanted to have texting on her cell phone), I figured it would be cool to be able to take a picture on my mobile phone and have it post automatically to the blog.
All of the picture posts below with the “Live From The Field” title are my tests. I decided to leave them because of the pictures, although you may not get the “Johnnie the Steak” reference unless you’re from Brix (and maybe even not then).
Ain’t technology wonderful? And, if you are having some issues with getting it to work, do a little search in the comments on the page linked above. I found out how to strip out the Verizon signature message by going through the posts.
Good Luck!
Chuck
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