Facebook Manners and You
Facebook has been around a long time, and the following video shows an early etiquette film of how to act on Facebook.
Iron Chef America Ingredients
Sometimes when cooking at home, I announce the ingredients. But I don’t do it with the style and flair of the host of Iron Chef America.
NC Girls Rock Camp 2010
Grace attended NC Girls Rock Camp for the 2nd year. It is a great experience where young girls learn to work together in bands by writing a song, making posters and performing at the end of the week. Grace’s band was called Black Rose and here is their performance. The lyrics to their song, Back Off, are reprinted below with permission.
Back Off by Black Rose
Yesterday I got bullied by a boy
I’m obsessed with chocolate
I tried to hold it in, and it just got worse
I’m obsessed with pie
I came back to him and I said
BACK OFF
BACK OFF
I’m a girl and nothing can stop me from doing anything I please
Cause I have power, it’s not just power
It’s GIRL POWER
Wooh
Today I sailed the seven seas
Climbed a mountain
And drank two cups of tea
Because I’m obsessed with a dog that eats pickles and cheese
I came back to him and said
BACK OFF
BACK OFF
I’m a girl and nothing can stop me from doing anything I please
Cause I have power, it’s not just power
It’s GIRL POWER
Wooh
WE ROCK
WE ROCK
Here is the final performance of all the girls.
I’m a Social Media Guru
Most people who work in social media, and take it seriously as a way to build business, eschew the terms expert and guru. I am certainly one of them. This video shows the perception most people have of social media practitioners. Hat tip to Blog Around the Clock.
What Father’s Day is About
The kids and I went out for brunch for Father’s Day.
US Scores Against England in World Cup… in Lego
Getting ready to watch the US play their second game in the World Cup by revisiting the goal against England, recreated in lego.
Darth Vader on GPS
The Tom Tom brand GPS systems are trying to remain relevant by adding celebrity voices. This video shows how recording celebrity voices can be a challenge.
Sony: Around The World In 80 Seconds
from Creativity
Photographer Alex Profit and Rapp Collins creative Romain Pergeaux created this stop-motion tour of the world in three weeks using the Sony Cyber-shot HX5V camera.
Here’s Profit on the making of the Around the World in 80 Seconds:
How did the project come about?
Romain Pergeaux, creative with Rapp Collins Paris had the idea for this project, he told me about it and we decided to direct it together.
What was Sony’s involvement?
(Pergeaux) proposed it to Sony, who loved the project. They therefore financed the operation. We were very free in creative production of the film.
What were the technical challenges of doing the video?
Only three weeks to realize this project, 2 persons, without locating points. Released into 8 frames per second, the tour lasts exactly 80 seconds between the GO and the FINISH (640 images), 11.5 seconds per country (92 images). The globe (shot in real life) turned all the 32 images. We had to make a very precise tracking to estimate the distance of entry and exit. Another challenge was to build the bridges between the different cities without knowing what we would find later to continue.
Go to their site tourdumonde80.fr for more information.
Steve Garfield at SXSW
I spoke with Steve Garfield, author of Get Seen, at SXSW Interactive. He helped me test my mics and shared some of the techniques from his book. Read more
Funnel Cakes at SXSW
Chillie Falls and his son Jason drove from Virginia to Austin, TX in a red funnel cake truck, stopping to share the deep fried goodness along the way. Read more