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.
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
Durham Skate Park
This past weekend I took my daughter to the Durham Skate Park in downtown. She loves skateboarding, so she was pretty up for it. The funny thing is that she doesn’t really know how to ride. She knows the names of all the tricks, but can’t even really ride on a flat surface. I figured taking her to the Skate Park would provide some inspiration and she would get some practice riding along the edge of the park. She really didn’t ride at all, but she was very interested in shooting some video. The above video was completely shot by my 9-year old daughter on a Kodak ZI-8, handheld HD camera. I cut it together using iMovie, but with some simple direction regarding cutting on action and creating a narrative thread, she organized the shots, and even discarded a few that didn’t work. This kid is not your normal 4th grader. She really gets this stuff. We will definitely be shooting more video, and soon she will be managing the editing software too. Oh, and we scored it in Garage Band and she made the choices in that too.
They are just a band
This music video from Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip for the song “Thou Shalt always Kill” struck me as being catchy and thoughtful. It is a guide to life in modern day England for the music hipster. I love the litany of bands at the 1:30 mark.
Movies with No Signal
This video is a compilation of movies, mostly from the horror genre, where people find themselves is perilous situations, only to discover they have not cell phone signal.
The Beatles 3000
Sometimes history adds perspective, and sometimes it adds Scottie Pippen.
We Got That B-Roll!
If you have ever edited a video and wanted to drop in some footage while the main speaker or narrator continues, that’s called b-roll. The name comes from film editing where your main footage is the A roll and you need to cut in some footage from a secondary roll, or the B roll. This shows that any business function can be pitched as an informercial, especially with tongue firmly placed in cheek.
(Thanks for Greg for tweeting this)