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  • Video Mods? Okay, whatever.

    Imagine a music video consisting of random video game footage strung together and set to a hugely popular rock song. It sounds amateurish, doesn’t it? And then, imagine that a major cable network decides to air a bunch of these videos. That sounds lame, doesn’t it?

    Welcome to MTV2’s “Video Mod” program, where rock videos are reimagined using 3D game footage mixed with re-rendered band performances and what-not. There is some original content mixed in, but for the most part it’s game footage galore.

    I have a little clue for the folks over at MTV: You might want to do your homework first. From what I’ve seen so far, your video editing skills are even more lacking than mine. (And I assure you that coming from someone of my meager talents, that’s a real insult.)

    In case there are pedants among you who will point out that AMVs aren’t exactly the same thing: I know. I know. But it couldn’t hurt for MTV’s “Video Mod” creators to see what good videos created from existing materials can look like.

  • Pay To Watch Me Blog

    I thought about the suggestions I received, including children’s charities and medical organizations as well as the local rabbit shelter (as suggested by a certain someone). Then I had a bit of a brainstorm: What if I tied into the campaign that my workplace was already involved in?

    Entercom has a donation-matching deal with Earth Share, so I figured I’d at least look into going that route so I could (possibly) increase the chances of getting some of my coworkers in on the action. The problem is, Earth Share of Oregon doesn’t have a web-based donation transaction system. You have to print out a form, fill it out, and fax it to them. Er, no, sorry, that won’t work well enough for my purposes.

    While perusing the list of Earth Share’s affiliated organizations, however, I came across The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon chapter. Hey! Here’s something I can get behind. Preserving habitats for future generations, thus improving the quality of life for people and wildlife alike, is highly appealing to me.

    So, for those of you who wish to pony up sponsorship funds, I can now post my Blogathon campaign link. (Oooh, there’s a button off to the right, look!) There are only a couple of weeks remaining before the event, so don’t wait! And if you don’t want to contribute, that’s okay, but I do hope you’ll cheer me on during the event itself.

    Of course, now I have to start amassing material and ideas enough to get me through 48 journal entries in a single day…

  • Basil Thermometer?

    I couldn’t resist linking this post from Hurricane about a conversation at his local grocery store…

  • Blogathon 2005!

    A couple of years ago, I stayed up for 24 straight hours, posting entries every half hour, for the sake of charity, as part of an event called Blogathon. The ‘thon took a year off in 2004, but it’s back now and I’m signed up to participate.

    The question is, what charity should I devote my energy to? There’s a list of suggested causes, but before going ahead and defaulting to my usual (the WWF, in case you’re wondering) I figured I’d float the query past you folks, since you’re likely to be my sponsors and cheerleaders.

    The ‘thon takes place on Saturday, the 6th of August, bright and early. Bring it on, baby.

  • Heart, Heaven’s Home?

    So I’m putting together a playlist of songs that start with H. (Previous endeavors have centered on the letters M and S, for no apparent reason.) My biggest problem isn’t in keeping the artists nicely shuffled, or in song flow. No, I have to keep the “Home”, “Heart” and “Heaven” songs separated!

    Don’t believe me? Here’s the playlist as it stands right now:

    Heart. (Pet Shop Boys)
    Heaven Will Come (The Space Brothers)
    Hitorigoto (Kotoko)
    Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk)
    Home (Econoline Crush)
    Hercules (Midnight Oil)
    Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
    Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Dada)
    HOME SWEET HOME (Reborn) (Home Made Kazoku)
    Heaven’s in Here (Tin Machine)
    Home On The Strange (Geddy Lee)
    Here (Vast)
    Heaven Knows (Robert Plant)
    Halo (Depeche Mode)
    Home by the Sea – Second Home by the Sea (Live) (Genesis)

    I suppose “Here” shows up a couple of times as well, doesn’t it? Insane, I tell you.

  • Pink Parts

    Whoops. One of these years I’m going to learn that if I’m going to be out in the sun for any appreciable length of time, I need to dab some sunscreen or keep under cover. That way I can avoid conditions like the one my face, neck, and forearms are suffering right now. Granted, this is one of the milder cases of sunburn I’ve experienced, but that doesn’t make it a fun experience.

    Let’s not even talk about how incredibly sore and tired my arms and back are… did I mention that a 32” tube TV is heavy? And that I moved two of them around yesterday? Yes, this means that my arms are unhappy for two reasons…

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