Awkward Kiss

Here is a video that I made for Awkward Moments. I it is a real life awkward first kiss ...

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Jeremy and Katie Webb

After a month of work I am done with the new wedding video for Jeremy and Katie Webb. This is by far the best wedding video that I have made and I enjoyed every minute of making it. The most challenging part of this video was editing it. I finally decided to upgrade to Final Cut X from Final Cut Pro 7. About an hour into editing it all I had was the footage imported. It took...

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Harry Potter on a new muggle device

When I first got my Kindle Fire the first books I tried to buy were the Harry Potter series. Before facebook, twitter, and youtube - Harry Potter dominated my life. However they were never released on Kindle. But now they are. J.K. Rowling is doing it a little differently though. Instead of buying them off of the amazon website you have to buy the books off of her new site, Pottermore. This...

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Sony's new FS700

It seems just a while ago the new Sony FS-100 was being announced. This was a great new camera for DSLR shooters because it had the benefits of shooting on a DSLR without the problems they have. Now Sony is announcing the Sony NEX-FS700. What makes me so excited is that it is going to be able to shoot 4K in the future, shoots ultra slow motion (120 and 240 fps) at 1080p and even...

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Wedding Videos

Jeremy and Kaite Webb - Same Day Edit from Egbert Media on Vimeo. Well this past week has been busy. It involved me flying to L.A. and filming my friends wedding. I started at 7 am and didn't finish until 1:00 am that next morning. Overall it was really really fun and I am so happy for them. I learned something very interesting about everything though. This video I shot and...

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Niche TV

This last weekend I flew to Los Angeles to film my friend's wedding video. I got to the airport pretty early so I waited in the terminal for my plane to arrive. While waiting I started to watch CNN on one of the many TVs in the area. After a few news stories an advertisement for CNN came up promoting what I thought was a new station. It turned out it was the one I was currently...

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Pintrest Irregularities

So I have a pretty cool sister-in-law who has this pretty cool (that is if you are a crafty mother) blog called Freshly Completed. She has been blogging pretty avidly since last August and has created a decent following since then just on her blog. In recent months she has branched out to a facebook page and using pintrest. She started using pintrest because she noticed how many...

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Youtube and Google Adsense

For my youtube series Awkward Moments In Life I am fortunate enough to have google adsense enabled on my videos. What does that mean? It means that for the ads that appear on my youtube videos I am able to earn a portion of the money that these companies pay google to be on these videos. A lot of times people ask me how I did it and how they are able to get signed up for google...

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Facebook/Twitter Competitions

This past month I was running contests on both my facebook and twitter accounts for my youtube series Awkward Moments In Life. After researching how to properly do them I learned a lot about not only social media contests but social media. Facebook Contest The first thing I learned about facebook contests is that I couldn't just post on my wall "Share this link to my contest...

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Seattle Part 7 - Banyan Branch

Out last visit of our second day was to Banyan Branch. Overall this was the coolest place that we visited. Banyan Branch is an integrated Social Media Agency. They have been around for only a few years but have already established themselves as leaders in Social Media Marketing. In the back of their offices they have a wall that holds about 20 large TV's that are displaying trends,...

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Seattle Part 6 - Weggner Edstrom

For the sixth part of our visit in Seattle we visited Weggner Edstrom - a PR firm in Bellevue who does a lot of the PR for Microsoft. The most interesting thing about this company to me was their special task force they had to deal with online customer complaints. There was a division of people who tracked the internet and social media to find out what people where saying. When...

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Klout

Ever wondered how influential you are with social media. Ever wonder if what you say actually gets through to people. Ever wonder if you are more popular than your friends? Well Klout can help you out with all of those, well except the last one. Klout is a website that measures...

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Tweet Adder

Ethics Statement: Tweet Adder is not paying me nor did they ask me to write this blog post. As many may already know, I run a youtube series and blog called Awkward Moments In Life. Recently I have been trying to increase my social media footprint on Facebook and Twitter. For me...

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Seattle Part 5 - Creature

Photo from Dennis Archer This last week I went on a school sponsored internship trip to Seattle to visit companies in the area. We visited a wide range of companies that work in Advertising, PR, and Digital Filmmaking. Over the next days I am going to spotlight each company we...

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Seattle Part 4 - Digital Kitchen

This last week I went on a school sponsored internship trip to Seattle to visit companies in the area. We visited a wide range of companies that work in Advertising, PR, and Digital Filmmaking. Over the next days I am going to spotlight each company we went to and what I learned...

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Seattle Part 3 - Wong Doody

This last week I went on a school sponsored internship trip to Seattle to visit companies in the area. We visited a wide range of companies that work in Advertising, PR, and Digital Filmmaking. Over the next days I am going to spotlight each company we went to and what I learned...

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Seattle Part 2 - Twin Star Credit Union

This last week I went on a school sponsored internship trip to Seattle to visit companies in the area. We visited a wide range of companies that work in Advertising, PR, and Digital Filmmaking. Over the next days I am going to spotlight each company we went to and what I learned...

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Seattle Part 1 - Highstreet Advertising

This last week I went on a school sponsored internship trip to Seattle to visit companies in the area. We visited a wide range of companies that work in Advertising, PR, and Digital Filmmaking. Over the next days I am going to spotlight each company we went to and what I learned from them. Highstreet Advertising was the first company that we went to. Located south of Seattle in...

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Superbowl Ads

The Super Bowl happened about a week ago and I still can't stop thinking about a few of their ads. Here were my three favorite ads played at this years super bowl. 1. Chrysler's Half Time Comercial Chrysler took a big risk running this ad. Most commercials are 30 or 60 seconds, but this commercial was two minutes long. Even though it was two times longer than commercials it...

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Sundnace 2012 - Part 2

So Sundance was a pretty awesome experience, I can't wait to go next year. The best part about the event was that everyone was involved in making it a great experience for everybody. It wasn't just a festival for film making, it was a festival for the arts. There were a lot of art...

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Sundance 2012 - Part 1

Last weekend I was able to do something that I have always wanted to do - attend the Sundance Film Festival. It was a really interesting experience and I had a good time going there and being surrounded by so many other people there that loved filmmaking as much as me, or probably...

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The Future of Advertising?

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>I just <br> I just saw this posted on a friend's facebook. What starts out as a commercial for bounce dryer sheets turns into a repeat of Old Spice's notorious ads. Funny as always Old Spice did do something new - an advertisement within an...

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Getting started as a blogger - Part 1

Everybody out there with a blog wants to drive more traffic to it. Some have the money to pay for it through advertising, others are able to do it through their vast array of social networks, and others can do it because they have been doing it forever. For those starting out (and primarily with blogs) these are all imposible because: 1. We don't have money to spend on advertising...

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Canon's new camera - C300

Photo Courtesy of: Lan Bui http://lanbui.com/ Canon made their big announcement of their new camera, the C300, back in November. Like most camera nerds, I was online all day watching what features it had and what it's competitor (the RED scarlet) had to offer. Canon has set the...

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The New Kindle Fire

Photo courtesy of: Courtney Boyd Meyers I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and absolutely love it. A lot of Apple apologists (which usually I am) discredit it and remain steadfast in their belief that the iPad is far superior to the Kindle...

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