Saturday, June 21, 2008

Matt continues to dance his crazy heart out. He's my hero in some weird way (but, you know, think of the carbon footprint?... nah) He wraps this one up in good old Gasworks, too.

If you're unfamiliar, check out all his videos at http://www.wherethehellismatt.com


Friday, June 20, 2008

On stage


This is a photo of where I sat throughout the Information School convocation ceremony. Right there on the stage I'm sort of in the middle of everyone's photos as they walked across to receive their diplomas (as seen here in someone else's photo...) Kind of awkward.

Nearly a DMCA take-down notice


The other day I finally got pegged for distributing music illegally. In an interesting twist, though, it was on the independent short film that I uploaded to youtube a couple years ago.

Universal Music Group (UMG) apparently has realized that some music they own appears in the movie Serious Coffee... they probably have used some of the state-of-the-art video sniffing type software to figure this out. The email they sent me (which is, by the way, also copy-righted, as you can see here) interestingly states that UMG is generally OK with my use of their music, and has deigned to allow me to leave the video up. In exchange for this I must allow UMG to place some sort of advertisements on the sidebar of my video page (or, maybe, the video overlays that youtube does). I suppose its not much of a concession for 30 second clips of relatively unknown songs to appear in a video which has been viewed fewer than 300 times.

At least I can have the joy of thinking that maybe somebody over at Universal watched my video and was vaguelly intrigued. I do wish, though, that I was able to find some orginal music ala Matt's Roosevelt Way. Maybe some day. I would like to see some network where Indie-type musicians can license their music (in exchange for free-publicity) to the online-movie "industry." It would be a good leap forward for both, I think.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Healthiest Beer

Was reading through Men's Health list of the 125 Healthiest Supermarket foods... when I got to the healthiest beer, though, it definitely wasn't what I suspected. Take a look

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Frightening somewhat...

Here is the latest party fad... give it a look: