Last week I posted directly on the Facebook page for this blog after I created a promotional video for an upcoming concert and the client had issues publicizing it with their own Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/478531892336962/posts/875709779285836/ https://www.facebook.com/CreativeUploads/videos/254688168723961/ SERVICE WITH A SMILE I may get into how I captured and created the visuals later, but let's get... Continue Reading →
Storytellers like to say that all stories, good stories, have conflict and resolution. There is a challenge that confronts the hero, and by the end of the story you have some closure -- either the hero has new resolve or a solution has been achieved. There are exceptions of course, sometimes that hanging thread makes... Continue Reading →
AKA Round things I saw while walking around. It's the wife's birthday, which circles back every year. This week we were making loops around the Phoenix Art Museum and a mall at the Biltmore. And it occurs to me how much human beings like round things like Mickey Mouse's ears and scoops of ice cream... Continue Reading →
No really, I don't get writer's block. There's always another idea. Oh, you want a specific idea in a narrow set of parameters, like a blog post maybe, that provides some sort of example or instruction with a smidge of encouragement and a pinch of humor? Sure. In the meantime, here's an unrelated picture I... Continue Reading →
Well, AI, but not enough people liked the Steven Spielberg - Stanley Kubrik movie And not an android, because it doesn't look like a human, though that would be a better title. This video was created without editing from a pasted URL using Lumen5 AI-driven software, as reviewed the other day on this very blog. I... Continue Reading →
Playing with a new video tool called Lumen5 today, that I think may just be out of beta. They use AI to help you quickly create social videos out of existing articles, or from scratch if you so desire. At least that's the promise. Premise? In real life, of course, a proper polished product takes... Continue Reading →
Here is a video version of an early post on cameraphone tips and editing, updated with a fresh look and more pictures than ever! Welcome to the video era, again! (Been happening since movies were invented, then TV, then TV again, then 3D and VCRs and DVDs and HD and Streaming and -- it's not... Continue Reading →
So one of the difference between successful people and -- let's say less successful people? -- isn't the ideas. It's sharing them. It takes a lot of work, but we can take the first step very easily. If your goal is producing creative content, jokes, stories, music, art, whatever.... the trick is to capture the... Continue Reading →
I know there's been a drought of posts, but the site's just been resting while other projects demand to be watered. Researched an idea to move hosts and now planning on taking everything with and not starting with a new blank page. Whether I have the time to post a lot or not, this will... Continue Reading →
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