Blowout!

In running Would You Rather Daily.Com, this is the kind of stuff that you hope doesn't ever happen. But it did. Why did I not want it to happen? It means we're not doing our job right. It should never be this obvious. Fall to your Death got 100% of the votes against Be buried alive. In my defense, this was filmed several months ago and I was hurting for some footage to post because I don't like having the same people arguing in videos back to back, day to day.
Through all this though, I'm glad this video came to light. There was a lot more energy in the video, something I think we need to bring back and will implement in future videos. Maybe I need to stock the fridge with more Mt. Dew.

-TFAM

Weekend work

So the weekends are rarely relaxing anymore. Between working on the house and working on the sites/videos, relaxing usually is not an option. Well this weekend was no exception. Yesterday Asti and I pored over lots and lots of website code. Exciting, I know. But it was very helpful. And he also showed me his latest work on changing our daily polls. They will be easier to use, easier to comment on, and best of all, it'll be easier on me updating the website! Can't argue with that. After we got done working on the site, we went to filming. Bubbles joined us and we knocked out a few videos. Since Asti is leaving to England and Spain this week, we're going to try and meet up again this week to get some more filming done for the time that he will be away. Look forward to the new polls in the upcoming weeks.

-TFAM

Upgrade Pt. 2

So as you know from reading this blog, previously I discussed my USB hub and how I was running out of room and that I needed a desktop rather than using my laptop. Well it's finally to that point. My MacBook Pro which has done all the work on the sites/video thus far is two years old now and starting to show it's age. So yesterday, I took delivery of my new 24" iMac. So far I've only been able to edit one video on it, but it goes much quicker than my laptop did. Plus I was hooking my laptop up to a 19" monitor so I have much more screen real estate to work with now too. Overall I am excited about how this will increase my productivity.
We did get a little filming done last night, but not filming on the road trip has really thrown the schedule off and I am behind in work. I'm also working on re-writing the website from scratch with Asti. I've always known it's needed work, but now I have some spare time to actually try and accomplish something. And after WYRD gets re-done, it's on to YRS, then I can work on some of the new sites I've sorely been wanting to work on. Not enough hours in the day I'm afraid.

-TFAM

Hazardous filming environment?

So Yom and I were doing some filming for Yom's Random Stats the other day and I had just purchased some shop lights for some fill light on our videos. Well, I was greeted with a lovely warning label. This label informed me that after un-packing it, setting it up, realizing it emits a horrible smell, and getting burned by how hot it is. So to say the least, I felt a bit sketcky about using these lights. I did wash my hands after handling though. And I'm still alive today, so that's the good news. Filming was good though and you can check out Yom's 5 You Tube Stats here that were filmed in my humble basement.

-TFAM