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I’m a college professor (MA, Reading Specialist), artist, film producer, entrepreneur and founder of
DreamartistFilms.com a company that produces engaging media entertainment.
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BrandedLive.com a place where independent filmmakers can stream their films
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I have also authored several books on web development published by Friends of Ed.
I love art, philosophy, health and film production.
Did I mention green tea :)
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Where does passion come in and skills fall short when it comes to how to make a movie or film. You can be an actor, cinematographer (DP), director or anything you want on the set if you have one thing and it's not skills!
Skills can be bought or learned
Skills can deteriorate
Skills are too competitive
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Why the heck do companies still advertise their stupid products to us. Don't they get that people hate advertising.
Self Destructive.
Advertisements are self destructive in the sense that people grow to hate them. Even if we see them we despise them because they interfere with our daily tasks. We just change the channeland look for a station that's playing something. We keep flipping the station until we find something on even if it sucks. If I'm watching a movie, I don't want to be interrupted after the character go shot for an ad about Bubba's Hamburgers. That makes me hate advertisements.
People are just not that stupid.
Do you really think because you interrupted my favorite episode of Lost Tapes, I'm going to pay attention. I'm not going to buy Palmolive soap detergent unless I really want to. "I want to" means: I did the research about the product and it fit my needs. No matter how many times you shout out your brand name it does nothing.
I'll do it myself:
PALMOLIVE, PALMOLIVE, PALMOLIVE.
There. I gave you some free sales.
Why does that not bother me, because I know you didn't get any sales out of it. People are smarter and shop smarter.
Give people what they want.
If you can give people what they want you got a sale. It's what the customer needs. You need to figure out your market before bombarding us with those silly ads.
Ads are for the non-creative.
Ads are a way for non-creative companies to buy themselves eyeballs because they can't think of any other way to tap into the market.
They're still doing it on the NET.
Now they're trying to use ads on the internet and all the social media web sites. It's so funny how companies are using a platform that's all about anti-advertisements to show ads. Social media is all about the user. Nobody cares about the ad. Our eyeballs are trained to overlook that stuff. Just like we used to flip the station, we put ads out of focus.
Think out of the box.
You want customers, start thinking out of the box. Customers will appreciate it and you will actually start building LOYALTY (on going support for your brand and never ending sales) Win your customers over. Don't throw stuff in their face.
Win their minds.
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Caught up with Spike Lee outside Apple Store. Do you know what's on his T-shirt? :-) Subtle. more info on Spike here: http://is.gd/1iaVV
Favorite movie from Spike is still "Do the Right Thing"
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From MTV to YouTube: When the Net Pays Everyone But the Musician
In 1996, taped to the wall of my now defunct record label spinART Records’ 800 square-foot, four-ikea-desk-loaded-with-unsold-CD-and-vinyl office was a $1 check from MTV. I fought hard for that stupid check. MTV wanted to use a song called “Supermerica” by a band called Poole that I released. Usually TV shows pay good money for the use of a song, but not MTV-- they required labels to allow them to use the music for free in their TV shows when you submitted a music video to be considered for programming on their network. I still don’t know why they even bothered saying they would pay a dollar. It really pissed me off. I had fronted money and worked my heart out along with the band to promote, market, manufacture and release their album and along comes a multi-national billion dollar media corporation and demands to be able to use the music for a stinking dollar. I refused to do it. The music had value to me, it was the thing we sold and the thing the band made the majority of their money off of. I could not just give it up for free. But, Harry (lead singer of Poole) convinced me to let MTV have it in anticipation of the promotional value they might get out of it. The show aired, the song appeared in the background for about 30 seconds, the show ended, MTV made money from the advertisers and the song was not mentioned anywhere. This was the way it worked. The labels fed MTV free music and videos and in return hoped to get their videos aired which in turn would drive huge music sales. And MTV made a fortune off the advertising.
And this is more or less why Warner Music recently demanded that all its videos and music be removed from YouTube. Warner previously granted YouTube the legal rights to use its content and YouTube generated a lot of money from it via advertising. Now Warner wants to be paid more by YouTube. If the Google-owned YouTube does not comply, it opens itself up to potentially tens of millions of dollars in copyright infringement fines. Universal did this same thing successfully some time ago.
Corporate greediness. The only way to increase your value is to offer value to others. The internet will crap on corporate america if it doesn't shape up.
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Here are some photos from the concert video shoot I directed at Six Flags. Beyond Hope Lies opened up for Bowling For Soup and did a great job amping the crowd especially for a crowd who didn't even know the lyrics. The crowd just fell in love with the band. You'll also see us with Bowling for Soup backstage Will have some videos from the shoot posted soon.
You can hear the music at http://www.myspace.com/beyondhopelies
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Great stuff! About how online media is taking over the old media: newspapers, tv spots, etc.
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Sorry Apple it just fails. Those who have it know how the wheel just stops working.
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Ok, Look at the first pic. Do you see anything strange in the picture? When you're done look at the rest.
Either someone was having some fun or Hollister went a little ballistic with the marketing. Probably should check their racks more often :-)
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