This dude Hillman Curtis is like a Godfather in the online video/computer software/web design game. He used to work with Macromedia before Adobe bought them out and was one of the first people to experiment with Flash. And in terms of web design, one of his former clients is a little site called Yahoo.com - you might've heard of it. Anyway, he wrote this book a few years ago about creating video content specifically for the web and I've been meaning to check it out.
Just knowing who to really learn from and copy off of is half the battle. Started reading it on the plane home this weekend - he does a lot of stuff with minimal equipment. Super quick/cheap shoots. We're all about it.
Few million cookies via 2nd Day Air from Cheryl's. Matt and I can never decide what to get the clients as a Holiday gift - figured we couldn't go wrong with cookies. A few people who think they're clever have mentioned that they find the first 2 weeks in January a bit late for "Holiday" gifts. Not sure who they think is going to be upset to open a box full of fresh cookies? Pretty sure everyone I know would take that any day of the year, so I'm not too worried about it.
In fact I still have a couple dozen Christmas cards and 3 postcards from Minnesota to mail out, but that's sort of another story.
Personal assistant had the week off so I packaged and shipped all these myself.
Some gear from American Apparel came in.
Not even sure whose all this stuff is? Opened an email chain to a few friends awhile back and asked everyone if they wanted anything. Matt never even replied and I think I ordered like 2 things but it's easy to make friends when you get a Wholesale Crate Discount from AA. Thanks Veronica.
Anyway, also, few new songs...
THE GAME / I'M THE KING. Not really anything notable lyrically or otherwise but still a decent song. Typical Game.
LUPE FIASCO / SHOW GOES ON. Songs not bad. Sort of an uplifting/hopeful message - if you're into that type of thing. The video's good too.
JAY-Z & KANYE WEST / H.A.M. First single from their forthcoming joint album Watch The Throne. Can't say this song made a huge first impression on me but I mean come on, it's Jay and Kanye, it'll still probably end up being my favorite album of the year.
Overall, nothing really groundbreaking but don't blame me, I don't make the songs I just bootleg them.
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