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Hush… do you hear the silence…

Monday, January 11th, 2010

First up let me wish you all a belated happy Christmas and New Year. I hope 2010 is an awesome year for all of you. Remember to enjoy it cause there’s only two years left. Well… That’s if you believe the end of the world is coming…

Secondly, I must apologise for my silence over the last few weeks (or is it months). A lot has been going on and I haven’t had a whole lot of time for this blog unfortunately. There is some exciting stuff going on in other areas however.

“The Gates of Hell” a horror movie I edited and produced the visual effects for, is finally getting a release this year (probably around March/April), so I have been working hard to get the DVD ready and putting together extra features and what-not.

Face Logo 900px 300x300 Hush... do you hear the silence...Also I have decided to give my company Hysteria Productions a make-over and new direction. The web site is in a transitional stage at the moment but I’m heading towards a brand new look. I’ve tweaked the logo a little and made the web site a lot brighter and more inviting. I’m sure the astute among you will also say ‘more corporate looking’. Well, yeah… How do I say it… Ummm… Ok, I’m selling out! There I said it.

Well sort of anyway. I plan to spend the next twelve months focusing on corporate videos and commercial work rather than movies and music videos. There are a few reasons, I guess the main one is money. My trip around Australia (well up and down the east coast at least) wiped me out financially. I made sure I had as much fun as I could possibly afford and then a little bit more. So I’ve gotta start paying off those credit cards. But the main reason is for job satisfaction. Believe it or not, I actually enjoy making corporate videos. Not the usual boring, soulless types, but interesting story types. I guess they’re almost like short films. I especially love working with High-Tech companies, environmental and with companies that are making a difference to the world for the better. I guess it makes me feel like I’m helping to make a difference by association.

As far as online activities go, over the next few months I’ll be consolidating a number of my web sites into one and basically just have this one and hysteria.com.au going. This should make things easier to manage and give me more time so I can get back to fixing the wrongs of the world right here.

I’ll also be writing a blog over at Hysteria all about film-making, video production, and tutorials on editing, visual effects, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, After Effects and a whole bunch of other stuff. It’s going to be a busy year.

So let us see what the year brings us. Only time will tell. Time? I’m working on a good entry all about time…

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Selling out to the social networks

Monday, September 14th, 2009

1100s Buildings 450x337 Selling out to the social networks

So I had an interesting day today. I started off by reading my emails as usual and then decided to read an article I had downloaded a few days ago. It spoke of the importance of “social networking” in regards to getting visitors to come to a web site. Well seeing as this is a one week old web site and the visitors statistics are only in the low triple figures, I figured I’d give it a shot.

I had installed a plugin while setting up this site, that added the social networking links at the bottom of each page. I really had no idea what they were for other than I’d seen them on a heap of other blogs. So I set about clicking on the links and signing up to all the networks.

Holy smokes that was a bigger job than I thought. There was a whopping 22 of them, all of which needed me to go through the sign-up process. You see, I’ve avoided the whole “social networking” fad in a similar way that you might avoid coming into contact with the plague. Back in the real-world I’m not a big fan of socialising or networking. So up until now I couldn’t imagine why I would want ot do it online.

I’m more of a one on one kinda guy. I like to hang out with one friend at a time so that the time together is quality rather than shared and watered down. I’ve never been one for groups and I’ve always hated parties and big gatherings.

Alright damn it… I’m antisocial… There I admit it. In a world that pressure us all into being social beings and team players, I like to walk alone. A dangerous thing to admit, I’m sure. I can be genuinely happy and content in my own company with nothing more than my thoughts. In fact the idea of living alone in a lighthouse out at sea for six months, is quite appealing. (if anyone knows where I can apply for a lighthouse keeper job, please leave a comment with the details.)

But walking alone does not bring people to my web site. And no visitors, means no point to writing for it. So I’ve sold out completely and I feel a little dirtier because of it. I ended up spending the majority of the day signing up and submitting articles to these networks. I even started a Twitter account. Please have mercy on my soul (you know that thing I’m losing a little bit of each day…)

The worst part of it all is that after spending all day signing up to these 22 networks and feeling some sense of achievement, I did a quick search on Google only to find that Wikipedia has a list of 156 social networking websites…

Holy hell!!!

So what does all of this mean? I have no idea. I guess I just need to keep on playing the social game and see if it attracts people. You never know, I may end up becoming a twitter junkie with ten billion friends. Oh dear God, what if they want to meet me, you know, for real…

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