New Design!! And Shit!!

Saturday, Nov 15, 2008, 11:46 pm | In Content

New site design by my wonderful boyfriend/code monkey/designer extraordinaire Jake Marsh. We thought matching designs would be cute and couple-y. *insert aww here*

I’ve realized lately that my neglect of Viddler, YouTube, and other such Vlogging and Video sites has been unacceptable. My last Viddler post was September 12th… And we’re now half way through November. Therefore, my Thanksgiving Resolution (yes, I have those) is to start making more videos again.

However, as I sat down at It’s A Grind for coffee on this obscenely cold night with Jake, the Amanda Thought Bakery was fresh out of ideas. The following conversation ensued:

Me: “I just don’t have any ideas. I feel like I have to keep one up-ing my videos so shit doesn’t get boring.”
Jake: “It’s not about one up-ing yourself. For you, right now, It’s about quantity, not quality. Think about it. It’d be pointless to make ten 100% quality videos, one every month. It’s about making dozen and dozen of 50%, 60% quality videos AND one 100% quality video a month. The more you have, the more to watch.”
Me: “But… but… why make shitty videos?”
Jake: “It’s not about shitty videos, it’s about lots of decent videos. And a few GREAT videos.”
Me: “But I don’t even know what to make anymore. What the hell do I have to talk about.”
Jake: “Well, what if you did an online Acting Class?”
Me: “…Um…. excuse me?”
Jake: “C’mon, think about it. Acting is something you love. You’ve got experience. No one’s really doing anything like that in web form.”
Me: “Yeah, but that’d make me seem egotistical. It’s too subjective of a… subject, I guess.”
Jake: “Okay… How about a How-To show?”
Me: “On what? What the HELL do I know how to How-To?”
Jake: “How-To Web Content?” 

And so… an idea was born. I don’t want to go into too much detail just yet, seeing as how, well, they’re just ideas.

But it’s happening. It’s all happening.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

  1. I stumbled upon your show somehow- entertaining, gotta love Ronson’s Version, have you heard his Hard Rock mix cd?

    Comment by Andrzej Adwent — November 25th, 2008 at 3:09 am #

Leave a comment