Production/Editing tip:
When you watch a music video from a top shelf act, nothing is an accident. Nothing. Every little product placement, fetish item, gesture, look etc. is planned and usually has a reason for being there. “Sex sells” is a truism, but that’s not the full story. There’s some off-the-wall, even kinky stuff that just [...]
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Lady Gaga: Product Placement, Pantyhose, Oh My!
Published by March 14th, 2010 in Editing with Kroy and Production Tips. 0 Comments6 things about porn that are kind of gay when you think about it
Published by March 14th, 2010 in Production Tips. 0 CommentsToday’s shooting tips…
Here are 6 things about porn that are kind of gay when you think about it. As Seinfeld would say “(gay)…not that there’s anything wrong with it…”. Of course there’s nothing wrong with being gay. But if you shoot porn for straight consumers you should watch out for some stuff – like [...]
Shrinking Steve Jobs Presents the iPad, Seth Godin Cries
Published by March 6th, 2010 in Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsUpdate 03/12
Looks like I wasn’t as clever as I thought with the “shrinking Steve Jobs” thing – Rocket Fuel apparently thought of this gag before I did. Well, it is kinda obvious. Regardless, the actual point of this post still stands:
Marketing Tip: Selling Mediocre Stuff
Seth Godin, who (rightfully) says that one needs to have something [...]
Looks like Jenna Jameson is back writing regularly on her blog House of Jameson (http://www.houseofjameson.com).
It’s not at all what one might expect to read from who was once the world’s most popular pornstar until she became a (very sexy) mommy of twins. Jenna talks about fashion, make-up and even dares to venture into some unspeakably [...]
Ozzy Osbourne Book Signing, Tempe AZ, Changing Hands 02/20/2010
Published by February 20th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsInsanely long line at the Changing Hands book store in Tempe, Arizona. Those with a ticket are assigned a group number. Since I don’t have six hours to just stand around I decided to pay someone in the group to call me when they are closer to the book store entrance. Not gonna cry if [...]
Marketing: Response on HTC Supersonic from Sprint Reveals…
Published by February 20th, 2010 in Marketing with Kroy. 0 CommentsToday’s Marketing Lesson – by Sprint
The rumored Sprint Supersonic sounded like something I might stay with Sprint for but information on the mysterious device is fairly scarce. I wanted to find out a release date on the Supersonic but didn’t expect much of a clear answer from them. So I wasn’t surprised to get exactly [...]
I had an idea that somebody with more time and dev skills could run with. Here it is: write an app that allows someone to plug the iPhone or an iPod Touch into an external hard drive and browse its contents.
I have to deal with literally hundreds of external hard drives clients give me, and [...]
Videographers Wishlist for the iPad
Published by February 3rd, 2010 in Technology and apple. 0 CommentsGary from Videoguys created a videographer’s wishlist for the recently announced Apple iPad. Given its limitations and closed development those wishes probably will remain dreams for the time being but the ideas are great. What’s your idea?
Make sure to follow Gary Bettan and Videoguys on Twitter @videoguys
Flash on iPad, iPhone Necessary to Watch Porn, Adobe Says
Published by February 1st, 2010 in adobe and apple. 0 CommentsAdobe fired back at Steve Jobs’ bs about Flash not being necessary on his iPad/iPhone/iPod touch toys by showing a screenshot of prominent sites with the “missing Flash plugin” icon taunting the Apple gadget user. Among the images is a screenshot of popular pay site BangBros.com.
Point made, Adobe, well done. Of course the employee who [...]
No Flash on iPad – What’s the Excuse
Published by February 1st, 2010 in Gadgets, Marketing with Kroy and apple. 1 CommentAccording to an article on Cnet, Steve Jobs basically said that people have too many problems with Flash on a Mac and that it doesn’t matter anyways in the future because web video will be presented via HTML5 instead of Flash. So despite massive requests for Flash on the iPhone and now the iPad, Apple [...]
A reader sent me this vintage porn clip. It’s funny to come across a porno from the beginning of last century and realize that nothing’s changed. Yes, our great-grand parents liked to watch other people fuck just like we do. Those pioneering pornographers from back then shot their movies pretty much the same way we [...]
Google Public DNS, Open DNS – Should You Switch?
Published by December 8th, 2009 in Tips and Tricks. 0 CommentsSo you read about Google’s new Public DNS service, or maybe you’ve heard of Open DNS and you know DNS has something to do with your internet connection. So should you “switch your DNS”? What does that even mean?
DNS – What Is It?
The quick and dirty explanation is: Domain Name System aka DNS makes it [...]
Free Video Encoders and Converters – Mac – PC
Published by December 6th, 2009 in Codecs and Video Software. 0 CommentsVIDEO ENCODING – WMV and FLASH
I just want to mention something in regards to video encoders because I get a lot of questions about that stuff. If you are at all serious about encoding WMVs and FLVs, please forget about free encoding programs. This is especially true for the Mac. Even with paid-for program be [...]
Mobile Porn Industry – What You Need To Know
Published by October 28th, 2009 in adult industry. 1 CommentRecently I’ve had the opportunity to go knee-to-knee with Mike Falco, Director of Marketing for mobile porn rising star myiPlayground.com. Mike provides straightforward answers you absolutely cannot miss if you’re at all interested in doing business in the mobile adult content arena, be it as a webmaster or content creator. Mobile industry gold directly from [...]
Google Wave for Photographers, Content Producers
Published by October 14th, 2009 in Social Media. 0 CommentsHere’s a quick video from the Google Wave development team you should check out. This is geared more toward the average user but keep an open mind and you can see how powerful Wave can be for photographers, videographers, editors, publishers, and really anyone who has stuff that needs to be worked on by others.
One [...]