I’m going to make something like that!

The title refers to the video concept i showed an interest towards in my last blog post. 

After speaking with a few people i’ve decided i’m definitely going to work towards a lip dub that takes a motion form with lots of people, and following a conversation with Ed i’m thinking it might be possible to film it somewhere like the tate which allows for motion between the floors, and rooms before eventually exiting out of the ramp area. This would allow for the escalators, stairs and lifts to be utalised, aswell as the rooms with various displays. Taking form with people breaking out from casually looking at the area itself to join the lip dub (people being those involved and not randoms)

I’m going to think of a weekend i’d like to do it and make an event / small meet up gathering in November hopefully =)  This would allow for lots of people to get involved and for it to be a song everyone knows… something i hope to choose over the next few weeks. Any suggestions for songs that allow for actions, such as queens dont stop me now are welcomed ^^ and would help me out =)

I really want to make something like this!

This is the video that currently resides on my channels autoplay: I think it’s really well put together and the concept of group lip syncs that flow in such a way has always been something that has interested me and is deffos something i would love to try. Queen – “Don’t stop me now” is a song that i could see matching this sort of format somehow.. next meet up i’m deffos up for seeing if anyone is up for something like it. Another example:

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

Is demanding it really the same as getting it willingly?

A lot of people now can be seen on twitter as they upload a video asking (in some cases it doesnt even look like they’re asking) if people will RT the link.

When i see this it kinda bugs me as i just see it the same way i view the whole “rate if you” “Comment about my dog” shit that can be seen on youtube. People generally link videos on their twitter if they like them and want others to enjoy the things they like.. i for example will randomly tweet jake and amir episodes or other random things i favourite. When people link after being told to by someone or asked on twitter… isnt it less that? Hell the people RTing might not even watch it themselves..

It kinda reminds me a long time ago where i had a few people telling me i should be linking them out, and i SHOULD be tweeting and I SHOULD be letting them make videos on my channel because they were my friend… this not being one person but multiple people at different times… Is it really fair to guilt trip people in such a way or expect that? Sure friends help eachother out.. but equally you wouldnt expect someone who’s your friend to start taking advantage of you and exploiting you with that as a card for them to play whenever.

Just looked on twitter for examples of this and there are 5 of this in my own feed… Not gonna screencap anything though cause i’m not attacking anyone specific.. just generally saying this bugs me on a whole.

I can understand tweeting your own things multiple times… but expecting people to do it for you multiple times takes the piss a little bit.. I really do wonder if anyone out there that asks for it actually remembers to rate every video they watch, or comment… i know a lot of people who do it and “watch” my videos yet don’t do this themselves. Equally on twitter… lets say a high followed person requests it and gets 12 people RT, but a variation of different people each time… is that person going to return the favour?

Most likely not.

Do they care?

Probably not.

People watching my videos

Yesterday on the way out I was approached by a guy from my college who told me he’d seen my videos..
I was slightly taken a back and confused with how he brought it up as it wasn’t clear what he was going on about.. And then he told me it was fine and that he wouldn’t tell anyone.. This made it awkward for me as Im normally open and fine with my channel and tell people it happily..
Anyhows I was curious to know how he found it and he told me some girls in a flat next to him were watching them clueless to the fact I attended the uni.Just thinking that they recognised me from somewhere…  Apparently for their course advertising and marketing they use YouTube a lot for research…
To be fair though I was semi expecting another “I’ve seen your videos” soon as my pokemon battle video keeps getting featured and picking up views… Though it seems to have slowed again..

Just remembered.. I wanna make a video of my room for burnzy to show by sister who’s still not seen it..

Zach Braff Dead?

That was the question on my mind this evening as i was in a club named V after a girl came upto me and my friends and told us..
This kinda without even checking sent a chill down me as Zach Braff has always been one of my favourite actors and i love his work on scrubs heaps…  actually adamant about the 9th season not being as good without him…

This was made worse by the fact that all my iphone brought up were blogs about him being dead with screencaps of the cnn page… so i went the evening thinking that he was actually dead which was a bit of a downer…  This however changed when i got in and checked and found he wasn’t dead and it was some in joke with friends blown out of proportion…
I guess it just goes to show the power of the internet and things like twitter… for example in this case a few twitter users picked up on the post and the fact he might have been dead and then reposted it in a panic, sending a wave of panic and curiosity through a wave of the internet until it spurted into people telling one another about it all through the day in person. I think this is amazing, yet also scary as it just goes to show how careful you have to be with stuff like that…

I mean like.. i’m silly at times… like REALLY silly and have a habbit fo saying stupid things that might offend people and probably do when i post them on twitter at times… the thought that these in this scenario could potentially spread like a wildfire scares me slightly and makes me realise how much more control and thought i need to put into what i put on the internet…  I actually privated Eight videos this evening with this in mind which is unlike me but probably for the best with the context of those vlogs… =/

Club notes

Challenged myself to enter stuff in my notes app the other night rather than Twitter…

Hate this song
Love this song
Stop grinding me bitchhhh
Hai there
Fuck I’ve lost everyone
Seriously I don’t have my keycard..
Found Jack thank god….
Why won’t this girl leave me aloneeeee I like the one I’m by nowwwww
Lol boom boom shut the fuck up
Found Owen
Too much drink plz
Getting too laid back now.
Why am I on my iPhone in a dancefloor?!? Seriously

Everythings changing

People are leaving. Soon new people will be in my life. Fun times!

Time really does bring change…

Next Saturday i’ll be driving down to Bournemouth to take all of my possessions.. well the ones i’ll need over the next year… to the flat that i will be staying in for the next year of university.

This is really exciting and i honestly can’t wait! I’m literally counting down the days till i’m there! However i find myself scared and really nervous each time i think of the concept of finally moving to be on my own.. after all i’ve lived in the houses we own with my family for my whole life… so it’ll be kinda weird.. but i think i’ll be fine. I mean it’s not so much a whole flat to myself as it is a big block of student flats with each containing 5 people.. 5 people who i don’t know yet! Which also scares me slightly…

It’s weird that the people i’m going to be living with for the next year are people i don’t know and won’t know until the day i arrive… i think this scares me slightly with the knowledge of how mixed this can go.. for example Laura whenever i speak to her, loves her flat and her flatmates at uni… Ian on the other hand this year seemed mixed with his flatmate and how they got on =/ Hopefully i’ll be fine with them all though!

The first night in Bournemouth i’ve already been asked out to a beach party with my friend Ashleigh who is at the Chiropractic part of the university.. and since my freshers doesnt start till the 20th i told her i’d go down =) Will see if any of these mystery people wish to come down!

Now onto the topic of the blog. Time has always been something that never phased me… always with my future i’ve known whats happening, where i’m going when i’m doing whatever etc… and as anyone like Dave, Mhazz or others will know.. i can have a mini mental breakdown the second i don’t know what’s happening or what to do. Apparently you can see the point i die upon being told to just take it as it comes…

Anyway this summer has been heaps like that… results, sitc, and now university- the biggest black hole of them all… I guess in the end though uni and my future here on is what i make of it and this is the point i get full grasp over my life… The times when i knew what was happening it was all set in stone… School, you just go to the next year, and then to College… Sailing i just go and go and go till i get better and race more and more. Even work is the same.. i know it’ll be the same each time..  Time to take control and make these next 3 years bring a good change i guess….

Another big change that has come in time is one that i remained ignorant to until yesterday when i posted a vlog. Me, Sam and Dan are now in seperate locations which makes the little filming we did as it was even harder to do… this forced me to think hard about new directions to take the channel… something i hope to be able to start working on in October… until then i’m going to take advantage of the last few scripts i wrote and try to get them nailed.

Thatsnotracist.com

Some strange blog decides to knock Sammy about her barbie prom box thing anonymously… She finds it today and gets a little worked up… 

Link: http://www.thatsnotracist.com/?p=34

I look at it and just see it as some idiots on the internet trying to be funny, and from the looks of it, how this “Sami” person posts and the admin supports them when in the comments someone called “Leah” actually defends the post.. its just a bunch of pricks trying to be funny but failing by miles… I mean that can be shown with how the website hasnt been used for blogs since July and its now september.. apparently people werent buying into their prickish posts.

 

What bugs me about this is how the person does it hiding behind an anonymous shroud… anything i post. Such as this, is far from that. This blog leads to my youtube, my twitter, etc people can see i’m an 18 year old boy typing a blog post… whereas with things like this… its just cowardice. Which is why i guess i’ve always hated blogs like this.. It’s like that Youtube one someone made months ago that slated Alex, Becky, Charlie and many others… its just all stupid and makes me wonder why people sit at home doing this when theres a world out there to be exploring and enjoying… equally if they dont want to get out theres a lot of other things on the internet to take their time other than being anonymous pricks.

I notice on this post there are two diggs and two people commenting to slate the person defending my sister… whats the bet the digged their own stuff? Dicks.

Arrived!

Turns out i uploaded all the blogs from when Laura got here with the more recent happenings before i uploaded this one…. nice..

I’m presently in Malta with Dave, Sophie, and Ian. Literally running on barely any sleep.. infact as i type this we’ve just got back in from hunting down an internet cafe…it took forever, and as we were about to give up we went down a street and there it was…

The taxi from the airport was crazy. The guy was MENTAL! Though im expecting most drivers to be like that… i remember the buses being a bit packed full of people,  but not really much else regarding roads here.

We went to do a big shop today cause we need food.. and drink.. to live…

Anyway it was so big that we had to take the trolleys from the supermarket and leave like 50 euros as a deposit.. it was crazy, and a i type the trolleys still here…. i guess we’ll take it back tomorrow though =)

This evening as we looked for internet we went into the club district, and due to the fact we couldnt find it we went deep into this area… its crazy and kinda sickening at the same time. Basically loads of underage girls walking around with older guys perving on them and people throwing up on streets.. and the whatever older ones there are are slutty too… so we’ve called the place slut city. I was intiially thinking i might like to come down here one night but now i’ve seen it again and like this .. =/ gahhhhh

Anyway tired. bed times.