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Wow just uploaded a new video to YouTube. I had a lot of fun making it, and learned a lot about my new video editing software, Sony Vegas.
This will be the first HD video I've uploaded to YouTube, so I hope it turns out okay! I shot the video with my new HD Canon camera. Its a Vixia HV30 and I love it!
The video is a parody of those travel commercials you see on TV. I thought it would be funny if I made one about my home town Crab Orchard Ky. I know it would never get a real travel video, it is such a small town. I think there are less than 1,000 people living there.
The video features my cousin James Hendrickson, my nephew Devin Richmond, my dad Ansel Petrey, my sister Marie Richmond, and one of my dads friends named "Bud". I don't know his real name. He is kinda quite.

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What have I been up to lately… Well the weather is starting to look, and feel good. So I planted some seeds in there starter greenhouses. I planted things for the garden mostly, but also some flowers. They should be ready to plant outside in a few weeks, and I’m sure the weather will be good for them then too! I also have gone on a vegetarian diet. I have not ate any meat in over a week. I decided to go on this diet because it is supposed to be more healthy, and make you feel better, and I do feel a lot better so far. You would think that I would be missing meat, but its the complete opposite. I actually am starting to detest even thinking about eating meat. I never thought that would happen! I still eat dairy products like milk, and cheese. I eat eggs too. I just don't eat the animal they came from :) LOL. I'm also trying to get away from processed, and non-organic foods. Which is one reason I've got my seeds planted. I Should have a big enough garden to supply me, and my dad with the fresh fruits, and vegetables we need till fall.

I’ve also been reading “Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics”. Its a book by Ari Feldman about… well..  Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics! Its a good book about game art design, color theory, and other game graphics principles. Its a little dated (published in 2000), but still contains a lot of interesting, and helpful information. Its actually kinda funny to read things like:

“Despite rapid advances in communication technologies, most people do not have very fast Internet access, especially outside the United States. In fact, the vast majority of users are still connecting to the Internet with 33.6 Kbps and 56 Kbps modems. Therefore, online game developers face a nasty dilemma: they have to create games that are compelling enough to attract players, yet small enough to access and play through relatively slow Internet connections.”

Nice to remember where all this started :)! The books available free online as a PDF if your interested. The reason I'm reading it is, because I'm hoping to start working on designing games again. Maybe I could actually finish one this time! anyway I’ll keep you posted. I also went up to see my little sister the other day as well. The main reason was to give here the lizard, I wrote about a few post back. She wanted it, I don’t know why, but she has it now. She has already made a video with it on her YouTube channel! While I was up there, we also made a video called “BagMan”. We had Greg (Minta’s husband) dress up in black garbage bags. It was fun, and its up on YouTube. The only problem we had making the video, was my camera. I think it wants to die. In fact it did die last week, and I had to go get a Mini DV Head cleaner to fix it! It might just be needing a new Mini DV cassette to record on. Who knows how many times I’ve rerecorded over that one! I would like to have a new camera, but I can’t afford one right now. I really want one that uses Mini SD cards. That would make live so much easier! There is an online video contest right now, and the prize is a new Waterproof Sanyo Mini SD camera. I'm going to enter it. Maybe I’ll win, and if I don’t, it still gives me an excuse to make a video LOL! :P. Well I'm going to get back to my book (PDF). I hope to have it read soon!

Hey everyone, just wanted to write a quick entry to let you know, I was in an article on CNN.com! It was a piece written by Lisa Respers France, on the @VoteWoz movement on Twiiter. She had seen that I won the contest, and sent me a message on twitter, asking to talk to me about it. I got in touch with her on the phone, and we talked for a few minutes about @VoteWoz, and the contest video I had made. She was really cool, and seemed to think what we where doing was great. Anyway the story is not just about me. I'm just mentioned in it. The story's about all us fans getting behind Steve Wozniak online to support him on Dancing with the Stars. Speaking of DWTS, tonight was the results show, and this time Woz got through without having to dance! I don't know how far he well get on the show, but he has already gotten pretty far, and if they keep counting all his fans votes, I'm sure he will keep on going. That is if he does not suffer anymore injures :( My Contest winning video on YouTube has been getting alot of views after the story, and the results show! I hope it keeps climbing! Maybe it will get honors? I'm also thinking about making another "Dancing like Woz" video. I'll keep you posted !

Wow, I've won 2 contest this week. For the first contest I made a video (embedded below) of me dancing like Woz for a contest. The contest was just to make a video helping promote Steve Wozniak on Dancing with the Stars. It was set up by @VoteWoz on Twitter, and the prize was an autographed iWoz book.  So I decided to dance! I could not find a pink feather boa like Woz used in his first dance, so I had to use a pink scarf instead (props to my friend West for telling me what a boa is LOL) I had a lot of fun editing it, and its already got over 100 views! I hope it gets honors! So if you have not already take a look at it,  rate it, and comment! The second contest was a lot easier. I just had to @reply on tweeter with a certain hash tag, and I won a BrightKite T-shirt! The contest was for SxSW. I can't wait to get my prizes! I'll be sure to make a video of that to!

VoteWoz also put my video on the site VoteWoz.com! Heres a pic:

I've uploaded a few videos to YouTube lately. If you haven't seen them yet, then you should drop by my channel, and watch them. I'm up to 70 videos now. I'm hoping to hit the 100 mark soon :). I'm going to be making some playlist for my YouTube channel, to group my videos into category's. I hope that it will make them easier to find, and watch. It should also make it easier for new subscribers to take a look at the different kinds of videos I make. I'm also going to be editing this site a little. I'm hoping to add a new, better looking footer. Right now you can't even read the footer text, so I thought I would give it a nice soild background. The sites pretty much the way I want it, I'm just doing a few cosmetic changes to it, to make it look better. I think websites are like houses. You never are really done improving them. It just goes on forever, constantly changing, and becoming something new.