In an effort to keep up with my friends and fellow geeks Jose and Eric I made the plunge and purchased the LG Voyager phone a few weeks ago.

After getting acquainted with the basics of the phone I of course wanted to go for the geek factor. Today I bought a microSD card for the phone in order to play some of my recent videos on my phone.

There are several work arounds in order to do this without using VCast which Verizon would really like for you to use since they make money off of it. But I opted with the work-arounds in order to save some $. Especially after paying a pretty penny just for the phone. So now I can take all my video productions wherever I go and show clients current work at anytime on the site. Pretty Cool! (Ok pretty Geeked Out)

The trick is the 3GP video format and the ability to use the phone as a mass storage device.

I have been involved in a project since January of last year that until now I have not spoke much about. Although I have not said much about the project it has consumed a great deal of time and not to mention disk space (I think somewhere around 900GB). We have shot over 500 videos. Curious yet. Well the project is called Gotrybe and it is an online fitness program delivered to students in elementary, middle and high school. Here is a video shot recently that helps explain what Gotrybe is exactly.

We all mistakes. Sometimes funny, sometimes not so funny. In the world of video production, I have seen a lot of funny mistakes. I probably have hours of footage that hits the proverbial cutting room floor and never sees the light of day, but I recently had the opportunity to sweep up some of that footage off the floor and put it to good use to offer some humor at the recent Bracken Paving Christmas Party. Tom Weinman the sales manager at Bracken Paving has been a good sport and has been the spokesperson in most of their videos. We have shot a lot of videos with Bracken so there is no surprise that there have been a few mistakes. So at the expense of Tom here are a few bloopers that we collected and put together to provide some laughs at the Christmas Party. Thanks Tom for being such a good sport!

Well I can’t believe it. Digital Fridge had a birthday about 2 months ago. Unfortunately I was too busy to even stop and celebrate.

In the last week we have had 5 major productions going on. One of which is a super awesome trailer video for author Steven James. I almost forgot about the 1 year anniversary completely until I got a call from Marquee Magazine to shoot their annual Successful Singles Video. I had the opportunity to shoot the video about the same time last year. As the second year of Digital Fridge rolls around the corner we are seeing alot of the same events popping up on the production schedule as last year. This is a great thing, but the challenge is to keep things fresh, innovative and creative and ultimately to change things up from the previous year.

Here are a few pics that Emily from Marquee sent me from the video shoot. Thanks Emily!

Here are a few still frames from the cameras used for IMAG during the concert.

Sara gets the up the nose shot on Tyler

Lee sweeping the stage coast to coast with crane

Here are a few pics from the shoot with the All American Rejects last night. We were running IMAG for the concert with 3 cameras and the crane. Sara and Lee saved the day since we didn’t have any communication. It was a little difficult to direct the show without having a headset, but hey when you got these 2 on your side anything is possible. 8 hours of setup for a 2.5 hour show and 1.5 hour tear down - gotta love it. I’ll get some frame grabs from the video up soon. More pictures on flickr also

Command Central

Yea, I know I’m not smiling here, but hey that is why I work behind the camera.

During the forever long sound check

the crane

nosebleed

What a great start to the week. I setup the new crane with the 12ft extension in the lobby for some fine tuning and testing before Wednesday when I will be using it to shoot the All American Rejects concert at ETSU. On Friday I’m off to the Asheville Film Fest for the weekend. Aggh yes a geek week indeed.

Below is a short video I shot today (yea I know it is tiny) for fun with the crane. Thanks to Lee and Drew for playing along.

Getting everything set up in the office.

Shots of the crane in the lobby.

Ok, so maybe it really wasn’t take your dog to work day, but I am sure there probably is such a day. I brought Oliver to work with me today because we had a house showing this morning. Luckily he didn’t bark at any clients and I was still able to get some work done. This dog has the life. Megan will be proud.

So this past weekend I had a little surprise. I had to go in for an emergency appendicectomy on Saturday. I can safely say that before going into surgery, I experienced the most intense pain I have ever felt. (I wont go into great detail for the squeamish folks). Anyway I thought I would share the wonderful experience to the rest of you through video of course. I sure am glad my wife is a nurse. She did a great job explaining to me what was going on and caring for me!