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We just finished a video our local dentist, Dr. Allan Acton, shaving his head for charity. $20,000 worth. That’s some haircut.

Thanks to Dr. Acton and everyone at Cary Family Dental.

Notes from my videoblogging presentation at WordCampRDU.

1. WORDPRESS & VIDEO

The most basic question about video blogging might be: how do I get my video content into my blog? We recommend:

Video   —>   YouTube —>  WordPress

Upload your video to YouTube, grab the embed code and paste it into your blog. Make sure you paste it in “HTML” view in your WP blog.

Why not upload your video directly to WP? The answer is Search.

Search engines, and Google in particular, Read the rest of this entry »

We just wrapped a new episode of StreetStyleTV. It’s a follow-up to our earlier show about “The World’s Coolest Sunglasses.”

The gang at Vision Park in Raleigh invited us to an eye wear trunk show. We saw the latest trends from OGI and JeeVice. We even had cupcakes with lemonade icing.

Special thanks to Elizabeth from Vision Park and Michele from the blog One Chic Mama.

StreetStyleTV is our new web channel about fashion. The week, we learned all about sunglasses from eyewear designer and entrepreneur Wick Morgan of the Spectacle.

Thanks to:

Wick Morgan
The Spectacle
Raleigh, NC

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Samantha Smith, fashion maven for the News & Observer, covered one of our pieces in her blog:

The Fashion Plate

Thanks Samantha!

The new television isn’t made in Hollywood. The new television doesn’t need Time Warner or NBC.

From a viral Trader Joe’s ad that’s had 340,000 views on YouTube to TateShots from the venerable British museum, people are watching TV in a new way. Read the rest of this entry »

For a couple of years, we’ve been struggling to transfer our experience making broadcast television into a lower-cost web video model. TV commercials can cost $10,000 per second to produce. But shouldn’t real filmmakers be able to make quality content with just a camera and a laptop?

In our new video for Luxe Apothecary, a lot of techniques we’d explored came together in one perfect No-Budget Video (NBV) project. Our experience may be a model for others and has already inspired interesting discussions and new assignments.

The development of an effective No-Budget technique can bring television-quality web video to businesses and content producers of all sizes. Here’s what we learned. Read the rest of this entry »

We released this video for Luxe Apothecary about 2 weeks ago and it has been generating considerable buzz. Find out for yourself right now how to create the illusion of fuller eyebrows.

Credits:

• Fiquet, Luxe Apothecary
• Kristin Murray
• Production by Goodtree & Co.

Thanks to:

• North Hills
• North Hills Buzz

Thanks to North Hills Buzz for featuring our video with Fiquet of Luxe on the latest edition of their home page. Where do they get this stuff? I guess that’s why it’s called Buzz.

Thanks also to our friends at North Hills and, of course, to Fiquet of Luxe Apothecary.

We’ll post our own story about the video shortly: How to make quality TV with a home video camcorder and a mic from yoor band.

Just a few stills from a new video for make-up maven Fiquet of Luxe Apothecary. This girl is gonna be a star, people!

Thanks to Kane Realty Corp for letting us capture a little of the magic when they lit the North Hills Christmas Tree this year.

What generates 500 watts of light but only draws 40 from an household outlet? Read the rest of this entry »