Communication Arts Advertising Annual

After 22 years I think that's the last CA Advertising Annual I will buy. It's turned into Archive, pretty art direction with luke warm concepts, brought by mostly foreign agencies.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving

So full of turkey and stuffing. Have been enjoying visiting family. Have been working on some videos lately and will have them finished soon for viewing.

I put together a Canon DSLR lens guide:

Enjoy:
http://damiandodd.com/Files/canon-lens-guide.pdf

101 Ideas for Freelance and Client Leads

Here are some great tips for getting more freelance and new client leads
http://bit.ly/nf2Kve

QR codes on tombstones... oooo k

http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/qr-code-tombstone/

Chicago.. Chicago...

Saucer has landed in Chicago. It's colder and more windy than we're used to. Big surprise eh!?
The ships been stocking up on photography gear. Really getting into capturing content for social networking and whatnot.

Video Game records hit Guinness

Article at CNN.com about the Guinness book of video game records.

Andy Warhol's Marilyn

This is pretty cool. You can use the buttons and sliders to make your own Warhol:

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html

Fly like a G6

In case you were wondering what this #1 song is talking about:

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2010/10/like_a_g6_what.php

You know what's flyer than a Gulfstream 650? A flying saucer baby!

Amazon Kindle (PS: I'm a keyword subject)

Mom has high speed internet but my Dad doesn't like the router attached because it blocks internet once a year. So I got my mom the 3G+Wifi for $189 which includes free 3G worldwide.

But if you're giving it to someone with wifi the $139 is a very good price. It's a great book reader. And you can get email and surf net in black and white.. and somewhat slow even on WIFI.

So what it does best is read books. The screen is not backlit, so it's comfortable to read on for hours.

I might have to get a wifi one. Not getting an iPad until they have front and rear cameras.

Funnies

I'm going to start posting my photoshop musings here to make you smile. You like smiling right?
Here, I let the world know just what kind of dog breed Leonard Nemoy and his wife prefer.

I am of course the originator of sitar-hero.com's spoof on Guitar Hero.

Tornados in the 'vill

Watching storms blow through today. Saucer's hovering near the house. It's good to work from home too.

After the Social Palooza I went to an other great Social Networking conference. Learn quite a lot and am excited to start providing said services to clients! Excited to also announce in December I'm purchasing a new video camera. So look for social media content to look awesome.

Let's all give a Monty Python cheer!

Social Media Palooza

I attended the Social Media Palooza held at the convention center last Thursday and Today and run by Mike Muench from Leapfrog Interactive. It was a good seminar and myself and my client (who paid for my ticket thanks Sam!) learned some things I think. They really pushed Twitter. Funny cause I've been waiting for that to die. 5% of all twitter users doing 75% of the tweets. Doesn't sound like a good medium for marketing shrug but I'm open.

Hi. My name is.

In the recording industry, all you need to do to promote yourself is to repeat your name over and over in your song until it sticks. And Saucer is no exception. I've been pushing the brand for about a year now and haven't gotten one random call saying they saw my company's site and wish to do business with me. It's all been through word of mouth. And that's ok for now. But at some point I need to think bigger in order to attract bigger abductees, I mean clients, aboard the ship. Fear not, X Files fans, there will be no loss of time or strange metal objects implanted. Just a good martini serving and a great in-flight movie. I'll even let you watch the jaw dropping amazement and pointing from down below on the ground. OK back to the fun. Have a safe Memorial day weekend all you not reading this.

Go team playing Colts

I'm from Baltimore and we're still bitter about the Colts skipping town. So even though I think they'll win today I'm rooting for New Orleans.