Category: videos

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Samsung is the ‘Official Mobile Olympic Partner’ with their new phone, the OMNIA II.  So they are hosting a contest to send 5 teams of 2 out to Vancouver for 3 weeks to report for them, and come ON how perfect a fit is this?! 

Above is my video entry… and HEY SAMSUNG PEOPLE!  I’m the team you want, what your rules asked us to do in our entries is what I’ve been doing for yearsss, Mike too (that’s my team, Mike and I, ‘The CDN Explorers’).

And also Samsung, click here to meet me in 18 seconds when I sum it up for you, in song, click here for maybe my favourite episode, “Exploring the CDN Navy”, and here for the ‘Blog Party’ video I’m referencing in my entry.

And here’s the TwitVid from the video.

 

Final Cut Pro makes it pretty easy… make sure to add a green gradient background in, really makes a difference.  My screen is just an Ikea blanket.

The key is the sit further away from the screen then you think, and make sure the subject (you) have your own light. 

I threw myself a ‘Blog Party’ (invite is here all links about it are here) to bring the online world into the real one, and to kick off Season 2 of ‘The Canadian Explorer’.  

Here is that party.

PART 1

In order of appearance:

– watch the full episode, ‘Exploring a Fair‘

– watch the full, ‘I Read You my Manifesto‘

– pipe maker Julius Vesz

– about the Badlands

– Hamilton, the waterfall capital of the world

– the Transformer convention

– about diamonds, click here and here

– the oldest baseball park in the world  

– the Toronto Star

– Ensoe and his graffiti

PART 2

– sponsor ideas, “What’s Out Her Window?” and “What’s In Her Backseat?” 

– search: Brennen Demelo

– about me laughing

– my Gary Vaynerchuk interview

– when I talked my way onto a warship, ‘Exploring the CDN Navy’, probably my favourite episode yet, and make sure to click on ‘How I Got Home’

– the Hockey Legends at Maple Leaf Gardens

– my Intro and Theme Song

Thank you kindly to my sponsors!

The Reservoir Lounge (Ray is your guy, meet him in this post)

MusicBakery.com (and read why I love them in this post)

Headshots.com (learn more about them in this post) 

The Scotiabank Hockey Club put on an event, ‘Skate with the Greats’ tonight at Maple Leaf Gardens, and look how cute they are:

Left to right that’s Red Kelly and Dick Duff,

and Bob Nevin and Johnny Bower,

and Mark Napier, now the Executive Director of the NHL Alumni Association.

Among all of them there are almost 20 Stanley Cups I know.  

Closeups:

EDITED Jan2 – This was my Xmas gift to Canada… 5 hockey legends who united our country.  Hockey, especially the Leafs, is a big piece of CDN history and starring these guys.  Go Leafs!!