Heath, The Batman Geek

QuickTime Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .we have one free day before we start helping James set up his booth for the San Diego Comic Con .that would be the worlds largest pop culture, comic, etc, etc event in the whole world ..anyway we did all kinds of stuff on our free day but for me, what I filmed at Coronado made the day. As most of you know I was in the Army, it s how Glenna and I met, and I still have the upmost respect for the armed forces. Especialy groups like the Seals, Rangers, SF, etc. It takes a certain kind of person to want to and be able to make it through the training. For every 10 that volunter to be a Seal, 7-8 will not make it . I ve the privlage of meeting some Seals, some Rangers, even some MI6 fellows ..and I am glad there are those who are still willing to join the military. It s not an easy life, I know .I still think about my time and some things I will never forget I hope you enjoy this brief glimpse, these fellows are in week 2, they were training mid day, in the hot sun, running to the ocean, paddling out to sea, coming back in over the rocks and waves, in full uniform (when those things get wet, they weigh a ton) , carring the boat which weighs .what must feel like a ton, over their heads, it can t touch their heads, btw, any infranction, any deviation and you are corrected .all this while people are watching .tough is too mild a word for how that must feel ..but still they did it, over and over again for hours ..it makes me look at my fat gut and feel guilty

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .It was just a few days after I got the Batmobile and I was sooo in love with it .it shows you how much of a kid I still am .. Seriously ..

QuickTime | Flash | Apple TV Share by: vPIP Embed (copy t sure if I liked it. But instead of scrapping it, I finished it and then made a new version as well. Which one is better? YOU tell me! So vote early and vote often! And let me know what you liked and what you didn t like.. As an fyi there are some minor tweaks to each video, one should be obvious and the others .well let me know if you spot them! The quicktime version is video 1, the Apple TV is video 2. Later I might seperate out the video s into their own post but for the moment, this is whatca get!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy s house for some dinner and some good company. I am a lucky guy, I have some great friends and these types of video s are some of my favorite. Not just of me and my friends but when I see other vlogs as well. It s just something about a moment in time, capturing the fun and the fellowship. The ribbing, the boasting, the stories, etc. It s just fun to me. I often think that years from now, when I am no longer vlogging or what not, I will look back at these memories and I will smile. I mean who doesn t look back at fond times and smile and laugh and raise a drink to friends .. Oh and the little bit after the end is for me to prove to Eddie that he is wrong! Enjoy and I hope it takes you back to a time with your family and friends, a time of fun and friendship!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy ..Horror Hound. Hence the title of the post. I really need to learn to come up with some witty post names I think. Anyway, I met the guys that do Horror Hound through my buddy Rob. They also put out a horror magazine called .Horror Hound. I know! Anyway, as kind of a way, to put more of my professional work out there, I did a commercial for them. They really like it and I do too. So I hope you all enjoy! And if you are into horror and stuff you should check them out. They are great guys and put on one hell of a show! (evil laugh)..

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy well see for yourselves! Oh, and remember that Brady Bunch episode where they went to an amusement park? It was Kings Island a little bit of Pop Culture triva for you!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy t just the destination it was the journey. I have to say it was one of the best vacations we have ever had. We saw a lot of fun things and I saw things that stirred my very soul. Gettysburg was one of the places that moved me greatly. I am a big history buff and when I found out that Gettysburg was just a couple of hours away from Jay and Ryanne s, well I just had to go. It is an interesting place, not at all what I was expecting. It had been a long time since I had even read about the Civil War. But being there .looking at the grounds, looking at all the monuments it really does speak to you. I think for most of us (in America) the Civil War is just something so very far away, something to just read about in a book. It means much more to me now that I have been to that hallowed place. Brother against brother, friend against friend, father against son. Before the Civil War, it really was just a loose conferderation of states, after the war we became the United States of America . Listen to their story .

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close We are in vacation, we are traveling on route 50. We ended up in Ocean City MD. Enjoy these moments from Ocean City.

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .almost hard for me to put into words .seeing the monuments, the Capital Building, etc .everyone should go at least once. Enjoy this bit of history

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .hey it was cheap and the pictures on the internet looked good!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy s simply beatiful. Enjoy these moments with us

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy s an interesting drive. This is something we saw today

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QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy m going through another creative funk .I have no idea why, I have this great new camera, new software, etc .but I just have no idea what to do .or what to film .sigh .whatca going to do? So since it s almost con time, I deceided to put together some random clips from some of the cons I go to for you to look at ..until I figure out what the hell I am going to do, this is the best I got .sigh again ..

QuickTime | iPod | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy maybe it was a couple of days later, regardless enjoy this little video. Hey it s fun

QuickTime | iPod | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy why? I mean it, why do you want to change? Because after moving my vlog, I can tell you it s not just a straight “copy and paste” kind of thing. It s gonna to take some work, things are going to go wrong. So if you are moving it, just to move it it may not be the right thing to do. I moved because I wanted more control over how my video s played on my site, I wanted my vlog site to look more like a real website and I wanted to use Show in a Box and Vpip the way they were meant to be used. I wanted to be able to offer different feeds and to give people choice in how they see my video s. So basicly I wanted more choice. Now if you still want to move, here are some of the things I found out, went through, etc. Now a “blog” move is pretty easy, text, links etc will come over fine. It s when you have media, some scripts, even some HTML that are associated with your media, in my case video s, that is when things get a bit wonky. I will do my best to explain everything. I am going to assume that you have already got your domain name and hosting and have already put Wordpress on your site. If not, check out the tutorials on Show in a Box. They do a good job of getting you to that point. Now the first thing you are going to want to do after that is import your vlog from Blogger and luckly Wordpress makes this handy, dandy importer. There is just one problem it s doesn t work with the new version of Blogger, (maybe, I have heard a few different reports but from what I can see, what I am going to explain is what most of you will have to do, at the moment anyway). Yes that s right, it says you can but you can t. There is a work-around though. You will need to go to Wordpress.com and create a free blog account. (Yes I am aware that Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com are by the same group, Wordpress.com has fixed the bug) After you have created you free wordpress.com account, import your blogger blog. This is pretty straight forward, you will see the status of your blog importing. Once that is done, you then want to “Export” your new blog from Wordpress. This creates an XML file that you will save to your desktop, once that is done, go back to your wordpress blog you have on your own domain and select import and then select the import a Wordpress blog. After that is done, you will now have your old vlog on your new site. Now from here you can do a couple of things, you can select a brand new theme from the many themes that are out there. Make sure they are “widget” friendly though. Or you can select the Show in a Box themes that have a few different options, these are all widget ready. It s up to you, but why not use the Show in the Box stuff? It s fun! Now if you are wondering how you get these custom themes and widgets into your new site, get an FTP program, filezilla is good for the PC, and Cyberduck for the Mac. Just get one, you will need it, trust me. Again getting a theme is fairly straight forward. If you pick a pre-designed theme, the next stuff is pretty easy. If you want to really tweak out the site, visit the Show in a Box forums for help, if you don t know CSS, HTML, etc. (I don t know a lot myself, I asked for a lot of help. Ok, the next part is best explained by my screencast, so check it out now. See how easy all this is! It s going to take you a while to get all of your media to work like you want it. It took me about a week, of course I had over 2 ½ years of posts and video to work on. It s gonna take some time, it just will. Ok, that s about it for now. Yes there is a lot more you can do, create pages, etc. But this I think is a good start and how to do those things are fairly easy to do. So to sum up, if you wanna move your blog from blogger to a self hosted Wordpress site, you will need the following. Your own domain name and a web hosting plan Wordpress.org software Show in a Box (optional) An FTP client Lots of patience I can t stress the last one enough. I hope you all found this useful and till next time .later, gator!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy t sing, I can t play an instrument, well I did play the sax for about a year when I was about 9-10 yrs old or so. And I did know how to read music when I was a kid, because well, back then in school, they taught music and I had to learn how to read music. Man I feel old now. But I haven t touched music really in about 30 years, well I did sing in my church choir ..(stay on topic Heath, stay on topic). The point is, that I really don t know anything about music. So why did I buy Music software? Well that s a good question! As you all may or may not know, I am trying to start getting paid to make video s. And when you make video s people (clients) usually want some kind of music, not always, but enough. Well I have got PLENTY of music, it s just not mine. Well, it s mine but I don t own the copyrights to the music. What I do for myself is one thing, what I do for a client who is paying me ..I am sure you see where this is going. So since I don t own a Mac (not yet) and I don t have all the cool things you all do. I had to buy the music software. I use Sony Vegas, heard some nice thinks about Music Studio and well that s why I bought it. Now back to the I have no idea how to make music That s true, I really don t have any idea, well I guess I should say I didn t . Today, today April 27th, I made my very first piece of music. Now I did it with the loops that Sony provides (which I can do anything with, btw yea). It s not the best piece of music you will ever hear, but I made it. I made it after just messing around a bit and trying some things out. This is what I do, I try. I always am trying to learn new things. I hope to get better but for my first try I think it s OK. So, now that I had music, I needed to set it to some video, so I took some left over Navlopomo video and piced togehter this little video here. It goes with my experimenting I like to do every once and awhile. So I hope you all like it, and let me know what you all think! Vlog On!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy t working so I decieded to whip this up real quick, I hope you all like it! Take care and Vlog On!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .I had to do some computer clean up and some other stuff and I just don t have the time today to do much. Well I did work on a screen cast for my move from Blogger to Wordpress but I didn t want to put that up as a part of VBW 2008. Why? I don t know, because VBW is supposed to be fun? Anyway, I found some orphan footage and I thought, why not It s one of those moments that would have been more fun being able to post instantly like Rupert s stuff, you know with the cell phone camera, but I didn t have that and I don t have one as good as his so .anyway, here is just some random footage and it s old too .I shot this with my JVC camera, that was 2 camera s ago! Later! Tomorrow, I go to Botcon! More than meets the eye indeed! Oh, and I am kidding in the vid btw .but c mon you got to admit it s funny ..

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .Susan, Eric, David and I thought it would be funny if .Ok, I think I may have been the only one who thought it would be funny, but still we decieded to film a little film in honor of being out in LA! So enjoy! And David, Eric and Susan, thanks for being so much fun that weekend!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy ..To dreamers everywhere ..

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy s the Panasonic DVX100B. It s an awesome camera, no it s not HD, but man it s nice. And for me a huge step in trying to be more than a guy in a cubicle. So while this is old news, I still would like to share .Day 3 of Video Blogging Week 2008!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy ..this is going to be a loooonnnng week .. For much better videos go to Mefeedia!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy s Video Blogging Week 2008, I had to share this first. I will talk about my move this week, I promise. This past week, Jay and Ryanne dropped in on their way to Virgina. I have to tell you all, I can t say enough good things about them, they are just great people. This was our second time meeting Jay for an extended period and our first with Ryanne. We did talk a bit at the winnies as you see, but we didn t have a lot of time to chat then. The last time Jay visited, I didn t get any video and I swore I would not let that happen again. It almost did! We were having so much fun just talking and eating that I didn t film as nearly as much as I thought I would. But hey when you are having fun, whatca going to do? But I did get some footage and I have to say this is one of my personal favorite video s. It s not great camera work, it s not the best editing job I have done, heck the color is off a couple of times, (I was using my Cannon SD1000 still cam), but it s just a fun video. It takes me back to that moment in time and what I really think is cool is that it s a reminder of all the good times I have had with family and friends. Just a small slice of life, that in time would be forgotten, but now ..but now I can remember whenever I want and I can share with you that moment. Man, I love vlogging For those of you who may not know Jay and Ryanne, check them out. Glenna and I were talking the next morning and Glenna told me that she felt that they were changing the world, and I couldn t agree more. I believe that they are living a life of purpose. I personaly think that is the coolest thing there is. So enjoy these small moments when Jay and Ryanne met Mr and Mrs Batman Geek!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy Batman Geek site. It s been a while in the making and in just a minute I will explain all the reasons, thoughts, tips and tricks on the big switch. Um minute s up, so here goes. As most of you know, I started vlogging in December of 2005, at that time I found this great place called Freevlog. And they showed me everything I needed to know to get my vlog up and running. And I would like to thank Michael and Ryanne personaly for taking the time to create such a site and to help show the world this little thing we call vlogging. Well as I was new to a lot of this, much like others, I decieded to host my vlog on Blogger. And for what I was doing then, it was perfect, easy, simple and pretty straight forward. I didn t need to know, HTML, (well just a very, very, very small amount, which they walked you through), CSS, style sheets, code, heck anything. It was put this here, that there and away you go. Add to that Blip and Freevlog s pop up video thingy and I was good to go. For a while . Then I noticed people started really talking about Wordpress, yes it had been around for a while but I began to hear people talking about Wordpress and this thing called Vpip. They were talking about how your video could play in your page in place . I thought cool but I am OK with Blogger and Freevlog . But as more and more functionality became availible not only with Vpip but with Wordpress and this new thing called Show in a Box . It started to pique my intrest. What Show in a Box is trying to do: We are a volunteer army of videobloggers who want to make our videoblogs look really good and are seeking sustainability. Everything here is open source and ready to be tweaked. WordPress (WP) is a fantastic, free and open source, blogging tool that we’ve hacked to make more suited for video. Showinabox.tv is not a service or business- We want to help bloggers, filmmakers, video artists, and documentarians present their videos in the best light with the most control. You make great videos, so why not have an awesome website without having to pay someone a lot of money or know how to code yourself? We aim for a decentralized network of videoblogs where you can still host your videos anywhere (like Blip.tv, Vimeo or Dailymotion ) but your site and its information remain your own. Sounds cool doesn t it? Well I decieded I wanted in on that and that I wanted to help too. So, I decieded that it was time for me to move my vlog from Blogger to Wordpress. Now you have to understand this was/is not an easy thing for me to do. I don t like change a whole lot unless I am in control of that change. Well with something like this, you are not always in complete control. Moving a Blog is pretty easy and straightforward. Moving a Vlog , with over 2 years of video data .well that was/is a bit trickier. I experienced quite a bit of highs and lows moving my vlog to Wordpress and there were days when I was ready to give up. But ..and this is a big but .I want to make video, I want to be able to make money at video and I want to be able to help other people with this thing we call vlogging. So that is why I moved, well that and you do have a lot more control over your site/blog in Wordpress than you do in Blogger. In my next post I will talk about all the things I learned in switching my vlog, I already have one screen cast done and plan on making at least one more (I think) but I documented a lot of things that I hope will help the next person who wants to make the switch. I would also like to thank Cheryl Colan, David Meade, Michael Verdi, Adam Warner and Jay Dedman. They were a big help in getting the site up and running, Cheryl was a God send, skyping back and forth, teaching me and creating the two custom banners for my site. (I hope to have more!) So check out the site, let me know if something s not working right and thanks for visiting! Vlog on baby!

QuickTime | iPod | Flash | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy what was that? The short answer is it s a video. The long answer is, I m not sure myself. For some time know I have been thinking of switching from Blogger to Wordpress. Well recently I decieded to finally do it, there are a number of reasons why. I will go into more detail once the change has taken place. It s been a journey let me tell you! Now to the video itself. I wanted to do something fun and different to talk about the changes happening not just to my site but myself as well. But when I made my first draft of the video I felt something was missing and that is how I ended up with the video you have just seen or are getting ready to see. I think you will agree .It s different and yet all me .. For those of you who subscribe do not worry nothing should change for you! At least how you are getting my feed anyway.

Quicktime Flash Ok, most of you are going to watch this video and go "what was that?" The short answer is it's a video. ;) The long answer is, I'm not sure myself. For some time know I have been thinking of switching from Blogger to Wordpress. Well recently I decieded to finally do it, there are a number of reasons why. I will go into more detail once the change has taken place. It's been a journey let me tell you! Now to the video itself. I wanted to do something fun and different to talk about the changes happening not just to my site but myself as well. But when I made my first draft of the video I felt something was missing and that is how I ended up with the video you have just seen or are getting ready to see. I think you will agree....It's different and yet all me..... For those of you who subscribe do not worry nothing should change for you! At least how you are getting my feed anyway.

QuickTime | iPod | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .anyway enjoy this video the very first one shot by my wife .and in case you are wondering this is a mild episode of snoring for me .ask anyone who has shared a room with me Oh, and for more snoring check out Ryanne taping Jay! See it here!

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Quicktime Flash Ipod Ok, well I know that is a lie....anyway enjoy this video the very first one shot by my wife....and in case you are wondering this is a mild episode of snoring for me....ask anyone who has shared a room with me... ;) Oh, and for more snoring check out Ryanne taping Jay! See it here!