Golden Gate Bridge

Posted May 27th, 2009 by Graham

Filmed the drive from my apt to the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday for the fun of it. Check it out:

Petra Haden / Toyota Prius Commercial

Posted May 25th, 2009 by Graham

I’ve been seeing this new Toyota Prius commercial on and off for the past couple of days, and I must say it blows me away every time I see it, but what got my attention the most was the music playing behind it. After some research I found out that the artist behind the song is Petra Haden an “all acapella” artist who has (lately) done a few great acapella covers of hit songs. A quick google/youtube search also produces some pretty awesome examples of her incredibly talented work!

Check out the “Making Of” video!

Update: The Song used in the “Harmony” commercial is a Petra Haden cover of The Bellamy Brothers’ “Let Your Love Flow”

Twin Peaks

Posted May 24th, 2009 by Graham

Went up to Twin Peaks this afternoon to take some pictures. Unfortunately it was cold & foggy today, but the view was still impressive. Below is some video that I shot. It’ll definitely be worth my time to go back on a clearer day, or at night. Very cool place!

Internet Television

Posted May 20th, 2009 by Graham

My first day at Revision3 was yesterday, May 18th. I can already tell that I’m going to love it here this summer. Yesterday was mainly a ‘learning’ day. I spent time getting set up with my e-mail account, learning my way around the servers, and watching a few of the other editors work their magic. I also sat in the studio while they shot this coming week’s Tekzilla. (See Below).

Today (Day 2) was completely different. I jumped in head first and started to edit next week’s TekZilla Dailies when Mau (one of the staff editors) came by and asked me to do some edits to this week’s Diggnation (#203).

The edits were quick and it didn’t take me long, but the second task was to censor out some nudity in one of the videos that Kevin and Alex discussed in the episode, this ended up being pretty tedious–requiring a lot of tracking and rendering.

Lastly, the guys just got confirmation that they’re doing a live Diggnation in New York on June 4th, and I created a quick info billboard in Motion with a VO from Alex that plays just before the episode starts.

The office/studio was really busy today because Kevin and Alex were shooting next week’s Diggnation in the studio (Kevin and Alex hung around the office, too which was cool!) And then at 5pm Kevin and Jay went live with the Digg Town-hall in the studio.

All in all a pretty productive day. I almost hate that I have the day off tomorrow because I was just starting to get into a rhythm; I wanted to stay in later to finish-up the Tekzilla dailies!

Thanks for following!

An Update

Posted May 20th, 2009 by Graham

While I have time I figured I would update you guys on my experiences since arriving here in San Francisco. Just wanted to bring you guys up to speed with where I’ve landed; I’ll save my updates about the stuff I’m working on at Revision3 for a later post.

After a tedious three day long search for an apartment I found the perfect place in the Diamond Heights neighborhood. The neighborhood isn’t too close or too far away from downtown and the area is really nice.

From my neighborhood, my commute to work takes about 30 minutes. Driving would of course be shorter but riding a train straight to the front door of Revision3 every morning is really convenient, and there’s no parking to worry about!

Since finding a place I’ve caught up with friends who are in the area. On friday I went to see stand up comedian Doug Benson with Kim Jordan and friends, and last week I caught up with a long time friend from my hometown, Brad Corban, who’s been attending UC Berkeley for the past few years.

My first day at Revision3 was yesterday and it was a blast. I’ll post more about it very soon (with pics). Thanks for following!

What albums are timeless to you?

Posted May 11th, 2009 by Graham

After listening to a few songs from Matchbox Twenty’s “Yourself or Someone Like You” album recently (an album that was heavily played during my childhood) I realized that I could listen to the album in its entirety almost 13 years later and I still enjoy every track. It seems timeless. So I decided to survey Twitter asking folks what childhood albums (or albums in general) they felt were timeless to them. Here are the results:

• @pom5 said: Chumbawumba. First cd I ever bought, still love it.
• @danielwhicks said: I have to say, august and everything after by the counting crows is the best and most timeless album of my childhood!
• @vanessa_ramirez said: Wallflowers Bringing Down The Horse
• @weezer17 said: weezer blue album. Green day dookie. Jimmy eat world clarity
• @ashleymgardner said: nickel creek “why should the fire die?” i can listen to it over and over and still love it.
• @wlfwrose said: Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms” 23 years later and it’s still perfect. Great musicians and masterful engineering.
• @rand21althor said: Simon & Garfunkel’s “Wednesday Morning, 3AM”, Billy Joel’s “The Stranger”, The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”, to name a few. :-D
• @PeterChristian said: Pearl Jam’s “Ten” and Third Eye Blind’s self-titled debut round out my top three. Good question!