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Editor Simon Mackie of WebWorkerDaily posted my reader profile yesterday! My profile is a part of their month long look at online video. Last week they interviewed Izzy Hyman who is making a big name for himself with his online tuts.

It is exciting for me since I enjoy reading their blog for the new web products and trends. Plus I received some very nice emails regarding the post and a surge of traffic.

Thank you Simon!

Click the picture to read the full write up!

"We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today."
Read YouTube's official blog post.

This is awesome news for people shooting 1080p. They will no longer have to convert to 720p and any advancement forwarding web video is great news. It is funny to think about how just a few years ago online video was mostly AVI or WMV files that looked horrible, with small frame sizes, and a gigantic file size. We have come a long way!

On the flip side- I have a cable connection that steadily has 14MBs down and 4MB up running to a dual quad core Apple Pro with a great video card and I still get stuttering video from YouTube in HD. So will it really matter if the picture is bigger is their bandwidth is lagging? Yeah, I'll take it!

I was asked why I post videos that other people made. That question really got me thinking... The site could do without a blog and my service would remain the same. Or the blog could be bland "new client video posted" ect ect.

The way I see it is :
-VJIX offers a particular style of business video.
-The owner of VJIX (me) loves video production in many different forms.
-So why not express what I enjoy?!

Speaking of that, enjoy this. :)

Over the past few weeks I have been shifting pages around to give room for new content on the site. In between client projects I have been tackling in house video projects that will cover the services that VJIX offers.

I have also taken down my link to Facebook. While I see how popular "products" such as bands or cultural movements benefit from having a fan base, I haven't seen a good justification for small businesses putting time into that type of social networking. Online video is growing exponentially but I don't think it will reach that screaming frenzy of the Beatles fanbase from the 60's.

MTV BLOOM by FMK_7 is visually stunning! To bad MTV is all teen drama shows. ;)

"Handcrafted with love by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. A visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity. Everything in the film is real—no CG effects!"

This is really cool! But I rather jam a to-go cup of coffee into my nose over doing stop motion work. Weird, but I think you get what I'm saying. :)

ValueAppeal video production is complete and is now living on their site!

If you are at all interested in marketing and advertising watch this video. I think it is the best TED talk I have seen.

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man


What a great quote:
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Awesome awesome 3D. This must have taken forever to render and compose.