Youtube alternative to get yourself or your ideas exposed

Good morning everyone and good day to the later viewers, today I looked at an alternative to the very dominant Youtube. 

In the old days I sold many Items on eBay and used Youtube to show the Item more in detail, this increased my sales by about 80% in my case. It never crossed my mind that other platforms could be out there and therefore be used to expose you or your product to a wider audience. 

If you do a lot of online sales or even depend on it like I do right now, then you have to find more then just one platform for your purpose.

I will start using metacafe besides Youtube and would like to hear about your experience with metacafe or even other simular platforms. Of course I will share my experience with you on upcoming posts and what I like or dislike.

Just leave a comment under this post and let me hear about the other places you might have stumbled on and got some experience with.

Thank you and have a great day.

How much is a bird in the hand worth!?

Heard this long time ago and because I got raised in Germany, this sentence never really made sense to me.
Vsauce has a really nice Youtube channel and the answer on the question "how much a bird in the hand" is worth.
Thought I share it with you.

Thank you very much Vsaucers =)

Close call during Video Night shots!

Yesterday night around 11:00pm I was standing by the c-train station 7ave and 5th street southwest. Preparing my camera and tripod to get some nice shots of the c-train arriving with the tasteful light installation in the background.
The tripod was up the camera still in the bag as a revving engine and squeaking tire sounds caught my attention, just in the right moment.
The f-150 was coming towards me and my tripod on the curb, a quick jump to the side till I realized that the driver just got his truck under control again and stopped right on the tracks.
The lights at the intersection were red for him but his motor seemed to malfunction as it revved up  and only the quick reaction of both drivers stopped this close call before it could turn fatal.
Really great job they did, the Calgary city police arrived soon and had in seconds everything under control, good job guys!
Was after that a bit under shock and tried some other shots but was done for that night, but here is the footage with narration about everything.
Hope you enjoy,
JayDee

About my Music

For those who read my "about me" page already know it, but yes I make music. It is sample based and sometimes I use garageband or freeware from Linux called "lmms", what is kind of a clone from the commercial Fruity loops. But for free, and easy to use with a midi keyboard.
Whoever wants to make music these days has always a good handful of tools for free on his hands to get his feet wet with music production.
As and "oldschool" hands on dude, my preference always goes towards the MPC a standalone Music Production Center, it has a sampler and sequencer inside. These are still made till today by Akai one of the pioneers in this genre.

LMMS is available for Linux and Windows, here a screenshot from their website:
A really beautiful piece of freeware to get started and maybe
be a big producer one day.

The MPC from Akai has different models and here is the model I use for my productions mainly.    





Here now some Videos of
the music I created,
hope you enjoy it.


Now that the weather turned outside from grey to sunshine, I will leave you listening and go catch some warm sun rays.

Calgary hail disaster

Sunday August 12, 2012

It was a nice summer evening, warm winds some neighbours in the other building were sitting on their balconies and everyone seemed to have a great time. Around 9:30 pm the sky turned red and lightning struck the sky without any thunder for about 25 minutes.
I guess this is how celebrities feel when they go somewhere just wild flashing everywhere, I felt a bit like a rockstar.

9:55 pm rain started and a few minutes later pea sized hail joined in, till then everything seemed okay. The sky turned really black and then the real hailstorm started, for about 10-15 minutes it just got loud from that hail.

Golfball sized hail covered the streets, dented cars and crashed windows.

Here a picture of some hail I picked up:             

Golfball sized hail in Calgary August 12, 2012

Neighbours were trying to get their cars from the parking lot into safer places, to keep the damage down. Not many had luck with that. 

Hail smashing on our roof sounded like someone hammering with a jackhammer, it was really a frightening moment for many here in Calgary.

Even today the newspapers were full of aftermath stories about the costs and damage that was done by the hail.
Everyone is just really relieved about the fact that it is over, for my readers you can watch my Video I shot. Just a raw impression what it was like.

Wishing everyone a safe and good night.