In the midst of my first semester of grad school, I took on this wacky project that I just finished. This is a promo video for Scott Holstein, a photographer I work with in Tallahassee.

If you follow this blog, you may have noticed a lack of activity here for a while. In looking back, I realized that I never announced here that I have begun another giant project called grad school which would explain what I've been doing with my time.

I just completed the first of twelve courses that will earn me a Master's degree from Florida State University. Next semester, I will be taking two courses which will be a real challenge in the struggle to keep my life balanced. As a result, the updates here could be rather sparse. Or, it might be that I begin updating more about my schooling here in addition to my creative endeavors.

Either way, thanks for following.

Thanks to my wife, my son and I have matching Stormspeed Entertainment polo shirts. You can read more about this shirt and her other work at her website, Stitched by Janay.

Here's a quick, behind-the-scenes sneak peek at what I hope turns out to be my next very successful project. Or, quite possibly this will just be a random image that will mean absolutely nothing.


Pictured above is Scott Holstein and McKenzie Burleigh. I've referenced Scott several times before. He was with me when I shot the gator footage, took pictures at the 850 launch party, took the picture of me after I got Lexi, was in the 24 Hour Film competition with me, and was a part of the How It Happened One Night documentary.

Assuming everything goes well, more to come in the next couple weeks. Otherwise, I guess this will be a Tales Never Told some day.

About a year ago, I began increasing my use of Twitter. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with it and I guess after over 800 tweets, I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing with it other than making jokes.

One of my earliest followers on Twitter was a guy by the name of Michael Calienes. I'm not sure what possessed him to follow me, but he did. I had heard of him before through my work at Rowland Publishing. He's a local ad agency guy. He does some really cool stuff.

Somewhere in there, the economy tanked and businesses suffered and Michael got the idea to start something he calls the Conversation Factory. Every Friday, local Tallahassee business folk (and sometimes people from out of town are Skyped in) gather around a table for some sandwiches and chips and talk about business in a very informal way. I had been considering going, but between being busy and not the most social, I put it off. But finally, Michael directly invited me and I decided to take him up on the offer, but only if I could bring a friend.

That friend is Lexi, my Canon XL2 camera. She came along and I videotaped a majority of yesterday's discussion. It's a cool idea and I hope this goes a long way to helping area business people.

Here is the hour-long discussion distilled down to about three minutes. I shot it entirely handheld to try to capture the feeling that you're there as you watch it. I apologize if you suffer from motion sickness.