Here is a promotional video I just finished for Identifill.
September 9, 2008
September 4, 2008
Identifill
I really cant think of many more things that scare me than a gas leak within my home. We’ve all seen the devastation that these leaks can cause if handled wrong. Beyond our own safety, I think all of us have been adversely affected by a cut utility line. Phone, power, gas, water all of which we take for granted every day, none of which I want to live without for even an hour.
The past few weeks I have had an opportunity to work with a company on a new idea to solve all of that. Let me introduce “Identifill”. Basically they have patented the idea of colored sand to be used as fill for a utility line. So when a excavator, utility company or homeowner is digging in an unknown area, they hit this colored sand before they hit the utility line. Yellow for gas. Red for electricity. Blue for water. Orange for telecommunications. Purple for secondary water. The fill sand is fade free, non toxic and environmentally friendly.
But wait, what about Blue Stakes! Don’t they already do this. The answer is, kind-of. Blue stakes certainly has helped tremendously throughout the years, and they certainly aren’t saying to do away with blue stakes. But the problem with the current system is that people either don’t call blue stakes, or blue stakes are off by a few meters in their guess of where the utility line. Unfortunately for the excavator or utility company, the guy in the backhoe does not know the line is close until its to late.
With Identifill, the operator sees the color a scoop or two before its too late. Saving the utility millions in repairs, to say nothing of injuries and lives.
In the next few weeks, Identifill will be officially rolled out to the public. But since I am working on the marketing, I thought I would give you a little sneak peek.
July 24, 2008
Episode 1: Living Young with Dot
This is a viral video campaign we have been working on. Enjoy!
July 16, 2008
Meeting Reminder
It has become quite a tradition for Dalan and I to make some sort of outrageous movie for our company wide quarterly meeting. We have a meeting coming up next week and we made this little diddy as a teaser to send out to the company. The joke is that Dalan our sales manager, has started to ride his Honda Ruckus scooter to work to save on gas. This is all fine and well, except Dalan is about 6′2 250 lbs so frankly it looks funny.
July 9, 2008
Sun Valley Professional Plaza Video
This is a video that I finished today. We recently did the open house for a commercial building we built in Hurricane so I thought I would put together a quick promo video. This was a fun project because it was the first that I was able to do the logo design, photography, video and final editing. I am still very much a novice in all these catagories but im getting better (slowly!).
June 23, 2008
2008 Election Year
The candidates are as follows:
John McCain- I have loathed this person since the 2000 presidential primaries. I think he is as far from a trustworthy politician as they come. In the past eight years he has been much more interested in appearing on Saturday Night Live or the Daily Show then he has on being a Representative. If I was from the state of AZ I would be absolutely disgusted. John, I don’t really care that you were a POW. Many people were POW’s, and while I am so grateful for their sacrifice, I don’t think that qualifies them to be President. Nine times out of ten, I would automatically vote for a republican, not this time. He is the one, and will not get my vote. (frankly, I am really disappointed in the RNC, that this is the horse they would ride. Shows me how much they (or I) have changed since Reagan.)
Barak Obama- Obviously he wont get my vote either. Not because I dislike him as a person the way that I dislike John McCain, but because his political views are opposite then mine. I must say, at least he is standing for something. Granted the change he wants is not the change I want, but I respect his commitment and accomplishments.
Bob Barr- Oh the third party candidate. This is always the fun part of the election. Most times the candidate turns out to be more of a sideshow then possible candidate. We shall see. Mr. Barr is too far right for me. His views are the polar opposite then Obama, which is too far the other direction for me. He wont get my vote.
So where does that leave me? I think many Americans feel the same way I do in this election. I am really interested in seeing the VP choices. There is a very slight chance that the choice would sway me to cast a vote, but I doubt it.
Politically, I hope its a quick 4 years, whoever gets voted in.
June 11, 2008
I’m Published!
Ok, so its not the first time I’ve had pictures of mine in a magazine or newspaper, but this is the first national magazine with distribution over 1 million. This scan is not great but here it is…
It even gives me photo credits on the side. It was a nice article written about SunRiver, if you are interested in it go to your local Magazine Stand and pick up the latest copy of “Where to Retire” magazine.
