I shot some video of Pete’s bike race in Portsmouth back a few months ago and make a little short movie about it. The video tells a story without words. Let me know what you think!

I haven’t posted anything since winter. Now its Fall and almost Winter again. I’ve made several new videos since my last post. Here are all the new vids. Enjoy.

Car videos:

Been a bit. Have been getting back to my roots of taking photos and filming videos. I have some older drift footage that I would like to make into a video as well. I have started that and will complete that this weekend. This video should be a little teaser.

The footage is not that great. I forgot to zoom out and I forgot to set AF. It’s short though.

I went into the movie not knowing anything about it besides what I’ve heard people say about it. I knew the director made Titanic and other great movies and that it was 3d. I had no idea what the story was about. Three quarters of the way through the movie, I was engulfed.

We saw the movie at the Jordan’s IMAX theater in Reading. We got there about 40 min before the movie and there was already a long line of about 50 people. We ended up getting great seats, almost in the middle, 3rd row from the top. The 3D at IMAX is a little annoying at first, but you get used to it. I think they need to improve on the glasses or something. Some of the time the motion looks blurry and its hard to focus.

The movie being almost 3 hours long didn’t feel like it. The story was very grabbing and easy to follow. I thought from watching the trailers that it would look cartoon like, but it didn’t at all. It wasn’t exactly real life looking but it was a good mixture of both. I thought it was really well done.

I hope the movie makes back what it took to make because I heard it took something like 300 million dollars to make. When you have Titanic cash, I guess you can blow it all on 1 movie. I think it will make it back and then some, but I was pretty spot on with my box office predictions based on how hard/easy it was to get tickets for it. Transformers 2 and Spiderman 2 were a hell of a lot harder to get tickets for and they are among the top 7 top weekend gross of all time. I originally said it would do about 75mil, then changed it to 80mil. I think its pretty close to that.

Throw up an Avatar picture and done…

Im sitting in bed wondering why I am not tired. I didn’t have an extra Mtn Dew today or anything like that. I had a couple friends over to watch the hangover, and to let them test out my sweet washer/dryer that I waiting in line for on black friday.

I put up my first christmas tree tonight, and its pretty sweet. I am actually going to put some dew in his water. I need to get some decorations because its looking a little bare. Im thinking about picking up some sweet LED lights because I’m all about going green.

The tree I got was from The Belmont Lions Club, which 100% of the sales go to charity. I forget what it said but it had something to do with school scholarships in the town of Belmont, MA. I work in belmont and its close to where I live, I felt good about my donation and tree. These days I am very concerned with where my money is going, and I’m always trying to help people out. whether its friends, family or people I don’t even know. I helped out a friend of mine from work by buying lots of her cards as a gift to my Grandmother this year. It’s a really good idea I think. Its pretty hard to buy good gifts for your grandparents.

New years eve party is coming so fast. I need to order that ball pit asap! I filmed my first promo video for the party last weekend and so far everyone loves it. I don’t know how I am going to top the video. The Cribs episode will hopefully the final video so people will know what they are missing. I have plasma tv’s in my bathroom for mirrors thats how baller I am.

Check out the video and let me know:

So it’s been a really long time since I posted anything. Its probably because I have been really busy with my life. Some new things to update. I bought a condo. So its been crazy for a month getting all the paperwork, and dealing with a mortgage and rates and stuff like that. So I moved into my place Nov 13th! The place is legit! I still have a lot of work to do. I need to get some coffee tables, night stands for my room, and possibly a bedframe thing. Now onto the main reason for posting…

As most of you might have heard, I am making a ball pit room for my place. If you know me, I’ve been wanting to create a ball pit room for years now. Now that I have my own place, where I can set the rules, I am 100% making a ball pit room.

I have been doing some research on ball diameters and measurements for the room. So far it seems like I will need 3k balls to make a decent sized pit. The balls are 80mm in diameter and have about 67 balls per cubic foot. This means to fill the space, I will need a lot of balls. I plan to have a couple air mattresses as the base, so people don’t hit the floor when diving in. This will take up about 1 foot in height. I want the overall height of the pit to be about 3 feet. That is the size of the gate and will allow you to easily be able to jump into it. Boxes of balls cost around $100 and contain 500 balls. It’s going to be quite expensive. A few of my friends are psyched that I am actually going to do this, and want to help me out. So I’ve created a donate button through paypal, so those people can put there money were their mouth is.

The goal is to open the ball pit for my new years party. Donations would be greatly appreciated but there are no obligations. I’m pretty sure the donations can be anonymous if you wanted. That said, here is the donate link below.

The last book I bought was a total failure. It was titles “How to make millions off your ideas” which sounds great right? Because I have a ton of ideas all the time. Most of them super awesome! As I started reading the book, it felt dated to me. I then checked the publishing date which said 1996. I threw the book away. I can’t be reading a book about how to make money in this tech filled online internet world if AOL 4.1 wasn’t even out yet. It would be fine to read if I was taking a history class or something. That being said, I am sure its a good book, and has some good ideas. I didn’t really throw it out, I just put it down for the time being. I only made it past chapter 2, and from a tip I read in The 4 hour workweek, don’t waste your time on something just to finish it. Tim made reference to walking out of a crappy movie. Same goes for a book. I may come back to it later.

The new book I started is called “Problogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six-figure income”. Already threw chapter 2, and this book is way way better than the last. Like a breath of fresh air. So far I have learned that I am what you call a typical failed blogger. I possess all the traits of what NOT to do haha. I find that pretty funny, but what I take from that is I am running the gauntlet. With all my mistakes, I can turn them around. Look, I’m writing a blog post right now aren’t I?

I don’t plan on going pro blogging, I’ve already come to the realization that I find it a chore to keep writing. I am more fascinated by the building of blogs, and the technology behind it. Which makes sense, I am a programmer, not a writer. As I am very quickly finding out right now, with all the miss spellings, and red underline text I am seeing as I write this.

Where am I going with this? I need to figure out what I’m really trying to do with blogging. What I think I am realizing after the first chapter, is that I don’t want to make money off blogging directly, I want to make money from blogging indirectly. Meaning, I would like to use blogging to get more business for what I enjoy doing. Like building websites, and helping other people starting their own sites. I’ve helped many friends start their sites, and have been learning and sharing my tips with them. I will throw in the word SEO, for some good SEO google indexing right? Probably not going to work.

Since I don’t write very often, it will probably be a while before my next post. Now top off the post with a nice pictures and I’m finished. Back to reading.

I haven’t posted in a few weeks. It’s already August! Time is flying by, but it doesn’t feel like summer because of all the sweet rain we have been having in Boston.

I gave moneyanswertree.com a new theme and it looks awesome. More professional looking.

I’ve been testing out click through rates on twitter with some of my ads. I’ve posted links to a few products on twitter, and tracked the links CTR on my affiliate sites. The numbers were good. 14-25% CTR. Only 1 conversion though. But thats ok for the small amount of clicks I got.

I’m still building up my twitter followers, I am over 1100 now. It was up to 1200 a week ago before twitter did some user maintenance and deleted all those spam accounts. So my follower count dropped a lot and I guess its a good thing. Shows how many followers of mine were spam.

Other updates, I will be making a new iphone app soon, and I will be changing this sites theme to another wootheme – Busy Bee. I should probably apply for the iphone dev program now because it might take a month or so before I am accepted. That will give me a good time frame to do the development in.

Thats all for now