[Blog update] Taking a short break
September 5th, 2008
As I am currently engaged in a few projects, along with some other things outside of the web, I will not be publishing any blog posts until mid-October.
I have quite a number of posts that I will be publishing then — some, which I’m writing off and on (notebooks/Moleskines FTW!).
Since I’m trying to dedicate as much time as I can to writing good solid quality posts, I don’t want to rush rush rush and end up writing a bunch of rubbish blather poo.
Meanwhile, you can still find me on Twitter and other places (quality blogging is more time consuming than everything else).
See you then!
[Also, my feed is here just in case]
The Nokia Productions Death Scene Challenge
August 14th, 2008
Over at Nokia Productions, we’re challenging everyone to come up with the best video (or videos) that follow(s) the theme(s) of movie death scenes — Be Kind Rewind style.
Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to recreate some (or one) death scene(s) from your favorite movie(s) using a mobile device (camera phone, etc.).
Whats in it for you? Well, if your video is selected, I will send you free tickets to the premiere at the Nokia Theater L.A. Live in Los Angeles in October (hotel and round-trip fight on us). Residents of the US only, I know, that sucks.
Submit as much as you want, but remember, be extra creative (based on effort, originality and creativity) so you’ll have a chance to win some tickets. If its really really good, your video might just be included in the final cut.
Upload your stuff at Nokia Productions. Be sure to tag your work “famousdeathscenes”.
To recap (borrowed from Joe)
- Recreate your movie death scene.
- Set up a profile on Nokia Productions.
- Upload your movie death scene to Nokia Productions (or here if you’re having problems uploading).
- Tag your video death scene(s) with “famousdeathscenes”.
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to your submission.
Deadline is the end of the day, August 20th. Good luck!
Please, if you need help with something or have any questions, just leave a comment or send me an email.
Keep up with what Nokia Productions is doing, follow us on Twitter, Friendfeed, and the official blogs.
Understanding your past
July 30th, 2008
Some people say to just forget about the past and focus on the future. If people only focused on the future, than we would loose track of the present, and the past. The past, of course, is what the present and the future are made of.
Understanding where you come from and how you got here (the present) will help you advance towards a better future.
The past shouldn’t be a place where memories go to die, but rather a place where memories tell stories of life. Not all memories are pleasant, but not all unpleasant memories are from the past. The past is the key to the present, no matter how potentially unpleasant.
Your past is ultimately connected to everything that you are today. That’s just the way of life.
The real beauty of the past is that it is one gigantic window into who you were — connected by clues and evidence and information. There are countless untold answers to an abundance of personal questions buried in the past. Answers to who you were, and the entire history of who you have become. Even the most insignificant details add up to a much bigger picture — one with broad perspective and limitless understanding.
From your childhood to your adulthood, and everything in between. The only thing connecting now and then is history — your history.
History is not just how we remember the past, its how we understand it, and how we learn from it. History is the how and the why.
You cannot change your own history, but you can change the way affects the present by understanding it, and fundamentally… learning about it. Knowledge, no matter how old, is still knowledge — and knowledge is power.
Research your past.
Visit distant relatives. Go to family events. Plan family events. Talk about your past. Gather information. Start a family tree. Create a time line. Ask your relatives to contribute — stories, events, knowledge, photos, videos, documents, genealogy — anything that would be helpful to you. Share these contributions with other relatives and family members. Build a common understanding. Built a pool of family history. Listen. Learn. Relate.
Learn about your childhood.
Where were you born? Which hospital? What time? Why that particular hospital? Where were your parents living at the time?
Where did you go to school? Why that school? Where did you live? Why did your parents live in that town/city? What was your neighborhood like? Who were your friends? Who were your enemies? Who were your teachers? Who were you?
What made you happy? What made you sad? Why?
What was your favorite thing to do? Where did you learn to ______? What did you want to be when you grew up? Any sports? Hobbies? After school activities? Anything? What? When? Where? Why? With who?
Understand the how and the why.
By gradually understanding your history, you are connecting it together piece by piece. Each piece of the puzzle identifies the how and the why — and pretty soon, it all connects into one brilliant picture. A picture of you.
Welcome!
July 27th, 2008
Welcome to Nicklog 2.0 my new blog.
I created this blog because I wanted to focus more on writing articles, and because my old blog, “Nicklog“, lacked serious blogging options. Wordpress just seemed like the perfect (and obvious) solution. I like to think of this blog as “Nicklog 2.0″.
Before all of these changes though, I decided to host my personal website on DreamHost because of the many many different hosting options — most of which are standard. From there, it became obvious to me that I would later host a Wordpress blog.
Since this blog is relatively new, there are some kinks that I need to work out — like adding a link back to the main page, creating a new favicon, and tweaking the settings a bit more.
But what about Nicklog you ask? I will still be using it to post short bursts of content, and for sharing interesting stuff that you wouldn’t normally post on a regular blog — like links, photos, videos, quotes, etc. At the moment, Nicklog is undergoing a transfer from GoDaddy to DreamHost, so http://nicklog.com isn’t working right now done!, but http://nicklog.tumblr.com is My tumblelog, “Nicklog”, is down right now, and now redirects to this blog.
So, from now on I will be blogging here.
If you notice or experience any bugs or weird things on the blog, than please let me know. There is still a whole lot to tweak, and this is just the beginning.
Nick
Notice: Everything I’ve posted here before this intro post are imported articles from my old blog. Everything else that follows this post are new articles I write specifically for this blog.