AUTOPSY--- TV show

The other day, my boss gets this phone call from a woman from New York. She explains that she is a TV producer and is interested in doing a documentary series on people who do private autopsies such as my boss. She had found his name in some kind of directory. This all sounds kind of crazy. My boss tells the woman that there probably wouldn't be anyway, they would be able to film in our morgue. The woman persists in asking questions. The more my boss got to talking about how him and I package pecans at Rosalie Pecans and run a pecan farm to leaving and going to the morgue for an autopsy. She thought it was a fabulous idea. She wanted to know more. So asked us if we would make a video of ourselves. They are looking for people who have personality. So today was our first day of filming our own video. This past weekend we got bogged down with 5 autopsies. So we brought our camera to the morgue and carefully filmed around the body that was laying on the table. We got to show some of the things that we do to prepare, and just what exactly goes on during our days in the morgue. My boss told the woman that I was a communications student and she loved it. She seems very interested. I plan to film and edit our video. Then maybe we can be the talk of the town. Its a rather weird job but I love what I do. This sounds morbid, but its fun!

Once I find out more info on the documentary series, I will post some stuff on facebook to let people know if we are going to be on it or not!

LIVE VIDEO-- from your phone?

Yes thats right! Its a pretty cool concept I played around with last night. I graduate in a couple of days and I am completely upset that my sister, who lives in Florida, will not be there to watch me walk. We talked about filming it but its just not the same. So I wandered if there was a way to stream live video from my phone to the Internet. And...its possible. I first googled it. I got an article that came up that talked about this website called Qik.com. It had an Iphone app. So I was all on it. I downloaded the app, signed up for it on the computer and began playing around with it.

I found losts of problems with it. First, it was VERY slow. The video was taking forever to be processed onto the screen. However it worked. Once it is filmed then it has to buff from your phone before it is able to be watched. So is it really live? Not really. It lags and is not very current. Im not giving up on trying to film my graduation for my sister. I plan on playing around with it a little bit longer before I feel that its hopeless.

Maybe one day it will be perfected and we will be able to do this more efficiently. Skype works pretty well, but not everyone has cameras on their computer. I just think the concept is really cool.

My OBSESSION: YouTube...finding new talent....

About 3 years ago, I really got into youtube. There were these viral videos that were going around and everyone HAD to see them. I have always had an interest in music. I started watching music videos but I needed something more. I was bored with it. So then I started searching " me singing _________" and then the name of the song I wanted to hear. I realized there were hundreds of videos of people singing my favorite song.

Then I got bored. So I started searching " ___________ covers" and I would put the artist I wanted to hear. This made me discover channels. Channels are peoples profiles of youtube. They put their upload videos, information, and other channels they subscribe to. So I then started finding these people who were really good. I'm talking about people who I think should have record deals with major record labels.

So how has this become my obsession? I live on youtube. I live on it more than I do facebook. When I sign on facebook, I read my news feed and then get on youtube. I have become obsessed with listening to these people sing. Over the years, their performances have gone from singing in front of their computer, to playing their own musical instuments, to making their own music videos. I follow several different people who do collaborations with other people I follow.

I think this is a great way for independent artist to get known. Many artist love music because they love to perform. Some do it for the money but some do it because people watch. The people that I follow have milllions of people who watch their video. Thats more than someone would have at a concert. I just think its amazing how talented people are. I love all music but I get bored with mainstream music and therefore I have converted to watching youtube videos. :)

Here are just a few people I follow that I am super obsessed with:

Tyler Ward



Julia Sheer



(and YES that was Tyler Ward playing guitar with her)

ILLUMECI



Lucus Teague




Thanks for watching! I hope you go and subscribe to my favorite artists on youtube!!