Wow, it’s been a crazy last 7 days so far.

First on Friday at Studio Bricolage I noticed a gentlemen that looked quite familiar. He had a couple of mannerisms that were very unique, and I knew I saw them before. He must have thought the same thing because as we were soldering things to other things he asked me “I think I know you from somewhere”. I told him that he looked very familiar as well, and inquired as to if he had been to any MPR events, involved heavily with the MN Fringe Fest (Maybe he saw me on stage this year - I get that a lot now), or gone to a lot of smaller art shows. He said no, and then I asked if maybe we worked together - then asked him where he worked. He said he worked in Chicago, and I replied that years ago I to worked there. He said “Where did you work?” and I told him “Townsend Analytics”.
We used to work together

Over 7 years ago!

Turns out he lives here, and just happened to be in Chicago for a year we worked together then went back to telecommuting. He still works there.

Then, a couple of days ago, as you all know by now - I won tickets to see the Smashing Pumpkins. I never win. I just don’t.

Yesterday I was feeling like crap, so I decided to take a small financial hit and stay home - rest up. I lay down on the couch and pick up the remote and watch some shows that my DVR recorded last night - one of them happens to be the hilarious Colbert Report.
Many of you know about the incident with Larry Craig, a cop, and a bathroom stall at the Minneapolis International Airport. What you don’t know is said cop grew up here - he grew up in International Falls for a bit, where I grew up. Now the Colbert Report tried to get him on for an interview and of course it didn’t happen. But, weirdly enough, one of the associate producers for the show also grew up in International Falls and went spent some time with him. Her name? Katie Bruggeman. She was one of my classmates too. See the whole video right here. Go Broncos!
Anyway, so I couldn’t believe it - how cool was that. Someone I knew and grew up with was on a national show. So I hit google, search for her, and find her on a social networking site - along with a couple of dozen of my fellow classmates! So I spent the rest of the day seeing how they’ve changed, exchanging emails, and being totally amazed at how some of them have transformed in a dozen years. And now, I’m looking forward to going to the next reunion - seems like they do it every year, too.

And today I learned some of my photos were chosen to be published in the next edition of the Minneapolis Schmap - Schmap is an interactive map which is like your guide to a city. It shows you how to get to places of interest, and once you’re there, what you’ll see. Pretty sweet, eh?

So I hope things keep going well. Tomorrow I’m shooting the opening night of Jane Eyre at the Guthrie - maybe something good will happen during that to really make this a perfect week. *shrug* We’ll see!

Take a look at the following video:

It’s the old old myth of “You can’t fold a piece of paper in half more then 7 times“, which has been debunked several times - though for the most part, it does hold its own. Notice the interesting use of camera angles, how the camera is focused more on her breasts then the ‘experiment’ this so called ‘Science Girl’ is trying to accomplish. Now notice the views - over 667,000. She’s made over $1,000 on that video which is, for all intents and purposes, sex.

Now examine her channel and some of the stellar content it contains

• Models Blowing Kisses
• Sitting when wet
• Lifting weights underwater
• Aqua pushups
• Taking off bra with shirt on

And other such amazing videos sure to blow your mind! Now these videos get sent out over to Digg, Reddit, and the other social networks where the primarily teenage viewer base sees such tantalizing titles and immediately have to click and watch, then rate the girl ‘with teh tig ole bitties’ videos up. With the way MetaCafe’s Producer Rewards work, once you hit 20,000 views you start raking in the dough. So far this has net the bimbo and her anonymous cameraman almost $3,000 - and the majority of the movies are a month old or less, so that’s about $300 a day.

$300 a day

FOR NOTHING

Not even any nudity, which I could understand getting paid for.

IMPLIED NUDITY

It blows my friggin mind!