The Last of 2008 Thursday, January 15, 2009

Some of my favorite things about 2008:

1. New community and involvement with Christ Community Church
2. Our travels in EUROPE
3. Rootclip officially launched, and was featured in the Traverse City Film Festival
4. I officially started Grad School full-time, working toward my Nurse Practitioner Degree
5. Ran my 1st 1/2 Marathon
6. President-elect Barack Obama - hopeful future for our country
7. Many of our friends brought new little lives into this world in '08, plus a few via adoption!
8. Erik and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary

I'm sure there are many, many more awesome and amazing things that God allowed me to experience in 2008, but these were just the highlights.

The last few weeks of December were filled with visits from friends and family - much laughter and love all around. Here's a link to our photos chronicling all of the fun :)

Outtakes Sunday, September 21, 2008

Outtakes from the Rootclip intro for the Traverse City Film Festival. I still laugh EVERYTIME I watch this...


Outtakes From the Good Luck Intro from Rootclip on Vimeo.

Help Rootclip Get On DiggNation Friday, August 15, 2008

I just made a similar post on the Rootclip Blog, but wanted to mention it here for those of you who don't keep up with that.

We have a goal to get on DiggNation and we need your help to do it. If you have a digg.com account, please follow the link below and "digg" that link. If you don't have an account, make one, then digg it!

http://digg.com/movies/Rootclip_Rocks_Encourage_Creativity

If you're not familiar with it, DiggNation is a weekly web show starring Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. They run down the list of some popular things on digg.com during their show. Our goal is to get the above digg story on their show.

How can you help?

1. Send a mass-Email out to all of your friends with this link, asking them to digg it.
2. Use your facebook account to post a link to it, or mention it in some other way.
3. Send the link out on your Twitter account.
4. Put it on your own blog, telling people to digg it.
5. Get creative and use any other networking tool you have to get the word out.

We'll need a pantload of people to digg it, so pass it on and help us out. Thanks everyone!!

RootClip.com - Friends and Family Beta Launch Monday, February 11, 2008

Hey gang!

Not unlike my brother-in-law Kevin, I too am shamelessly self-promoting the launch of our new website RootClip.com.

Last year, we came up with the idea of creating a website that would build a community around online video, but also challenge people to get creative and collaborate on projects. Our collective brain-child was born and we named him, RootClip. (awww!)

In short, we create a video that starts a story. From there, users (that means all of you) watch the video, then go and shoot their own version of what happens next in 1-minute increments. Think choose-your-own adventure meets YouTube.

Obviously, you aren't going to have our actors, but that's the fun of it. Get creative and use whoever you want, but try to keep them in similar clothing so that the story has some linearity. (Whoa! Linearity is actually a word!! Must remember this for Scrabulous.)

Every 2 weeks, a winner is chosen based on positive votes for their submitted video and that video becomes the next minute in the story and the next 2-week shooting/voting period begins to continue the updated story.

The coolest part about RootClip is that every 2 weeks, we give away $250 to the winner and they become eligible to compete against the other 2-week winners to create the final scene and take home a $2,500 VISA gift card. Cash, money, what?!

So, what are you waiting for? Check out RootClip.com, watch the video, create the next minute, then vote for your favorites. You could win over $2,500!!