Dancing with the Stars has announced its fall roster. Mark Cuban, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wayne Newton anyone? They are among the 12 celebs who will compete. Dancing begins Sept. 24 on ABC.
Are you excited about the new iPod? Apple has distributed invitations to a Sept. 5 event in San Francisco, and industry people are speculating it's for a new family of iPods. Can you say full screen video iPod?
I’ll never look at a backpack the same way.
I worked at Feed the Children last night. The organization relies on local citizens and corporations and groups to volunteer time to assist with various needs. Last night, Chesapeake helped with backpacks - stuffing backpacks with school supplies and personal hygiene.
Good cause. Good people.
Worked on a script and production of The Oklahoman’s High School Huddle over night. We went into production today. Should post it tomorrow.
The Oklahoman’s sports editor Mike Sherman and deputy sports editor Mike Koehler wanted a high school sports show produced. Ryan Aber would go on camera with me to discuss the prep football scene each week.
And the 2007 season kicks off Thursday. Not much time.
So I wrote a quick show. 5 minute total running time. Backtimed it: Edlamfootball.com is our new site devoted to Edmond North, Edmond Santa Fe and Edmond North football - so there’s 45-60 seconds. We could use a Dave and Angi commercial - another 15 seconds. 2-3 minutes with Ryan talking about the season, with a True or False segment. We would use music under the entire video. Then we met with Bryan Thomas and Billy Davis for opening animation, full screen graphics and lower thired. David Jones created a nice studio setting. Tanner Herriott worked on lighting. Jacquelyn Farris ran teleprompter. Kyle Roberts oversaw the elements and will edit.
We’ll see the finished product tomorrow. We’ll improve production and the look in the coming weeks. But for a quick turnaround (one morning) it went really smoothly and simply.
Yahoo is introducing new features today for its email. Users will be able to send e-mail, instant messages or text messages from a single Web site. Think of the money parents could save if their kids use their computers to text instead of 15 cents per text via cell phones.
Dunkin’ Donuts is trying to refresh its image by largely eliminating trans fat. How? With alternative cooking oil and by reformulating 50 menu items — doughnuts included. All by Oct. 15. Krispy Kreme has yet to roll out a zero gram trans fat doughnut but hopes to do so. Starbucks said in May that it would cut artificial trans fats out of its food and drink by year’s end.
Stay healthy America.
First, we used the segment to promote The Oklahoman's football section. It hits newsstands and driveways Sunday.
During the segment, we used video from Nate Billings' Oklahoma Focus segment from last week. Nate, one of The Oklahoman's photographers, described what equipment he used, and why, for the black and white photos used in the football section.
Check out the result, pretty cool. Also note the lower third animation used to introduce Ed. Credit to Tanner Herriott for the editing.
Web site critics are constantly arguing over Web content that “must be above the fold.” As if Web users are idiots who cannot understand how to scroll.
Here’s a great point-counterpoint about above the fold/scroll.
"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."
Happy birthday Big Mac! The big 4-0! The triple-decker burger was first introduced in 1967 by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, Pa. Let's go to the scoreboard. People in more than 100 countries have given in to Big Mac attacks. 550 million Big Macs are sold each year in the U.S.. That's about 17 per second. It weighs nearly a half-pound. Has 540 calories and 29 grams of fat.
Ok, no surprise which story was most read this week on NewsOK. Yes, the story of an Oklahoma City man being charged this week with aggravated assault and battery, accused of causing extensive damage earlier this summer to another man's scrotum just because he wore a University of Texas shirt into a local bar. 60 stitches were required. You can find the Most Popular stories on NewsOK, by clicking on the link at the top of every story.
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Like when you hit every light green on the way to work. Or when your co-worker stumbles. And it's caught on tape.
We tape a segment each week called DnA. It stands for Dave N Angi. Every Tuesday or Wednesday we send Angi out to talk with Oklahomans about various topics. This week, we were at Remington Park shooting a promo video for the upcoming Oklahoma Derby (Oct. 21). While there, Angi spoke with people inside the casino. Kyle edited the piece with some classic Vegas-style music.
Once we have footage, we tape a Dave-with-Angi segment in the studios, usually on Thursdays and the video is posted late Thursday or Friday morning.
If you haven't seen our studio, it's like a closet. Pretty small. We've all tripped, stumbled or fallen in that studio over cables or light stands.
Be sure to watch this video until the end for Angi's dramatic exit. We are fortunate to work with good sports around here!
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The Eagles will release "Long Road Out of Eden" in October. It's their first full studio album for 28 years. The Eagles split in 1980 but reunited 14 years later. The first single from the album, "How Long," has already had its video and radio premiere. The band's "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" is the best-selling album in recorded music history in the United States, with sales of more than 29 million copies.
And LookatOKC unveiled its redesign today. Inside you'll find more content about music, movies and restaurants. And of course, photos of your friends as they party at local establishments. Check it out on your local newsstands.
N Style is our high-end, niche publication. It's a very slick publication, nicely designed each month by Jennifer Armstrong and edited and pumped with content by various peeps, including Melissa Howell, Alan Herzberger, Linda Miller and Hugh Scott.
