It’s been a week and no response. The only difference is that when you click on the video from my personal channel on YouTube you are greeted with this little ditty:
I’ve noticed there are now three other uploads featuring the exact same Nike commercial (one is actually from Nike Sportswear). I’m not sure why the two non-Nike uploads haven’t been removed just yet, but if they make it through and I do not, I’ll be pissed.
At the very least, I do have solace in knowing that people can still view the commercial. After all, whether it’s my upload or somebody else’s, I’m just glad people are still excited about KGJ.
Well, well, well. It seems the powers that be over at Google’s YouTube have blocked my latest videos.
On Monday, I uploaded the new Nike commercial featuring my childhood and adult-life idol Ken Griffey Jr. I then uploaded the tribute video that the Mariners shared on the big screen during the game after he officially retired last month. In less than 36 hours I garnered close to 20,000 views on the Nike commercial – a video that brought tears to many people – and close to 1,000 on the video tribute from Safeco – you want to talk about making grown men cry, watch that video more than once (I will post it to my Vimeo stream soon).
Greatest of All Time. Brings tears to my eyes even thinking about how I will never get to see the most exciting player that ever laced up the cleats. . :(
I don't even play or follow baseball very closely but I know that the man is a legend. Man just played well, no scandals, no drugs, no arrogance, just the game. Sports needs more athletes like him.
Yes, “azarel7,” sports DO need more athletes like him.
But if you click on the videos now, you will be greeted with the following bar across your screen:
What’s more, they put a “strike” in my YouTube account’s “personal record”:
(click to view larger if you want to actually read it)
I have since responded with an e-mail to YouTube protesting the matter. They will forward that on to “MLB Advanced Media,” the originators of the complaint. Since I’ve seen many baseball and Nike commercials/videos all over YouTube already, I must only assume I’m in the right.
Furthermore, this little ditty seems to make it seem like I’m acting within the legal boundaries:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
So, while I wait for things to be sorted out with YouTube, here is the video in all its original glory (thanks to Vimeo):
This image is over 300 30-second images over a 3.5 hour time frame stacked on top of each other.
My new wife and I just started our honeymoon in Maui last two nights ago. Since she was knocked out by jet lag as the sun finally set, I set up the tripod on our balcony (Oh! Quick sidenote: We had originally booked a "garden view" room at the uber-nice Sheraton Maui on Black Rock, as anything else was insanely expensive. Well, upon checking in, we found out the hotel upgraded our room to an OCEAN FRONT view... at no extra cost! Booom shakka lakka!!!)
Anyway, I let the camera shoot one 30-second photo every 45 seconds for just over 3 hours, 30 minutes (it may have lasted longer if the batteries didn't die when I fell asleep).
Nevertheless, I was astonished at how visible the stars were with so much ground light shooting into the palm trees. I think a little over halfway into the video the lights on the ground dim lower, so next I may wait until 12:30 a.m. (that's about when they dimmed, according to my EXIF data) and start a new one. And this time I'll use brand new batteries, so we'll see what happens
I went to the Pittock Mansion this afternoon for one specific idea: A time lapse video of the clouds moving over downtown Portland. I took one photo every 15 seconds for 35 minutes.
Holly got a plant from her mother the other day. Seeing as how I've been into time-lapse photography lately, I thought I'd see how it would bloom if I set up my camera.
So, after six and half hours of shooting (1 photo every 3 minutes), I came up with this little ditty. Unfortunately it doesn't look as cool as I thought it would, but I didn't feel like leaving the camera and laptop going all day. Maybe next time. I want to buy the AC adaptor for my camera, that way I can leave it plugged in and take photos for 3 days straight!
Last night I was able to use the balcony outside The Crystal Ballroom to shoot photos for our Save The Dates. When I finished, I shot more video with my camera to make my first night video a little bit longer.
So, thanks to some more Coldplay, here is my latest nighttime video:
It’s no secret how obsessed I am with shooting photos at night. (See here, here, here and here… Get the picture?). However, one thing I’ve always wanted to play with was nighttime video.
I love photos of cars driving at night, the way they streak across the screen in just a red or white light. And I’ve seen videos of this effect elsewhere, so I know it’s not too hard to accomplish. Thus, why not combine the two. I’ve had this notion in the back of my mind for a few years.
Well, where better than downtown Portland?
Turns out I’m not the only one. I stumbled upon this website the other day where a guy specializes in just this sort of videography: Andrew Curtis – Time Lapse Photography.
He is a friggin’ stud!
After seeing his site, I just had to finally buckle down and play with my camera. I figured a three minute video would suffice, and when all was said and done I finished with the 16-second scene above.
That just makes me wonder how long he spent making the following videos. This first video from Andrew Curtis is the original video I saw from him, and the rest are just mind-boggling!
Holly and I watched that Idahoan movie again yesterday, and I completely forgot how awesome the election dance was. Here it is once more, just because I could watch it every day:
We had two hours to kill once we got to Austin’s airport before heading home Sunday afternoon. Low and behold, we weren’t away from the bats just yet: There was a winged demon waiting for us inside the terminal. The first time we saw it fly by, I snapped pictures like the paparazzi. Enough so that one of the airport employees asked me to stop, saying “You’re flash is blinding everyone around here.” (It was incredibly hard for me not to simply say, “Then don’t look at it!”)
Needless to say, people were freaked. After all, this bat was swooping around like it owned the damn airport, dodging people left and right by inches from the floor to just above their heads. The next time it came around, I stubbornly obliged with that airport employee’s demands and settled for the picture I already shot – but video doesn’t produce a flash.
It’s said that 1.5 million bats inhabit the underside of downtown Austin’s Congress Street Bridge. Every night from spring though fall they take off into the sunset as night arrives, and hordes of people gather to watch. Here’s a video clip and picture I took of them all leaving:
Crowds line the bridge both above and below waiting for the bats.
I really had to make sure everyone I know sees this commercial by Tobasco, where they encourage you to put their hot sauce on pizza. If it’s not the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen, please let me know what is –- I’d love to know what’s creepier than this:
When it comes to recording television on my computer, I am completely inept. And thus, for my Fox Sports Northwest acting debut, I just filmed the tv with Holly’s camera. What’s more, since my computer has been so incredibly slow lately, I was forced to piece together the three clips with Windows Movie Maker
When Holly and I went to the Portland Zoo last week for Miss Oregon’s elephant photo shoot, we went to see the polar bear exhibit. What I forgot to upload last time was this little clip of one the (huge) bears seemingly doing laps in his own pool! He did this for 10 minutes non-stop before we left, but who knows how long he kept going for.
I never really liked Mike’s Hard Lemonade, but this commercial makes me love them! I hate those Coors Light commercials where they have a cold label (the mountains turn blue when the can is cold), because YOU CAN FEEL IF A CAN IS COLD WITH YOUR HAND!
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of the rules ... You can quote them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things ... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Steve Jobs, Apple
About Me
Jake Donahue
I recently finished college where I was the editor-in-chief of the No. 2 non-daily newspaper in the nation. I assumed that alone would land me a high-paying job doing what I love somewhere, but alas, I was sorely mistaken - not about the job, but about what I loved doing. I'm not sure whether I want to spend the rest of my life designing, writing or photographing, although I do obviously have more strengths in designing and writing. Perhaps I can do all three one day. As for the job? We'll see. Hopefully I can make a living by following the freelance path, only time will tell. Other than that, I am happily engaged to my best friend and the most beautiful woman alive (I'm not a polygamist, she's the same person). I'm also fond of baseball, beer and both at the same time. Go Mariners!
sure why the two non-Nike uploads haven’t been removed just yet, but if they make it through and I do not, I’ll be pissed.
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