Pirate video a success and light painting!

The Pirate Video hits it big! Check out our light painting below...
Well, looks like our pirate video has been a bigger success than we thought. Come Sunday we we're well over 750 views, and come Wednesday we were pushing 1000. Now we have hit over 1,200 and more views keep popping up everyday on Youtube. One really neat feature that Youtube has on their website is an insight application which shows how people our navigating to our video, it also shows us what type of demographic is viewing our video, it shows us where in the world people are viewing our video and it shows us how much of our video people are viewing compared to an average video.

The most popular viewing day was Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19th, when we had over 400 views. Monday saw a big spike in views, but it's been leveling off lately. I'd imagine it might go back up around Halloween time, but who knows?

In reference to the demographics that are viewing the video a majority of our viewers are male's 55-64 and women 35-44. Which is rather odd, I guess alot of parents and grandparents are watchin the pirate video.

We have people in Canada, Denmark, and Austria watchin the song too. Who knew we had fans out there? Most of the people that found there way to our video were from Myspace, facebook or Youtube.

Probably the best part about the insight application on Youtube is the Hot Spots indicator which shows us when people are watching our video and when they are shutting off. Not surprising for us is the point in the above graph when people tune away towards the end of the video. Both Rhett and I are not satisfied with the final version of the Pirate Song. Maybe in the next few days we can get back in the studio and add some finishing touches to our video.

Light Painting...

This past weekend Rhett and I and a few old friends got down and dirty and volunteered our time helping out on Denton's local documentary film festival, Thin Line Film Fest. This was there second year giving it a try and let me tell you we had a blast. Friday night Rhett and I helped out with some light painting, which is really easy, creative and alot of fun to do. It took us about 30 minutes to get settled in and then cool pictures started popping out left and right. The way light painting works is you set your camera to BULB and hit the shutter button to start taking the picture, after about 30 to 60 seconds you hit the shutter button again to stop taking the photo. During that time you can do what ever you want in front of the camera with lights and it will be part of the picture. In essence you can write your name in mid air with a flash light and then that image will be added to photo. It's really quite fun, and really addicting. We did this both Friday and Saturday and by the end of it we had some amazing stuff. The best part about it was the fact that the party where we shooting these pictures had an open bar. So we put away a few drinks in the process.





My birthday is coming up real quick and I'm thinkin about shooting some light painting photo's around the house. So if you're interested in being in a few photo's then make sure you come out on October 18th! More photo's to come...

(Click on the above pictures to make them bigger, if you're interested in our statistics.)