Videoblogging: A YouTuber's process...

[VIDEO] YouTuuba does a video about the process for producing some of his videos for his channel. This video is about 30 mins and shows the cameras he uses (mainly still cameras), the storage media he uses, the GPS devices for his train trips, and of course his editing process. Some good pointers for those you who are looking to find ways to really up their YouTube game.

I've only recently started uploading videos to YouTube. I have hours of footage I have yet to upload and edit from an old miniDV camera (I still own one, but haven't used it in years). Of course in recent years many of the vids were shot n an iPhone with the added accessory of olloclip lenses for cellphones. Most of the time I'm very satisfied with the results.

One the other hand I see what YouTuuba is saying. If you're planning on any photography/videography have some redundancy. You don't have to do everything on these wonderful smart phones no matter the quality of the image or video. Something I need to get into the habit of myself as I could shoot pics or video with either my iPhone or my iPad.

Though one thing is true in my case, the reason I do use my iPhone or occasionally my iPad is that often they're readily available. Especially my iPhone as it's usually always on me when out and about. As far as a camcorder especially my miniDV camcorder it's bulky and not as easy to fool with when you realize it's time to record a moment for history. It's not as convenient.

So perhaps I should invest in a camera similar to what YouTuuba uses. That or buy a camcorder more up to speed for 2019. MiniDV camcorders are very aughts and largely obsolete (I probably would have to search far and wide for a miniDV tape. Though memory cards as the one seen in the above video are currently readily available to consumers.

Evolution of internet platforms

I've been part of the internet for many years. When I first logged on most of the homes that were online connected through a dial-up connection on a telephone landline. The designs of most websites were pretty basic as opposed to now (to understand what I'm saying look up Greyhound.com and go back as far as you can over at archive.org). What a vastly different place it is today.

You don't really hear about webpages anymore. Basically a website is a collection of webpages though virtually every website has a webpage. Even this blog could be seen as a series of webpages and it gets updated semi-frequently which constantly expands like a book.

I always imagined having a website even though ISP's once commonly offered free webspace to customers it's something that has become obsolete these days. As stated before there are so many free tools these days that allow anyone an online platform. In the late 1990s through early 2000s you had to create that platform. There was no social media, and the service I currently use Blogger didn't exist until at least 1998.

When I first created a website it was through Geocities - which had been owned by Yahoo!. Of course I never realized that if you want people to visit you had to have a draw to it. I bought a photo scanner to post some pics and used the rudimentary photo editing software. I also shared some of my favorite Star Trek pics that I found online at the time. And this was during the time I was at Morehouse College. Of course it wasn't until 2005 that I started blogging which makes updating a website far easier.

And yet the internet evolved some more with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram. Now most people access the internet on their smartphones. I myself now own an iPhone which is a multifaceted tool that allows me to make phone calls, text, email, shoot photos, shoot video, etc. And with an iPhone and these other smartphones you can also update social media, and upload photos & video on the go!

Now it causes me to wonder where I could've taken this internet thing if I had discovered Blogger in the late 90s to early 2000s. The tech available at the time that I just simply had no idea about beyond what I had already learned about back in the day. Though thankfully it doesn't take long to find out about what's available these days online. Not only that there is an app on a mobile device also!

Chicago Greyhound Terminal

A mural up in the ceiling. An interesting place to put a piece of art, right? The things you find at a Greyhound bus station.

Look at this girl in the picture

It's the month of May and she is walking around in a pair of snowboots. Hmm not that I know much about fashion but isn't that trend slowly dying. I don't know, but it was an unusal thing to see. She really was nice looking though.

Waiting to pull off

On board a red line train at 95th Street.

111th & Michigan

In the Roseland neighborhood.

In the Beverly neighborhood

On Western Avenue near 103rd Street.

Lake Michigan

I was some where on the south end on Lincoln Park near the beaches, a little closer to the Drake Hotel. The waters looked very choppy on this day. I decided to capture that.

Louisville, Kentucky

Doesn't it look busy in this terminal. It was about midnight or so with people going to such places as Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Indianapolis, points in Florida, Detroit, and other points. I don't know why by Louisville seems like a city I'd live to visit a little more one day.

Texarkana

Texarkana is one of those unusual cities that seems to start in one state and ends in the state next door. There's a Texarkana, Texas and a Texarkana, Arkansas, but on this night I didn't know which side of the state border we were on that evening.

Atlanta, Georgia

The terminal in "hot-lanta" was in a state of reconstruction. The terminal couldn't possibly handle the traffic that I have seen here more than once. The building looks temporary, indeed it somewhat resembles a trailor. It doesn't look like Greyhound will have new digs anytime soon.

Pictures from Austin, Texas

Lawyers stand up to take their oaths to join the Texas bar and become practicing attorneys in the state of Texas.
The front of the Texas state capitol in Austin, Texas.
The back of the Texas state capitol in Austin, Texas.

Dallas, Texas

Waiting at the terminal to leave Dallas by Greyhound.

Nashville, Tennessee

Watching TV at the Greyhound terminal there in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm starting a new photo series

What you find at a Greyhound station.

This picture was taken at the terminal in Memphis, Tennessee.

At the Prairie View rest stop on I-57

Probably the only sign Gov. Blagojevich doesn't have his name on!

Zeta Phi Beta at CAU

Killing people is rude.

I was walking along the Magnificient Mile and I saw this image on the sidewalk outside of a jewelry store.

First photo taken on my cameraphone!

Looking at Rev. Skip Mason's office at Douglass Hall

He is the Morehouse College archivist and I took this picture of an Omega Psi Phi probate from many years back at Morehouse.