This is the neighbor kiddo that lives across the hall. She called me three times today to come over and play Beakiez=)
Tazhae was copying everything that I say while she was playing a game of Beakiez. So I decide to toy with her and say funny things that she has to repeat. Then you see the camera get planted in front of her when she’s not paying attention. Watch what she does when she figures out she’s being videotaped! Just adorable.
Add comment | December 4th, 2009
It’s rather ironic that the footage sucks so bad while I’m gushing about this awesome camera. I just noticed over the months while shooting with this thing, people ask me what it is and I tell them…while the camera is still rolling. Smash it all together and what do you get? Not much, mostly just a video of me being a douche.
1 comment | December 1st, 2009
I’ve been doing voice over work for about 6 years now. Since I started, the industry has done a 180. You really don’t need to live in Los Angeles anymore to do it and you can do a lot of work via websites to pay the bills while waiting to book that big campaign via your agent.
After some great encouragement from friends and family I’m going to teach a class in Seattle about this stuff. An all day workshop that really covers the business side of voice over because that’s what has changed so much in the recent past.
Check out the details here:
http://naomisvoiceoverclass.com/
Add comment | November 15th, 2009
No I am not an editor. But this sure was fun and there will be more – only they’ll have me in them;)
Add comment | November 1st, 2009
This is a mix tape. I *think* that means that the beats are someone else’s. You can show your friends but you cannot attempt to make any money off the song cuz, in actuality, it’s just not yours.
But it was still fun. It’s weird, I woulda wrote completely different stuff than what these guys wrote but I’ve learned that’s not up to me. In these little creative expressions no one can interfere with what you do and vice versa. Just the hook was up to me so I made one and ran with it;)
Add comment | October 31st, 2009
I love this guy. I think the first time I made the connection that he was the dude Sound Garden wrote their song about was when I saw him perform at the Oregon Country Fair. He was like, “I’m so fucking sick of this show.” Then he threw his spoons over his shoulder and told us a story about how he only has one testicle.
So, pretty much crazy but, when he can channel his energy into playing those spoons, it is truly a sight to be seen and a sound to be heard.
Add comment | September 7th, 2009
On Saturday I went over to my awesome Aunt and Uncle’s house on Lake Sammamish in Washington. This lake is so stinking pretty and superior to other lakes in that there are no marinas or gas stations on it. It’s a 73 degrees warm, clear and calm beautiful lake.
They took me wake surfing on their new boat and it was all kinds of fun! You surf in the constant wake the boat provides. You get up with a rope and then, as soon as you find the sweet spot on the wave, you toss the rope back into the boat.
It appears this new sport has taken off as there was an annual competition going on somewhere on the lake while we were having our fun. Here’s a video of the experience. First my Aunt Cathy goes, then me, then my Uncle Mike.
P.S. That dog is less than 2 lbs!
P.P.S. Check out how my Uncle horse shoes the rope handle on the knob at 4:24
Add comment | August 31st, 2009
I haven’t been posting much this summer. First I traveled, then I had visitors in town and then I replaced my computer, which took a while to migrate and stuff. Now I’m going back through old footage of stuff I shot with my Mino HD and can’t hold back from posting some of it.
Trey and I went to Griffith Park to relax and play music and this super annoying car alarm kept going off. Finally we decided to stop fighting it and played a song in the key and time signature of the alarm=)
Add comment | August 13th, 2009
Since a picture is worth a thousand words I decided to make this post be all video…well, except for the writing you see here I guess. If a picture’s worth a thousand, then motion picture must be worth millions. Thus, it would take a lot of writing to describe this trip and so I would most rather edit a travel video.
And by the way this Flip Video Mino HD camera blew me away. I got it a few months ago and I’ve filmed everything with it ever since. I was actually just testing it when I did that post about Floyd’s being a bunch of crooks but it was so easy and convenient I never got my old camera back out. Even Trey, the King of skeptics when it comes to products in technology, said, “Boy, I tell ya, that camera” more than once.
I knew it had won him over. And how could it not? He took footage of me and the sights around us and then he would just plop it back in his pocket. It’s smaller than my iPhone. That’s the crazy part – in all the footage I’ve shot between my travel shows and Gadget Gossip and everything else, I was so sick of how bulky it was. The camera, the batteries, the cables, the chargers. SCREW ALL OF THAT. You don’t need it. And if you’re doing anything that’s not super-high production value like say, a video blog, a travel video, a family video, who wants to lug around and keep track of all that stuff? Especially when I’m traveling, every ounce and square inch counts in what I’m packing and this seriously lightens my load without compromising the possibilities.
I’m wayyyy overdue on reviewing this thing on Gadget Gossip. Anyway here’s a sneak peak at the hottest color coming to America soon:
Purple Rome from Naomi Mercer on Vimeo.
Add comment | June 16th, 2009
So we did. It was cold.
Lakers Win Swim from Mike Fischer on Vimeo.
Add comment | June 15th, 2009