i'm on the train heading back from an evening with my daughter in the play centre and so my mind is pretty scattered right now but i feel this title needs explaining.

being a videoblogger, consuming social media and seeing 'those videos' on youtube does not make you someone that brands want to work with.

advocates, movers and shakers, people with a voice often build things, they establish a routine, they want to share and be vocal because they have something to share or say, they are not just sharing video -- they are making it.

i'm constantly confronted with two camps -- those who ask me why i take photos of my food and why do i make so much pointless content about nothing in particular.

sharing the life around me and those that want to make digital content but are scared that people are going to point and laugh and judge them because they do not have the skills of steven spielberg out of the gate.

if your not life confident then chances are trying to do that on video or audio are gonna come across straight away, your reviewing yourself, judging your own actions and defining your audiences reaction by not investing in that voice.

focus there, everyone is awesome at something and i'm pretty sure if you shared it you would find others that you naturally gel with.

i'm in the middle of videoblogging month at the month, as i'm typing this i'm annoyed with myself that i'm not filming in a stealth fashion to get some decent clips for todays video that i can cut together in the morning early before i get on a train to go to exeter.

a good day for content and videoblogging awaits tomorrow. i know i have a voice and sometimes i filter it because i feel my environment is not right, so i change it.

i move and find another space and atmosphere to work from, to look at things from another perspective instead of being annoying that things are not working the way they should and it's me.

it kills creativity and the passion to do anything -- then you hit that frustration loop. get it out, get it done -- even if it's shit be annoyed with yourself afterwards.

do not count views and comments, use that camera, make some stuff - your bought the damn device because it was a cool device, it had a great camera and it's sitting in your pocket or your constantly checking tweets for the next quick buzz hit.

stop, think -- what do you wanna communicate. what's something you wanna see. tell me, share it. make that content. and don't watch it.

find your digital voice from doing what might be mundane and make it one of your talents and assets to assist you when things are a little less awesome in your life.

lift your mood and those around you -- start a digital conversation you can bring into your daily analog life with that super computer you have in your trousers.

go create young skywalkers.

i had a full day in front of the machine yesterday making video.

i realised how slow my mac pro had become yesterday when i was editing 720p hd footage -- it's antique and upgrading my camera and mac pro must become the next thing i get sorted out in the studio it really needs a speed boost!

managed to catch up with videoblogging month however and i'm gonna be taking my camera out and about with me today as i'm doing trains and seeing ella later.

good times.

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phew, what a busy one.

prepped the ammobox and the nomad jacket has everything ready to go, tickets are booked and the kit is ready.  i'm heading out in under an hour to grab a train up to exeter for wearelikeminds till friday afternoon.  it's been a rollercoaster ride over the last few weeks with events and conferences in and out of the country and it looks like it's not going to stop until december time.

in the middle of this as i was packing to get my ammobox kit ready for an 'ontheground' event i found the time to do some video media for my brand advocacy for watch.tv (verisign) about how to be prepared as a brand advocate for a conference.

i made six episodes covering the prep, tech, process and applications which i'm hoping you will find useful.  i'll be releasing these our via our fibrecamp channel on showyou (which btw, if you have not checked out yet - download from the app store) once we have our feeds problem locked down and submitted the projects rss feed.

for now you can get them in this playlist embed.  just start at the top and let it play through each section - a little bit of information under thirty minutes about how to prepare, what kit to take and a little bit about the nomad jacket and how that helps me as a media maker on the ground get the interviews i need.

i'm having to post this on the 21st of june.

internet has been really difficult to use on this trip due to most locations only having edge and even then with the extreme hit trying to keep the mifi unit charged up is hard because the heat saps the life out of it.  we could rarely get thirty minutes or more on the modem on battery mode. not to worry thou i recorded everything i could on my trusty ixus 200 IS offline.

bit concerned about the quality of the video on the wistia embed of late - it looks much better on vimeo quality wise.  must check with wistia if my compression settings are right.

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as you can see from the video we arrived in between a raft of storms like i have never seen (we do not get thunderstorms like this) and over the course of the next few days we saw swirling weather conditions where clouds actually got pulled down by the different airstreams.  really freaky to look at too it was.

it concerns me greatly that issues of making media that i need to correct are based on decisions made in a toilet.  i really need to just get on with making this stuff - re-engaging warp drive.  it's time.