All the Vlogs

I started a new challenge for myself.  I've decided to do a short video blog eveyr day for a month.  Maybe it'll be awesome.  Maybe it will suck.  Let's wait and see.

Here is the run-down of last week, my first week trying this crazy experiment.

 

Not Really a Post About the GoGG Vlog

I affectionately refer to my video blog as The GoGG Vlog. 

As in Gurl on Girl-Gaming.

I came up with a couple of fun ideas for different ways to showcase things I'm nerdy or passionate about.  Check out the video and let me know what you think!

 

How do you feel about Critter Care Corner, Care & Feeding of Your Geek, and Geek Out! of the Week?

Let me know!

Sunday Sunday Sunday!!!

So, remember that time I made a video blog?  And how I said my goal was to upload a video once a week?  Guess how long that lasted....yup, you guessed it, one week.  The funny thing is when you have a video that has 30+ minutes of footage and fuck-ups and do-overs, it takes a long ass time to edit.  Especially if you're trying to do all the editing yourself on top of trying to write creatively, take care of your dog, take care of your relationships, take care of yourself, and work full time at a miserable job in the 2nd circle of hell, all while attempting to build your dream career on the side so you don't have to work full time at said horror show.  Also, there comes a point where I'm tired of listening to the sound of my own voice, and I just need to walk away from editing myself for a day or two.

So, short-story-long, I finally finished editing my second vlog.  I have enough footage in the can for at least 3 other coherent short videos, and all the footage in the world for a whole mess of incoherent videos. It's just the editing process that is crap.  So, I did not abandon the video venture, I just may have bit off a teensy bit more than I could chew.  News flash.

Without further ado, my second video:




Link here if you can't see this video.

New Blog Stuff (UPDATED)

So I've been a bit absent from my blog recently, but I made a video to sort of explain why.  

That's right, I said video. You're welcome.  

Go watch it here: bad link


UPDATE:

Sorry, I had to delete and re-upload my first vlog video.  The new link is here and the video is below.

Are You Ready For It? (UPDATED)

3.5 Days until PAX EAST BITCHES!!!

Last March, I went to PAXeast-my first Nerd/Geek Con ever-and it was pretty much 3 days of sleep-deprived awesomeness! While NY Comic Con last year was a bit of a letdown, I still have high hopes for PAXeast being just as awesome this year, or even better since it won't be on daylight savings weekend. The pessimist in me says I'm setting the bar too high and will be letdown, but the budding optimist deep down inside says this year will be great. 
Last March I was going through some major depression and anxiety and wasn't medicated at all properly, so while PAXeast was a blast, there was this grey hazey cloud over everything. Now that I'm properly medicated and have my blog up and going and have you lovely reader(s) I feel good. Boyfriend is also borrowing some filming equipment so I can do my first vlogging from PAXeast, so everyone look forward to that! (He has tried to make me promise not to take my anti-anxiety meds this weekend, he doesn't want me to be high on camera. Why not?! I think it'll be more interesting that way. Maybe we'll get enough "high" footage to make a blooper reel or something. That's comedy vlog gold right there!) I won't be cosplaying this year (last year I went as Jessica from Dragon Quest VIII,) but I plan to get lots of great pictures and video of what I predict will be some awesome cosplay!

To those of you attending this weekend, I'll see you in Boston! To those of you not attending: what would you like to hear about most after PAXeast this year? I'll be tweeting all of the goings-on at the Boston Convention Center next weekend, and as soon as we get the footage all edited and junk, I'll post it. Stay nerdy!

Commander Keen & GurlNxtDoor at PAXeast 2011

(UPDATE: 7/6/12- I am so incredibly late to this party, it's not even funny. This party is so over, the house it was held at has since been condemned and is awaiting demolition. Even so, I wanted to say my peace. I just learned about the PA dare-I-even-bring-it-up-again-dickwolves debacle (I told you how late I was to this party.) I am soooo glad I was blissfully unaware of it prior to attending in 2011. Reading the timeline was a great way to kill 8 hours at my shitty office time today. While, it has changed my view slightly of the PA guys, I am simply thankful for the insight into why I may not have enjoyed my first PAX East experience to the fullest extent -and it wasn't all in my head. I was unmedicated and emotionally fragile at the time, while that was the majority of the reason I had a hard time that year, looking back at everything, I really do think that the dickwolves clusterfuck "colored" a lot of my experience at PAX 2011.

Boyfriend and I attended several panels that discussed more female-gamer-focused topics, but nearly all of them devolved into a shouting/bitch fest of boys vs. girls and brought up some very sensitive topics that my delicate little psyche was not properly equipped to handle at the time. We left several panels way early before the mud really started slingling. While the dickwolves train has definitely lost a lot of steam, it still maintains a lurking presence, like everything else on the internet, even almost 2 years later.

I will say that I very much enjoyed most of PAX East 2012. I felt welcome. I did not feel ostracized.  I had fun.  That's the point of PAX. I hope it continues to thrive.)