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Greetings! Welcome to the Holbrook New Media Audio Feed. We do audio, video, content creation, and that other stuff. holbrooknewmedia.com. Today on Episode 8 of The Geoff & Jeffrey show, here are some of the things we are talking about: Bandwidth issues on Blab.im Why new free services on the internet usually don't last too long. William is snoring. A new company on the stock exchange made 1.5 million last year, but at the same time lost 68 million. Not a good idea. Comparision of America and Australian retirement plans. Geoff is critical of his photography skills. Jeffrey has around 800 images on an old Flickr account that found new life recently in blog posts. Jeffrey made a huge audio recording mistake this week. When you get a new mic, the old mic is suddenly not sounding so good. The serious importance of wearing headphones when you record. Getting a stereo signal on a live stream using mono mic output. Armani in the chat room wondered about our audio and video setups. Then Armani showed us what we

Greetings! Welcome to the Holbrook New Media Audio Feed. We do audio, video, content creation, and that other stuff. holbrooknewmedia.com. Today on The Geoff & Jeffrey show , here are some of the things we are talking about:   The ease of using Blab.im compared to other video streaming services. Geoff is experimenting with live YouTube streaming. Jeffrey has the podcast version of Geoff & Jeffrey up and running! Geoff also gave a fast version on the YouTube Video for those who have only a little time. hehehe! Geoff got a new green screen to use with his Wirecast backgrounds. 89% of Americans think their photography is really good. The real problem is composition. Advances in photography & video tech. Geoff's favorite amusement parks are the Six Flags parks in the U.S. Jeffrey uses his old photography for blog posts. One of his pics seems to be all over the internet as a symbol of corporate greed. Price fluctuations and advertising ploys. Upcoming changes on Twitter. Differences in price and appoin

Welcome to a special edition of the Holbrook New Media Audio Feed. holbrooknewmedia.com In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 2016, I recorded more than 15 minutes of a thunderstorm. Little did I know the devastation it would cause in our state of West Virginia. Lives have been changed forever with the loss of homes, businesses and with the more than 20 deaths attributed to this event. While many types of disasters can affect your home and loved ones, there is none quite like a flood. A few days of torrential rain can cause a condition in a mountainous region like West Virginia that is rather unique. You can see water rising toward your home during the rain, but after it stops, and you think it's over, the water continues to rise from the runoff out of the mountains. In slow motion, over a few hours as you watch in complete helplessness, the water rises, and rises. It finally enters your home and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Then it goes up and up, 2 feet, 4 feet, 6 feet, etc, and fi

Ep. 6 Geoff & Jeffrey Show, The Weekly Catch Up   Audio, Video, Content Creation, and that other stuff! ------------------------------------------------------------ Topics Covered: ------------------- Trouble getting into Blab and recovering a no-show recording of a Blab. http://blab.im Everything you say online is being monitored or recorded. Sage words from the the great prophet Thumper. Geoff got a new portable green screen. Jeffrey is trying out some smaller earbud style headphones. Geoff's video magic, and Jeffrey ripping the audio out of Geoff's finished video for his podcast feed. Podcast listening habits. Making silence lengths equal on an episode sounds wierd. Podcast niche. Making a general audio feed instead of being so specific. Having fun instead of trying to make money on podcasting. Holbrook New Media Audio Feed at http://holbrooknewmedia.com William, Geoff's dog is snoring, and Lilly, Jeffrey's used kitty is scratching at the door. Our sound treatment configurations. Logitech C920 camera q

This is Jeffrey K. Holbrook. Welcome to the the audio feed from holbrooknewmedia.com. I recently started working on a few projects with with J.D. Sutter over at Porchlight Family Media. They have a show called Verses in Vox. They are taking classic works of poetry, and have them performed by a voice actor, then original music is composed, and original photography and artwork is made. When all is produced and made ready by the 5 or 6 people involved, it is released. You really need to go to verses.porchlightfamilymedia.com to listen to the various amazing productions. Before getting involved with these projects, I hadn't really gotten much into classic poetry, but I have really been finding a new dimension to these treasures. Today, with permission, I am presenting the first production I was involved in, in its entirety. It is called Ballad Of The Tempest by James Thomas Fields. -------------------------- Remember, go to verses.porchlightfamilymedia.com to listen and get subscription options for this amaz

Geoff & Jeffrey Episode #5 Audio, Video, Content Creation, and that other stuff. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Discussion on Episode #5 ----------------------------- Cleaning your webcam for the best results Geoff prefers using the I-Mac instead of the Mac Book Pro for doing the show. Geoff has a chapter recorded for Librivox, where you can get free audio books. https://librivox.org/ The difficulty of punching in recording mistakes instead of re-recording. Gear Acquisition Syndrome or G.A.S. Having a mic with no idea what you want your show will be about. Sound treatment installation follies. Distance from the mic in different applications. Bill DeWeese voice over guy. http://www.billdewees.com/ Comparing Bill DeWees' professional Whisper Room to Jeff's homemade booth. http://www.whisperroom.com/ Each of our recording processes. Verses In Vox. http://verses.porchlightfamilymedia.com/ Zoom H5 recorder. Excellent review from Golden Spiral Media https://youtu.be/6XrPwMqfUf

Geoff & Jeffrey Episode #3 Two guys talking Audio, Video, Content Creation and those other things. ----------------------------------------------------- Windows 10 backup at an inconvenient time. Vacation/Holiday week, testing that retirement feeling. Election literature follies. Jeffrey's friend Marissa became a U.S. citizen along with 58 others. Geoff emigrated to Australia as a child with his parents. Jeffrey's first audio book is finished and available now for sale. The Process is discussed. http://holbrooknewmedia.com/ppj Geoff's dog William is snoring, while Jeffrey's used kitty is trying to get in the door. Jeffrey is working with Verses In Vox again. The workflow is detailed. http://verses.porchlightfamilymedia.com/ Mic technique and positioning. Sound treatment for our recording spaces. Geoff's video creation of jets piling in behind each other. https://youtu.be/ayp2tCSJAeg Acting classes as training for voice over work. Mike Lenz Voice Over Podcast. http://www.mikelenzvoice.com/ The Audiobook Cr

This is Jeffrey K. Holbrook Welcome to the Holbrook New Media Audio Feed ------------------------------------------------ Today's quote is from Albert Einstein "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." When was the last time you listened to nature? Most of are stopped in our tracks when we see a glorious sunset, a rainbow or even a tornado or hurricane. When we are distracted by our sense of sight, the sound track of nature is only an accompaniment. Today, I plan to give you some nature to actually LISTEN to. What you are hearing in the back ground is a recording I got by placing my Zoom H2N digital audio recorder on a guardrail on a road near my home. It is taking a 360 degree image of the area. The night sounds are amazing. Take the time to really listen and sense what is actually going on. Usually we hear night sounds as a single massive sound that is just in the background. There are many components and patterns to these sounds, and closing your eyes and really listening for

The Geoff & Jeffrey Show, Episode #2 Two guys who talk Audio, Video, Content Creation, and those other things. Today's Topics: --------------- Audio Book trials and tribulations National Associate of Broadcasters Amazing Advances in Technology PTZ- (Pan Tilt Zoom) Cameras Logitech C920 Webcams NDI- Network Device Interface Skype and other types of online show recording One of Geoff's earliest recordings. Telling the story of the Three Little Pigs. Super Cute! The Green Man with the shirt on! ABBA enunciation The Opera is the place to go! Blab Technical Difficulties and describing frozen expressions you can't see in Audio YouTube Live Streaming Wirecast Green Screen Magic The ease of live streaming on Blab.im Commodore 64 programming, BBS System, video titling, robot control, ham radio packet, and MIDI control of 6 synthesizers CB & Ham Radio ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find all things Geoff at geoffblanchard.com Everything Jeffrey is doing

This is Jeffrey K. Holbrook. Welcome to the the audio feed from holbrooknewmedia.com. Today, Geoff & Jeffrey; The Weekly Catch Up. It's a video show I do with Geoff Blanchard of Australia on Blab.im. We hope you enjoy the audio version. If you want to see what we look like, I will embed the video for this episode at holbrooknewmedia.com Geoff is into video, Jeffrey is into audio, and both enjoy the tech of content creation. They are talking about their latest projects, and on this show, topics such as: Verses in Vox episode Jeffrey is in. holbrooknewmedia.com/voices1 -Finding people you lost on the Internet -Weird Old Sayings -Presidential Candidates -Being old enough to not care what others think of you Geoff Blanchard is from Australia, and can be found at geoffblanchard.com Jeffrey K. Holbrook is from the U. S. and his web site is holbrooknewmedia.com ---------------------------------- Thank you so much for listening. Links for a free subscription, feedback, and everything else we do is at holbrooknewm

This is Jeffrey K. Holbrook. Welcome to the the audio feed from holbrooknewmedia.com. To those who discovered and listened to the 50 episode show, Daggers Of The Mind, thank you for your interest. I want to assure that more of that same kind of content will be forthcoming. In addition, some of the voice acting, and voice over content we produce at Holbrook New Media will be made available here, and last but not least, the weekly video show I do with Geoff Blanchard of Australia on Blab.im. It's called Geoff and Jeffrey; The Weekly Catch Up. At holbrooknewmedia.com you will find the embedded video of the show, as well as free subscription options for this audio feed, and you will also be able to subscribe to get an email notification for each post in the blog. Again, welcome. We really appreciate the chance to be heard. We want to hear from you too! feedback@holbrooknewmedia.com. ------------------------------- Today we are comparing opposing quotes from Karl Marx, and Ronald Reagan. Karl Marx, who coautho

Robert Dallek, Historian   "Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future."   Decision time. Something big. Something momentous that you can't avoid, and you must choose well. Consequences, good or bad are in the offing, and at this point you really wish you could see the future, or wish someone else could for you. At this point, we look for others, hopefully expert others, who can help us navigate the rough waters ahead.   As I have mentioned before on Daggers Of The Mind, there is rarely a shortage of people who are willing to tell you what to do, and they have a variety of reasons for wanting to do so. Some are noble, some are not so noble.   You must be just as careful choosing whose advice to listen to as you do making the momentous decision itself.   Knowing who you can trust in advance is what makes the differen

Sigourney Weaver, Actor   “I don't have ambitions, I believe in taking what comes. I have that philosophy about life in general. I go in and try to transform it into the best it can be.”   You were just handed some lemons. What do you do? Most people are so familiar with that quote that they immediately say, “make lemonade”.   Ms Weaver is going a step beyond that. She doesn’t get creative only at the time when things are not going so great, she is talking about discovering what is available to you, be it good, bad, or ugly, and starting from there, and making the best you can of it in EVERY circumstance. If you are experienced at such things, you may even be able to make something more valuable than the sum of the parts available.    Being intrepid in this manner is what saves the day, and even lives when they are on the line. Those who are able to think quickly but clearly can save themselves and other a lot of trouble, and can anticipate the moves required for some serious success in every area of life. Th

David Bowie, Rock Star   “As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?”   Death is considered by many to be the ultimate end of all of us. While a lot of people live what is affectionately known as a “full lifetime”, many never get that chance.    Those who die early from fast living, you know, that self destructive type of life that can kill you in an instant, and maybe take someone else down at the same time, aren’t giving this any thought at all.   Those who have early life illness, especially those who have known nothing else, don’t usually have the span of time or experience to think this deeply.   It is only when life is slowing down from the main rat race we have been running in for those early years that we pause and evalutate what we have accomplished, and what we would like to accomplish before we go. It is summed up in one word. Legacy. What will people think and say when we are mentioned? Did we just make a splash, or did

The celebrities quoted today were suggested by Craig of the DisAfterDark podcast. The DisAfterDark podcast takes place in the Mouses Head pub in the United Kingdom. They describe the show like this:  "Yet another Disney Podcast, probably containing childish grown up language for immature adults." I really enjoy the show. Check it out at disafterdark.com  Links to Craig and show he cohosts with be in the show notes for episode 47 of Daggers Of The Mind.   @bcl1973 @disafterdark    https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/disafterdark-disney-podcast/id499831329?mt=2   http://www.disafterdark.com/   ----------------------------------------   Paul McCartney   “We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.”   Hey, grow up! Of course in many ways NOT growing up, keeping that sense of wonder, your creativity, etc is perfectly fine and actually best, but what about those im

The celebrities quoted today were suggested by Craig of the DisAfterDark podcast. The DisAfterDark podcast takes place in the Mouses Head pub in the United Kingdom. They describe the show like this:  "Yet another Disney Podcast, probably containing childish grown up language for immature adults." I really enjoy the show. Check it out at disafterdark.com  Links to Craig and show he cohosts with be in the show notes for episode 46 of Daggers Of The Mind.   @bcl1973 @disafterdark    https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/disafterdark-disney-podcast/id499831329?mt=2   http://www.disafterdark.com/     Ringo Starr   “I remember the day Zak was born. It was the first time I'd felt totally useless. There was Maureen having our baby. She kept on crying "Help!" and I kept asking "How?".”   The most lost any man can ever feel is in this very situation. The love of your life is in pain, and she is going through this pain, for you and also because of you, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to lessen her pain. When this

The celebrities quoted today were suggested by Craig of the DisAfterDark podcast. The DisAfterDark podcast takes place in the Mouses Head pub in the United Kingdom. They describe the show like this:  "Yet another Disney Podcast, probably containing childish grown up language for immature adults." I really enjoy the show. Check it out at disafterdark.com  Links to Craig and show he cohosts with be in the show notes for episode 45 of Daggers Of The Mind.   @bcl1973 @disafterdark    https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/disafterdark-disney-podcast/id499831329?mt=2   http://www.disafterdark.com/     Walt Disney, Creator Of The Famous Mouse   “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”   No pain no gain. Quite the cliché in our world, but there is still a lot of truth in it. Walt Disney and his older brother Roy had quite a bit of adversity before becoming the o

Britney Spears, Rock Star   “Sometimes it’s our secrets that define us.”   Secrets are usually things you don’t want others to know about. Hiding the  truth changes everything. Most of the time it is not even something that is  so horrible that others would shun us or want us dead.    It is surprising to learn that many times the things we worry about most  don’t really concern others very much. It changes our behavior because of our  level of worry, but in the big scheme of things it is actually kind of small. But there are other types of secrets that can influence your behavior.  Consider this quote:   “A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”   Paul Valery   There are little subconscious influencers we all live by that we don’t think  of as secret, but we still use them to make decisions. Interestingly enough,  these things are many times known about us by the rest of the world. If we  shouted it from the mountaintops, they would be no more public and obvious  than they are

Roger Moore, Actor and UNICEF Ambassador   “I've always said if you've nothing nice to say about someone, then you should say nothing.”    When you trash somebody, what actual good does it do? There is an effect, but what does it tell others about that person? Better yet, what does it tell others about you? Imagine if you will, that what you are telling is the exact, and honest truth. There is absolutely no chance that what you are telling is in anyway of dubious origin. That established, there are times when you may want to tell someone something negative.  An example. If you have personal knowledge that a certain young man is a habitual date rapist and you see him getting interested in your friend’s daughter, this would be an excellent time to inform your friend of the danger. If on the other hand, you don’t like the way this young man dresses or you don’t like his attitude, or his piercings, tattoos or even his bow tie, looking at your friend and saying, “I’ll bet he’s a date rapist. You can tell by lookin

Margaret Fuller, Journalist and Women’s Rights Advocate   "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."    Interesting metaphor, knowledge being like fire, huh? Fire is interesting in that a very small quantity can do very large things when it is allowed to grow. It needs air and fuel, and for good or ill, it’s off to the races!   Knowledge is one of the things you can give to other people that costs you nothing, but can have a tremendous impact on another’s life. Sometimes you can change a person’s life direction or circumstances dramatically just by giving them that missing piece to the puzzle, allowing them to complete the picture.   There is nothing more exciting than that look of comprehension and triumph when they suddenly get it. Really get it. You just handed them the tool they didn’t know existed, and it made it possible to complete their project, or even change their life.   It’s really cool for you to realize how much you’ve been able to help. Not that smug pride that shows your im