macdavid pro

As some of you may already know I have been following this project for a long time and that I absolutely love it. Also you may or may not know that Mike Ambs and I have been diligently working on the second video feature for the How iMac Project on this very film. To a point we were making great progress, until we ran into trouble with getting the video footage from his computer to mine. You see the project is a collaborative effort between each featured person and myself. In this case, Mike shot a lot of awesome video footage about Project Pedal and For Thousands of Miles, and I edit it together with my own input and interview with him as a cohesive story.

The dilemma is simple, but increasingly aggravating because it’s so simple. First, the footage is Pre Resolution High Definition and approximately 4 Gigabytes large (zipped), approximately 7.5 (unzipped). My drop.io account isn’t big enough and I lack the funds at the moment to fund a premium account with drop.io. So, we tried DropBox, ftp transfer, and my MobileMe account, all to no avail.

My last resort–thanks to Mike’s great thinking–was to send an email to drop.io in hopes that they might sponsor the How iMac Project, or at least this one episode in exchange for a premium account. That’s all. I have my doubts, as I know it’s a tough economy that we live in, but the worst response I can get from the drop.io team is, “No” right? So, I hope to hear back from drop.io some time this week with a response one way or the other.

Meanwhile, I suggested to Mike, perhaps we can just go the traditional route by burning the files to a DVD and snail mailing it, USPS style. lol

Snail mail aside, do you guys have any other ideas for file transfer over the internet for future How iMac videos. I’d love to get your input!

Thanks in advance!

Stay Synced!

P.S.

Mike and Amanda are running an awesome Kickstarter campaign for their film and are honestly quite close to their goal. Please, if you check out their film and would like to offer support, maybe consider helping out in their campaign at krs.projectpedal.com. Also, you can see their new kickstarter campaign video there or here (below).

I’d like to introduce a long-term project that I am now proud to announce and launch today. This is the idea behind the project:

The How iMac Project is an endeavor to discover and share the amazing work of Apple users in artistry and business. While the project is based on the Apple brand and its technology, it is more about you (the user) and what you do with the technology that the How iMac Project seeks to explore. The best part of this project is that it is more of a collaboration across the internet with writers, musicians, filmmakers, bloggers, businesses and more because each collaborator submits their own video about what they do. After the video is submitted it is viewed and edited and returned to the collaborator with the understanding to share that video on his or her own personal website, blog, or video sharing sites. All the while, word is being spread about the collaborator’s work and this project simultaneously. So, how do you Mac?

Join the project!
If you are a Mac user and have a project, a piece of art, music or film, then you are automatically invited to be apart of this project. If you would like to submit your work to the project you can visit the contact page or email your request directly to hi@howimacproject.com.

It’s just begun, but let me know what you think. Leave a comment, rate (5 stars please) and subscribe for future videos.

Meet Tatango

Hi, you’re watching the first video profile of How iMac, where I share with you awesome things that people are doing with their Macs. I want to introduce you to a company that is completely Mac-powered. And on top that it’s also a company with a very rad team of young and ambitious guys that have been more than accommodating in submitting their video to share how they mac, and that company is Tatango.com. The company is lead by, 24-year-old entrepreneur, Derek Johnson or as he likes to refer to himself, The Derek Johnson–which I think is an awesome internet alias for anyone looking to push their own personal brand. Tatango started out as small-time text messaging service for his college fraternity brothers at the University of Houston that has since gone through a few facelifts as Derek’s vision for the service grew. In fact, at age 23, Derek dropped out of the Entrepreneurial program at U of H to focus purely on the growth and development of what we now know as Tantago.

Tatango Team

Derek Johnson (CEO and Founder)
Andrew Dumont (VP of Marketing and Business Development)
Adrian Pike (Chief Technical Officer)
Amiel Martin (VP of Engineering)
Alex Mittelstaedt (Community Manager)