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Promotional video for Affskins project. Recorded voice over in-studio and modified an After Effects Template to match.
Voiceover by Melissa B.
Promotional video for Affskins project. Recorded voice over in-studio and modified an After Effects Template to match.
Voiceover by Melissa B.
Encore Performing Arts Logo
A motion graphic to promote the Chillin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Groovin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Movin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Strechin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
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Pitch Video:
Click below to see the other three videos.
Note: Meeks Mixed Media worked as a contractor on this project and has no affiliation with the products mentioned. Certain claims made in the video are not supported by Meeks Mixed Media.
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It’s hard to believe, but Meeks Mixed Media is now two years old! To celebrate I am hard at work on a complete re-design of the site and shot a video (above) where I discuss some of the highlights from the past two years and talk about where Meeks Mixed Media is heading in 2010. I’d like to thank Kirk Harnack (of the This Week in Radio Tech podcast) for providing narration, Doug Davenport Jr. (of Atomsplit) for providing the great testimonail, and all my clients over the past to years for keeping me in business!
As far as how Meeks Mixed Media got started, I was working at a small manufacturing company doing web design and video production. My manager told me a client of the company liked our website and wanted to hire him on a freelance basis to create one for his company. He asked me if I’d be interested in doing everything on the programming side and splitting the money. I was more than willing, of course, and he said he’d let me know. A few weeks went by and he told me the project was being put on hold so I shrugged my shoulders and hoped for a raise as I had a child on the way and wasn’t making enough to support my burgeoning family.
The whole situation got me thinking that maybe I could get some side work while I waited for the raise to happen. I did some online research and discovered a great website called FreelanceSwitch that had tons of resources for people looking to freelance. One of the sites they mentioned was called Scriptlance. I decided to place a few bids to see what would happen. A lot of the projects were quite shady, but it required no initial investment so I thought I’d give it a shot. I bid on a few jobs and promptly forgot about it. About it a week later I received a message from Randy Henderson at Okie.Net that my bid was accepted and I had a gig. I completed the project in a couple of week working at night and on the weekends when I wasn’t taking care of my newborn son. We really enjoyed the extra money, but having to work around at a full-time job meant I couldn’t take on any projects that were terribly complicated or time-consuming.
Back at work I still hadn’t gotten the raise. It was really frustrating because I had taken the job at a rate much lower than what I generally earned at that point with the promise of making more very soon. Frustrated, my wife and I sat down to try and figure out our finances for the next couple of months and just for fun I ran the numbers on what I had made per hour on the freelancing gigs. It was about $15 an hour, $4 more than I was making at the 9-to-5. After talking it over we decided that my boss had 2 weeks to push the raise through and if it didn’t happen I’d put in my two weeks and start bidding.
While I’m not making mansion and Lexus money quite yet it is pretty empowering to casually drop into conversation that I’m animating a commercial for an Australian gym, programming a web-based back-end for an insurance firm in London, or filming a promotional video for a Ticketmaster competitor (although when I mention the web a lot of times they think I’ve fallen in with some pyramid scheme selling vitamins).
There are a lot of of perks to being self-employed, but I think the biggest one is that you never get bored. Sometimes when you are working one job at one company your creative mind can stagnate from the repetitive tasks and goals that recur quarter after quarter. If I have a really intense web programming job and I feel like I’m starting to burn out on it I can always go and find a job editing some videos or composing a background track for a video game. I love all aspects of New Media and freelancing allows me to build my skills in areas I already have experience in and also allows me to try new things.
Sneak Peek of the New Website
Testimonial of Registry Elite customer Jenna McGill .
Contest Entries
Please go here and vote for us for a chance to see us on The History Channel! Watch and rate it!
Features/Reporting
See our big page of Superman House coverage here.
Completely unedited footage of the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Superman House in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 2009.
Buy the Superman House DVD by clicking on the icon below:
UPDATE: To help the load on our web server (and to make it easier to navigate) we’ve also split the video up on Youtube. Links after the jump:
Part 1: This section includes National Anthem and opening remarks by Mike O’Shesky.
Part 2: This section includes National Anthem and opening remarks by Mike O’Shesky, a speech by City Council members Shari Cloud & Kevin Conwell and the unveiling of the street signs for the newly christened Jerry Siegel Lane, Joe Shuster Lane, and Lois Lane (in honor of the inspiration for the girl reporter Siegel’s wife Joanne)
Part 3: This section includes remarks and presentation of bricks from the house by Siegel & Shuster Society President Dick Pace, a speech by reporter for the Plain Dealer Mike San Giacomo,
Part 4: This section includes remarks and presentation of bricks from the house by Siegel & Shuster Society President Dick Pace, and a speech by Jerry Siegel’s wife (Joanne Siegel, basis for the Lois Lane character) and daughter Laura.
Part 5: This section includes remarks and presentation of bricks from the house by Siegel & Shuster Society President Dick Pace, and the ribbon cutting.
See our big page of Superman House coverage here.
An interview with Brad Meltzer, novelist (The Book of Lies), comic book writer (Justice League, Identify Crisis), and driving force behind Ordinary People Change The World, the website that united Superman fans to save the house where he was created. Recorded at the Screaming Tiki Con July 10, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Buy the Superman House DVD by clicking on the icon below:
In The Media
According to my buddies over at the Atomsplit site, a DVD of the animation work I did for them is going to be released soon. They even have a snazzy picture of the cover:
Atomsplit: The Vandertramp Saga DVD
Keep an eye on Atomsplit.com for more info. They also do a regular web comic based on the same characters.
And check out these kicking promos:
The new daily news podcast Tech News Today from the TWiT network featured my “video voicemail” on their second episode this past Wednesday. Thanks to TWiT for playing it, and thanks to Tom Merritt and Becky Worley for complementing my video skills. And for the record, Becky, I am a pro.
Tech News Today
Check out the full episode.
Tech News Today from the TWiT network featured another of my “video voicemails” on Episode 36 this past Wednesday.
Tech News Today
Check out the full episode.
As should be pretty apparent, I’m a member of the TWiT Army and a rabid fan of all of Leo Laporte’s podcasts. Chief among them is The Daily Giz Wiz, hosted by Mad Magazine and Match Game writer Dick DeBartolo. Leo recently got a new sign to put on the cottage, and when I heard that Dick’s show wasn’t listed I fired up Photoshop and spent a grueling 2 minutes ‘painting’ a correction. Luckily Leo and Dick know artistic perfection when they see it.
I had a lot of fun helping out the NSFW guys on this week’s past Episode 34: Scream Queens vs Zombie President. Here’s a description of what happened from the show notes:
Brian and Justin were getting very nervous as nearly an hour passed since filming finished and there were still no edited videos coming in, until finally BillMeeks came to the rescue with his unnecessarily large 1080p opening title sequence. This single video, restored hope in the hearts of both the hosts and the chatroom. From here on out, the show turned into happy-fun-times as more and more zombie videos came in as they transferred from TWiT to BBLiveshow.com for the after show and we all went to bed happy, knowing that Tony will spend hours stuck in a tiny room, piecing together the many different parts of one of the greatest NSFW episodes ever.
Here’s a video of the moment in question:
And here’s the full trailer I edited in the final version of the episode:
Always a fun show. Tune in at 9:45PM tonight on TWiT. They have Kyle Gass from Tenacious D and his band Trainwreck.
I called in to Twit Live last night to talk to Robert Llewellyn from Red Dwarf. Leo Laporte liked the company name, calling it “hard to pronounce, but memorable.” Pretty cool considering when I started getting into computers I watched him as the voice of Nev Dull on MSNBC’s The Site. Enjoy!
Please go here and vote for us for a chance to see us on The History Channel! Watch and rate it!
Here’s a quick little video I made for the guys over at the NSFW podcast on TWiT based on the Brodyquest video.
Here’s the lead singer of Ok Go answering my question on TWiT today. Wish I had got the song name right! Go to 16:17 to watch! Or just watch the whole interview with this awesome and innovative musician.
Earlier this year Personal Finance expert Farnoosh Torabi interviewed me about Meeks Mixed Media for her new book Psych Yourself Rich. The book came up for Kindle this week and the hardcover release is imminent.
Here’s a small blurb from my section of the book:
Intrigued? You can purchase the books using the links below to read my full interview:
Bill Meeks by Shannon Gerard
I want to thank Shannon Gerard for the awesome portrait she did for my personal Facebook profile and Twitter profiles to promote her new graphic novel.
Here’s more info on that:
As mentioned in the last post on the old blog I’m now writing 5 days a week for WeirdThings.com. I’m about two weeks in and having a blast. What I didn’t mention in the original blog post is that there is also a semi-daily video component where Justin Robert Young covers the weirdest of the weird stories reported on the site. He has featured several of my stories on it before but I’m posting this one today because I got a shout out for a story about a Russian science experiment that re-animated the head of a dog.
Here are the stories I’ve posted thus far, and please subscribe to WeirdThingsTV. Justin needs some friends!
My First Story on Weird Things
Starting this Monday I’ll be a regular contributor to Justin R. Young’s Weird Things blog. I’m most aware of Justin from his co-hosting duties on the NSFW podcast on TWiT, but he’s also worked for several newspapers and was an associate producer at G4TV in 2009. Here’s a description of the site:
Weird Things is a blog dedicated to people who love both science and are fascinated by the impossible and fantastic. It’s for people who believe a mystery is interesting no matter the outcome.
Our goal is to bring our readers interesting content on a daily basis; consisting of original features and links worth looking at.
I’ll be writing an article 5 days a week starting this Monday, June 7th. You can follow my articles specifically here, but please visit WeirdThings.com for all the latest in the world of weird from Justin, Andrew Mayne, Matt Finley, and myself. And there’s already one article up: Werewolf Teenagers Grip West Texas.
vChat – Episode 3 – Home vSphere Labs from Train Signal on Vimeo.
Check out the final motion graphic intro Meeks Mixed Media made for TrainSignal’s new video podcast vChat! It took a few revisions but turned out great! You can find more information here and Subscribe on iTunes here. Here’s hoping it’s a big success for David and all the others involved!
A video bumper for the vChat Video podcast by Train Signal.
Need to hire an expert for your own video podcast intro? Hire us!
Instructional
Need to submit measurements for a tuxedo rental or suit? Following this simple video tutorial will show you how to do it exactly like a professional tailor. The method is the same for both adult and kid’s tuxedos or suits.
Pitch Video:
Click below to see the other three videos.
Note: Meeks Mixed Media worked as a contractor on this project and has no affiliation with the products mentioned. Certain claims made in the video are not supported by Meeks Mixed Media.
Coaching Program:
Review Sites:
Thank You Page:
Interviews
It’s hard to believe, but Meeks Mixed Media is now two years old! To celebrate I am hard at work on a complete re-design of the site and shot a video (above) where I discuss some of the highlights from the past two years and talk about where Meeks Mixed Media is heading in 2010. I’d like to thank Kirk Harnack (of the This Week in Radio Tech podcast) for providing narration, Doug Davenport Jr. (of Atomsplit) for providing the great testimonail, and all my clients over the past to years for keeping me in business!
As far as how Meeks Mixed Media got started, I was working at a small manufacturing company doing web design and video production. My manager told me a client of the company liked our website and wanted to hire him on a freelance basis to create one for his company. He asked me if I’d be interested in doing everything on the programming side and splitting the money. I was more than willing, of course, and he said he’d let me know. A few weeks went by and he told me the project was being put on hold so I shrugged my shoulders and hoped for a raise as I had a child on the way and wasn’t making enough to support my burgeoning family.
The whole situation got me thinking that maybe I could get some side work while I waited for the raise to happen. I did some online research and discovered a great website called FreelanceSwitch that had tons of resources for people looking to freelance. One of the sites they mentioned was called Scriptlance. I decided to place a few bids to see what would happen. A lot of the projects were quite shady, but it required no initial investment so I thought I’d give it a shot. I bid on a few jobs and promptly forgot about it. About it a week later I received a message from Randy Henderson at Okie.Net that my bid was accepted and I had a gig. I completed the project in a couple of week working at night and on the weekends when I wasn’t taking care of my newborn son. We really enjoyed the extra money, but having to work around at a full-time job meant I couldn’t take on any projects that were terribly complicated or time-consuming.
Back at work I still hadn’t gotten the raise. It was really frustrating because I had taken the job at a rate much lower than what I generally earned at that point with the promise of making more very soon. Frustrated, my wife and I sat down to try and figure out our finances for the next couple of months and just for fun I ran the numbers on what I had made per hour on the freelancing gigs. It was about $15 an hour, $4 more than I was making at the 9-to-5. After talking it over we decided that my boss had 2 weeks to push the raise through and if it didn’t happen I’d put in my two weeks and start bidding.
While I’m not making mansion and Lexus money quite yet it is pretty empowering to casually drop into conversation that I’m animating a commercial for an Australian gym, programming a web-based back-end for an insurance firm in London, or filming a promotional video for a Ticketmaster competitor (although when I mention the web a lot of times they think I’ve fallen in with some pyramid scheme selling vitamins).
There are a lot of of perks to being self-employed, but I think the biggest one is that you never get bored. Sometimes when you are working one job at one company your creative mind can stagnate from the repetitive tasks and goals that recur quarter after quarter. If I have a really intense web programming job and I feel like I’m starting to burn out on it I can always go and find a job editing some videos or composing a background track for a video game. I love all aspects of New Media and freelancing allows me to build my skills in areas I already have experience in and also allows me to try new things.
Sneak Peek of the New Website
Testimonial of Registry Elite customer Jenna McGill .
See our big page of Superman House coverage here.
An interview with Brad Meltzer, novelist (The Book of Lies), comic book writer (Justice League, Identify Crisis), and driving force behind Ordinary People Change The World, the website that united Superman fans to save the house where he was created. Recorded at the Screaming Tiki Con July 10, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Buy the Superman House DVD by clicking on the icon below:
Motion Graphics
The guys are busy editing the episodes and recording the music. Here’s a teaser for Atomsplit Episode 1 to tide you over. Visit Atomsplit.com for more info.
Animation by Meeks Mixed Media. Watch the episodes at the Atomsplit website.
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Need to hire an expert for your own video podcast intro? Hire us!
A motion graphic to promote the Chillin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Groovin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Movin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Strechin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
Please go here and vote for us for a chance to see us on The History Channel! Watch and rate it!
Pitch Video:
Click below to see the other three videos.
Note: Meeks Mixed Media worked as a contractor on this project and has no affiliation with the products mentioned. Certain claims made in the video are not supported by Meeks Mixed Media.
Coaching Program:
Review Sites:
Thank You Page:
Need to hire an expert for your own motion graphic? Hire us!
See our big page of Superman House coverage here.
An interview with Brad Meltzer, novelist (The Book of Lies), comic book writer (Justice League, Identify Crisis), and driving force behind Ordinary People Change The World, the website that united Superman fans to save the house where he was created. Recorded at the Screaming Tiki Con July 10, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Buy the Superman House DVD by clicking on the icon below:
vChat – Episode 3 – Home vSphere Labs from Train Signal on Vimeo.
Check out the final motion graphic intro Meeks Mixed Media made for TrainSignal’s new video podcast vChat! It took a few revisions but turned out great! You can find more information here and Subscribe on iTunes here. Here’s hoping it’s a big success for David and all the others involved!
A video bumper for the vChat Video podcast by Train Signal.
Need to hire an expert for your own video podcast intro? Hire us!
Music Videos
Animation by Meeks Mixed Media. Watch the episodes at the Atomsplit website.
Need to hire an expert for your own animation? Hire us!
In anticipation of the DVD Release of the Atomsplit Animated Series I worked on last year I’ve animated this music video for the Atomsplit Original ‘Find You Flair,’ and it features all the best shots from the 12-part animated series.
A motion graphic to promote the Chillin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Groovin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Movin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
A motion graphic to promote the Strechin’ line of clothing from Gym Funky in Brisbane, Australia.
Please go here and vote for us for a chance to see us on The History Channel! Watch and rate it!
Podcasts
As should be pretty apparent, I’m a member of the TWiT Army and a rabid fan of all of Leo Laporte’s podcasts. Chief among them is The Daily Giz Wiz, hosted by Mad Magazine and Match Game writer Dick DeBartolo. Leo recently got a new sign to put on the cottage, and when I heard that Dick’s show wasn’t listed I fired up Photoshop and spent a grueling 2 minutes ‘painting’ a correction. Luckily Leo and Dick know artistic perfection when they see it.
I called in to Twit Live last night to talk to Robert Llewellyn from Red Dwarf. Leo Laporte liked the company name, calling it “hard to pronounce, but memorable.” Pretty cool considering when I started getting into computers I watched him as the voice of Nev Dull on MSNBC’s The Site. Enjoy!
Geek Week with Yoshi & Meeks Episode 1
Hey, it’s our first episode!
We talk about Batman Beyond comic books, the link between Chuck and Quantum Leap, Facebook: The Movie, Marvelman, Boondock Saints II, and tons of other geeky topics.
Story Links:
- Batman Beyond Mini-Series coming from DC Comics
- Alan Moore Talks Marvelman
- Facebook the Movie… Cast?
- Boondocks Saints 2: All Saints Day Trailer
- Reading Rainbow Ends
- Lana, Superman and Chuck
- Phonegap
Please feel free to leave some comments below, and come back next week for a fresh episode!
vChat – Episode 3 – Home vSphere Labs from Train Signal on Vimeo.
Check out the final motion graphic intro Meeks Mixed Media made for TrainSignal’s new video podcast vChat! It took a few revisions but turned out great! You can find more information here and Subscribe on iTunes here. Here’s hoping it’s a big success for David and all the others involved!
A video bumper for the vChat Video podcast by Train Signal.
Need to hire an expert for your own video podcast intro? Hire us!
Testimonials:
- Ivan K.
- roughrida, CD Selectaz
