Some New Videos

A few days ago, I uploaded a video letting people know that my songs are available for download on my website. The people working on my website did a great job with the addition. My goal is to get some more exclusive material on my site. The task is to find things my website can do that YouTube can't. The thing is: YouTube is a great tool to get my videos more exposure, but I'd like to get more traffic on my site. If my site can stand on its own two feet and get as many hits as my videos get on YouTube, I'll be happy. Still, I'll never stop uploading to YouTube. It's an addiction, really. I'm a functioning YouTube addict.

I had mentioned in my last video that my next video would be up in two weeks. It turns out it might be a lot sooner than that. I got an offer to make a video for Ad Council. If you haven't heard of them, you've probably seen their PSA's on TV. They did the famous "This is your brain, and this is your brain on drugs" PSA, among other ones for drugs, safe sex, etc.

Anyway, Ad Council has this new campaign to talk to young teenagers about dating, specifically about how new technology has created new problems in young relationships. These include things like: sexual harassment through texting, hacking your partner's Myspace or Facebook accounts because you don't trust them, asking for naked pictures through texts, etc. etc. They sent out a whole packet in .PDF format. My initial impression was that they sent it out to a lot of YouTubers who have a prominent say in the online community. Don't be surprised if you see similar Ad Council videos from other online personalities. I'll be interested to see who else participated.

So back to the video: I made it about two or three weeks ago, and I think they're launching their site in the next day or so. If they do, I'll be uploading my Ad Council video to YouTube at the same time they upload my video on their site. Counting BrandonHardesty.com, this video will be in three places at once. Yeesh. So, that's something to expect.

Ugh... I'm watching a special on the brown recluse spider. This guy fell asleep and found a spider on his leg at 5 in the morning. Not a good thing to watch before going to sleep.

In my last video, I also mentioned that I'd be collaborating with a fellow YouTuber. I have people guessing like mad right now (hehe), but for those of you who actually read this blog, I'll let you know: It's Edbassmaster. He lives in PA, and I'm gonna drive up there sometime this month and make a couple of videos with him. A lot of people thought it would be Makemebad35. The thing is: he does live in my state, Maryland, and he goes to my college (that I used to go to, anyway). I've talked to him a couple of times about collaborating, and I met him San Francisco when I went to YouTube Live. He's a nice guy, and I think he's hilarious, but he hasn't gotten back to me, so I'm not really sure if he wants to collaborate. I can understand that. He's doing his own thing. I find that's it's hard for me to work with other people. I can do it, but I prefer to do things all by myself sometimes. Things just get done faster that way, I guess.

In the meantime, my girlfriend and I are staying at a beach house in Ocean City for a few days with my mom and a friend of hers, just kicking back, relaxing. We managed to watch The Wrestler recently, which was AMAZING. For those of you who haven't seen it: go seek it out. If it's not playing at AMC, find a little independent theater somewhere and watch this movie. Mickey Rourke has to get at LEAST an Oscar nomination.

Hope everyone's doing all right. Stay tuned for more videos in the near future (probably in two days or less).