I just wanted to add a little something to my last post.

Not even an hour after posting my article about Vimeo, I received the following email from Jakob Lodwick, one of the founders of Vimeo.

“Thanks for the nice Vimeo writeup on your blog.”

I’m assuming he was able to find out I wrote the article so quickly, thanks to Technorati. I thought this was just another way Vimeo separates itself from the “competition”. It’s a one sentence email. It probably took but a moment to write, but the fact that he chose to take that moment, where others couldn’t care less, and write an email shows that they still understand the lost art of customer appreciation. Bravo.

I signed up for Vimeo after I had my first and final frustrated moment as a YouTube user. Vimeo is truly a site driven by user created content. You won’t find any episodes of South Park, you won’t find and poor movie rips, or porn, or music videos that someone simply filmed off their tv screen. You will, however, find original videos like this one below. RG linked this in a comment on my last post, but I thought it deserved more shine than that.

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo

If you’d like to know a little more about why I prefer Vimeo over YouTube, continue reading. RANT WARNING
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Last night a group of friends and I went to see the Flaming Lips at the House of Blues, Orlando. I think I can say without question that it was the best show I have ever been to. It was as if they read my mind and then concocted the most tactile, sensory overloaded concert experience imaginable.

I don’t know about you, but when I go to a concert and spot those giant confetti cannons, the first thought in my mind is, “I hope they shoot confetti like, the whole show.” Everyone knows that there’s no such thing as “too much confetti”. Although, I’m sure some of the guys on clean up crew at HoB would beg to differ (but nobody cares what they think).

Yellow and orange confetti was fired off during nearly every song, creating a blizzard-like state of the entire establishment. What’s more, Flaming Lips cohorts tossed out laser pointers by the hundreds before the show began, resulting in an audience-created laser light show… but that’s not all! (more…)

Now that the dust has settled, I’m sifting through remnants of Monday evening trying to sort out what happened. I’ve constructed a “before” and “after” photo above. Proof! That I was indeed a fat baby. Also, Dimmett did a great job taking photos of the evening, the most appropriate of which being the one on the right. At first glance, a poorly executed blurry photo in need of deletion. At second glance, pure genius, as it sums up the night better than any other photo in the collection.

I posted all of the photos to Picasa so you can view the album here.

Also, I don’t know what “Screenalicious” is but apparently my site is featured there.

Google Analytics never ceases to amuse me. Or, is it amaze me? Perhaps both. Never the less, today when checking out this weeks keyword stats I noticed that 3 different people managed to find my website with the search query “erika“. Immediately I’m thinking, “Sheesh! Somebody did some digging to find my site from that.” But, I was wrong! Much to my surprise, (and delight) I found that when you Google “erika”, I am search result #34 of about 33,500,000. Pretty crazy stuff.

I thought this was worth mentioning and so I now pass the challenge on to you. Google your first name and see where you reside in the vast expanse of the interweb.

My 21st birthday is creeping up here. At last check I’ve got 4 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes and 56 seconds until April 9th. I wanted to make a blog post on here as a note to anyone I may not have emailed about this weekends birthday festivities.

On Sunday, April 8th we’re going out to Pleasure Island at Downtown Disney. We’ll probably get there around 10pm (since I can’t drink ’til midnight). They’re open ’til 2am though, so we should have plenty of time to have some fun. As my little sushi illustration may lead you to deduce, we’re also going out for sushi. On Monday, April 9th (my actual birthday) we’re going to Wazzabi Sushi in Winter Park at around 7:30.

If you haven’t received an email from me about this stuff, (it’s because I don’t have your email) leave me a comment and let me know if you’re coming.

Hope to see you there!

I move quickly, like the puma. So yeah, without even skipping a beat, I’ve landed a new part-time gig. I started work today at Hydra Studio in Lake Mary. I’m doing flash animation and development (something I’ve been meaning to jump back into). What a great example of being in the right place at the right time. Their flash guy was leaving just as I was leaving Mesos and since a couple of my friends already work there, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. And hey, who doesn’t love health insurance?

So, fulltime freelance didn’t last very long but this should still be a nice change of pace. The freelance projects keep rolling in to keep me occupied the other 3 days of my week, so hopefully I’ll have enough work to do a little collaboration.