iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

if hate cable tv. i pay for cable tv . i don’t want to pay for cable tv anymore. i am frustrated with the amount of money i pay for a bazillion channels i don’t watch. i am frustrated that with all the forward thinking technology companies and products i deal with every day i can’t get simple 21st century technology from my cable provider. i love it when i try to rent a movie and it just doesn’t work. more than 75% of the content i watch on my cable tv i can access on the internet through a second service (the internet) that i am provided by the same company. its as if i am paying for duplicated services, except the internet is waaaaay better. the internet is awesome, i love the internet. its open allows for much more flexibility and choice than cable tv. so i am currently formulating my plan to cancel cable and use a combination of my digital antennae, laptop, xbox media center, and potentially boxee.

we purchased a new video camera in preparation for the little guy’s arrival.  we purchased a canon hd m30 with image stabilization (our favorite feature).  we ran it through the paces today and practiced our uploading skills to the internets.  we tried uploading to both youtube and vimeo.  flickr was immediately out of the race due to their 90 second restriction.  both services offered comparable upload speeds.  i personally like the vimeo interface better, but i am liking youtube’s cleaned up interface as of recent.  the software that came with the camera also had a snazy quick “web” upload feature that allowed for quick upload to your youtube account with one click.  so i think youtube might be the winner on our video sharing platform of choice.  let me know what you think of the 2 different videos below (excuse the poop!)…

vimeo

First Video with the Puppies from Derek Davenport on Vimeo.

youtube

i may have posted a few things as of late, but for the most part i have been slackin’ on keeping this blog up to date with what is going on with derok design so i thought i would enlighten ya.  derok design has been working primarily with our friends (and family) over at whitten grey who recently were featured on people.com in the celebrities baby section as well as a friend of whitten grey, jaye & liam.

the whitten grey store is fully operational…you should really go check out the cute things they have in store and keep in mind that for every dress they sell they give a dress to a young deserving girl in a lesser privileged country.  then head over and check out the recently finished jaye & liam site.  besides finishing the initial site design i am still working with jaye & liam to flesh out a complete content management system so that content can be updated on the fly without intervention.  we’re using derok design’s own, custom-built, jcms to do the heavy lifting.  you’ll hear more about jcms in the coming months as i prepare it for the big times!

besides getting these two sites up and running, i’ve been finishing up my 3rd semester of grad school and preparing for the little one the jenerek factory will be spittin’ out soon…so look forward to hearing more about that in the months to come!  i’ve had several inquiries about new sites recently and i really hated turning them away, but frankly time has been non-existent.  i really look forward to picking up some new projects soon, so if you’ve been waiting to pull the trigger feel free to hit me up and we can discuss whatever your needs may be!