WATCH AS POKEY does his best Frank Sinatra. Wowing the audience like Sammy Davis, Jr. Fake-sloshed like Dean Martin and strumming a banjo like Steve Martin.
Actually, yeah, should we do the Letterman or the Tonight Show? The choices are out there ... or is it just me?
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Anyway, click the video above to see the King of Chihuahua, the Don of Song, Pokey!
They used to say that the quickest and easiest way to make a million bucks was to write a successful Christmas Song. No kidding, that used to conventional wisdom ... or something resembling convention and wisdom.
Got a get rich quick scheme? I had a friend who was forever thinking of ways to make money fast. It never worked. If you really want to know the secret to getting rich -- and, yes, this is a bummer -- is to work and save, work and save ... that's the only real way to do it.
That is, unless you're smart enough or lucky enough to win, inherit or marry money. But if you think marrying money is easy money, then give it try. See how it works for you.
Two years ago my best friend was laid up after having a knee replacement, so I went to visit him. His dog and Red were really good buddies, so I came over to party up his dog, who was getting like zero exercise due my friend's health problems.
I think Red Dog was confused because we never have real trees, we always use fake ones. But my friend had a real tree in his living room. I believe Red Dog's thought process was something like this, "Hey, look, indoor plumbing!"
Mrs. My Friend's Wife was none too happy.
But that was life with Red Dog. You just never knew what might happen next. Little surprises all of the time.
Lots of people like to dress their dogs up in silly costumes. Lots of dogs tolerate this behavior because it leads to pets and treats. Here we have a Blue Dog Lady Bug ...
For me the question has always been, what would Dr. Suess do? If you're like, what would Chuck Norris do, then whatever.
The format of this video has become sort of my standard goof. Mixing the live sound with prefabbed loops of beats and burps and bops and chirps. It works for me. Let me know how it's working for you.
You get the mix going and it's like BOW WOW -- Your dog is singing in its own Music Video. Your dog is kicking a verse like he's Bruce freaking Lee and everything already in the house and everything. You know what I'm saying?
What's that?
What's your spoiled-assed cat got? That sick purr noise it makes when it digs its claws into the side of the sofa? That's whack, man. That's like the same noise that zombies make when they feed.
This isn't really the 284th Dumb Dog Trick video. For a while there I assigned random numbers, particularly between 1 and 100. I was more into numerology than common sense as I attacked 100 through 200, but I started rolling well in the 200 series, cranking out way too many videos in sequence ... 260s 270s now the 280s. Whatever, like you care anyway.
Jimmyjumpnjive is devoted to peace, love and puppies. An old furry, an ent, an aged hippy freak with nothing but a song of love in his heart. Play and have fun. Party with friends. Fun games. Animal rescue and fosters rule my world. Make the world a better place bit by bit, act by act, word by word.
BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU PICK UP ANY DOG!Some dogs don't like to be picked up and might snap or bite you! Never attempt to pick up a strange dog or a dog you are not familiar with.
Be careful when you pick up any dog, because you might hurt yourself or, worse yet, hurt the dog.
How do you pick up a dog? Different rules for Shitzus than for Newfies.
Okay, my philosophy on this one is that you shouldn't over do it. All of our dogs will tolerate being picked up, but they can seem a little hesitant if we do it more than once a day.
Also, if you can't lift a sack of potatoes, don't go thinking you can lift a squirming sack of potatoes.
Take a medium-sized dog, a 40 lb Border Collie. Think about making a cradle with your arms. One arm will go around the front of the dog's chest and the other arm will wrap around the dog's back legs, basically gather the dog's legs in your arms so that your hands meet on the other side of the dog. Lift with your legs. Support the dog's hind quarters lower than the dog's head, as necessary.
If you're a busted up old fool, like me, stick to tricks like sit and stay. Sit in your easy chair and stay there.
Always be very careful. Always have fun with your dogs. If the experience is not positive, change the experience.
Make a funny dog video and send it to me ... I'd watch it for real and probably comment with something nice like, "Woof."
This video was made using an iPhone 4s and iMovie. The voice over was recorded in garageband. I do talking dog videos once in a while, but never very well. So I took a little longer and bite off smaller pieces on this one. It's almost like a real talking dog video, huh?
My Final Cut Pro X review. This is the first video I have made using the new and improved Final Cut Pro X.
Yes, I did say improved. And, yes, it is more like iMovie. Where I differ from most reviewers is that I think the simplification and compatibility with iMovie is a plus, not a minus. Here we go into IMHO land from here on...
Understand, gentle reader, that it is advisable to rough cut a video in iMovie before importing into Final Cut (old or new version) anyway, so why shouldn't the interface between the two be similar? Get a project into decent shape and then go to town with the titles tweaks, audio fixes and effects in Final Cut.
But the new Final Cut is far more intuitive for an intermediate-level iMovie user, and much easier to use than the old Final Cut. I think they went into the old Final Cut and looked at all the stuff nobody could use because it was super hard, and they came midway towards making it super easy.
Before you do it, I'll do a self critique on the video above. The voice mix isn't right and my voice does not sound warm and full. Solution: Do the voice overs in iMovie, do the tweaks in Final Cut Pro X. There's a typo in one of the titles. Solution: no, really, there is a typo in one of the titles. That's totally sub-par but the step back to fix it seemed daunting at the moment I uploaded. Solution: A small amount of effort will overcome this as I determine what software works best for what. Crappy Canned Music. Solution: I also hate crappy canned music, so no excuses there. I'll make my own crappy music, thank you very much, and apply polly logies for this one indiscretion.
I apologize for the gratuitous swearing, but I figure that the word "crap" and any derivative words thereof are almost not real swear words anymore.
Most of what you see in this video was created in iMovie. Most of what you can hear has been manipulated fairly heavily in Final Cut Pro X.
This time my focus was on voice over and sound quality. I started in iMovie and roughed out the project. I left a blank section for the first title, which was then created in Final Cut Pro X. Then I went to work on improving the quality of the voice and the mix between the voice and ambient sound.
The sound (voice and ambient) were auto tuned, bass boosted and adjusted with the hum and noise reduction options. I would have added some echo on the voice, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I had already done a loudness adjustment in iMovie and the other mentioned tweaks in Final Cut Pro X.
The end result is okay. Next step will be to focus on the mixing of sound -- voice over and music -- to see what the best way is to do it. I am totally thinking to mix it in iMovie then tweak it in Pro X.
I really had to steer myself away from the image-effect options. Two of them were really drawing me in -- this video almost ended up with either a "fish eye" effect or a "geometric block" effect.
I will definitely come back to the video effects pre sets in Pro X. The video camera effect was good. The distortion effects were also interesting. Many ways to improve projects or catch moods and some odd scrambling effects.
Next time it's full onto mixing a bumper sound, a voice over, and a song. Not sure if the song will be original, but an original song will probably be a bigger challenge in that I tend to crank the distortion when I do rock music in Garageband.
So far so good. This is my second day using FInal Cut Pro X and I am beginning to get a good feel for how to improve or attempt to improve videos. Honestly, though, this may take a month or so to fully get a passable working knowledge of the program.
