Pixelodeon: Working Hard For You

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ryan junell and i are working hard to bring you pixelodeon. yes. yes we are.

Pixelodeon: Sustenance

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pixelodeon fast approches! june 9 & 10, at AFI in Hollywood. See some videoz! you won't be sad if you do. much inspiration from daniel liss and erik nelson on this one, can you tell? music by me...finally found the pitch adjustment in soundtrack, only took 2 years.

Process: The Kitchen

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some of you know that i now live in a place that is accepting of power tools and working spaces, the san mateo eco-village. i have a little space out on our landing that i can do all this work. it's great! so this is our kitchen that i'm almost done refinishing. stripped the paint off all the cabinet faces and hardware, painted the molding. it's looking pretty darn fresh. i love that i finally have an outlet that i can make things and get my hands dirty again.

i started a blog just to document all my refinishing projects: RyanneRefinishes.blogpsot.com
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Vloggers Represent at Full Frame Documentary Film Fest

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despite us being super critical (when are we not?) we had a fabulous time at the full frame documentary film festival. so glad that vloggers were included! and it was awesome to see the North Carolina vloggers like erin nealey (ok she's in SC now...) and chris daniel as well. oh yeah can you believe daniel liss let me record him?

Treehugger: Propping up Coke, Not Publishing Comments

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last night i was checking out this post on treehugger.com. so i decided to comment making some critical remarks about coke, but the comment never got published. there are other comments published so i know it's not a technical issue. treehugger, WTF? my sister, ashley, from sustainableroute.com also commented and did not get published. below is the comment that she wrote:

That's great that their "going green" in one office building. What about their bottling plants all over the world that deplete ground water? What about their millions of plastic bottles which are shipped far and wide only to feed sugar water to the world's poorest and pollute their streets and communities? Maybe they should invest that 3 million into educating themselves about their own deplorable environmental record.

Treehugger, while I appreciate most of your blogging efforts, it pains me to see the lack of critical thinking in reporting these stories. Where is the context? If we continue to see efforts like this as moving forward while ignoring the bigger issues that set back efforts to make a safer, greener world, wouldn't that be called 'green washing'? If TH continues to dumb down real environmental problems with companies like Coca Cola then TH is just a part of the problem.

i had a great conversation with some vloggers on twitter about this. thanks for that guys. and while i think it's an overall positive that a company (or rather certain people in a company) realize it's imporant to go green, that certain other people in that same company need to change more than just their building, they need to change their business practices as well. max and stacy from karmabanque radio always have an interesting take on how to get corporations, esp coke, to change through boycotts and the power of the stockholders. go check them out. also check out this wikipedia article on people's criticisms of coke.

what do you think? let's have a conversation. that's why i have a blog, so we can talk back and forth. treehugger is usually pretty good about that. i'm surprised and disappointed that they are choosing to shut the conversation down before it can even begin.

UPDATE: a few hours after i posted this, some comments on treehugger's article are being published. good on ya, treehugger.

Happy Earth Day!

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Today is Earth Day. Well every day is Earth Day really. Jay and I have been vlogging a bunch over at RyanIsHungry now that we have the PodTech deal. This week we're posting a series on two super green geeks Mikey Sklar and Wendy Tremayne who are building an eco hotel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. I'm pretty excited to publish these videos because Wendy and Mikey are total pioneers, spending their savings to live the way they want to live. Truly inspiring. Go check out the first video!

VBWeekDay7: Boats n' Ducks

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this is what we see out our window. strange. happy end of VBWeek. hurray. nap time.

VBWeekDay6: The Kitchen After

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ok ok the kitchen is not fully done, but you get the picture, eh? funny having jay, verdi and i in one house. we just sit on the computers and twitter each other. talk, why talk?

VBWeekDay5: 400 Dollars

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say goodbye to my truck. the U joints on the drive shaft died and were too expensive to replace. luckily i had met someone last week who wanted to buy it. so then i treated myself to lunch, if you are as addicted as i am to this food, you'll know where i was...

VBWeekDay4: The Kitchen During

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to be continued, yet again. i'm still vlogging over at ryanishungry too. check it out! is it only day 4? i'm tired! now i have to go watch some other peoples stuff!