Hibernation

As the heat rises my appearance outdoors decreases. My preference is for much cooler weather so I hibernate in the summer.

During the summer I am also much less busy and even less so than usual this year. So hibernating is a financial necessity also.

So this means, as usual for me, that I have time to plot new projects and new plans to try to implement while simultaneously trying to find more places where I can perform my hypnosis shows.

Currently the project is now a book and I am a little more excited about it than when I was when I started a couple of weeks ago.

Traditional methods for getting a book published are now obsolete and that is why I am excited. The new technologies available online make self-publishing easy and far less expensive. I published a local sports newspaper for a while back in 2000, but it was very costly because in order to get a decent price per paper, I had to order many more than I really wanted or needed to print. This isn’t the case now. I wouldn’t have to pay for a printing of 100,000 copies of the book that I am writing. This is important for another reason besides price – I have a very niche target with this one.

This concept of online self-publishing makes me feel better about the fact that my sports video production business is about dead now. Since practically every computer sold features video editing software and the price of HD video cameras is so cheap, more people are creating their own projects of the sort that I do for them selves.

The same holds true for major media networks now. With the internet at our fingertips we have the world at our fingertips also. This was why we launched the podcast show in April (the Dungeon of Manlove) and our second show starts taping in a couple of weeks. Had we tried to pitch these shows to networks we would have had to find an agent which probably would have meant a move to NY or LA 15-20 years ago. Now we can produce the shows that WE want to produce for next to nothing in cost and we can reach the world in no time, if we do things right (produce good material, market properly, etc.)
We have been doing some things right with our first show as evidenced by the fact that we have now been heard in 40 different countries. How that would have been possible just 10 years ago? It wouldn’t have been possible; that is the answer.

The internet even made it easier to get involved with the production of creative projects than the laws that made public and leased access available on cable networks. That was where I launched my TV show in 1995. But that had a lot of expense. One of the guys on the Marshcast staff was talking about producing TV shows on cable as one of our projects. But when we start talking about the expenses and the lack of access for potential viewers, it makes much more sense to use the internet.

For just these reasons alone we have to be very careful that we don’t let big businesses and the government mess around with pricing and regulating the internet.

The internet definitely helps my hibernation habits though. I can follow just about anything and anywhere. I am now watching Big Brother on CBS and during the day I can check in with their website and watch the cameras to see how my favorite hot girls are doing in there and what they are doing. What better way to spend some hibernation time?