Halloween VJ Piece

This is a short, and INFORMATIVE, video outlining some of the things that happen at Purdue during Halloween time. Instead of taking the comedic approach like last time, this time I decided to make somewhat of a news piece.

Best Photo Story Ever

This is a thread that follows the full ground up rebuild of a Honda Civic. The build is the most comprehensive build of a car I personally have ever witnessed. There are thousands of pictures and it takes place over a couple years. Throughout the album are comments from other car enthusiasts giving him support and encouragement to finish. Its amazing.

Here it is!!!

Chevrolet Paying It All Back

Chevrolet, as a part of General Motors, as everyone knows, took a government loan a couple of summers ago to try to get the American auto industry back on its feet, mainly GM. They say that they are working hard to pay the taxpayers back but I'm not sure if they are. After working at a Chevy dealership during the whole filing bankruptcy thing I think it didn't help anything. We had terrible sales before and only slightly better sales after. (I worked at one of the number one grossing Chevy dealers in the Midwest, Kenny Kent Chevrolet.) One of the only reasons sales went up at all after the bailout was because of crazy incentives that sold new cars under invoice making little to no money for Chevy. But they are working hard to pay back taxpayers that bailed them out of bankruptcy?? How does that work? Anyway, they need to do more in terms of paying back society. I think that they are on the right track with the release of the Volt and I know that since I left Kenny Kent sales have been slowly but steadily improving. Good luck Chevy/GM, we're waiting on what was promised.

To Comment or Not to Comment?

Comment sections on websites are full of people just looking to bring others down and feel better about themselves. Every site that I frequent it seems as though the first post is always someone who simply wants the personal satisfaction of being the first to comment on a particular happening. Most do so by simply commenting "FIRST", giving no real insight on the subject and essentially setting the comment section up for failure. After the "FIRST" guy everyone is usually arguing over something that isn't important or relevant to the topic at hand. The fact of the matter is that no one ever admits defeat in an online battle of whits because you don't have to. Chances are that you will never meet the guy or girl you're arguing with so why back down, insult them until your little heart is content. It's quite ridiculous. Sure some people have good things to contribute but overall comment boxes are used by dumb asses trying to one up each other. That's just my two cents though.

Everyone is a Journalist??

On dictionary.com a journalist is defined as any person whose occupation is journalism. Hang on a second! Your profession has to be journalism to be considered a journalist? That's crazy. So according to that crude definition, the staff of the Exponent are not considered journalist. If I were to define journalist I would simply say anyone who reports the news, ANYONE! Dan Gillmor seems to agree in his column. He says that people who create media and distribute it could be considered a journalist. I don't take that to mean that he considers anyone a professional journalist, meaning not a journalist by occupation. But I definitely see where he's going with it. I did some photo coverage, see post below, of a car event over the summer and before taking this class I wouldn't have considered myself a journalist but now I see the term is a general one. So individuals like Jamal Albarghouti and myself are definitely amateur journalists.

Screw the economy I'm buying an Import car

I enjoy everything about import cars...Everything! I own a 1995 Acura Integra that I like to "tinker" with. My car started out like this about a year and a half ago and now I have transformed it, with some help, into this (scroll though to see the progress.) It's not the coolest fastest thing out there but its fun to drive and I like making it more and more "mine" everyday. I have big plans for it for the future but only time and money will tell how it turns out.

Anyway this is a video I put together from photos that I took at Import Alliance, a car show in Nashville Tennessee, over the summer. It is my second time to this show and surely not my last. The video got severely downgraded in quality when I put it on youtube but it started as High Def in iMovie. Enough rambling here's the video.