The Grax Domain

30 Jun 2008 One Word Blog Day

Belch

23 Jun 2008 Executing The Other Idea

Guess what I did to myself yesterday....

21 Jun 2008 Another Grax??

You can watch this entry on YouTube by clicking here.

21 Jun 2008 RE: Commercial Contest

This is my YouTube entry for the Grax's Games commercial contest. So what if it's about a year late...

Enjoy!

16 Jun 2008 Red Head

Oh my....

What has Grax done to himself?

I had a friend visit over last weekend. Whilst walking through town she came up with the idea of dying my hair a different colour. I thought to myself "Hell why not. When's the next time I'm gonna do this again?". So I got some red hair dye and got it on my bleach blonde hair.

But don't get too comfortable with this red hair. It's only semi permanent, so it'll come out eventually.

Besides, this is not my other plan I had in mind. That's still left to come.

Till then....

Stay tuned.

12 Jun 2008 Advance Hair Studio session: What really happens

It seems like there's various other sources regarding Advance Hair Studio:
Sex Life - Advanced Hair Studio - I was conned!!!
BBC Watchdog - Advanced Hair Studio - Strand by Strand
Men's Health Discussion boards - Advanced Hair Studio

8 Jun 2008 Tester video entry

If you can't watch the video above, you can read what I said in the video below:

Hi this is Grax and I'm doing a little tester video entry.

Now I wanted to do something a bit more than just 'record myself on a digital camera and then upload it onto the Internet'. But the only video editing software that I do have is the Movie Maker thing you get with Windows XP. However I do have Adobe Flash. And I know how to use Adobe Flash.

So I thought I'd mess around with it and see what I can do.

I can import for video into it, edit it and export it out as a flv, which gets accepted by YouTube, Facebook and other bits and places like that. So that means I can create... potentially create all sorts of effects like drawing things on the screen, putting text to the screen, and of course... I can add music.

Now there's two main reasons why I wanted to do this. The first reason is I was doing a search on my video entries on Google and I did "advance", "hair", "studio" and "grax". And lo and behold my YouTube entry got turned up on some other random site. I dunno what it was. I'm guessing it was some collaboration site. The trouble was there was no immediate way upon it to see who I was or how to get to my website. So from now for all new video entries I'm going to be adding a kind of watermark so you can link to my address.

The second reason is regarding my new years resolution I made at the start. Now I said I wanted to play around a bit more with Flash and one of the ideas I had was to create Flash blog entries (or Flogs as I named them). Now the trouble was I kinda quickly realised that this would require a lot of time and effort and I had neither of those (certainly in the case of motivation). However I can do video entries and such. Now I can do that I can essentially churn them out. It's quick, it's simple to do and I can do all sorts of Flash effect on them (if this works). So I'm killing two birds with one stone as it were. I'm keeping up my side of the bargain and I trying to keep it a bit more entertaining.

So this is my tester entry in the world of video blogs. And I think it turned out OK.

Edit: Oooh, turns out you can export things in Flash as an avi file anyways. No flv malarkey for me. Awesome.