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ok so today I recorded two very interesting and yet totally different videos, The first one is an economy related question. The second video I did for a very special friend of mine. Her fav singer is Darren Hayes and when I youtubed him this is the first song that showed up. Im NOT trying to send a message to her using this song !!! LOL Enjoy the videos and PLZ leave me comments:



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This is another Voice Mail I left for the TNT show on ustream.tv when I was recording the video on ustream it screwed up my Audio and thats Y I sound so funny !!!! LOL Enjoy:


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My 4th TNT Voice Mail video, Enjoy:


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Here is my third Voice Mail for the TNT show on ustream.tv, Id actually appreciate your comments on my question in the video:

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My Second Voice Mail to the Tuesday Night Tanked show on Ustream.tv:


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Here is a voice mail I left for the Tuesday Night Tanked show on Ustream.tv:



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Online life

ok so  as U may know  I am  a social media person wannabe. Yes I said wannabe cause no matter how hard I try to make it it never ever seems to go anywhere !!!! It all started about a year ago when I first got introduced to Ustream.tv and the idea of streaming live video on the Internet !!!! But my blogging goes back to the year 2004 !!!

 

After a  few months of streaming 24/7 people got extremely bored of me and not even my friends bothered to show up any more !!!  So I thought I should come up  with an interesting idea for a  weekly live Webcast  that is  also viewer interactive !!! I called it QTV and the premise of the show was Quizzing the viewers  having them call in live on skype to answer a range of questions from academic  to entertainment  industry related. The show started ok as I streamed it on both Ustream.tv  and live.yahoo.com  simultaneously  at the time. When I say ok I mean it got  about 10 or so viewers and headed down to a steady decline right from the very beginning !!! The decline got even worse  with the unfortunate death of live.yahoo.com !!! Seeing the decline in viewers I decided to mix it up and add Topics of Discussion as well. That held up well for about 3 weeks or so. Anyway cut the  story short the  last episode of QTV I did (scroll down to my blog entry January 8th) had only 2 viewers show up !!

 

Now at the same time I blog whenever something comes to my mind or when I do a  video or whenever I finish an episode of QTV I blog it immediately . Now  with my blogging  I get a  ton of feedback  and comments on each entry, the problem is almost all of them are transparent, See Through or made of material not from this  world thats Y I cant C any of it !!! ( Get my attempt at sarcasm? )

According to sitemeter.com  on a  daily basis I get 1  to 3  hits on my blog  !! wow isnt that a lot? On a  good day after I tweet something that I have blogged I usually get 7 or 8 hits !!! and  usually no comments  or feedback at all !!

 

Not to mention that I have the power of over 170 followers on http://twitter.com/paykan  and  I do tweet every single QTV show (Thursdays 8pm mountain time http://www.ustream.tv/chanel/paykan's-world ) or blog entry and yet this is the results Im getting.

So I am asking U, What do I need to do to get a bigger audience for my New Social Media activities?  Am I really that boring, ugly and  unintelligent that U people cant bare to spend a  few minutes or at most 2 hours a  week  with me?  Lets C how many comments  and feedback this blog entry gets !!

Ok so I did a video today !!! Do U Notice a huge ass Blooper? Where was my head at? LOL Enjoy:



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Yesterday I took some pics of a very Sunny Winter day in our neighborhood !!! Here R the pics enjoy : (click on images for full resolution)

Earlier today someone on twitter tweeted what I think is the most controversial AIDS ad ever!!!
I decided to post the AD here and ask for your comments and feedback !

so today I did two videos. The first one is me Shaving my ... Live on cam !!!! The second one is of a special back exercise I do for my arthritis !!!


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Tonight's Episode of QTV about American Way Life :


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So today is Wednesday Dec 24th 2008, wow. Its only 1 week till 2009 !!!! I thought I should write a post about what happened to me this past year and what Id like to do in the coming year!! If U know me then U know that most of my life is online so I guess this post will also reflect that for the most part. I guess if I was going to tag the year 2008 in my life these would be the perfect keywords: Drama, Struggle, Friends, Sweet Friends, Betrayal, Improvement, Change, Tragedy

Drama LOL :) wow I definitely feel like I was apart of the CBS Daytime Soap's this year with all the drama I was involved in !!! Even though the 2 Drama situations I experienced this year brought alot of heart ache they both had a positive effect on me as well !!! Alot of people showed their true colors some in good ways (@fireman17 ) and some in very surprising and shockingly bad ways (@soundlesschaos). In both situations it was the 2 facedness of a certain "Friend" that shocked me the most !!. The positive side of all the Drama however was that as a result I found alot of new friends some of whom I will name here: @rachelbabble, @jerbear83,@tendersphinx, @orebell (aka Bubba), @fireman17,@cmarlow480, @iellie and ... . If I was to name all of them itll take forever !!! I want to thank @iellie for always keeping an open mind and not taking sides and also for making me laugh and putting a smile on my face through her popping personality most evident in her videos !!! (www.iellie.com). I also want to thank @jerbear83 and @rachelbabble for being my sweeetest best friends !! Specially @rachelbabble, she is the sweeeeeetest most honest person Ive ever met !!!! She is a very talented New Media Designer (www.rachefinley.com) and her personal website hopefully soon to be completed is www.rachelbabble.com !! :)

My Aunts husband passed away a few months ago and he was a great guy. I called him my uncle but in all honesty I loved him like a grandpa !! He was very sweet and caring !!! As a result of his passing my aunt whom at the time lived in Iran took a trip to Canada and the U.S. to visit her kids and she also stayed with us for 10 days !! I had not seen her in over 6 years and missed her a lot.

This year I also started a new live video streaming show called QTV which airs every Thursday at 8pm Mountain time right now. Its a live audience participation show and if U scroll down to my past posts U can view past episodes of the show.

This year like the past 12 years I had to deal with my Rhumetoid Arthritis almost everyday !! It gets better every now and then and flares up again even though in general I am feeling better alittle every year !!!

One thing you may not know about me is that am 24 and have moved about 19 times already!!! U must be thinking I live in a military family LOL, Nope I dont, we just move around alot !!!
Our last move was about 7 months ago from Edmonton to Calgary. All this moving around even though its exciting has made it very hard for me to attach myself to people and try and find friends again.

I guess what I have learned this year is that each negative experience also has a positive side to it.

My resolutions for this coming year of 2009 are:

Going back to school taking my studies more seriously so I can finally finish it up and make something of myself.

Try to find good friends in this new city, people who I can hang out with and also a girl friend.

Id like to start learning coding for websites in my free time, thats something Im interested in.

Excercising more to help me get rid of my Arthrtis.

And also Id like to make my show QTV more successful .


At the end Id like to ask U what have U learned from your experiences this year? And what R your New years resolutions for 2009? Please leave me comments



Here is a couple of pics one of me and our Christmas tree and another just of the tree itself:

This picture was Photoshopped by my friend ADMorales from http://www.admorales.tv !!!! LOL
It is my face on Chris Pirillo's ( http://live.pirillo.com ) body !!!













Here is the Original image of Chris Pirillo himself :

Well last night I did the Christmas Episode of QTV !!!! Whats a QTV show without glitches and bloopers? LOL This episode certainly has them !!!! LOL Thanks to everybody who showed up, U guys rock :) @iellie U rock too :) There wont be a QTV show next week We will return the week after :)

Enjoy the show

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A tour of my room and a Crotch eyes view of my room if I my crotch had eyes !!!!!!!

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I want to thank @iellie for letting me use her videos in this episode of QTV :) This episode is dedicated to a special and sweet friend of mine Rachel :)



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Well this weeks QTV show was a bit of a no show but instead I have decided to post the Pre Show Chatter here that was extremely funny and a good sample what usually happens before each show every week, so enjoy: (Do NOT watch if you R Under 18 !!!!! )


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This is one yummy video:

Ok so it seems that my tweets from earlier tonight made quiet a few people think Im suicidal !!!!!! LOL Let me assure U that Im NOT suicidal !!!! I like my non existent piece of crap life too much to be suicidal !!! The past two days have been a major down time for me. A few things happened all at once and its been hitting me hard. My aunt whom I love was with us for two weeks and she left today and I miss her dearly !!!!! It almost made me want to cry!! LOL

Another contributing factor to my major down time for the past 2 days is my arthritis. C what U dont know is that my arthritis has really messed up my hormones and every once in a while I get the dreaded PMS !!!!!! LOL Yup U heard ( in this case Read) me right. It takes me into deep depression and very bad mood swings!!! And I will warn U in this state I am NOT my usual self !! if U ever cross me when I am in this state then may god be with U !!For those of U who know me from my old streaming days on ustream the best example of my mood would be like the night Natasha and her then pals invaded my Yahoo Live chat!!! If U were there at that time then U know that was not pretty!! Its during this depression state that Im always reminded of what a shitty and non existant life I have !!! That takes me into deeper depression !!! Now befor U open up your mouth and say " you have a good life" just because U C me living at home with my parents and having home cooked meals, I suggest that U STOP!!!! Thats the part of my life U C on camera!!! I have not and most probably will NOT show U the rest atleast for the time being cause frankly Im just not ready yet!!! I am willing to bet that not one of U will be able to live my life for one day!!!

Another thing that has realy got me upset is that yesterday I managed to offend one of my best and sweetest friends ever and she is still not talking to me !!! She is/was one of the few people I could have serious and intelligent convo with, no offense to my other friends. :( I hope she'll be able to forgive me soon.

So having all these 3 things hit me up very bad the past 2 days it resulted in my tweets earlier tonight. I hope that explains things :) And I also want to thank all my friends who actually got worried about me and tweetd back :) I love yall. And to all of U who didnt give a shit to respond back well then I guess now we know where we stand. Have a good day :)

New Episode of QTV is called the CHAT episode and Ull C Y :)

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WOW !!!!! ok so today is 12:40 am Thursday Nov 20th , 2008. Starting yesterday morning our craptastic Motorola modem started failing big time and like it happened to the previous 6 or 7 modems it just died on us!!! Funeral services for the modem will be held tonight from 5 pm to 9 pm Mountain time !!! Or at least thats when the cable company guy is supposed to come over and bring a new modem with him hopefully !!! Dont U just love the time range they give U? Thats a 4 freakin hour time range for gods sake!!! That reminds me of an episode of Seinfled where Kramer decided to punish the Cable company by making sure he is not home at exactly the time range they had given him !!!!!

Also as U may already know Thursdays at 8pm Mountain time I do my QTV Live show either on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/paykan's-world when its not being an ass hole quality wise, or at one of the many other platforms out there such as http://www.justin.tv/paykan !!! But this week both Justin.tv and Ustream.tv have been total Ass Holes quality wise!!! Dont forget to follow me on http://twitter.com/paykan for more information about when and where the show will be on !!! Its alot of fun!!!!

If its not apparent enough to U by now since I dont have access to the Internet and most likely wont have Internet until later tonight I will not be able to do the show this week!!!! However this has given me an interesting opportunity!!! Assuming that the Cable guy does show up later tonight as promised and I do regain my access to the internet, I will try my damnedest to not twitter anything or IM anyone just to C if anyone has even noticed me being gone!!!! YES I am going to become a lurker!!! So I am sorry but U wont be getting the usual “ Shower in 10 minutes”, “Going down for my exercises” or “pubic hair in my mouth after the shower” tweets !!!! LOL

I did realize something today when my internet was down!!! I am Fucking addicted!! No I do NOT mean I am addicted to Fucking though that would be a fun addiction ;) , I am addicted to the damn Internet!!! But in all honesty Im kind of glad that my Internet went down today cause I got to spend some quality time with my aunt whom I had not seen since about 6 years ago !!!! She has just lost her husband about a month or two ago and came to our house last night to stay with us for about ten days or so. I love her and she awesomely rocks :) . I also got to play around with Garageband which I think is reason enough alone for someone who has the dough to splurge and buy a mac!!!!Well thats it for now !!! I might update this later on if I still dont have internet or if something else pops into my head!!!!! OMG !! My modem just started semi working right now 1:30 am Thursday Nov20th, 2008 and so far I have no messages of people asking me where I have been all day!! So so far nobody has noticed me being gone!!! Ill update again later :)


Well its 11 pm Thursday Nov 2oth !! I just finished this weeks QTV show and it was awesome!!!! I want to thank everybody who showed up for tonights show!!! Yall R awesome people :) Thank U Josh for hosting the Skype call :) I was able to do the show cause the cable guy showed up at about 7pm and replaced our dying modem!!!!


Anyways here is this weeks episode of QTV :

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Today I enjoyed some Traditional Persian Ice Cream that my mom made. I thought Id share with U the video:


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What do people expect to happen in 4 years? Is it truely enough to do anything major and make big changes for the better? It seems to me that within a 4 year period time slot its way easier to do a lot of damage than it is to improve the situation from the current status !! If it isnt apparent by now Im talking about the U.S. Presidential elections that is underway as we speak!! What do U expect of your candidate to do in his next 4 years? Do U think a 4 year (or at most 8 years) of presidency is enough to do what U want your candidate to do or should the each presidency term be extended to more than 4 years to get things done? Dont forget to leave me comments :)

Tonight's QTV show topic is American Presidential Elections!! Well fitting considering there is only 10 days left till the 2008 US Election!!!

Here is a video I shot at the Calgary Apple Store today!!!:




The store's grand opening was Sept 27th !! Look how busy that store is!!!

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The best episode of QTV Is  extremely funny!!!!! :)

 

 

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FAIL!!!!!! :(

As U have noticed my last few blog entries have been video blogs including 2 episodes of a  show I was test streaming on Both Ustream.tv and Yahoo Live! Called QTV which was an interactive Live call In Quiz Show!!. An Idea that I thought would be a lot of fun and entertaining for people and I thought that it would catch on!!

Boy was I ever wrong!!! The show got a  rocky start with only 10 or so viewers in the first couple of episodes even though I told as many people about it and twittered a  lot about it and even called in to TNT  and told every one watching Tuesday Night Tech about the show the very first week it was on!!!!

Last Night was the 3rd (And most probably LAST) episode of the Show and Nobody showed up!!! I guess now I know how NBC feels with nobody watching their shows and being last place in ratings all the time LOL !!!! Now I know U all have lives and everything and a few of my friends I know were working and or had college classes and tests to deal with and  Im not upset with them at all. But where were the rest of U? Im talking to U guys who pressured me into  coming back and streaming again when I was off for 2 months!!! What happened? Am I really that Boring? I know Im not exactly a  good looking guy so I cant get viewers using my LOOKS!!!! LOL and that is a fact. But I guess I shouldnt have counted on U Internet peoplez as my friends at all!!!

I tired Just streaming and sitting infront of my PC and chatting with people but that got me no where so I thought I should come up with  a  show idea and I did and I worked hard at it too!!!!

I did this Internet (LOL or as @iellie and @ideedee say Innernet) thing so I could escape the fact that my real life is just CRAP right now!!! Last night made me feel  completely worthless and like CRAP!!! It made me feel like  Im not even worth a  few minutes of anyone's time!!! I havent been that down  and depressed in a looooong time.

 

So the Next time one of U Misses me ,as many of U told me during my 2 month hiatus from streaming, U make the time to come and watch me or chat with me when Im available because I am not your puppet sitting infront of my PC streaming 24/7 waiting for U guys to come and  C me as you please for me to entertain U!!!! Im a  person just like U  and  even have a life albeit a  very CRAPPY one right now but still its my life and Im in control of it not U guys!!!!

 

I guess what Im trying to say is that I dont really see the point of  streaming anymore if this is how its going to be, unless im proven wrong by u guys or I can come up with a  sure way of getting viewers!!!! and I am open to suggestions for ideas if U guys have any .

 

I would like to thank my newly found circle of friends @iellie @ideedee @darthgaia05  @saynevarrgh    for cheering me up all the time :) I also want to thank @tendersphinx cause I know she actually cares about me!!! :)

 

Now I present U the latest ( and perhaps my last stream) episode of QTV from this past Thursday!!!

 

 

 

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The Second episode of QTV!!! :) Alot of friends actually helped out for this one :) Thank U all :)




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The very first Episode of QTV show:

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Well, after a few months absence from the camera and the Scene of Online Streaming, I am back!!

I am back, I am back, I am back, yay !!! ( Read this part  singingly to the appropriate tune!! LOL and dont forget to move your hands to the tune!!! LOL ).

Ok But all jokes aside, I have begun test streaming again!! Im not back full powered and Im not even sure if I will continue it as of yet!! But let me tell you guys It feels great to be back and getting in touch with old friends again!! I owe this to a few that Im going to name here: @fireman17, @CM, @Jimmymac, and Bubba aka Steiny !!! I also want to thank @iellie  for making me feel welcome on Ustream and in her chat :)  Her Ustream page is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iellie

I have come back on 2 platforms now and I will continue to be on both  platforms Yahoo Live (http://live.yahoo.com/paykan) and USTREAM (http://www.ustream.com/paykan's-world) as long as my PC can handle streaming live video on 2 places simultaneously.

Let me tell U that since I left USTREAM a few months ago, a lot has changed!! A ton of new features have been added, Im not even going to bother talking about them cause first of all I dont have the time right now and Itll make this entry way too long  and second of all I dont know many of the features yet myself just cause I didnt have time to play around with them yet!!!

So far I have  experimented  with 3  different platforms for streaming live video. Let me give U a little run down of each in my own experience. (Keep in mind your experience may vary and this is mostly just my opinion ).

Ok lets start with the biggest and most well known one USTREAM.tv .  With a funding of 13.1 Million Dollars  (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/29/confirmed-live-video-on-youtube-this-year/) it is a fairly large pond  with many big fish such as Hollywood Actor Dane Cook  and G4Tech TV's Leo Laporte and former  TECH TV host  Chris Pirillo, to name only a few!!  USTREAM also has seen many big events from a  Hannah Montana Concert which  actually crashed the servers due to a huge number of viewers to the many Presidential Candidate speeches and a recent one on one with LL COOL J  that actually happened today (August 27th).

However for a newcomer it can be very hard to feel at home and one with the crowed  at Ustream.tv. This is because of 2 reasons.  First of all USTREAM has a  moderating  system in place that I do NOT agree with. Certain people who R called OPs (operators) run and moderate chat rooms. Yeah it gives USTREAM a cleaner environment but in many cases the owners of channels ( the person who streams the show) dont have a clue whats going on in the chat and who is being kicked or banned for what reason, in part because they totally trust the OPs and in some cases because they could just care less!! this unfortunately leaves a lot of room for  certain OPs to do as they want based on personal problems they may have with a certain user who hasnt even acted inappropriately at all to give the OPS reason for a kick or ban!! Ive seen a lot of that happen on USTREAM and I have even experienced some of it myself!!.

Second of all many of the featured streamers on USTREAM were there from the very beginning and have therefor formed a very tight network of friendship with each other making it almost impossible for a newcomer to insert himself in. As many of U may already know I had an unfortunate and very unpleasant situation on USTREAM which lead to me being forced to leave the platform a  few months ago.  Since then many things have changed including a  managerial shift which was caused by Tim Villanueva ( Chief Technology Officer of USTREAM) the person who forced me to leave the platform , resigning and stepping down.Many of the people who were involved in that situation have now seen the light and have changed their attitude  and I am good friends with them now. But every time I step in to a USTREAM show and chat I still feel a lot of resentment  towards me and a feeling of heaviness settles on  me. Plus lets face it Im a very small fish in a very big pond when it comes to USTREAM and it was the same  before I left the platform!. Im not very entertaining and definitely not even an average looking guy. Which brings me to my next point, being a  guy I do not have the  BOOBS factor  (No disrespect to my female friends and streamers out there, U know I love yall ), and this all leads to me getting an average of 0-2 viewers a day on USTREAM !!!In terms of video image quality with the setup I use which is  a Canon ZR200 Mini DV camcorder as my camera and with USTREAM's highest quality settings, Its still fairly average, sometimes even below average and has a fair amount of pixelation at times!.

When I was forced to leave USTREAM  ( My USTREAM broadcaster was disabled and account deleted ) I immediately looked into other  available platforms. Infact I pulled a trick on USTREAM when my Broadcaster was disabled before my  page was deleted,that Im sure they didnt  expect me to do. What I did was I started streaming  on 4 other platforms and embeded those streams on my USTREAM page!! This was the only way I could let my group of followers and friends    know what had happened. Included in the 4 platforms I tried were Justin.tv and Yahoo Live. After an emergency get together of me and my online friends  Justin.tv seemed to be  a        logical choice for my new platform!    

(This decision was based on the fact that JTV is more mainstream and well known than the other choices)

My streaming on Justin.tv was very short lived since  Justin.tv shut  my account down as soon as they could!!! Thats how close Justin.tv was with USTREAM at the time! The video quality I had on Justin.tv with theire best quality settings  at best sucked big time and I got a video delay of about a minute and half!! While on USTREAM          the video delay is usually about 30 seconds or so. After my account was shut on Justin.tv  I jumped   on a new born project called Yahoo Live!.

On February 17th,2008 my channel on Yahoo Live was created and shortly after I  went on air on Yahoo Live. Of the 3 platforms I have tried and tested Yahoo Live by far has the best video image quality with my equipment I listed above. Unlike USTREAM and Justin.tv Yahoo Live doesnt give U a choice of tweaking picture quality Frame rate or anything like that. Even with that  Ive had the best quality video image on Yahoo Live. When I joined Yahoo Live it was only 10 days old!! Now  you probably dont know this but its been   reported    that  Yahoo Live's development team is a 6 person  personnel!  Not something you would expect from a large company like Yahoo!.Infact here are two very interesting articles about Yahoo Live that you should definately read:

from TECHCRUNCH

from YLIVE BLOG

 

Yahoo Live has many technical shortcomings, one of which is  a very non secure chat system. The ban or kick commands of the chat are faulty at best and  users   can come back within a  few seconds sometimes even with the same user name!!!  This has made Yahoo Live home to many annoying groups such as 4Chan and the many others out there!! They frequent the chats harassing the streaming person and the viewers and keep demanding such things as " Shoe on Head!!! Keyboard on Head!!" The  streams and chats can easily be  hacked by even novices in hacking!!! While other video streaming services can be assumed semi safe for younger adults and people with good taste, the same does not stand for Yahoo Live as I have too often seen naked guys with their penis's hanging out and masturbating on cam!!! or my favorite ,naked chicks on cam :) Now I love those!!! :) 

However all that  aside Yahoo Live is one small tiny pond  and has more room of growth for tiny microscopic fish like myself! Infact the following is a screen capture of my Yahoo Live profile page with my stream stats:

 

Here is my Yahoo Live stream stats:

52912 Live Viewers

936 Broadcasts

41.5 days Time Live

 

Even with all its shortcomings  I have found a lot of good friends on Yahoo Live such as miss @tendersphinx !! Yahoo Live also has its share of big fish and its own grown celebrities!! The Democratic National Convention was live on Yahoo Live the other day as it was on USTREAM!! Sheena TV is definately worth mentioning as she has become an iJustine of Yahoo Live and the Former American Idol winner Jordin Sparks frequents Yahoo Live all this coupled with the many DJs and other artists that often make it to the front page of Yahoo Live lifecasting!!

The other day when I first came back on both platforms simultaneously  within a matter of minutes I got 15 viewers on Yahoo Live and 1 viewer on USTREAM and the second day I got 0 viewers on USTREAM all day while I had 10 viewers on Yahoo Live!

I guess what im trying to say is that these platforms each have their own positive and nagative points, but I will try my best to bring them closer together and unite  both the viewers and streamers of these platforms !

Before  I close this entry I wanted to mention that my friend JD Carr has lost  thousands of  dollars due to his 2 websites www.gotwebmojo.com and www.gotpartymojo.com being shut down  because NING.com has screwed up! JD my thoughts and prayers are with you. I hope you come back and even  stronger than before !! :)

 

wow thats one long ass entry!! I hope I didnt bore U :)

 

Please feel free to leave comments :)

TV is it really reality?

I want to thank one of my friends @IELLIE for giving me the idea behind this blog entry ,without even knowing it, when she twittered this yesterday :

"How the hell did New York get another show on VH1? When is the reality TV going to disappear??   iellie Mon, 18 Aug"

 

Its been almost 8 years since the birth of reality television phenomenon.Perhaps movies such as The Trueman Show and ED TV were hints of where the future of Television based entertainmen is headed. According to http://www.boxofficemojo.com   The Trueman Show and Ed TV are respectively  1st place and 5th place most grossed movies based on Reality TV  http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=realitytv.htm

But how much of it is truly reality? Ive seen with my own two eyes "Writers: ...." at the end credits of some Reality shows!!! Or "Director: ..."  .  So if these shows are being written and directed can we really call them Reality TV?

To me a true Reality TV is one without writers or directors.The closest thing to that on television I guess would be Big Brother.Nowadays with the improvement of computers and the Internet, many people's entertainment  is their PC rather than TV. Music, Videos, pictures and some people even watch TV on their PC!! So the old definition of  the word Television  being tied down to an actual TV set is really no more. With that in mind, here lies true Reality TV within such domains as Ustream.tv , Justin.tv, Yahoo Live (http://www.live.yahoo.com) and many more live video streaming services that are available out there. True Reality TV is watching Chris Pirillo (http://live.pirillo.com) sit at his desk for hours on end  and then get super excited about the latest and newest gadget or software release or get into a  cute funny quarrel with his lovely wife Ponzi!! Or watching cages and cages of parrots in what seems to be a big room or warehouse on Yahoo Live, or just watch people who go about their daily routine while interacting  with an existing chatroom 24/7. If U thought watching people sleep, or watching an empty office room is boring and pointless, clearly U have not watched any of the streams people do 24/7. An empty office room according to http://live.pirillo.com  can get as many as 700 viewers for hours on end with nobody at the other end to interact with them!!!

 

So I guess to answer @iellie s  question, In my opinion its going to be a looooooooooooooooooong while or perhaps never till the craze for reality TV dies down!!!

But thats just my opinion and Id love to have yours, so please leave your comments on this subject for me and others to read :)

This is all the construction work that was going on infront of our house today for about 3 hours or so:



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My first ever video blog:

A short video I made using Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Magix Music Maker 11 deluxe for composing and arranging the music track :)








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Information Technology Burn Out ?

What did people  do before  the  Personal Computer age? Or as  some of us might call it today the prehistoric days? Im sure if you tell a  7 year old  that you were  born before iPod ever existed the look on the  childs face will make U feel as old as  a dinosaur  !!!! :)

The last couple of years my life (or lack there of ! lol ) has increasingly  become  packed in this box  set on top of  my desk in my bedroom  called my  Computer!. I dont get out of the house much, most of my day is spent sitting infront of my  computer,doing various tasks, social networking, watching  or reading tutorials  for various video production softwares, blogging, twittering,reading on the latest released or  up and  coming  gadgets  and  softwares, chatting, watching  video streams  of other peoples lives!!, and up until a couple of months  ago streaming live  video and chat of my own !. So not only do I not have an actual social life  now this has affected my  Rheumatoid Arthritis as well !! Sitting infront of the computer for  hours   a  day in one position for me  is like drinking poison for  a  totally healthy person! Another thing I have noticed is   how out of touch

But  dont get me  wrong  once in a  while  when my parents manage to get me out of my room kicking  and  screaming  (LOL), I actually have a  great  time !!.

I know people that have  it even worst  than me !! Friends of mine who are OPs on ustream.tv  and wyldryde IRC (geek talk LOL ) Fireman 17 and CM!

Fireman17 is  basically a  24/7  OP on both those networks!! When I say 24/7 Im not kidding you and he is also a  volunteer fireman during the day ( one step ahead of me there cause atleast he has a  semi job out of the house!! ) This poor soul doesnt get any sleep  at  night  except  for maybe  20 or  30 minutes a night!! How  he  survives this is beyond my understanding!! To give U a better understanding of the scope of his online 24/7 activities  I should tell you that he has to police at least 30 or  so chatrooms on ustream.tv  and  at least 30 or  so chats on the wyldryde network!!

The same thing  but  at a smaller scale goes for CM.

If  you are just an occasional internet user then you are not at all familiar  with what Im about  to talk  about, but if U  are an  avid internet user like myself  and  my friends CM and Fireman17  then U  may even have experienced what im about  to talk about.Internet bullying  and harassment!!. Im not  going to go into  alot of detail about this  cause its  out of the range of the topic of this post. But I will say this much. A few months  ago  me and a   group of my online buddies  went  through a  big Internet bullying  and harassment case that got dragged for a few months  almost everyday  the same group of people  from ustream.tv  would harass me and my friends!!. Dont get me wrong Im not writing this to start up anything with ustream.tv or  those people (most of  whom Im friends  with now cause they manned up  and apologized ),  but Im just mentioning it as a  side effect of losing your life  to the attractive trap I call the Internet !!. The amount of stress that this can cause  in  someone's  life ( or lack there of ) that is  wholly internet dependant, is incredible  and can even cause physical and emotional sickness and illness and distress!. Now my friends Fireman17 and CM are going through  something  similar but I doubt as intense  as what I went through, by the same  group of people  who masterminded  the attacks on me  back then !! for more info on that go to :

http://cmarlow480.blogspot.com

 

Back when I used to stream live video on http://www. Ustream.tv, http://live.yahoo.com/paykan  and other streaming services, I had become this hypnotized zombie, sitting  at my desk staring at my monitor, waiting  for people to come in to my chatroom  so I could talk to them!!! I would not even get out of my room  for dinner or lunch!! Id bring them up  and eat infront of my camera  setup so I could  chat  with the peeps in my chat room!! For  a  while id even leave my camera on at nights when I went to bed  and my stream truely 24/7  so people  could watch me  sleep!! LOL, so I finally came to  and  saw it  for the horrific addiction that it was  since  about 2 months ago.

 

With the  rapid  growth  in popularity and number of social networking sites, Instant messaging programs, smart phones and devices I foresee a sudden crash and halt of this culture coming soon, either that or  an isolationist way of life  brought on by the abuse or miss use of devices or programs  that were once designed to bring us together!!!

 

Well thats  my  story and opinion, leave me comments and tell me  what  you think :)

 

Talk to y'all later.

Ok so I dont go out much, Im usually sitting infront of my computer everyday, but when I do go out occasionally, I have a great time. Saturday we went to a park picnic with our Iranian friends, yes the same ones we went out with a few weeks earlier to another park. These guys are huge fans of picnicking in the park and BBQing :) The Drive was close to 2 hours and 45 minutes from our house!!! It was a beautiful place and alot of fun. Unfortunately it was a bit of a bug and mosquito fest!! We were eaten alive by bugs and mosquitoes!! I have mosquito bites in places I never even knew existed!!! LOL

"The Nightmare"

Early this morning I woke up with one of the most disturbing nightmares I have had in years!! I am going to try and describe the nightmare to U in detail here

It was late at night like about midnight and the weather was very warm and humid so me and my grandma decided to get out of the house for a short walk to cool off. We were right infront of our house and my grand ma was a few steps in front of me when I noticed something strange in the dark and cloudy midnight sky over the city. It looked like 2 passenger planes ( or the blinking lights that U C ). One of them took my notice. It seemed like it was just hanging in the air ( kind of like how a helicopter does ). Then after a few seconds it started slowly spinning in one direction and then the other direction!!! I thought it was doing some sort of an acrobatics air show!! (Talk about being stupid in my own nightmare!!! LOL ). So I pointed it out to my grand ma and said: Look its doing some sort of cool strange acrobatics show!!

After a few seconds the plane stopped spinning and it seemed to move forward like a normal aircraft would , flying. that didnt last more than a few seconds!! All of a sudden the tip of the plane took a deep dive!! Right then I realized that all along the plane had been experiencing technical problems and now it was going to fall to the ground!!

I screamed from the top of my lungs to my grandma: Its going to fall!! Its going to fall !!!!

and then the plane picked up an incredible amount of speed and came almost straight down and then disappeared from sight, after a few seconds a cloud of smoke and fire rose up from the ground afar !!

Me and my grandma in shock and distress ran inside the house to tell my parents about what we just saw and figure out whats happened. there was nothing on TV about what had just happened. So I went upstairs to tell my mom. After I told her everything I took a look outside from the window to C whats going on. What I saw was horrific !! Fire had engulfed the whole city and was rapidly growing and spreading like the domino effect taking over buildings and houses and it was only two more rows of houses until it was going to reach ours!!! so me and my mom ran downstairs screaming Fire Fire !!! Get Out !!!

and right then I woke up!!

Surprisingly I didnt wake up screaming or anything like that but rather very calm but disturbed!!!

Well that was my nightmare for you.

C yall later.

Technical Prtoblems

Ok, so Its been a long while since I last updates my blog  with actual words!! Ive been busy with Adobe After Effects  CS3,as U can C in my previous 2 posts. But what Ive been trying to figure out  is this Aspect ratio issue Ive been having lately with Adobe After Effects CS3!! here is the link to my problem:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5814f?@812.d7HdiRNkVM5@

If U guys can help me with my problem I really appreciate it !! .

 

Any ways, sooo whats  up? LOL As if I can hear  you like this !!! LOL

 

I just missed one week of my favorite show Tuesday Night Tech on Ustream.tv and now I hear there was alot of Drama and stuff!! wow

They mustve really missed me! LOL

Believe it or not ever since I started using twitter, its made blogging harder for me, cause I usually say whatever comes to my  mind in my tweets!! And sometimes it feels like there is nothing left to blog about!!!

Is  you are interested in video production, if U are a  video producer, editor, director and  want to socialize  with others in this industry join my ning network: http://videowork.ning.com/

Anyways, thats  all  for now  folks!! :)

A short video I made using Adobe After Effects CS3

This is a video ad I made for www.gotwebmojo.com :

WALLE

Well, the other night I went to C the movie WALLE with my dad. It was a very interesting experience. With the lack of dialogue (Less than 1 percent) in this movie the creators had to rely heavily on building the characters through showing their emotions with very well done facial expressions and giving the characters very likeable and cute personalities. In my opinion this totally made up for the lack of dialogue.

 

Aside from that I think the movie had a few very interesting and somewhat subtle messages for the viewer. The main message of the movie was for us to take care of our planet and be more environmentally aware. However WALLE had an underlying message which I found very interesting.The movie held Big Corporation responsible for all bad that has come to humanity. Under the name BigNLarge which owns everything from soft drinks to gas stations and supermarket chains, Big Corporation was portrayed as a manipulative, brainwashing force behind everything that had happened to humanity. Good example of this is the classroom scene where the teacher is teaching the preschoolers:" A is For Axiom... B is for BigNLarge..."

 

Another yet subtle message of the movie was the effect of computers and the Internet on our daily lives.Everyone was so busy staring at the hologram monitors in front of them that they were totally out of touch with themselves and their surroundings and  machines had took control of their lives. But once the system was shut off it was like they all woke up from this deep coma they were in.

 

All in all the movie was very nice and worth seeing.

Thats all for now :)

I am HOT !!! LOL

One super scorching day today!! It was plus 32 C  all day!! And I was seriously melting!!. Of all the days I could've used Cold Drinks or Ice cream we were out of both!!!

And YES that Rice Ice cream is extremely tasty and way better than any Soy products!!

Can anyone help me with my After Effects problem?



Adobe Forums - After Effects wide screen

Late Update

Hi everybody. Its been a few days since I updated my blog. I have been lazy and busy at the same time. I also have been looking for a desktop publishing app for my blog so I dont have to come to blogger.com every time. I found a plugin for Firefox called ScribeFire that I am using right now for this post.





Anyways this past Sunday was probably the hottest Ive ever experienced since coming to Canada 12 years ago. To avoid the heat at home we went to a park picnic with another Iranian family. It was a beautiful and big park at that.





As you ca C from the picture below a river runs through the park that just makes it even more beautiful.













And here is a pic of me at the park before I discovered a huge spider is crawling up my Jeans!!!! (ewww) I wish U could C me in my Jeans, I looked so 80's!! LOL












I have decided to do Powerjug everyday for at least 45 minutes a day and the last couple of days I took my camera with me to show U guys how unfinshed our neighborhood is !!!





















So, no air conditioning, and not able to open windows, a nice cold glass of Aab Aalbaaloo (Sour Chery Juice) made in Iran is the only thing that keeps me cool everyday up in Hell Warm room!!!









Ill talk to U guys soon :)

Yesterday we had one of the hottest days of summer Ive ever experienced since coming to Canada 12 years ago!! It was 22C outside but in the house it felt like Hell!! Specially with no air conditioning yet since the house isnt even done!!! My room was so hot I had to drink 3 huge
glasses of berry juice mixed with Cold water and Ice!! :


and Im the kind of person that never drinks that much liquid during the day!! LOL


Today is another equally scorching day at 20C!! When u have a house that doesn't have an air conditioning and is located in an area so new that they are still building houses. when U open your windows, you are bound to get alot of bugs and sorts in the house!! Specially bees!! Now my room is located upstairs and my mom who is stting downstairs just screamed and when I asked whats going on she said "Bee!! A bee just flew in!!! . I hate bugs and bees and quiet frankly Im terrified of them!!. I just went to a frantic state when I realized that a bee has flown in to the house!! U shouldve seen me!!! LOL Screaming like a little girl even though the bee was no where near where I am. I didnt even C or hear the bee!! LOL. I think I seriously need therapy for my fear of insects and bees and snakes and even some human being (Joking) LOL!!

By the way Im having a glass of berry juice exactly like yesterdays right now !!! :)

Ok here is what i had for lunch Yesterday Its called Khoresh Karafs (Celery Stew):



talk to U guys later !! :)

Hay everybody. How U doin?
OK so here is whats been bothering me technologically lately.
A few weeks back after we moved to our new city, we changed our cell phones and got new LG285 model. If am not mistaken (And if I am please correct me and let me know) this phone is supposedd to come with a USB 2.0 cable for connecting it to the PC. But the cable is no where to be found!!! I looked at the package and t doesnt say anything about any USB2.0 being included!! I also checked the internet to C if I can buy this USB for my phone from anywhere with out any luck!!. here is a pic of my phone. The One On the Left is the one Im talking about:




I am posting a pic of my computer setup for U tech lovers:






And finally this is the pasta I had for Lunch today:



Ill talk to U all later :)

Ok I just took a few pictures of the outside of our house today and here they are:

This is a video Ive made from our move from Edmonton to Calgary!!!


Enjoy the video :)

ok. Hi again !! Its been a long whle since I last updated well cause I had lost my password and username!! LOl I just found them today!! Alot has happened since my last update!! I have moved to Calgary now. I am a member of twitter!! www.twitter.com/paykan. U can follow me there. I started Life casting .

As of now my lifecasting URL is www.live.yahoo.com/paykan

But I dont do it as often as I used too.

and also Im a member of www.gotwebmojo.com !!!! Join this website and make some money !!


Ill talk to u guys later

This is the music video I Directed and Edited. Enjoy

Well, Our Term is finally over!!! Yuppity dooooo!!!!!! Last night I was invited to a party hosted by two of my friends Joe and Owen (JoWen). It was awsome. I actually was dare I say Popular last night!!!! I think I even danced with Kevin ( a guy) !! and I wasnt even drunk or anything!!! lol. It was a romantic slow dance too. lol. It was a great time. And O Yeah, we finally finished our Music Video projects!!! maybe Ill post mine here sometime later.

I am sitting in our class room behind an ass kicking Mac Pro Desktop with the Cinema displays!!! Neat aint it?


Anyways, Kevin, Jon and his girl, Joe (No girls), Danny and Josh are also in here with me.

I have Music Video project too finish shooting and editing very soon. Thats going to be interesting. I may put the finisshed project online if the band permits ofcourse!!! I hope they do. The band by the way is called ManChild.


Write ya later

Kevin, Micheal, Jagoda, Jon,Tom, Josh, Kathreen, Krystal, Danny, Ryan, Joe,Owen,Sorin


Hi. Happy now Kevin?

Ron Paul had my baby.

Its been a long long long long long llllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggg while since I last posted here. Sorry about that. My College has started and I am super buisy with things to do.I am posting a quicktime movie example of what we've done so far this year. Nothing impressive just a simple project with After Effects.




I have ordered the Adobe CS3 Production Premium package through my College Bookstore since June 17th (its a video and graphic design program suit) and I still dont have it in my hands!!!!!!! I dont know whats going on with my Order!! I wonder if the problem is from ADOBE or the reseller that our college bookstore works with!!! Its extremely FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!

On another note (applies to Iranians who have the Iranian Sattelite TV) what do U guys think about Project TAPESH aka TAPESH tv? I dont think of TAPESH as a Television station anymore. Its a very well thought out and precisely put together Project!!!Everyone in that project knows what he or she is supposed to be doing and they do it very well.Its neither fed by The Islamic Republic nor fed by the Opposition groups.It is definately very interesting to C where Project TAPESH is heading now that MANOOK KHODABAKHSHIAN has been added to the group and with Iran's most recent worsening Global situation .

Ok. Here we go again!!! The Canadian government has once again failed to protect its citizens or at least defend theire right to life abroad!!! If you live in Canda you have probabbly heard of the Jeff Towes situation. A 33 year old Canadian visiting Cancun Mexico on vacation and he mysteriously ends up with life threatening injuries and is therefor put into a medically induced comma by the doctors in Mexico!!. Boy, this sounds so familliar!!. Oh yeah it was only over a year ago when 19-year-old Adam De Prisco from Woodbridge was killed in Acapulco Mexico.His family says that he was beaten to death but the official Mexican report says that a run away driver has killed him.And Oh Yeah who can forget the Woodbridge couple Domenic and Nancy Ianiero who were murdered in theire hotel room in Mayan Riviera and the many more cases in the past couple of years!!!.

Myself being an Iranian Canadian, the case of the Iranian Canadian reporter Zahra Kazemi murdered by the Iranian government while there on assignment, really sticks to my mind.

So basically what it all comes down to is that Canadian citizens abroad make the perfect prey for anyone that is out there to harm us!!!!

Here is a video me and my classmates worked on as a school project. The storyline is supposed to be one of Suspence:

Hay. Its me again.


Its been a while. Ive been extremely buisy with school work and stuff.


Here is an examply of my work:

Typography class Assignment

Its a poster designed for Daggers and Double Daggers.

There is something thats been bugging the HELL out of me as of lately (Begining this term to be exact). I love this (Grant Macewan) college but seriously some of these teachers need to get their FREAKIN act together man!!!! I havent had a wink of sleep since January. They need to get off theire lazy butts and do some marking. Is that to FREAKIN much to ask from a teacher? They expect us to do everything correct and on time, but when it comes to them being responsible and giving us our marks back, they dont do zilch!!!! I seriously have no clue how I am doing in two of my courses and this worries me alot!!!! In our Typography class we've done 8 assignments and have only recieved marks for two of them!!! And there is only 3 weeks till the end of the term!!! What the HELL is going on? Not to mention our Production class. We only had one assignment for that class (TOAST project) which was handed in a few months ago and guess what!!!! It hasnt been marked yet!!! My FREAKIN GOD it was only a 3 FREAKIN minutes long video project!!!!


Get your acts together!!! Seriously!!! If I get an average below B for either one of these courses , its not going to fly well by me.


By the way that poster is one of my Typography assignments which has not been marked yet!!!!



Take care for now.

Oh boy. Ok. So I made it to the second term of the Middle Year of my Major ( Design and Motion Image ). Dont get me wrong, I am very excited about it. But that is just one side of the story.The uncertain future this brings me, is the other side.
For one thing the geography of this major is somewhat limited. Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto and and and Hmmmmmmm, Well, thats it. 4 Places!!!! WoW!!!!! Is there another job with a future as limited as this one??
Do you know of one?
On the other hand ( here comes the Third side of things ) I love it. I can not imagine myself doing anything else.
Plus I truely believe that my love for the occupation will make me rather sucesfull at it.
Since I was a little child I wanted to be in the Entertainment industry one way or another. I always loved being around Microphones and Cameras.
I cant count the number of times I pretended to be a television Newscaster , sitting infront of a mirror reading the news.

Has Hollywood reserved a place for me in its future?
I guess thats for the Future to tell.


Untill then.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you have heard of the Rosie O Donnele and Donald Trump's so called feued. You may even be as sick of it as I am. Well, I dont know about you guys but I dont buy it at all. Last year same time, was Trump and Martha's Feud and now Trump and Rosie O Donnele. I think my Iranian readers will agree with me when I say that Donald, Rosie and Martha have taken a lesson from the dear Iranian sattelite TV broadcasters located outside of Iran ( TAPESH, NITV, ITN, Rangarang and ...) in how to improve their ratings by staging fake fights ( As Iranian say Jang Zargari ). Bravo. Bravo.They tested it on us Iranians first, Unfortunately it gave great results and now they are doing it Hollywood style themselves. Unbeleivale!!!!!!!.It is truely very sad.

Its been quiet awhile since I updated the last.Right now Im just sitting in the LRC ( Learning Resource Center ) of the Grant Macewan Center for The Arts campus, thinking of what to do for the next 3 hours while I wait for my schedueled 3:15 pm appointment with my AQUISITIONS professor. Oh What to do!!!!!.So far I have had a blast of a time going to this college to study DESIGN and MOTION Image.I may decide to post some of my school work up for you guys to C. I cant promise anything though.This is my last week at the college before our Christmas holidays. Speaking of Christmas, I love it. Its the most beautifull, peacfull, cozy time of year specially if you are living in a place with favorable weather conditions for snow!!!!
I cant for the Love of me understand why some religious minorities get offended by the Christmas traditions. I am a religious minority myself ( Muslim ). Well, thats it for now.

Well, September 11th came and went peacefully, thank God!!
I dont know if I have mentioned it here or not, but I have real bad arthritis. Rhumetoid Arthritis that is. I have tried evrything you could think of. Nothing has made any significant changes. Western medicine has horrific side effects and are not definite cures. Neither is alternative medicine. But it has slowed down the signs. Now Im trying this new method called NAET. It is a very interesting treatment procedure. Its not only for Arthritis. Supposedly it cures almost evry illness. Give it a search and learn more about it on the net, after you have finished reading my blog ofcourse.
Take care for now.

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