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PwrHr.com – Check it out!

jeffzeller — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:03:23 +0000

I am very proud to announce the release of PwrHr.com – a website designed to make your Power Hour experience the best one possible. With music moving towards a streaming model, I wanted to test out the waters and see what this business model could look like. Music is a big part of life, and plays a large part of college parties as well. One popular college drinking game is the Power Hour – where you drink a shot of beer every time a song changes – with 60 different songs. Typically, the music mixes carry some type of theme – whether popular songs at the time, a specific artist or genre, or even a video power hour. I know that many people do not have the music collection / time to create a mix, even though they might want to host a power hour. That’s where PwrHr.com comes in – it’s a one stop shop for all sorts of pre-made power hour mixes. As a user, all you have to do is press play.

We’ll see where this venture takes me – but I am excited to find out if it’s a viable business model, or whether all the horror stories the music industry throws out there turn out to be true. So check out http://www.pwrhr.com!

Inspirational Jay-Z performance

jeffzeller — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:00:03 +0000

After seeing Jay-Z live in concert last week, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how dope the intro for the SuperBowl commercial was.
I thought I would re-post it in case you missed it (it was really early) or in case you just wanted to watch it again.

Additionally, check out the next post for my new project, PwrHr.com

Grooveshark

jeffzeller — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:54:59 +0000

Let’s give this a whirl…

London x Paris

jeffzeller — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:19:25 +0000

Holiday Card

jeffzeller — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:30:56 +0000

Or, if you would like to view the pictures as a Holiday Card, you can check out this link:

http://www.cooliris.com/card/holiday/2009/J9R6FMVN

Happy Holidays!

Trip to London/Paris

jeffzeller — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:29:19 +0000

I’m In The Zone Like The Home 2-3 (Part III)

jeffzeller — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:17:45 +0000

“It’s been a long time since 22…”

So, the purpose of this post is two-fold:

1) Continue my running theme of songs that mention the number 23

2) Showcase the awesomeness of the Cooliris Embed Wall

So, in regards to #1: Tonight is an exciting night for everyone involved with Vevo – the music video “premium” content provider. Imagine the Hulu or YouTube music videos. Now, artists and record labels can have complete control over the content that they provide to users – quality, timing, advertising, you name it. These people have been doing it for awhile as a YouTube Partner, but the Vevo launch makes it even more official, and gives them the control that YouTube wouldn’t. I for one am excited to see that Vevo will be linked to from YouTube, so it’s not like I have to be on two different sites at the same time. Many artists have Vevo specific channels, such as johnmayerVEVO. Which is what brings me to the song lyric at the beginning! It comes from his song “Who Says”, which I really like and first heard driving home late at night over Thanksgiving. The video paints a cool picture of what I imagine his life to be like in NYC. People can have very different paths of life, can’t they? Anyway, enjoy the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwVjys2bQI

Second, I would like to take the opportunity to showcase an awesome new feature of the Cooliris Embed wall that was just released today. Using Cooliris Express, users can now embed Cooliris walls on even MORE sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and WordPress! Pretty awesome. I have already showed it off to friends on Facebook, and now is my chance to do so on WordPress. To create this wall I simply went to http://cooliris.com/express, customized the wall I wanted to create, generated the WordPress code, and pasted it into this post! It’s as simple as that. I really recommend you give it a try.

Enjoy John Mayer’s VEVO channel, displayed for you here on my WordPress blog. (Next post)

I’m in the zone like the homie 2-3 (Part II)

jeffzeller — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:40:40 +0000

“Honey I know you’re bright, you’re blinding with apathy
Your body’s a ministry
But darlin if you’re 18, I’m 23…”

I only know a few people who might be able to identify these lyrics – probably because they’re from a under-appreciated band called The Damnwells. The song is called “You Don’t Have to Like Me to Love Me”, and comes from their album Air Stereo.

I first saw them perform when opening up for the The Fray at The Warfield in San Francisco my sophomore year of college (2006). I had never heard them before, but the first thing I did after the show was go to the merch booth and buy their album. And I’m really glad I did. It quickly became one of my favorite albums, especially because the band wasn’t super mainstream.

Well anyway, I promised that I would continue my mention of songs that have “23″ lyrics in them. This one is especially cool because most rap songs only talk about Michael Jordan when using 23, but this one actually is referring to the age. And, I too am dating a younger girl (even though she’s 20, not 18 – love you babe).

Surprisingly there aren’t any YouTube videos of the song (don’t know what their stance on Copyright is) but here is a live performance of the song, followed by my other favorites off the album:

“You Don’t Have to Like Me to Love Me (Live)”

“Golden Days (Live with The Fray)”

“Sell the Lie” – {to a Sarah Marshall music video – only one of my favorite movies OF ALL TIME (shouts to Kanye)}

Becoming a citizen journalist

jeffzeller — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:41:58 +0000

Citizen journalism is fascinating to me – people being “on the ground” whenever anything “interesting” happens. However, I have been intrigued by some recent articles that ponder why humans choose to immediately reach for their video cameras in some cases rather than following the human code – helping others. Regardless, I am interested in what this means for the way in which our society interacts, so I finally got a Flip HD for my 23rd birthday. So far I love it! It is very easy to use, shoots great quality, and has allowed me to capture some pretty cool memories. If you wanna check one out, head on over to Amazon.
Flip UltraHD Camcorder, 120 Minutes (Black)

I’m in the zone like the homie 2-3 (Part I)

jeffzeller — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:53:20 +0000

One week ago, I entered into what some friends have called the “Old” stage of my life. While I disagree (my girlfriend says that men don’t reach their prime til 28…), it doesn’t change the fact that my age is at least a pretty cool number to be associated with. Being a basketball fan, I am obviously stoked about anything related to MJ/The King.

However, being an even bigger music fan, I wanted to connect my age to some lyrics that have referenced this wonderful number. (This could be a year long venture mind you) So, in Part I, we arrive at the song responsible for the title of this series, Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got”, off of Kingdom Come. Check the video below after the lyrics:

Shots of patron now she’s in a zone
I ain’t talking about the 2-3
Mami in the zone like the homie 2-3
Jordan or James
Makes no difference boo I’m ballin the same
I am the Mike Jordan of recording
You might want to fallback from recording