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Photo-A-Day

Buy a Photo-A-Day 2008 Calendar

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2008 Calendar

Support independent publishing: buy this calendar on Lulu.

I took a cue from the awesome Mark Eccleston and made my own 2008 calendar through LuLu.com. I am selling them for $15.00 each.

Why that much? Well, Lulu production is $11.29 each, then Lulu also takes a $0.74 commission per calendar. I get $2.97 per calendar. However I am donating $2.00 The whole $2.97 from each calendar to help The Machinski Family.

Becky Machinski went to high school with me, she got cancer and recovered, her husband Mike has cancer and is still in recovery, he has had 120 radiation treatments! with all that time treating cancer the money that they had dwindled to nothing. The family needs some financial help. Mike and Becky have 3 beautiful daughters and they have all sacrificed so much and need some financial help.

My High School Reunion is November 24th and on that day I would like to present the Machinski’s with a check for $200.00 $300 from the sales of these calendars. My goal is to sell 100 calendars by November 24th.

Can you help me do that?

Will you spread the word to all your blogging friends and family?

Here are the images that make up the calendar. Click for larger images.

Also, it has been brought to my attention that some people would not like a calendar but would like to donate anyway, so I set up this paypal donate button. Please donate if you are so inclined.

Support independent publishing: buy this calendar on Lulu.
Donate if you don’t want a calendar Buy a calendar if you would like one
2008 Calendar
Photo-A-Day #823b 07/10/07
Photo-A-Day #820f 07/07/07 Photo-A-Day #844 07/31/07
Photo-A-Day #847c 08/03/07 Green Thumb Sunday 08/26/07 #4 Photo-A-Day #863c 08/19/07
Photo-A-Day #820 07/07/07
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Blogging

Is your creative work worth $5,000?

Sometimes I watch TV and see all the lame commercials there are on the tube. I really wish sometimes that there was a way to get something I made as a commercial on TV. I make videos from time to time. I have fun doing so. I even made a really elaborate video last year for work. I thought it was pretty polished and a good try for just learning how to make videos. I even made some ‘podcasts’ for The Wired Kayaker. They all came out pretty good.

I wonder if I have the talent to make a video to garner $5000.00. I think I do but maybe not the idea just yet. I need to collaborate with my idea folks because I just learned that Black Turtle Media wants your work! That’s right Black Turtle Media is looking for user generated advertisements for the iPhone, Halo 3 and Decision 2008. They are giving $5000.00 to the person who creates the best advertisement for each of those campaigns.

What the user would need to do is create an advertisement, then submit it to Black Turtle Media and then generate buzz to get their advertisement selected. There are many ads on the site now but nothing so far that has made me want to vote for it. If I make a video I will certainly be voting for my own but if I don’t I’d like to see what you make. Your video could be the one that I am going to vote for. Enter the contest today and you just might be a big winner. Drop me a comment here if you enter the contest. I might just promote your video if I like it.

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