Hi all

Please note this blog will now continue at http://www.overlander.tv/wordpress/

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We will release a weekly travel video, we are currently featuring Australia

Thanks for your support

regards

Mark

80/20 Rule - 'Do what ya do best!'

Time is of the essence, Web 2.0 has made things easy, Specialise Man!

Why design a website when you can use a free cms template , or better still, set up your own blog site to feature your ramblings and vids. This is what I'm gunna do, time to take a few hats off, I'm not a web designer, I'm a filmmaker...time to ditch the orange color scheme.

Why compress your own videos for the net when a plethora of sites will do it for you! Why even have a website...why not just have a myspace page as my bro does for his Melbourne comedy night

Do what ya do, and try and do it well! Like this old fart, St Nick, great music video clip...the story of my life!

Online travel video sites are popping up everywhere http://www.travelistic.com/ http://www.current.tv/make/vc2/travelerhttp://www.turnhere.com/ http://www.magnify.net/sites/?category=Travel http://www.rootv.com http://www.travelchannel.co.uk/
http://www.travelago.com/

Think Im gunna load my vids on revver, and see what happens? Throw my babies to the masses and see if they can crawl out of the Coliseum alive!

Ramblings of an itinerant filmmaker

Hobart 21st Jan 07: In Hobart, housesitting a mate's house for two weeks, while he is on holidays with the family. In this two weeks I hope to assess the viability of my online travel video business model.

First a little research must be done. For those exploring creating revenue from online videos, check out these sites - will video for food, Usertainment and Wetjello

Then, investigate who has good online video sites. I like this one, wildcast, it uses all the latest Web 2.0 gadgets, and they have a good grasp on narrowcasting

Lonely Planet has entered the online travel video market, teaming up with roomedia,but still they miss they point of travel, it's the people you meet, not the sites on the street!

Expect to see a revamped overlander.tv very soon, exciting times

Where is the Overlander now?

Jan. 07: After six months on the road, filming eight stories each, in Ireland, Spain and Vietnam, the Overlander is back in Australia, looking for a suitable place to settle (in Tasmania), for a couple of months of editing.

I've travelled the world, and realised, despite it's vicious history, how unique a place Tasmania is. Half an hour out of the capital, Hobart, and you have virgin forests. You go fishing, and you catch fish! And Hobart has the closest thing to an Irish pub I have found! And all that water...calms the soul. Might even start surfing again!

Expect to see a story for the ABC's RPF from Tassie. That will bring my RPF story tally to three! A story for Victoria, Queensland, and hopefully Tasmania. A great scheme. I spoke with Fred Brophy recently, and since the boxing tent story, they have been run off their feet with tourists, fantastic!

Each of the 30 location mini docs I turn out for the net over the next month or two, will be available for purchase. A business can secure a location's video by paying for a click on advertisement at the end of the video. This means, that anyone who watches the video, will be aware of YOUR local business. A unique concept (sure to be copied) originating from downunder!

If all goes to plan, a South American trip, on motorbike, from top to tail, for mid 2007, with the mad Spanish Scientist, Alberto!

We are what we think having become what we thought
Like the wheel that follows the cart pulling ox
Sorrow follows an evil thought
And joy follows a pure thought
Like a shadow faithfully tailing a man
We are what we think having become what we thought

Gautama Buddha Mahinda

An artist is essentially flawed

To understand the gamet of human experience

They must know both joy and suffering

To enter the abyss, the underworld

And to return, covered in shit and death

and still create art, that hopefully radiates the

most important of human qualities - Love

M J Shea