This is a video compilation made from the photos and video of all the entries for the Bullseye, The Target Dog, Dress-Up Contest from 2010 that took place at my then place of employment. Here on YouTube, I'd previously shared just the video that I took which didn't include all the entries because the battery of my camera had run out. Thankfully, I had taken photos of all of them. The photos themselves were previously only shared on my Facebook.
For this contest, teams received a Bullseye to dress up as they sit fit for the holiday season. As you can see by the photos and video, the teams were quite curative and some even adventurous in their reimagining of what Bullseye got to wear. Unclear who won as I didn't keep that info.
Have you ever had a Plushie Dress Up Contest?
Audio: "Bells" by SideTrax from the Arpeggios music pack 29 for which I acquired the license through Humble Bundle via the Cinematic Soundwaves - The Sequel bundle and "Christmas Village" by Aaron Kenny from the YouTube audio library. I also added "Jingle Bells" sound effect from the YouTube audio library sprinkled throughout. At the end is the short video and left its sound as captured but with some of the jingle bells overlapping.
I'd originally only shared the card pull photo on other socials.
The original post description: Today's #Tarot card is the Six of Wands from The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed and Martin Cannon.
Illumination, realization of bigger things, teaching, spiritual growth, humility, realization that there is a pattern to the universe. This often comes after an extremely difficult and trying period in life.
========================= From December 14, 2009 =========================
This is the promotional video received on Monday, December 14, 2009 with the subject, "Target presents Nuestra Navidad on Univsion: Dec 17 and Dec 25." This was part of the multicultural marketing by Target at the time with the TV special to be broadcast in Spanish at 9 p.m. CT Thursday, Dec. 17, on Univision. It would be rebroadcasted at 10 a.m. CT on Christmas Day.
The program featured a visit to the White House for an interview with President Obama and longtime Target partner Gloria Estefan.
Also showcased was P.S. 155 in East Harlem New York, where Target and local team members had recently renovated the library - donating thousands of books and creating an inspiring space for kids to learn, thrive and grow. The segment included interviews with Principal Lillian Ortiz, the school librarian and some very happy students, as well as holiday music performances by David Archuleta and Latin entertainer PeeWee.
The broadcast also included performances by various artists as well as a look at singer/songwriter Luis Fonsi's visit to Target House, a free home-away-from-home for families receiving long-term treatment at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
As the sole sponsor of the program, Target ran their Spanish-language holiday TV spots, as well as their Dream in Color spot celebrating Hispanic heritage that featured Principal Lillian Ortiz and Luis Fonsi, as well as actress Elizabeth Pena and racecar driver Juan Pablo Montoya of the Target Racing Team.
This video may be a bit pixelated since I enlarged it to fit. Additionally, although I didn't record the program itself, you may be able to find some of the performances here on YouTube and likely somewhere out through the innerwebs.
I remember watching most of the program when it aired, mostly to watch Thalia's holiday song performance but didn't record any of it. The video is a little pixelated because I enlarged it.
The XIV - Grace from the Mystical Cats Tarot Deck was the card drawn on January 12th of 2023.
The card was upside-down meaning Disunion, lack of harmony. Competing interests, unfortunate combinations or alliances. Frustration, impatience.
However although it may seem like you are stalled, things really proceeding toward their proper ends and will arrive in their proper times.
- I'd originally only shared the card pull photo on other socials. For this video version I used CapCut to add a bit of flair to the photo and added the title, date, and the reading. I was originally just going to use it as is but decided that I first wanted a clear view of the card as close to the original share/post on other socials. This brought me to use my trusty old Camtasia 9 to put it all together.
What you see on this short video for the first several seconds is the card with just a tad of enhancements via Camtasia 9 then continue on to the CapCut version. All in all I think it came out pretty neat.
Although on occasion I do play with enhancements for videos/photos, particularly for my Amalgam Creative Arts channel, I most often choose none to small amounts of enhancements for No Tan Diario Chronicles. Do you like adding more or less enhancements for videos/photos?
Audio: "Veracruz" by Quincas Moreiras from the YouTube audio library.
These are photos of the volunteer event where a team of volunteers from work got together to help setup one of the many Christmas trees that are set up around the Phoenix Children's' Hospital. All the photos were taken with my camera except the last one that one of the volunteers shared.
The tree we decorated we donated and decorated was located in one of the waiting room areas.
Audio: "Lewes" by SideTrax from the Sunrise music pack 29 for which I acquired the license through Humble Bundle via the Cinematic Soundwaves - The Sequel bundle.
These
are photos that I took on the first day of a series of dates where
volunteers would create ornaments that would then adorn one of the many
holiday trees that the Phoenix Children's Hospital places throughout
their facility. Volunteers had from November 30th through December 2nd
to assemble ornaments from craft kits.
Here is a video from photos I took from two work celebrations.
The first was the launch of the new mission for the department I was working in at the time. The new mission statement was, "Create guest loyalty and enhance financial performance through a branded dispute experience." We celebrated with cakes that we called Mission Momentum Cake. Here you see the photos i took of the cakes and of the printed and laminated mission statement.
The second was me celebrating ten year anniversary working at Target. The photos I took of the acknowledgement. The congratulations note was signed by the HR team, the acknowledgement by then Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel, and also included a $50 Target GiftCard.
As
usual when I went to a new to me restaurant I like to take photos.
These are the photos I took of what I believe was the first time I
enjoyed a delicious meal at Mrs. White's Golden Rule Cafe in Phoenix,
Arizona, USA. For this first visit we of course had to try the famous
fried chicken and pork chop.
From their site →
https://www.mrswhitescafe.com/ : Mrs. Whites Cafe. A family-run business
since its inception in 1964. We take great pride in serving classic
soul food in a cozy, home-style atmosphere. Our recipes have been handed
down through generations, allowing us to provide our customers with a
truly unique and authentic experience. Come and enjoy a delicious meal
at Mrs. White's Golden Rule Cafe.
You should definitely visit if you ever find yourself in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Before, during, and after my time with the TFST Diversity Council—which would undergo several name changes in the future, including Tempe Diversity Council, Tempe Diversity & Inclusion Council, Tempe Inclusion Council, and others—there were many brown bags (talks, presentations, and the like) about different diversity, equity, and inclusion topics.
I attended many brown bags throughout the years and helped coordinate and/or assist on a few of them. What you see on this video is the tri-fold takeaway that I put together for the A GLBT Brown Bag that took place on November 02, 2010.
*Please note that any of the referenced resources/organizations may no longer be accurate or in existence.
On the 30th of October from the year 2010, I participated in the 2010 JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes that was held at the Tempe Town Lake. I helped as part of #TargetVolunteers in selling tickets for a raffle the event organizers were doing. If I remember correctly, participants could buy a string of tickets stretching their entire height for a set price. I believe we also got to participate in the walk itself.
Because I didn't take any photos of the event, I made this video of photos from the screen capture of the email update of info for the volunteer event, the map of the event, the map of where parking was available, and a photo I took of the t-shirt we received.
The JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes from 2008, took place on November 1st of the same year. Although I wasn't able to the walk itself, I did volunteer the Sunday prior to the event to help put together packs for the event. I didn't previously create a video about this because I didn't take any photos during the volunteer event.
The only thing I had was a screen capture of the email we received from the event organizer. I then went back to my blog and found that I had posted a brief recap of various events from September through October of 2008 where I included a few sentences about this event.
Original blog post: Quick recap of October 2008... and September... → https://elkirbster.blogspot.com/2008/11/quick-recap-of-october-2008-and.html
Because No Tan Diario Chonicles is about chronicling my small life where even if there isn't a specific photo or video of an event, I decided to screen cap that piece of the blog to add along with the screen capture of the info email and make this short video to document. If ever I find photos or videos that anyone else took at this volunteer event, I may make an updated/new video for it. For now, this is what I have.
Stargate Special Edition | Main Title and Prologue: Egypt https://youtu.be/rwkUtA_dXZA
These are the two initial scenes of the Stargate Special Edition movie, the Main Title and Prologue: Egypt. The Main Title scene is the same on both the theatrical and special edition. the Prologue: Egypt scene was not in the original theatrical version and is part of what makes this special edition unique. Before sharing the two scenes separately, I had originally intended to upload them together because it's what builds excitement to watch the movie.
Although this is my last upload about for the foreseeable future about the Stargate Special Edition DVD, I hope you have enjoyed this look into this fantastic movie and its special edition DVD. May this brief look encourage you to go get yourself a copy of Stargate Special Edition DVD but most importantly watch it.
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
This is the start of the Stargate movie, the Main Title/Scene 1, on the Stargate Special Edition DVD. The soundtrack and the visual of the Ra headpiece always gets gets me excited to watch the movie. Even as I extracted this for this post I couldn't help but watch it again.
You may notice some slight skipping on the video which I believe is due to having been in storage for a bit. Nonetheless, it is still enjoyable to watch.
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
On this video I go through the Stargate Special Edition DVD Scene Index menu.
There
are 54 scenes to select from which are broken down into sets of four,
except the last set which is the last two scenes. Here you see me first
go through that main scene index menu. I then go back to select each set
which brings you to the available scenes to choose from. The scenes
that make up the 9 minutes of additional footage on this Stargate
Special Edition DVD Dare denoted in the selectable scenes with a yellow
border and titled Special Edition.
00:00 Stargate Special Edition 00:14 DVD Start Menu 00:20 Scene Index Menu 00:35 1-4 Main Title, Prologue: Egypt, Discovery 1928, Dr. Jackson's Lecture 00:42 5-8 Catherine's Offer, O'Neil, Cover Stone, Stellar Breakthrough 00:47 9-12 The Stargate, Opening the Gate, Probe on Soldiers, On the Team 00:50 13-16 The Fossil, Good Luck Charm, Going Through, "What a Rush" 00:55 17-20 The Other Side, No Way Back, Base Camp, Tracks 01:00 21-24 Mining Camp, Meeting Kasuf, Return to the City, Sandstorm 01:08 25-28 Like A Chicken, Sha'Uri, "How Hard Could It Be?", Arrival of Ra 01:12 29-32 Anubis, Smoking Buddies, Language Lesson, Ra Awakens 01:16 33-36 Looking for Jackson, Ancient History, Back to the Pyramid, Captured 01:20 37-40 Audience with Ra, Punishment, Jackson Reborn, Execution 01:25 41-44 Escape, Shelter from the Storm, A Hurry to Die, Ra's Wrath 01:29 45-48 Husband's Work, Look at Your Gods, Sneaking In, Aerial Attack 01:35 49-52 Seven Minutes, Darkest Hour, Egyptian Cavalry, The End of Ra 01:39 53-54 Goodbyes, Ent Titles 01:46 Back to the DVD Start Menu
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
Stargate Special Edition | DVD Start Menu, Cast and Crew
On this video I go through the Stargate Special Edition DVD start menu to then select the Cast and Crew option. I do a quick view of all the available cast and crew then go back and select each one to go through their info. The info available for each is their biography and filmography.
Below the time stamp if you'd like to jump to each:
00:00 Stargate Special Edition 00:15 DVD Start Menu 00:25 Cast and Crew Menu 00:47 Kurt Russell 01:20 James Spader 01:41 Jaye Davidson 01:53 John Diehl 02:09 French Stuart 02:21 Christopher Fields 02:29 Derek Webster 02:37 Mili Avital 02:49 Roland Emmerich 02:59 Dean Devlin 03:06 Mario Kassar 03:16 Joel B Michaels 03:25 Oliver Eberle 03:47 Back to the DVD Start Menu
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
These are the production notes as presented on the Stargate Special Edition DVD.I selected the Production Notes option from the menu after allowing the DVD Start Menu audio to play once completely. After going through the production notes I went back to the main menu.
I initially thought of adding a snippet of the audio from the intro of the movie itself because the production notes have no audio while you scroll through to read them, but decided to keep it as is because the sharing of this is intended to be as close as possible as if you are playing it on your own DVD player connected to the television.
Although you can pause the video to read the production notes, I've typed them up below:
Production Notes
Even in film school, Roland Emmerich fantasized about directing a science-fiction film set against the background of the ancient pyramids of Egypt. Ten years later when he cast Dean Devlin to act in Moon 44, Emmerich realized one of the pieces he needed had materialized.
Devlin was a writer as well as an actor. Because of their friendship and mutual admiration on Moon 44, Emmerich brought Devlin into his company, Centurion Film Productions. Devlin had a sci-fi project of his own min, one that he described as "Lawrence of Arabia in Outer Space."
Almost simultaneously the tow partners saw a retrospect of Egyptian Epic, including The Ten Commandments, El Cid, and Spartacus. The moderator of the event was Charlton Heston, who said films like those were far too expensive to make today. Challenged, the duo began writing Stargate.
The adventure caught the imagination of Le Studio Caanal +, who along with its French parent company, Canal +, had helped finance several films, including Cliffhanger and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Le Studio Canal + brought the project to Executive Producer Mario Kassar, and Stargate launched.
Stargate took months of careful preparation by a team of conceptual artists unrivaled in the industry. Conceptual designer Patrick Tatopolous came aboard to create the looks of the alien life forms. Production designer Hernert Gross assembled a team to create the designs for sets, including landscapes, vehicles and props for the palace.
Before production commenced, Peter Mitchell Rubin, who had created a computerized system of storyboarding, spent weeks turning blueprints, sketches and verbal descriptions into realistic images. With the computer Rubin provided filmmakers with three-dimensional storyboards that could display depth of focus and lighting.
In such a way, Rubin placed cameras in "sets" that had not even been built. Next he added his team's renderings of the characters in action to composite. The results astonished the filmmakers. Said Devlin: "It was almost as if we had a test shoot of the film before we had started filming."
Costume designer Joseph Porro had the daunting task of clothing thousands of people for a story that spans ten centuries. With no research available on fashion in 8,000 BC, Porro simply had to guess. "I don't know if it's accurate," he admits, "but I hope it's pleasing to the eye." Porro's costume designs for Abydos had to blend the style of ancient Egypt with the unknown of something Alien. The problem emerged that nowhere in the world could he find these material. Consequently Porro's team set out to make everything by hand.
For the slave population in the city of Nagada, Porro and his staff manufactured four-to-five thousand garments all inspired by those of ancient Bedouins. The costumes of Ra's palace required a different approach: airbrushes, latex paints, and intricate embroidery were applied to bilks, linens and velvets to give the fabrics an otherworldly effect.
Porrod ornately embellished palace costumes with hand-made beads and jewels. He and his team created every piece of jewelry as an original; they individually designed every bead, every scarab and every ornament. Porro even sculpted crude sandstone versions of the jewelry for wear by the film's many extras.
No ordinary soundstage had enough capacity to hold the magnificent main chamber of Ra's Palace; so the filmmakers decided to build the chamber themselves. It found home in the same cavernous come in Long Beach, Californie, that had once housed the famous Spruce Goose. The completed set measured over 300 feet long, 60 feet wide and 40 feet high, and was sculpted, engraved, painted and polished in its entirety.
A rare tool known as an "anarouter" created the engraved hieroglyphics. Ordinarily used for sing-making, the machine was able to do the engraving of 100 workers in one day. One of only nine in the world, the anarouter utilized in Stargate marks the first-time ever use of such a machine in film.
After scouting locations in the United States and Mexico, Emmerich and veteran location manager, Ken Fix, chose a barren are surrounding Yuma, Arizona. This area would serve as the desert landscaping for both planets. Chosen not only fir its vast sand dunes, Yuma had the good fortune to be in close proximity to Los Angeles.
Beyond temperatures of more than 125 degrees, the desert locale produced enormous hurdles. Tons of equipment needed transport across soft surfaces. For this feat the filmmakers employed a hone-combed, rubber-like material called "geoweb." When rolled onto the sand and wetted down, the geoweb formed an instant road.
Keeping the sand dunes pristine during a day of shooting proved nightmarish. The slightest mar or footprint meant the dune lost its perfect look. To make matter worse, the film shot during the height of dune buggy season. Crews were often forced to move to another dune to avoid capturing tracks on camera.
Crews also combated "sand prints" by using giant jet fans and helicopters to blow sand back to its original condition. In the end nature demanded a less technological solution, and a brigade of persons with brooms-dune sweepers-were kept on constant call.
Filming for the Giza dig site and 8,000 BC locations completed at the Ft. Yuma Indian Reservation. From there the filmmakers moved to Imperial Valley's Buttercup Valley, where they battled dust, scorpions and rattlesnakes. In the end the full crew numbers approximately 450 people, and the full cast contains over 15, 000 extras.
Due to the extreme heat of the region, costume and make-up departments were required to arrive on set at 4:00 AM before temperatures soared. In an effort to keep hydrated, crew, cast and extras found themselves consuming between 12,000 and 15,000 gallons of water each day. To keep the beverages cold, the producers brought between 8,000 and 12,000 pounds of ice on set every day.
to create the unique language spoken in Stargate, the filmmakers called on the expertise of Stuart Tyson Smith, PH.D., a research associate at the Institute of Archeology at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Smith linguistically assembled the form ancient Egyptian could have become after thousands of years.
James Spader, whose character is a linguist as well as an Egyptologist, found Smith invaluable as a dialect coach and technical advisor. For his part, Kurt Russel quipped, "I quickly went over the script and said, 'now wait a minute, I don't have to say a word of this ever, do I?'"
The actors had a great time on the set. "Roland runs a fun set, and I think that's an important aspect of making a movie," said Russell. Regarding Russell, Spader said, "If you're going out to the middle of the desert and you want to keep your head, he's a great guy to have along."
Principal photography completed the last week of December 1993. Phase two began with a model shoot in the Santa Clarita stages. During this time a 6.6 degree earthquake rocked the studios. Luckily no one was filming, but the earthquake leveled the stage and destroyed several models, causing a shooting delay of several weeks.
