Welcome to chronological archives & memoirs gradually posted & updated complimenting youtube.com/geogodley, Players Guide/ Vloggerdocumentary features, Million Photo Memoir, etc. Disclaimer: All rights reserved. Dramatic, comedic, documentary/ reality entertainmentnot always to be taken too seriously. By entering this site in any way or proxy, you agree to never sue geo(rge)godley, &/or any associates of his choice, to save him & them harmless from any liablilty & to absolve him & them from all indeminty. Every1′s covering their ass these days.. PARENTAL ADVISÖRY: Intended for broad minded mature audiences. Some soft material may be unsuitable for minors, bigots, & hypocrites. Tasteful and/or retouched nudity on this site is no more explicit than PG/R hollywood movies or HBO/Cable TV Sex & the city.Thank you for supporting free speech & expression. Ambassador & Mrs Godley, Geo & bro at the Embassy residence in the Far East. This site is dedicated with love & respect to my parents, to whom I owe almost everything.. positive and negative.. Dad said we were on different wavelengths but always wished me well to “get the show on the road”.. the info superhighway.. I was brought up under a strict tyranny of fear & terror: one moment they were nice, next short tempered, violent & abusive over the slightest nonsense. A couple decades of forced child labor later, the result:
I was supposed to be a square conservative businessman.. what went wrong.. or right.. 1 out of 3 ain’t bad. This was my overpriced, mouse infestedSt. Martin’s Lane London 2 bedroom apartmentnext to the luxury Ian Shrager (Mondrian/ Sky Bar/ Delano) St. Martins Lane hotel, getting chronically ill from lack of natural daylight, carbon monoxide boiler flue in my window, & electric substation downstairs. They don’t teach you that at harvard business school..
A tribute to my folksfor making it all possible- even if they wish they hadn’t! Dad’s diplomatic foreign service career slideshows coming soon. Mom, Dad & Bob Hope in Laos. Dad spoke very highly of Bob Hope to me when I mentioned him. Mom was less impressed, disparaging him for being an entertainer, which she considered low class and unacceptable, masked by her phoney smile is in this picture. In my case there were no such theatrics; it was the chorus I would hear until she cut me off & disinherited me. Reasons: her mother didn’t allow her to be an artist/ entertainer either & her father disinherited her. (indirectly: left it all to grannyaya who gambled it away). Note the SEXIST DRESSCODE: men wear coats, ties, trousers, women wear sleeveless half nude tops & panties.
Dad getting sworn in as American Ambassador to Laos by Savang Vatthana, last King of Laos who was deposed by the Pathet(ic) Lao communists.
Dad in the Congo with Moise Tshombe (2nd left), president Joseph Kasavubu (center), & prime minister Patrice Lumumba (2nd right) before Tshombe & U.S/ Belgian authorities killed him, misinterpreting his anti-colonialism & neutrality as communism.
Dad with totalitarian dictator, ‘alleged’ mass murderer, $5 billion USD embezzler, “president” Mobutu Sésé Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga. (Self appointed title meaning “the fearless warrior who goes from quest to conquest spreading fire in his wake”). And I’m worried about picking the right friends or career. Source: wikipedia
Mom looking better than ever except for the fur coat with her first husband CARE humanitarian organisation official Melvin Johnson (far right) who she married age 17 to escape her mother who “never cared about her [till it was too late] and lost her fortune gambling [with Frangistas]” (mrs Venizelos quote). Mom told me they divorced because she “got bored with him”.
Left to right: Chainsmokers ‘Uncle’ George Deas, who laughed like this: “kihkihkih!”, Mrs. Lefki, dad, granny ‘Yaya’, Mr. Lyberopoulos, anesthesiologist ‘Aunt’ Sonia Dea -emotional tampon & paid confidante mom (far right) telephoned & dumped on in any ‘crisis’ instead of a psychotherapist. A couple decades later she was still invovling her in unecessary self induced problems, phonetapped for evidence of dad’s extramarital aspirations. Tape recorded transcripts:
-This little bum [Geo] runs after every skirt & is lying to us. He says he’s getting £10,000 but they’d never pay him for anything, he has no talent & doesn’t know music! All my life i supported my husband & this little bum having a good time with his money,it’s eating me up alive!
‘Aunt’ Sonia’s reply: “tell [Geo] he doesn’t step foot in the apartment again”. (Sonia & her son later inherited it).
Dad on mom’s money ocd: money’s everything to her because she never had it. [People] aren’t about money, but upbringing.
Mom telling the estate agent to lie & tell dad she can’t sell the other apartment:
-The Ambassador is selling our other apartment [because "the american embassy associated agency renting it are crooks"]. He knows that bothers me & does it on purpose like we’re starving or something. I won’t sell it no matter what, he can’t sell it without my signature. Half of whatever’s his is mine. [no prenup]. At some point i’ll all but hit him on the head for this. Tell him you can’t sell it becasue it’s the worst time to sell anything now.”
Mon 7 May 2012 10:52 a.m -13.54 pm/ 17.41 pm GMT. This blog was re-written live as you read it. The pen is mightier than the sword.. who lives by it di.. oh oh!
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Anna Matskevitch (Refbatch /Refbatchrefbatch), ♔ queen of vlogs with 30,000+ uploads, inspired me to outdo the top overpromoted youtubers with quantity, frequency & prolificity, lifestreaming around the clock.. not that it made much difference..
She says her filmmaker father was killed by the KGB for his movies, hence her distrust of authority, mental issues, & vlogmania on the Refbatch channel, which was disabled after 30,000 uploads (did she flash her tits too?) as she continues on refbatchrefbatch.
Here she seems a tad upset about her youtube career & viewcount (as if anyone’s crazy enough to care lol)
Youtube then made the rest of the community invisible by re-designing the platform, removing honors charts, channel menu links etc. to limit interraction, exposure & competition. Disclaimer: just a debate.. the elite is great.. if you’re in it lol..
Conclusion: it’s just not happening, not worth the time & effort working for free forever. Something has to change. This unfair censorship & account disabling may be divine intervention, a blessing in disguise for other priorities listed in previous post.
I thank everyone for their acquaintance, friendship & support & look forward to a happier more productive life. sincerely Geo(rge)Godley
Even more questionable is youtube’s ‘flag’ hypothesis. Millions of videos & flags are uploaded constantly.. Do the math..
I’ll appeal the draconian arbitrary unfair censorship with the following explanation:
Brief, non sexual breast nudity found on many youtube videos (see below).Literary context with Matt Dillon as Charles Bukowski. Youtube promotes & advertises much worse: Lonely Island “Jizz in your pants” video repeatedly ejaculating in their pants.
Didn’t even notice the woman took her bikini top off, the room is so dark & red you can hardly see a thing. Was too busy listening to Charles Bukowski’s literary narration telling you to go all the way with your writing & art.. which youtube ironically destroys, unfairly.
Youtube’s reply: Dear georgegodley:
Thank you for submitting your video appeal to YouTube.
After further review of the content, we’ve determined that your video does violate our Community Guidelines and have upheld our original decision. We appreciate your understanding.
Sincerely, — The YouTube Team
Automated reply came within hours, so its obviously an automated bot considering they get millions of flags & appeals..
Here’s a playlist proving my point:
NUDITY / PROVOCATIVE CONTENT YOUTUBE DOESN’T CENSOR – the tip of the iceberg.. many such clips are promoted & monetized.
1. clean up 2. back up 3. Apple one to one appointment to fix final cut pro double image export. 4. reading Web marketing, blogging & web traffic books 5. a bizarre email from my yahoo email address- is that a hack? says this site’s 80% full. I.T systems administrator webmaster ’friend’ disappeared to Switzerland to flip furburgers after a bad relationship & is unresponsive, so looking for freelancers & developers. 6. Uploading multiple daily vlogs to youtube/georgegodley around the cock w/ multiple converter & uploaderto no avail.. current pitiful stats: 5,257 video uploads, 816 subs, 257,723 video views, about 1500 daily hits on each channel. Had to temporarily abandon youtube.com/geogodley because it wasn’t paying off & viewcount doesn’t change no matter what. I think youtube has chosen who will eat the pie & there aren’t enough pieces to go around. They overpromote a small elite ‘star system’ to earn 6 figures to make it look successful & let everyone else fail to not dilute the limited audience. 7. finishing & submitting feature movie & video / e-book series to film festivals, miptv & natpe, publishing & media agents
8.Food allergy tests & full medical checkup (Lyme, Weil’s..)
9. Planning next episodes: Greece legal & islands, Euro /world tour etc.
Was gonna resume weekly photoblogs like last years photo comics but these priorities come first.
by the way why does twitter let porn stars link their hardcore porn sites on their twitter home page & shove it in your face? https://twitter.com/#!/RayleneXXX.. & I’m not allowed to even show a lil’ fully clothed tit-ellation on youtube..
this article is being re-written over several days as you read it.
after i uploaded this video to youtube, the last couple minutes were censored & cut off! i checked the file & it’s all there but either youtube or divine intervention CENSORED this video’s end! so i will go with it, wait & keep the mystery until its shown elsewhere in full: what they don’t want you to hear/ see.. on the bright side its always good to have more unseen material.. dont give everyhting away for free.. there’s always more
Youtube’sdisabled georgegodley channel page video view counter for a over week now. Is it another bug / glitch/ technical fault or deliberate? It says 219,873 views & doesn’t change, yet tubemogul oneload.com shows about 20,000 thousand views last week. First i thought it was another personal attack like the unfair censorship or slow motion bug. But billy ray yonson’s page is also frozen at 1,715,319,938. as is happycabbies at 10,361,672 & laughandpeealil’ at 31,945,475.. dang front page overpromotion really works.. but why would they break view counters & ignore it in their blog..
disclaimer: feelings opinions & thoughts can change overnight, depending on mood & situation. Just ask Alex Day who whined & bitched about youtube separating youtubers into ‘V.I.P’s at the first youtube live 2009 & then removed his video complaint as soon as they made him V.I.P in 2010. unfairness only matters when it’s against you..
1. continue multi daily uploads to be one of the most prolific vloggers.. for nothing
2. lose months editing geogodley episodes.. for nothing
3. put entire 20 year archive on this & other sites.. for nothing
4. finish feature film to get censored, ripped off & lose your rights.. for nothing
5. ‘f’ it all & hit the beach, sunsea & sex or winewomen & song.
what’ll it be? stay poooned dear folks, how can you go right..
(re-written & edited live right now as you read it)
New year’s eve 2011-12 some anonymous youtube employee signed as “the youtube team” arbitrarily censored, disabled & threatened youtube.com/georgegodley with termination for a Rio video of a fully clothed, blurred brazilian for being too “provocative”, while monetizing & promoting much more sexually explicit content like lonely island “jizz in the pants” & kassemg “goin deep” porn interviews etc. We the sheeple *baaa* get age restricted without advertising monetization or threatened with termination & marginalization from the multimillion muff mons monopoly. Next, a slow motion technical fault bugdestroying uploaded sony mts files was repeatedly reported on home page & google forums to no avail. Looks deliberate when no ‘top’ overpromoted youtubers like sexually explicit inappropriate raywayjays get it. Only then will youtube respond.. so comin’ poon on geogodley.com: uncensoredchronologicalmultipledailyvlogs,photo blogs, cartoons & tunes! youtube’s loss our gain, stay puned!
So i drive up to San Fransisco after yet another lost summer on the computer editing L.A. vidcon episodes, networking etc. When the XFACTOR USA TV performance was in the news & hit over a million youtube views i asked around for agents & publicists to get on a talk show or something. Youtube vid “HOLLYWO☹D FAIL: TALENT AGENCIES PHONE VLOG, CAA, WME, PETER WEISS DEFINETHELAW, sept 2011“ shows what a pain in the ass that was.. I ended up in Sky bar finding out promoter Mac Africa’s still around.. met her years ago.. bet she or other such people could connect me w/ someone.. if i could just find them.. with such a short notice trip i couldnt find my contact numbers.. anyway since it didnt look like much was gonna happen i collab with Peter Definethelaw Weiss “Magneato dude i want my foood” to improve my vlogging skills. His candid camera technique is described in previous blog post. I’m hoping it’ll be worthwhile and started a new channel with multiple daily vlogs http://www.youtube.com/user/georgegodley after the burn out from 100 hour editing marathon 12 minute episodes.. thought daily uncut sponatneous style would be quicker.. NOT.. days go by like nothing & again computer slavery.. sometimes i wonder if its worthwhile given the impossibility of success. It seems no matter what you do you are doomed to fail, cockblocked as ever by elitist 3rd parties who promote a handful of monopolizers. Gotta keep trying. Damn viewcount never changes no matter what. It can’t be because of “family friendly” censorship given the sexually explicit promoted youtubers shane, timmygateau, phillyd, makemebad, kassem.. if they arent emasculated & sterile why should we be. I like how Shay doesnt dare link KassemG’s youtube porno interview series and instead links his other channel in his “other channels box”.. for obvious reasons.. Anyway more gossip in the future. Priorities first. Health being one of them. & that means a change in lifestyle. What next.. stay pooned folks.. for now i give you..
At the begining of the Xfactor live audition i’m off key because i couldn’t hear the music & sang an octave too high. The ITUNESversion is in perfect pitch with no autotune processing. Note how they mispelled my name & refused to correct it.. why would they want t☹ limit my online searchability & audience? nice try chaps!
Sunday 2 October 2011.
A couple years ago I ran into a youtube prom☺ted “related video” of Definethelaw Peter Weiss arguing with a big mama bus driver who wouldn’t let him off till the next stop. He was freakin out shouting “let me go! you’re [hijacking n kidnapping] holding me hostage!”. It became his biggest hit with about 100,000? views. People loved the candid camera conflict. At first i questioned his antagonism & rude abrasive voice but eventually appreciated the steady candid camera technique found nowhere else- except geogodley of c☺urse! The flirts, socializing & troubles he’d run into, voyeuristic feel & lessons learned: what NOT to do.. The legal arguments nitpicking about penal codes, rules & regulations.. exposing criminal threats, power abuse, lies, yelling at gas station employees for charging a kid to put air in his bicycle tires: “your’e F*D UP!” I looked forward to that raw style regardless of viewcount statistics. Often he was too rude & confrontational & i’d cringe & squirm as the police would be called (& videoed & uploaded of course!) as he’d be banned from almost everywhere. Only to be lolling to his “Big fat bitch dancing” vid or candid thumbnails of funny expressions.
. According to tubemogul, with only 1000 subs he still gets over 6000 daily views, more than some people with tens of thousands of subs. He was suspended twice & got his account back in days through his learning disablilty/ legal appeal. They removed his Chase bank & Target videos where he called them “a stinking rotten bank [for charging hidden fees]“.. Richard the dick Coughlan said youtube removed eighty (80!) of his videos whereas Peter Weiss is banned after just a few without specifics, just general “community guidelines”. Comeon youtube please reinstate him! 45 hours uploaded every minute & of all people you were watching.. peter weiss ☺nVIME㋡ Click here
DEFINEtheLAW message t☺ his fans: “YouTUBE & BLIP.tv TERMINATES “DEFINEtheLAW”
Yes, it TRUE…..YouTUBE did terminate my account. However this is the 3rd time it actually has been terminated. And in the past, I write an email directly to the YouTUBE Attorney, and then she fowards my email to a different department, and then waalaa! my account is ussually reinstated.
However, this time may be different….I really do not think the STAFF at YouTUBE likes my videos, more less, THEY HATE my videos. Ironically, 2 days later my account at BLIP.tv was also terminated. Could it be that YouTUBE hates my videos so much they contacted BLIP.tv and told them to TERMINATE MY ACCOUNT. SO, WHY DID MY ACCOUNT GET TERMINATED FROM YouTUBE?
I uploaded a video called:“WHAT NICER? The Limo or your Legs”
Within 2 hours of uploading, I get a notification that the video has been FLAGGED and has also been removed. And since this was my so called 3rd Video being Flagged and removed, the TOS “TERMS OF SERVICE” states an account can be terminated. Can someone explain why this video would be considered a COMMUNITY VIOLATION. “Remember this was filmed in the streets of San Francisco, not in a dressing room” and nor was she even a HOOKER. WHEN WILL YOUR VIDEOS BE READY TO VIEW ONLINE?
At this time I am experimeneting with different video sites, if anyone has any sugesstions please let me know by responding back to this email. You can always send email directly to me at definethelaw2@gmail.com CAN I UPLOAD MY FAVORITE DEFINETHELAW VIDEOS on my own YouTUBE Account?
You betcha! Just send me an email and will keep you updated, on how you can download FLV files of my videos, so that you may repost on them YouTube or any other video hosting site.
Thanks for your support and hope to be online with all my videos shortly.” Peter Weiss DEFINEtheLAW
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles U.S.A. 2nd annual Video convention. I meet hank green &..
sxephil defranco seems nice but the result is disappointing. everyone’s hugging, and/or kissing his ass for friendship, collaboration, business.. big bag of fail. acquaintance is the next best thing but seems such a counterprodutive waste of time.. travel across the world for nothing again?
thought Damian makemebad35 was avoiding me at the pool but he seemed happy to see me again since the 789 gathering. He confirmed my box4bux$ idea was funny & okay to ask big youtubers. little knowing how they may react..
gee i must say youtubers are in a jolly mood today! terabrite was very cordial. a week later they gave me permission to upload their friday morning performance with the youtube ‘stars’ provided i credit & link them.
Line, a sweet lebanese fashion business lady.. lest we forget there’s more to life than youtube
the evening i meet my youtube friend delaypat, lisa & a group. some saudi lady takes our picture, shoukran habibi.
Friday 29 july 2011, decked out like a christmas tree
tobuscus, ?, olgasometimesokay, whatthebuck advising how they got where they are ommitting a few details: box4box, youtube promotion..
Cory mr safety williams, kate17, supered86.. sir safety said not to pay for boxes because they aren’t worth it. collabs are ‘much more fun’.
tayzonday & johnollie at the machinima network party..
Lions Club 5th of july parade was bigger than any 4th of july event.. thought these were native americans but they’re Taiwanese.. so that’s where those pow wow costumes come from. everyone’s effing around showing off, partying, laughing, dancing & loving life without a care in the world..
in stark contrast, homeless in seattle.. with someone on the way.. i always give them a few bucks when taking their picture. looking at her now i guess everyone needs company and if we were humanitarian we’d hang out with her a bit.. unfortunately the social stigma of homelessness makes subhuman pariahs out of people. we could offer at least a shower.. but there’s crackhead shelters for that..
met Ken the owner of Seattle antiques market
who offered to ship
a bunch of 1920s-50s antique vintage film cans to be transfered to video for youtube or this site.. I’m a treasure hunter salvaging curator of lost antiquities! 1927 New York antiquevintage m☺vie(s) Click here
bumped into Mike Maslan’s store out of the blue.. a vintage photo / poster / postcard collector dealer who knows Robert Jackson, author of the “art of the american snapshot”.. curtailed my collection because i’m overly critical, look for certain elements & had enough hoarding & clutter but occasionally still am mesmerized by the time travel feel & aesthetics. he sells them for 3 or $5 each and selected ones for $35. see the ones i bought next blog.
he’s selling a huuge collection of 1920s travel diaries & photo albums for 5 to $10,000. He got it from Portland oregon antique fair & says if you put them online their value will plunge because it’s the info & not the item that’s valuable in this case since it’s no one famous. i was calculating if i put it on my website & charged a dollar would the figures add up? but browsing it i think he kinda messed up.. it seemed to lack emotion, drama, humor, romance, sex.. look no further, we can do better
Westin Seattle hotel is nice but the windows don’t open so your’e breathing recycled farts.. only air con & opened doors for ventilation. read my full review coming up on trip advisor.
Westin security wouldn’t let me on the hotel roof to video the seagull chicks up close “for liablilty reasons” even though they make you sign something when you check in saying they have no liability anyway.. was gonna bribe (tip) the manager but it’s not worth it coz it doesn’t tend to pay off or go viral on youtube.. i was touched & amazed by the gull’s selfless sense of responsibility.. never leaving the little ones for a second, getting food only when another seagull replaced her.. they live 50 years..
some english rose by the waterfront.. shoulda got in the sh☺t
next stop: Lala land Vidcon. no uneventful daily vlogs. i want to upload meticulously crafted tightly edited youtube episodes but at 2000 hits a day & little payment wonder if it’s worth losing yet another summer again.. may just record & enjoy what’s left of it & back to the ol’ drawing board this fall.. winter.. or next year.. decade.. life.. what are we stupid? hit the beach assh☀le!
Workin out & stretching in the Westin Hotel gym trying to get back in shape for the audition..
On the way to the biggest TV audition of my life.. not supposed to blog about it yet, but one day hopefully you’ll know my side of the story. just hope they air it & beep /blur out whatever they (don’t) want..
Key Arena.. They said not to use cameras so I waited till the end of the day to get this panoramic view from the adjacent food court.
Some Persian cutie by the mmmall..
The Westin hotel chinese cleaning lady (housekeeper) was soo polite.. kept saying thank you & giggling, really refreshing. Thank you in chinese is ‘seysey’.
Seattle ‘beach’ waterfront: next best thing..
Homeless in Seattle.. this lady let me photo her even if it may harm her chances of employment. she’s in rehab getting her life back on track, please help her out.. or her handwritten sign threatens to help you or someone else out..
Crab pot is a delicious restaurant.. snow crab takes too long to eat, alaskan king is the best. I feel guilty killing these poor animals but they taste too good to be 100% vegetarian.. The mud pie & rhubarb cake was out of this world
some presentable guy for the female & gay audience.. hope he won’t mind, this is an equal opportunity blog
British Airways 747 jumbo jet, near the north pole, ~40,000 feet.. on my way to a TV audition but some sneaky confidentiality clause in the release signed at a later date prohibits me from EVER mentioning it without their permission?!?! deceptive because they dont tell you- he just said “oh it’s just a release” ..next time read it all & cross out whatever you don’t want, it should be negotiable.. they should appreciate the free publicity by letting us mention it and can’t expect a gag order on your life.. can’t be tooo unreasonable ..censorship is fast becoming my top blog theme. You’re never allowed to say anything.. no free speech
the entire 10 hour flight 3pm to midnight (4pm Seattle time) almost all windows were covered. Good to get some sun the couple days before.. I’m cautiously optimistic but have a premonition there’s always a negative side to everything and don’t want to jinx it by counting chickens before they hatch.. curb your enthusiasm
take this airplane meal for instance.. thrilled to get a vegetarian meal..
until you realize it’s probably full of animal rennet, artery plugging clotted cream cheese & chemicals. wait, it’s even the wrong ingredient list! cherry filling?!
& the second meal is a sugar white bread mayonaise cheese sandwich. No wonder i’m out of shape & look like shit, you are what you eat.. BYOF Bring Your Own Food next time..
this is what a £900 ($1500) one way British Airways plane ticket gets you these days.. NAUSEATING BLAAGH EEEWW disgusting. the flight was jolly good though, no turbulence thank you chaps
i think of more pleasant thoughts like my lady friend (not sure she wants to be in this blog) & these polish ladies who invited me to party last night & i didn’t even bother.. how stupid.. really gotta get out of this no nightlife rut..
we land in Seattle, the new 747 jumbo engines are tiny compared to previous ones..
welcome to the emerald city, gotta rehearse & prepare, pressure is on in just 3 days i’m on stage..
seagulls nest on the lower roof outside my hotel windows that don’t open. Can’t understand why they sit on their eggs if they don’t know what’s in them. Must be more than instinct. They probably saw other eggs hatching, or remember their own hatching since it wasn’t so long ago, or just common sense, some shiny time capsule pops out of you something’s obviously there.. not rocket science.. unless you’re casey anthony..
We would like to inform you about your uploaded footage on youtube.
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcwPS-ERawA
A small 5 second part of your uploaded footage will be used in a digital adidas campaign, for adidas International Marketing BV, Amsterdam. This digital campaign will run from September 2011 until March 2012 on adidas.com/ucltickets and links to social media. We have tried to contact you without getting a response. In case you are the original owner of the used 5 seconds of footage and/or you think you have specific rights to this 5 second clip, please contact: adidas@tbwa.nl
If you are NOT the owner of the footage or the person in the clip, please excuse us for contacting you. You can consider this mail as not sent and delete it.
[this is the compensation multibillion dollar corporation adidas offered! can you believe it?!?!? The company revenue for 2009 was listed at €10.38 billion and the 2008 figure at €10.80 billion.- wikipedia]
COMPENSATION: If you agree on terms and conditions and we finally select your footage to be part of the librabry, we can offer one official Adidas product[!?!?!?] for the use of +/-5 seconds of your footage. You can choose this adidas product from the ADIDAS_ PRODUCT_LIST which is attached to this mail. For this we need your permission stated and signed on an ADIDAS_RIGHTS_RELEASE_FORM. We will provide this ADIDAS_RIGHTS_RELEASE_FORM together with the ADIDAS_PRODUCT_PICK document a.s.a.p. when you want to participate.
[Sorry folks, ain't gonna cheat me on this one.. no more corporate screwing the lil' guy]
Thank you for your respons. We would not want to use your clip illegally. Becease we did not get a respons on sent emails we started the legal procedure. Of course we want do offer you a compensation that suits.
Instead of a product we can offer you a financial compensation. Please read below.
For the use of ± 5 seconds of your footage we can offer you €250,- (euro’s)
Please let us know what you think.
You will need to agree on term and conditions as stated on a ADIDAS RIGHTS RELEASE FORM. (find attached)
Ok, thank you for the reply. We respect your point of view. In fact we are just sorry as we think your video would really suit this project.
Just to let you know. I hope we could make clear to you what we are asking. The 10k compensation you are reffering to is not based on realistic fees. I actually can tell based on experience in non-commercial and commercial productions.
Yes it is an Adidas project, but the offer we made to you is more in line with what the commercial use of 3 to 5 seconds of amature or pre-shot (stock)footage on the internet for a period of 1 year would cost. This is not a heavy Adidas TV campaign which we talk about. Its an online ticket promotion of a rather creative online platform.
Are you a professional? The shot we’d like to use is of such quality actually.
If you would be interested, we are willing to go back to our financial backoffice to see if we could work out a more workable fee for you.
And what about a non-exclusive license so you can keep all the rights to yourself, but just approve that adidas uses it to for this purpose.
When you really don’t want anything to do with this all, you will have my word: we won’t bather you again.
Have a good night
Rather than do uneventful daily vlogs i choose to wait & spend time on meticulously crafted episodes since it makes no difference to my daily viewcount. Everyone thinks the more you post on youtube the better, forgetting top youtubers were overpromoted unlike the rest of us may ever be, so why repell the audience with a channel full of mundane fragments & not rewarding, satisfying experiences. Or maybe best do both.. Time to get out there..
June 2011, Hyde park London. Best decision to get some sun before the dark 10 hour Seattle flight. Deprived as ever, every cell in my body screams for a lil’ solar photosynthesis, i feel naturally rising endorphins & tryptophan / serotonin / dopamine levels.
or maybe it’s from this pulse raising bikini hottie inches near me..
on the way up the escalator a cutie let me snap her over my shoulder but then turned cold in the park & wouldn’t talk.. “hey would you like revenue sharing when your image goes viral, no? okay bye!”
..some lolling waitress brightened my day when she asked “what do you put on youtube?” answer: “y☺u” ..
and who could forget the fluffy redhead form the vag-eatarian resto on neil street, wawaweewa
this english green eyed lady was sooo nice, i should use the “see my etchings” invite more often while in the area..
London tourist attraction Janowell the french busker uplifits moods in leicester square for over a decade now.. these typically friendly bon vivant italians celebrate their “hen night” bachelorette party.. condolences.. party’s over.. r.i.p freedom, last chance & dance..
red bullshit piss sugar stimulant.. guess she needs it to stay awake for you know what.. don’t we all.. you snooze you lose..
Rod Stewart & Bon jovi performed yet another summer Hyde park concert. Some drunk women went wild prancing to “Maggie may”.
while peeping toms got free views & footage through the peephole.
legal loophole: recording the misdemeanor crime of “Criminal threatening” (see wikipedia) for mankind’s greater good. courtesy youtube.com/definethelaw
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