Brevity: The Business Song

I still do loads of jingles, even though the work load piles on, I am really happy when I go back and take a listen to some of the ones I have done.

I did one for a really great company called Brevity. They do a lot for small business, and you should go check them out.

The cool thing is that their website opens with a movie that is animated to a jingle I wrote called The Business Song. It is witty, wordy, and very inspiring I think. Its a bit “inside baseball”, but I think you get the idea of how this is a cool thing for a website to have. I was proud to be a part of this process.

Watch the Video Here

Here is a screenshot of some of the scenes.

My Ustream Concert

Last night I invited hundreds personally into my living room. Well, virtually.

Yes, it was another one of my streaming live shows on Ustream.tv. My friend Rick Yaeger reminded me that it was a year ago Nov 11th, that I did an accidental live show from my studio. I twittered that I was writing and recording in my studio, and before you knew it, I had hundreds of people show up in the Ustream chat room and request songs. Thus setting the ground for more live streaming all request shows that I have been doing over the past year. I never really have a set plan, I just do them when I feel like it, but they are always fun and people are soooooo amazing and kind when they show up to watch me interact with them.

Dave Moyer even wrote such a kind blog about it here.

So did the MacMommy as she described how she and her son danced the night away while they watched my show. Read about that here.

Here is the show from last night

Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV

Here is what it looked like with me playing along and interacting with the chatroom

Geoff Smith Live on Ustream from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.

More coverage about my Jingle Contest Win

The Nashville Scene, our own really cool free paper, had a cool post about me winning the Nashville MTA jingle contest.

Read it here

Also the Nashvillest blogged it too. Check out that post here

Of course the song is here
» Listen to “Brand New Way”

My iYule App was on Conan O’Brien

Holy Cow!!!! Conan O’Brien just did a hilarious bit about countdown clocks and one of the gags featured the iYule.

Cali Lewis, Paul Colligan, and I made iYule last Christmas, which is a great little video of the Yule Log and Christmas music that works on iPhones, iPods, Zunes, Apple TVs, etc.

And while I have a moment to plug it, iYule is still ready for your holidays. Get one, and portions of proceeds help some of our favorite charities.

Check out the segment on Conan

I just won the Big Gig Jingle Contest

I just has won the Music City Central (MCC) BIG GIG Jingle Contest this past week and you can of course listen to the winning jingle right here.

 

My jingle, titled “Brand New Way” edged out 91 others for the top prize. I got $1,500 cash (donated by corporate sponsor Balfour Beatty Construction), special recognition, and earned the opportunity to perform at the October 24th Grand Opening. Awesome, huh? I am totally stoked!!!!

 

» Listen to “Brand New Way”

 

The jingle contest was to promote the opening of its new downtown transit station MCC, and was open to anyone ages 15 and older who live in the Nashville Metro Services Area. 

 

Each entry had to be an original, 60-second jingle in any genre promoting MCC and the many benefits of public transportation. Celebrity judges and industry experts, including those who work on Music Row, chose the winner. 

 

The celebrity judges included: Kirk Whalum (Grammy-nominated musician); Beverly Keel (Tennessean columnist); Tim Fink (Vice President Writer/Publisher Relations for SESAC, Inc.); Paul Kwami (Musical Director for Fisk Jubilee Singers); Woody Wood and Jim Chandler (Woody & Jim, 107.5 The River); Karen Leipziger (KBA Award-Winning Publicist); Deen Entsminger (Belmont University music professor and bus rider); Thomas F. “Freddie” O’Connell (MTA Board member); and Otho Webster (Division Vice President Balfour Beatty Construction, corporate sponsor for the contest.)

Humanety Auction

I have been asked to participate in a really neat new idea for charity, called Humanety.

 

Humanety is an innovative new method of aiding charities.  Fans bid on auctions to meet their favorite celebrities, and this helps raise awareness and funds for worthy causes. These meetings are conducted over Internet video conference, and shared with the world via the Humanety web site. Our celebrity participants, or “Humanetarians” as we call them, are leaders of any sphere or discipline: world famous entertainers, business leaders, sports legends, musicians and authors.

“Humanety was created as a new way to help support and promote a wide variety of worthwhile causes.  My team and I have had the remarkable opportunity to get to know some of the most interesting and influential people of recent history.  We want everyone to have the chance to not just meet but get to know the leaders who have inspired or positively affected their lives.  Humanety enables these once-in-a-lifetime meetings, gives the whole world a chance to know these people a little better and learn more about the vital causes they actively support.”  - Michael Campbell, CEO & Founder

I am honored to be a part of this, not really thinking of myself as a “celebrity” but more of a person that likes to show his face around the inter-webs.

Check out the site and even join in the auction. I’ll be doing a little private one on one concert for the winner and all the money goes to my charity of choice, Songs of Love.

My interview on Effing the Dog

The very witty and talented Mike Vardy has me on his show, Effing the Dog,  this week to chat about what I am up to these days. 

Check out the interview here at the Effing the Dog Podcast

My appearance on This Week In Tech

This week I was on the TWiT panel with Leo Laporte, Jason Calicanis and Andrew Horowitz.

 

The main theme this week is the financial markets as well as the impact of the economy on tech, Chrome trust, I’m a PC adverts, TechCrunch50, LemonDroppin’, and at the end a really nice plug for RingtoneFeeder.

Check out TWiT 161 or simply Listen to the entire show right here.

Singing on TWiT Live in Las Vegas

I finally have some video of my appearance on TWiT Live at the New Media Expo’08 in Las Vegas.

Thanks to Charles and Dayna for posting these:

 
Geoff Smith @ New Media Expo ‘08 in Vegas w/ Leo LaPorte (8/15/08) from Charles Stepczyk on Vimeo.

 

 

The Rose Remix is up on iTunes!!!

Its been two and a half years since I released the song “Rose” on my record Geoff Smith and the Tonewheels.

Yes, it was inspired by the character, Rose, from the new version of Doctor Who on the BBC. I tried to take my Ben Folds piano pop approach and mix it with some vaugue sci fi references and came up with a cool little pop song. At least I tried to.

Anyway, it is 2008 and I have remixed the song and it was first released on my Ones and 0s Dynamic Subscription album.  When you subscribe the the record, a whole year’s worth of bonus material comes automatically delivered to you straight to iTunes as an RSS feed (like a podcast).

It is also now on iTunes. It is the same song, just remixed in a bit more modern fashion. I am really proud of this song and I hope you go check it out. 

Here is the Remix version of the song set to the same original “Fantastic Rose” video that a Doctor Who Fan made a few years ago.

 
 

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