on making a video about chronic pain
Hey! Were you thinking just now that you want to hear even MORE about my chronic pain?! Actually, this time it's more about how I made the video about my pain…
First Annual Yuvi Update (2015 Edition)
Hello there. I’m what you’d call A Crappy Blogger. But I want to give a quick update (to the both of you) about what I’m up to. (The one word summary: !#%€>@?) ...
the best writing machine that (almost) fits in your pants
As is my tendency, let me start out with the bad: the new iPhone 6 Plus is big and awkward and confusing to get around with. Living with this thing is weird and requires me to walk around in shame with a dreaded man purse. Even so, I am keeping this damn thing. It is the best mobile device I've ever used for writing... [WARNING: LONG IPHONE REVIEW AHEAD!!!]
On publishing stuff at medium.com...
So I've been re-publishing a few of my published stories on medium.com this month. Medium can be described as many things, but one thing it is... is a site that looks beautiful where people can self-publish their writing. It has been on my mind to do this, because many websites - even sites that post amazing content - are not so pretty. Either they are poorly designed or they have intrusive advertising or something else. I have no grand plans here, I just thought it would be fun to post a few of my favorite stories on this uncluttered site so a few people could read and enjoy them. Or at least if they don't enjoy them - it is entirely my fault. So here they are, in case you want to check a few of them out. Most are quite short...
Questionably useful flowchart about my podcast
Here is a flowchart (with slightly nonsensical links) describing how you can support my podcast. Hint: doesn't involve money. Or doing much of anything...
Closed for retooling + Is this video funny?
This post is an update about my audio+video projects. It also contains a nearly amusing video...
What's a podcast app and why should I give a shit?
There's an enormous disparity between my geek friends and my literary friends when it comes to how they listen to podcasts. While my geek friends argue over the subtle quirks between their seven favorite podcast apps (aka podcatcher, aka podcast client), quite a few of my literary friends don't know what the hell a podcast app is. And when they do listen to a podcast episode, they do it by going to a website from a browser on their computer and clicking play. I want to change this. Not the part about us geeks arguing over trivial features – no one can stop that, it’s a force of nature – but I want stop this method of playing podcast episodes from the browser...
Not exactly a village, but it takes quite a few bad asses
[blog post] I'm doing this Creative Turn thing as a solo project. It's an exhausting racket. A labor of love that often feels like it has an emphasis on the labor part. (Don't worry… this isn't going to turn into a request for $$$!) I spend hours and hours in my attic working through the edits of the audio and the video. I'm the one learning how to stumble my way through tools like Final Cut Pro X at night when my family is asleep. I'm the one paying for the site and servers and services to make this thing work. I'm the one who can't sleep, worrying about whether spending all this time on these projects is going to feel meaningful in the end, or if it will kill me. I'm on this sinking ship alone... But that's a dishonest story...
17.5% less sucky
[blog post] The week that John Gruber and Merlin Mann linked to my video tribute of their SXSW conversation, I started (temporarily) getting 8,000 hits a day on my website. As opposed to the previous 50 hits a day. I don’t count these things too closely, but it was a shocking change. Why am I telling you this? Well, because numbers are tricky...
It's Complicated
So I originally decided to do this podcast thing because I thought it would be an easier way to share more things with y'all while pursuing my little video-making obsession. Figured that I might as well share the original audio from the conversation that inspired the video. Two products from one process. Brilliant. Right? Well, that's bullshit...