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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 5:00 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

More Eventi Controversy. New Program Properties. CPR Conversion Project Soon. New Web Sites Online This Fall. DJ Career Resumes In 2012.

I’m DJ Frontier, and I’m here to let everyone know what’s going on.
I’ve been very busy with my photography career lately, as well as web site work. I’ve been working a lot with models and talent, too. Just recently, a prominent fashion model was looking at my photography work, and she told me that she liked my style, and that she’d like to work with me. I smiled. It’s nice to know that I have style, especially since most of my photography work is more commercial, and I haven’t even started in on fashion photography, yet. I’m a designer and an artist, though, so the progression is natural. I just need more equipment to make it happen.
I did a headshot shoot with an actress a few days ago, and we were talking about entertainment and art while we worked. I let her hear some samples of my DJ programs on my computer while I designed her headshots and adjusted image files. She told me that they were brilliant, and that she had never heard anything like them before. I smiled again, and told her that the program that she was listening to, Party Zone 2, was made in 1994. It’s amazing that something old can be new again, which would be the case if it’s the first time that you’ve heard it. Regardless, though, I’ve always been ahead of my time.
Ahead of my time? Well, here are some examples.
In 1991, I had a task force for my fraternity, Alpha Beta Delta, work on a new type of event called an Interactive Theme Event, or ITE. We tested many new concepts in event technology. In 1998, I had my first full scale prototype Interactive Theme Event, and it was an outstanding success, although I haven’t gotten around to fabricating and deploying Interactive Theme Events commercially for clients (and it will be a while before that happens, too, as they will be expensive to build and maintain, and are particularly resource-intensive. Although ITE concepts will be used in some of my large events, such as the Reverence Film Festival, it’s going to take a while to be able to produce them in a cost-effective manner. Originally, I was thinking that these events would be booked by clients as an elaborate event, but with costs now ten times what they originally were, and logistics and staff support requirements being like that for a major theater production or production for a feature independent film, they will be too expensive for the average client; it would take a large company to pay for one of them, and for a four hour event, it will even be expensive for them. My Interactive Theme Events will be logistically handled much like a complicated stage play, and would be produced like a play by my stage production company. We will have sponsors, a playbill, and would charge admission. When the Interactive Theme Events finally happen, though, they will be really spectacular!). In 1992, I designed a new concept for a stage show production. I showed some actress friends from my theater class in 1993. They looked at my illustrations, and one of them traced her fingers over the curves of an arch over a stage. She asked me where the band went. I told her that there was no band, and that the DJ ran everything from a pod-like DJ booth while professional dancers performed routines on the stage (this was designed just before I became DJ Frontier, so there was a “DJ Wiz Kid” marquee in the drawing. If I can find it, I’ll scan it one day and will show it online AFTER the stage production debuts). There were multimedia components, too, and as I described to the girls how the production worked, their eyes lit up. They had never seen anything like it before.
In 1993, I worked at a television station learning television production through the University of Tampa. I had realized at that time that, as an entertainment professional, that I had a lot of talent, but that I required more training and experience to turn that talent into skill. I had plenty of time, too, as many of my concepts could not be done at that point in time in a cost-effective manner due to the limitations of the technology which was available in the early 1990's. Everything at the time was still analog, and I had to work with what was available. Still, I knew that video and filmmaking would be a necessary component of not just my entertainment career, but with my DJ career as well. I worked on a new type television series called Futura, which 1994's Futura GEN 3 pilot cassette program release was supposed to tie into, and designed a television studios set which was so far ahead of its time that current television program studio sets don’t even come close (and I know this because I’ve been able to study television studio sets closely over the years, as well as the technology which drove them). The Futura TV Series set design and concept is still so classified that I can’t show it 18 years later. I’m still debating if I’m going to do it, and regardless of what I decide, I may eventually disclose it. If I decide to make Futura into an online television series, and I could do that with only minimal adjustments to the format (perhaps a name change, if that), I’ll have to show the set. If I decide against it, I may elect to show the set design online at some point sooner, rather than later. It’s just that so many excellent concepts, and revolutionary technologies, were developed when I worked on Futura. One feature of Futura, using the Amiga-based Scala program and the video toasters of the era, was an augmented reality “Hyperscreen” format where additional information about topics would be explored; I came up with this concept before augmented reality was even conceived of, back in the days where virtual reality was the buzzword of the decade. That same format will be used in my upcoming online television series with me as DJ Frontier, Frontier View. Even the cybersuit technology, which will become my trademark, was born in those days.
So, now, two decades later, technology had finally advanced to the point where I can finally do all of this, and much more. That stage production that I showed the girls in 1993? It will be done, as-is, with few adjustments to the format and design needed, by my stage production company soon.
I’ll write more about this later. For now, it is on to current news about what I’ve been working on in my DJ, event planning, and stage production careers.

Eventi Controversy Continues
Sigh....... My oldest company has to be renamed...... AGAIN.
I intend for this to be the last time.
Obviously, this will also affect the branding for the sister stage production company, too.
First, let me recap the history of the many names of my event planning company.

Party Systems Incorporated (PSI)
In 1990, I started by event planning company as a mobile DJ’ing company called Party Systems Incorporated, or PSI for short. I also designed my famous arrowhead logo, which was based on the logo design for the Alpha Beta Delta Fraternity, which in turn was based on the curves of a wine glass; This logo is still used today, and it will be used in the future. At the time, though, I was not known for my mobile DJ’ing. I began DJ’ing as DJ Wiz Kid, and I used that name because, well, I was still just a kid; a kid with a lot of cool ideas, but little experience; what I lacked in experience, though, I more than made up with in smarts and creativity. I was known for my underground DJ’ing and my series of mix tapes, under my Underground Label Production Network (Don’t quote me on that last part, as I need to research my journals and paperwork from that era. I think that the ULP was given its name in 1991, or maybe 1993. I had a LOT of down time in 1992 to go over everything and plan things out, though, when you have nothing and spend lots of time just sitting around with notebooks.)
In the Summer of 1991, I began to use photocopy machines to make crude covers for my mix tape programs. With no computers, I designed my covers with hand-written text and re appropriated photographs from various sources.
There was an event riot at one of my events on November 2, 1991, in Apollo Beach. The local people still talk about that party, as it was infamous. The repercussions from that riot destroyed my underground production infrastructure, which gave me some down time and time to retool everything. I sat down and planned out the future.
1992 sucked. I spent most of that year losing everything that I loved, and surviving (well, at least for six months). I remember walking around with a copy of Party Zone and Waveform in my pocket, though. I still look back at 1992 and recall it as being the worst time of my life, as well as something that I did not deserve to go through. I mean, come on! When you’re young, you make mistakes. You are supposed to make mistakes. I was condemned for mine, and I seriously think that certain people over reacted to what I did. 1992, in my opinion, was a result of being grossly misunderstood. It’s not like I was a drunk or was on drugs; I’ve never been on drugs, and quit drinking in 1991. Riots tend to make you want to stay sharp when you’re out in public.
F*** my ex best “friend” and a certain girl for the hell that was 1992, though. I wouldn’t have done that to them if the situation was reversed. I was the only one being real and genuine in that situation, and because I was a true friend, I paid for my loyalty to my “friends”. I know that he likes to make me a scapegoat, and blame me for him getting involved with her, but get real. He was the only one who “benefitted” from being with her, and the only way that his blame would even make sense is if he were also admitting to being weak and controlled by me. He made his own decisions, and needs to take responsibility for them. Were you weak? Were you? Regardless, what happened to me was something that I did not deserve, and it is something that I wouldn’t wish on anyone! I will never forget the hell that was 1992.
Oh, and after she was done with her “relationship” with him, she married a fat man in late 1998 who is, in my opinion, a con artist. He made her have two children with him so that she would stay with him, although I suspect that she cheats on him, and he knows it and tolerates it (as my ex-best friend told me in 1998, as their marriage disintegrated, you can’t turn a whore into a housewife). She ended up with the right “man” for her, and I smile knowing that she will never be happy. Never, ever, and she deserves her miserable, shallow, un fulfilling life (and if she really is happy with that, she really is an idiot). How can she be happy, when she was practically bought? Fate surely does have a sense of humor. My life is so much better because she is no longer a part of it.

Advanced Entertainment Systems (AES)
In 1993, it was time to start over. I changed my DJ name from DJ Wiz Kid to DJ Frontier on February 25, 1993. Party Systems Incorporated became Advanced Entertainment Systems. My friends and I formed my underground subculture, the Frontier Society, on October 26, 1993. The Frontier Society is still active today, with a membership roster which is secret, well, because it is an underground subculture, and I predict massive growth in the coming years.
Regardless of when I started calling my underground DJ label the Underground Label Production Network (ULP), it became Geomedia Productions in 1993, as new standards were adopted for my upcoming DJ releases as DJ Frontier. I made up the word Geomedia to describe the multimedia nature of my productions. Unknown to me, in 1994, a year AFTER I made up the word, some software company trademarked Geomedia, something which I would not know of for over a decade, as I did not get onto the Internet for another three years, it would be four before I had a computer, and it would be even longer before I even knew how to check those things out online.
In 1994, I began producing my new, 3rd Generation of Cassette Program Releases under the name DJ Frontier. This would last for four years, during which time I would produce ten GEN 3 releases as DJ Frontier. Although I retained the DJ Wiz Kid name, I never DJ’ed under it again, and maintained it to tie in the release line under that name with the current one.
Also in 1994, I wanted my own pictures to be used for my release covers, and I started a photography and design company to support my creative projects. The GEN 3 releases would have release covers which were of more professional quality, and I even subcontracted graphic designers to create templates for those covers. On June 10, 1994, Aurora PhotoArts began operations. Although I was not a photographer at the time, and I didn’t have the tools to do professional design work, I subcontracted a lot. I began to learn photography in 1998, and that same year I finally obtained the computer and other tools to start professional design work. I learned web site design that year, and since those new sites required images, I began to do more and more photography. In 2000, after I became involved with a model and a designer named Diana who I worked with on shoots every weekend, I finally turned pro as a photographer, and it became a business offering services to the public in 2001.
I did my last Cassette Program Release in 1998. There were many reasons. First, I was doing a lot of photography and design work. I was also writing a lot, and creating web sites. Second, fewer people had cassette players, and my audience for mix tapes was shrinking. Third, I was planning GEN 4 releases, which would have been on CD.
As a DJ, though, I was doing a lot of mobile DJ’ing, and DJ’ing weddings. It wasn’t what I expected, though.

Horizons Entertainment
In 1997, as DJ Frontier, I finally obtained all of my mobile DJ’ing equipment and started working as a mobile DJ. In honor of my third release, Horizons, which was under my DJ Wiz Kid name and was my first hit, I renamed Advanced Entertainment Systems “Horizons Entertainment”.
I was happy with the third name of my event planning and DJ company. I even designed an awesome logo for it.
Despite doing mobile DJ’ing and wedding receptions, though, it was not my passion. Most of my mobile DJ’ing was DJ’ing corporate events for tough crowds, and I spent most of my time suppressed, playing requested music and not being able to tell them that I was DJ Frontier. Wedding were worse for me, and although I did a good job, dealing with drunk fathers of the bride was not fun.
Still, although my underground DJ work came to a halt in 1998, I spent the next few years doing mobile DJ work and DJ’ing weddings as more and more of my work was spent as a photographer. Joy!
Oh, and my current production studio, Geomedia 3, was commissioned in 1999. It was there where I planned on resuming my underground DJ work with new GEN 4 releases, this time on CD’s! The GEN 4 CD releases would have been my first releases produced entirely on computer workstations, and would have been the first releases to have professionally designed covers! Still, with CD”s being limited to 70 minutes of audio, when I was used to working with formats of 90 minutes, was the first of many wrinkles to my plan. Doing the releases as MP3's did cross my mind, but remember that both computers and Internet bandwidth were not great back then; downloading a 5 Meg MP3 of a song off of Napster was not that big of a deal, but a 90 Meg release would have been too much. Also, storage was an issue. The computer that I had in 1999 only had a 4 Gig hard drive and 32 Megs of RAM!

Dimension Stageforms
In 2001, I was horrified (as I am now, with me having to rename the company again) to learn that Horizons Entertainment was trademarked, as “Horizons Entertainment and Events”, or something like that, by a New Jersey company. I renamed the company Dimension Stageforms, which I never really liked.
Around this time, my GEN 4 CD releases were also in limbo. I had CD burners, but the computers were too limited to do much production on them without spending a lot of money on hardware and software.
On December 7, 2002, I DJ’ed my last wedding reception and made myself audit dozens of wedding receptions DJ’ed by other DJ’s in 2003 (I was working at a job which was used as a wedding venue every weekend, and was paid to observe them work). I went back to school as far as DJ’ing weddings, and had my senior DJ Marlon Brown, help, as Marlon is the best wedding DJ in Tampa Bay, in my opinion. My hiatus in DJ’ing wedding continues to this day (Marlon and I did a wedding for friends a few years ago, but he DJ’ed, and I did photography), nine years later. Oh, wait, I helped my brother DJ one last year, so maybe not!
I will return to DJ’ing weddings soon.
Also around 2002, my photography career went into high gear, and I was too busy working as a photographer to do much in events or DJ’ing. This will change.

Eventi Events
With me hating the Dimension Stageforms name, I renamed the company Eventi Events in 2004. While rebranding, I also realized that the legal and licensing requirements conflicted, and that Eventi Events could not do everything that I wanted it to do, such as stageplays and film festivals. So, I split the company into Eventi Events and Eventi Stage.
Eventi Events does parties, theme events, wedding receptions, and other event services for clients.
This said, I was not crazy about the Eventi name, either, but it was better than Dimension Stageforms.

Eventi Stage
Eventi Stage was spun off from Eventi Events because I realized, through continued development of my event planning and stage production projects, that the specifications for certain endeavors conflicted. So, Eventi Events and Eventi Stage became a binary company, with Eventi Events being the event planning and DJ company, and for-profit, and the Eventi Stage company was slated to become a non-profit. Eventi Stage, brand aside, is a non-profit company which will be producing my stage productions, stageplays, film festivals, industry events, video game festivals, and charity events.
Another reason that a stage company was needed is because of the legal differences of using copyrighted material. A mobile DJ is already in a legally gray area, in my opinion, because their music is only licensed for personal use and not for public performance; DJ’s still make a business of this, though, and that’s fine. When you have to use copyrighted material, like music, as a component of an original production, though, the legal requirements are different, and it needs to be licensed. Using copyrighted music in productions is a lot different than using it in a public performance, in my opinion, and this is one of the main reasons that I had to split the company.
The stage company is important to me for yet another reason, too. One of the reasons that I hated mobile DJ’ing and DJ’ing weddings is that I worked for a client, and basically had to program the event for the client. This had limitations. With events which I produced, which could be either through Eventi Events or Eventi Stage, depending if it needed to be non-profit or not, I had total creative control over the events. THIS is what I had in mind all along, and it’s also the reason that people wanted me as a DJ, having becoming fans. Why book me as a DJ because you like my work, and then tie my hands because you want things your way? When I can’t do what you loved in the first place, it kind of becomes a recipe for being dissatisfied, and I really do not like DJ’ing that way.
As DJ Frontier, you can expect me to be doing mostly original events which people have to buy tickets to, and events with paid sponsorships. I want total creative control not only because that’s what I envisioned DJ’ing to be all along, but because I need to protect the brand of my name. I do not, and will not, consider myself to be a traditional mobile, or wedding, DJ!
Want me to DJ your wedding or private event? You’ll do it on my terms, or you’ll pay a lot more to book me. For those, you have my event planning company, and my other DJ’s. Besides, for events such as weddings, I’ll be too busy doing photography, which, unlike DJ’ing, the client does not try to micro manage or dictate. Problem solved.
It took me a while to figure this all out, believe it or not. I was like “I have a passion for music, and for people, and love DJ’ing, but why do I hate doing weddings and private parties so much?”. I figured it out, and came up with a solution for my complexities.

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So, regarding the here and now, I have to rename my company again. A few days ago, I did a check, and discovered that some hotel did not bother looking around the Internet in 2007, and they trademarked “Eventi”. Although I am sure that I could dispute this if they ever challenged me, I’d rather pour my time and resources into a brand which is not high-risk. Thus, I have decided to re brand, hopefully for the last time.
Since I will soon be making a lot of money with my photography and design company, I now have the resources to start trademarking things properly, too. This will be expensive, and a pain in the ass, but I’m really getting sick of people infringing upon my properties, regardless of if it is unknowingly or knowingly. I’m getting tired of it. My parents heard me complaining about Eventi over the weekend, and I was told that I needed to find a way to start trademarking things. It first happened with Geomedia, and despite people calling me a thief, I still call my studio by its commissioned name of Geomedia 3, which it had in 1999. There have been other instances, too, but really, it’s time to pour time and money into protecting these brands.
This much is for certain, though. My event planning and stage production companies will still be separate stand-alone companies, although they will be sister companies, and both share the same common branding.
In October 2010 I seriously attempted to change the Eventi brand back to Horizons, and I still retain that option. Of course, the brand would not be Horizons Entertainment. The alternate brands would be Horizons Productions (Formerly Eventi Events), for parties and events, and Horizons Stage (Formerly Eventi Stage) for stage productions, theater, and Interactive Theme Events. I still have not decided if I will go with these brands or not, but if I do, I could always recycle the logo design for Horizons Entertainment. I have all summer to consider alternate brands, for sure.

New DJ Program Properties In The Works
Last night I found one of Diana’s burned CD-R’s in the studio, and thought that it was what was marked on the case. It wasn’t. It was one of her weird, but cool, industrial / techno / electronica / ambient CD’s that she burned for me 11 years ago (has it really been that long? It seemed like it was last weekend! I do miss Diana staying the weekends). I spent a good thirty minutes cruising along on I-75 trying to figure out what group it was; she always had great taste in music. Track 4, though, inspired me to create yet another property brand, a mish mash of and industrial music called “Blend”. I toyed with the title “Blender”, too, but thought that the latter was more of a cliche at this point since it it has been used a lot. So, add a weird upcoming GEN 5 release to the list, “Blend”.
If Diana ever visits again, I also have her stack of fashion magazines in the back that she can have, as well as other things (after living and working with models for the past ten years, I keep finding all sorts of interesting things, including new packages of unopened makeup over five years old, hair clips, a curling iron, lip stick, comp cards, CD’s, CD cases, massage oils, suntan lotion, jewelry, and bras. It’s like a museum of modeling history in here; everything found, too, is boxed and inventoried. Being a photographer as well as a leader in the modeling industry puts me in situations which no DJ ever experiences, for sure. One of the models joked the other day that I’d find a model lost back in the library one day who would still be thinking that it’s 2002, as there is a lot of clutter in there, although the model didn’t know that I cleaned it and organized it a few weeks ago, and I didn’t find any models back there). Models and their reading material. Oh, and she can also have our green light bulb, too. I still have it, it still works, and I haven’t used it since. Long story, don’t ask. She’ll remember.

CPR (Cassette Program Release) Conversion Project Status
I have plans this weekend, BUT I should have time to, finally, begin converting my library of tapes to MP3 programs. I have the computer that I needed, now, and I just need to spend a few hours interfacing equipment and balancing everything out. I also need to finalize the digital file format. Since I’ll be incredibly busy with my photography and design business in the coming weeks and months, as well as working with a lot of models, I’ll be converting about three to four releases a week, which means that I should be finished converting the releases to digital releases in about three months. That means that they will not be ready until late September at the earliest. I have time, and I’ll take the time to do this right. If done by September, this project, in total, will have taken about two years since Marlon and I had our dinner meeting and I was inspired to get back into DJ’ing (what can I say? I’m dedicated, despite not being able to get a hold of Marlon since then). It will take another year, at least, before I’m doing events again, so call it an even three years from being inspired to taking action. I don’t rush things, and do it right, especially when I had to take all of that time to work on the details.
There is more news, too, regarding both the properties developed from the conversion project, as well as the entire upcoming GEN 5 Digital Program Release production line. I’m doing this more for historical preservation, personal use, and event support. I will not be re-releasing the releases, although, because I am a perfectionist and a completist, and because I have to follow the format that I’ve refined over the last 22 months, the converted programs will have covers, notes, and everything else that the GEN 5 releases will have.
Hell, I might event get that USB microphone that I’ll be using for the GEN 5 and Commercial releases, and might record and attach extra content to all of the finalized converted tapes. For me, it’s all about artistic integrity, and immortality. If I decide to do this, it’ll kick those program sizes up to about 100 Megs, or more, each, from 90 Megs. If I add an extra 30 minutes of bonus program commentary to the end of each release, you can expect them to weigh in at around 120 Megs each (for my library of 30 classic cassette program releases, that will be 3.6 Gigs; round it up to 4 Gigs).
Then we have the upcoming GEN 5 releases, and, if you look at my production que, it will take me at least two to two and a half years to finish all of those releases. Keep in mind, though, that the GEN 5 technology and production protocols where NOT designed for underground releases. GEN 5 is the new standard for all of my audio production work for the next decade, and its protocols and production technology was created for my new commercial program line, my podcasts, and the support of my online television, video game, and indie film projects. The underground release line was never the goal of all of this work and detail, but it benefits from it, directly, by default. Making the underground line the priority would have been a mistake, anyway, because I cannot sell or market those releases, or offer them as downloads. The underground release line, which includes the converted cassette programs and the GEN 5 Digital Program Release line, is primarily for event support, promotion, personal use, and for experimentation. The commercial release line, which will not mix with the underground line, will be much more refined, with more work done in those releases, and copyright clearance on everything. The commercial releases will be marketed, will have small highlight mixes, preview programs done for free downloads/ streaming, and will be sold, primarily using a download business model.
I will have three podcast series. I will have a Horizons series which ties into Frontier Pop, which will be primarily a talk format, I will have an Advanced Model podcast series for my Advanced Model web site and my modeling resource sites, and I will have a more entertainment orientated podcast series with more music, and more of what makes the first one good. The latter would be only available as a paid download, and like the commercial releases, it, too, would have a preview version to wet the appetite and obtain the interest of our target audience.
Then there is my Frontier View online television series, but I’ll write more about that in a future post. I hope to begin filming the television series this fall, and the pilot, the first episode with most of the exposition, would debut at one of my film festivals next year, and after the debut at the events, would then be available free of charge online, or sold as a download.
Regarding my GEN 5 Digital Program Releases, though, it is a continuation of a long line of historic DJ programs going back over 20 years. I just want to be able to hook up an iPod Touch to my car system and cruise along jamming to both historic classic releases, and some of my newest, most ground-breaking experimental work. Just as importantly, too, most of these releases would also be played at my DJ events, as they would be used for event support.
That’s it. This is all very cool stuff!

New Web Site Online This Fall
At long last, this fall I will be developing, and launching, a series of web sites. These web sites are needed for what is coming in 2012.
The DJ Frontier, DJ Wiz Kid, and Tampa DJ Blog sites will be launched (or relaunched, in the case of the Tampa DJ Blog) as new Celebrity Class web sites.
The Tampa Music Festival, although it will interconnect with the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, will launch as a new Marquee Class site (which is related to the upcoming Dreadnought Class sites which will be used by the Tampa Bay Talent sites). It will be a major feature of my DJ and event sites.
My event planning/ production company, and my stage production company, will also launch with new web sites. The old Diana Class sites will be retired from front-line service, and I will be using a brand new web site design class for those sites. Both business sites, which could tie into a third, will also be highly interconnected with my DJ and music sites.

DJ Career Resumes In 2012
This year I will be working hard with my photography and design company as a photographer and as a designer. The money from that will be used to fund my indie film work and to set up support infrastructure for my event planning and stage production businesses. The web sites for my event planning and stage production businesses should be up and running this fall.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 8:00 AM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

Burning Domains - Scorched Earth Tactics Deter Cybersquatters

Oh, this is good. This is very, very good. I was on the phone with Ann and one of our friends last night, and I came up with a rather brilliant solution for my cybersquatter infestation (Can you tell that I'm pissed off over losing half a week of web work over this ongoing problem?).
Cybersquatters, go ahead. Go right ahead. You go out and buy my discarded domain names. From now on, I guarantee that it will be more trouble than it is worth.
Effective immediately, if I decide to get rid of a domain name, I will make sure that it is ruined before I release it. Anyone who decides to buy my leftovers will find those domain names useless by the time that I get done with them. I’ll even make sure that net nanny and other software filter programs flag the domains, and that they are blocked from public computers. I will make sure that my discarded domain names are ruined before I get rid of them. I will also do this legitimately and ethically. No laws will be broken in sabotaging my decommissioned properties. I am very careful to make sure that everything that I do is legitimate.
Taking my old domain names is not so great of an idea now, isn’t it? You’re welcome!
I’m just sick and tired of these opportunists trying to take advantage of what I do. I’m also tired of being sidetracked from my work putting out fires caused by other people trying to take advantage of the scraps of my hard work. This latest B.S. was even by some local web developer who is now writing about “SEO” and other web crap. Yeah, SEO by buying discarded domain names! Pathetic. Real SEO is something that you do yourself; you don’t piggyback on someone else’s work! Why does this so-called web expert need to copy me? I take it that they know that I am better than they are at this?
I’d certainly avoid working with someone who cheats. F-ing fake!
So, go right ahead. Waste your money. You go ahead and pay money for my domains that you want, in the hope that I’ll eventually get rid of them. You will regret it, because I’ll burn those domains before I let them go, from now on.
Hopefully, this will force these people to either move on to other victims, or to start thinking for themselves and actually do honest work.
It’s kind of like an army outpost in a war, or a ship being abandoned. You sink the ship or burn down the outpost before it falls into enemy hands. My web sites will now be built with a self destruct option in mind, and I will sink those domain names before anyone else can use them.
I’d also just like to remind those people, again, of what I think of them. I think that they are the scum of the earth, and I hope that what they do catches up to them, and that they go to hell. Well, at the very least, my discarded domain names can join them there from now on. That’s good enough for me.
Those who lie, cheat, and steal should never benefit from what they do.
Regarding yesterday’s work to unlink my web sites to my discarded, misappropriated domain name, here are the numbers.

3 - It took me three days to edit the 35 web sites which were linked to the discarded domain name. I thought that it was 50 of my sites in an earlier post, but the final count was 35. Still, that’s a lot of sites!

3 - It took me 3 HOURS to upload all of those web site files, constantly uploading the entire time, to overwrite the existing web sites and refresh them on the server. All the links are now deleted.

6 - That’s one web site uploaded every 6 minutes, or 11.6 web sites uploaded an hour. Not bad, but a lot of aggravating work.

2 - The number of times that my FTP program crashed while uploading files. Tampa Bay Modeling, because the site is huge, was a pain in the butt to refresh.

0 - The value of the misappropriated domain name is to the person who took it, now that none of my sites link to it anymore.
You’re welcome, jerk!

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 4:00 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

Something About Eventi Events And Its Web Site

I’m busy uploading files, refreshing over 50 web sites on my server right now, which is going to take hours, so I’ll keep this brief.
Being a professional writer, and someone who is extremely creative, gives me the consistent ability to come up with good domain names which no one has thought of, and subsequently, has taken. Which leads us to the problem that I’ve been experiencing the past ten years working, and leading, on the web. Most of the time, when I come up with a the name for a domain name (and I don’t waste my time with any which are not .Com’s), they are available (and, yes, I also check with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to make sure that the name is not trademarked). For me, this affirms that most people on the Internet are clueless idiots. Either that, or I’m really, really good at what I do. I think that it is the former, as well as the latter. At the very least, however, this ability will give me a major advantage in my web site business, which is now handled through Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design, and it will benefit my clients. It will also give me an unbeatable advantage with any creative business which I do, which includes event planning and my advertising agency.
It has caused some issues, however, which continue to be a thorn in my side. In my opinion, I’m a victim of my own success, as well as of the unethical and unprofessional intentions of some opportunistic jerks.
About a month ago, I decided to cut back on some domain names and consolidate the web sites of some of my businesses. I had to clean house, so to speak. This decision was reached after I bought a ton of new marketing domain names earlier this year, domain names which also nicely doubled as operating domain names (see my upcoming Tampa Designer Blog for more about how this works. For the record, I will own over 100 domain names sometime next year, which is roughly 40 more than the 60 which I own now) . I had to rebuild some of those sites, anyway, especially Eventi Events, so it made sense to start over, especially since I won’t be doing much with the company until 2012 (and even then, it will mostly be with Eventi Stage, with the first of my film festival events rolling out and becoming operational. My network of film festivals and indie film events will take just under two years to completely roll out and begin their regular operational routines; see my Tampa Film Blog for more). The same went with my Tampa advertising agency, Eos MediaArts, which I won’t get to until late next year. So, I decided to let two domain names go, with the idea that they’d quit working, and I’d eventually get around to taking off the links to them from my sites.
Except that someone bought the event planning one as soon as it expired, and then linked it to a freebie wordpress account. Worse, yet, the rocket scientist who bought my abandoned domain name, with the obvious intent to take advantage of what I did with it AND benefit from 50 top ranked web sites linking to it, used a domain by proxy service, keeping the registration private, so I could not see who it was. Why did they do this? Are they a competitor, and they don’t want me to know who they are? Well, I’ll eventually find out, since it’s hard to run a business from a site without identifying yourself.
This person, in my opinion, is a jerk, and this is me extending my middle finger to them from my computer, to theirs. F... you!!!! I cursed you every minute for the past three days because I had to adjust the links on fifty web sites, as well as go through the content and remove the links that were there, too. This is a lot of extra work which I do not appreciate (had I realized that this was going to be this much of a hassle, I would have retained the domain names until I could phase them out, which is what I did with my TampaHub.Com site, and which is what I’ll be doing with the Tampa-Headshots.Com site). I’m supposed to be working on photography marketing and support sites right now, and I’ve been sidetracked, again, putting out fires with web sites.
Jerk!
I’ll be damned if I allow the page rank of my sites to boost the SEO performance of a competitor’s web site just because they misappropriated my leftovers.
If the person who did this (and it’s obvious that they saw that I had the domain name, they would not have thought of it on their own, and they wouldn’t have it now had I never had it to begin with) did so with the intention that 50 web sites linked to it and will help their agenda, I just want to let them know that this will not be the case. As of today, all the links going to the domain names which I’ve discarded are now removed from ALL of my web sites. There goes your advantage.
I suppose that there are drawbacks, and trade-offs, to any decision that you make, but I certainly do not appreciate people out there making the drawbacks more complicated, and more of a pain-in-the-butt, than they need to be.
Is anyone original anymore? Can’t people come up with things on their own?
What’s up with these people on the Internet? Usually, when I come up with a domain name, it’s available, because most people are morons and can’t come up with good domain names on their own (although, to be fair, some of these are not difficult domain names to come up with, and are no-brainers because they are made up of keywords). It’s only after I decide to get rid of the domain name that people buy it, immediately, after it expires. It’s pathetic.
And people wonder why I am suspicious of people, and why it’s hard for me to trust them. They also wonder why I assume the worst about someone until they prove otherwise. You’d be this way, too, and wisely so, if what happens to me happened to you. Most people, in my experience, are dishonest and insecure, and cannot be trusted. Most people lack the talent and experience to do what they want to do, and they will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead.
Not that I’m worried about competing with such unethical morons.
With my original Frontier Society (and I DO own the Frontier Society and its brand, as some friends and I founded this revolutionary underground subculture in 1993!) web site, I made a mistake transferring it from one Internet company to another, and a cybersquatter took it. At first, they tried to sell it back to me for $1,600.00. The cybersquatter then bought a lot of other domain names around my Frontier Society brand, obviously to trick my target market into visiting his site/ blog (I am 200% certain that this guy would not have a single one of those domain names, or even thought of Frontier Society, had I not bought it originally). This pissed me off. So, I obtained the less marketable Frontier-Society.Com, and used it as an operating site, and then came up with FrontierPop.Com as a marketing lead-in, so that my target audience would not be typing in Frontier Society domain names. Even better, since my operating Frontier Society site has lots of relevant content, anyone looking for it on a search engine finds the correct site easily, and the other misappropriated domains don’t even show up. Thus, the asshole cybersquatter now owns a bunch of useless domain names which will not benefit him as intended. I won.
It’s just weird that there are actually people out there who monitor what I do online, and then either buy what I abandon, or try to copy me. Isn’t anyone original? With competitors, how are you supposed to be able to compete with me if I come up with all of the good ideas, and you have to copy what I do and follow what I do? If I were looking at businesses, I certainly would not choose the third-rate counterfeit, and I’d choose the source, which is me. Regarding people trying to copy me, I don’t like it, and I will be looking into ways to address this in the near future. I don’t like being ripped off.
I understand that there are opportunists out there who make a business out of buying domain names, and paying for first dibs on them when they find a good one, hoping that the domain name will lapse by accident so that they can sell them back to the original owner for a lot of money, or use them for marketing whatever they are selling. In my opinion, this is unethical, it is wrong, and it is extortion when they try to rip off the original owner.
Although I would not do this to anyone, I did come close to doing something like this when I bought TampaFilmReview.Com, which pissed off the owner of a film festival. To be fair, however, he still owns the original domain name, and I have disclaimers all over the site so that people are not confused. The film festival owner also abandoned the brand, and I bought the domain name AFTER they did so. Had they continued doing business under that brand, I would have not used the domain name.
Believe it or not, I bought that domain name for the keywords, which are relevant, and not to benefit from the property of another person. Tampa Film Review, a Tampa Bay Film site, REVIEWS Tampa indie films, film festivals, filmmakers, and other things to do with independent film in Tampa Bay. That’s the truth, and that’s the reason why I bought it.
Many times, I’ve bought domain names, found out that it was close to what someone else was using, and then, offered to give them the domain name. That’s the difference between me and cybersquatters.
At any rate, I’m going to think twice before buying domain names in the future (I currently have a list of seven or eight domain names which I will not buy until I’m ready to use them. They are all still available, too, which is understandable because those moron cybersquatters and copy-cat jackals can’t read my mind, and they also cannot come up with those domain names without my unintended help. I have these future domain names filed on a computer which is completely secure, as it is not on the Internet. The odds that anyone will come up with them on their own are quite remote, especially all of them). If I buy them, I’m going to keep them. I’m also going to start renewing them for more than one year, and take additional measures to protect my properties. I, for one, am getting damn tired of these leeches and jackals out there trying to exploit my intellectual properties. I suppose that’s why they are little more than third-rate knock-offs, however, and why I am a leader in several markets. Listen up, guys, people want the real deal, which I am, and not some fake-ass poseur who tries to be like me, and falls short in every way. Lamers! The pretenders just need to give up.
In regards to Eventi Events, I still own the domain name (EventiEvents.Com) , as well as the domain name for Eventi Stage (EventiStage.Com) , which is another company, and a sister company. Eventi Events is an event planning and DJ party company, and it’s a for-profit business. Eventi Stage will be a non-profit stage production, theater, charity event, and film festival production company. Both have different purposes.
Because of the direction that the web site of Eventi Stage was taking, it was necessary to kill the existing Eventi Events web site at the event marketing .com operating web site and start over. Both web sites will be found at their Eventi domain names, respectively. Additionally, the old operating domain name wasn’t doing as well as I wanted it to in the search engines, and I’m working with more advanced web site concepts now that when the site launched in 2005, so it made sense to simply redo the entire site and turn its marketing domain name into an operating domain name.
Late last year, I attempted to rebrand Eventi as Horizons, buying HorizonsProductions.Com and HorizonsStage.Com. After discussing it with my people, and my friends, it was decided to stick with the Eventi branding. Thus, when those Horizons domain names are up this October, I will be letting them go. How much you want to bet that cybersquatters will take them? It’s so annoying, for sure.
I’ll have the new Eventi Events site up and operational this fall. I’ll also have the new web site for Eventi Stage. By next year, these companies will become my core companies, and it is doubtful that anyone will be able to compete with them, and, yes, even the person who bought my discarded domain name.
I intend to absolutely dominate the Tampa Bay market in events, parties, theme events, stageplays, stage productions, charity events, corporate events, mobile DJ’ing, weddings, wedding receptions (AND wedding photography), raves, music festivals, keynotes, branding and marketing events, and more. I am already planning a vast interconnected network of film festivals and indie film events for the Tampa indie film market, and will do the same for modeling events and photography events. I even have an event in development for video games and gaming, which, currently, will be the only event of its kind in this market. ALL of my events will be tied to Frontier Pop (and the Frontier Society, by default, as well as my other businesses), and ALL of my events will market each other. ALL of my events will also be supported by my relevant web sites and talent resources. ALL of my events will also serve as marketing platforms for my businesses, and ALL of my events will also benefit, directly, from my media and independent film projects. When it comes to events, the name Passinault will set the standard for not only Tampa Bay, but for event planning and marketing industry-wide. Of course, I have BIG plans for my DJ career, too, as DJ Frontier.
For me, events will be the key to just about everything, and will enhance every creative thing that I do. My events also tie in directly with my advertising agency.
In the past, I was known for my underground DJ work. Currently, I’m known for my photography work and my modeling industry work. In the future, I’ll be more known for my events and my independent filmmaking, although DJ’ing, photography, and modeling industry work will still be a big factor in what I do, and I’ll continue to work in those fields.
Regarding DJ’ing, it’s obvious that my heart is in it. It’s obvious that I believe in what I did, and in what I’ll do. I wouldn’t have wrote all of this in the Tampa DJ Blog if it wasn’t something which I’m passionate about. I not only have a dream, but I believe in that dream while I work hard at it. I live my dream through reality. This makes me the real deal, and no pretender, especially when those who aspire to do what I do lack the talent and the experience to do what I do; they are not going to be able to come close, even if they steal from me and try to copy what I do. I paid my dues. Have you? Well, have you?
With DJ’ing, I’ll also be doing some rather revolutionary things which no DJ has ever done before. What I do will expand the industry, and may even open up new markets and new ways of doing business in the DJ industry. It will be interesting, if not annoying, to see how many people copy what I do as they follow the leader. I wish that I could write what I’m up to here, but I can’t. Much of it is classified, and will only be revealed when I am in position to take advantage of it. If I write about it now, people will steal my ideas, get a head start, and then try to compete against me with my own ideas when I begin working those ideas (Which isn’t that big of a deal, in reality, because those who steal from me steal from me because they cannot comprehend the mechanics behind my concepts, and cannot get them to work like I can.).
Here’s a clue: As a DJ, I will become known as a remixer of just not music, but of life itself. How?
You’ll see.

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Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 5:00 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

Progress Continues. Party Zone 3 RMX Announced.

With the new computer online since October 2010, and with me being sidetracked until now with the rest of the equipment not being connected and calibrated, the conversion process of all of the classic DJ Wiz Kid / DJ Frontier releases is about to begin. I will have the equipment online and calibrated this weekend.
The first releases should be converted in the next week, and about two per week converted thereafter, with all 31 completed by late summer 2011 (3 or 4 may not make the cut. My 19th release, “Eat Me, Bitch!”, may be too extreme for conversion; it might actually break some obscenity laws. I would have to heavily edit it if I wish to re-release it. I’ll see about it when I get around to it. My 18th release “Bitch”, has been cleared for conversion with some editing, as was “Waveform 2"). I’m pacing the conversion project because I want to take my time and do it right, with covers and other material created; I also have a slammed schedule running businesses and maintaining web sites. All of the converted releases, which are sourced from the original analog cassette masters, will be remastered in SRS 3D sound, which was used for production of most of the GEN 3 DJ Frontier releases; contrary to what I believed, I recently discovered that both Futura and Party Zone 2 were NOT done in SRS 3D sound, as I was still obtaining the AK-100 from SRS Labs in California when those releases were made, and the first GEN 3 release with 3D audio technology was Horizons RMX (The GEN 3 releases already mastered in 3D sound will not be further enhanced, as it is not needed. Regarding the upcoming GEN 5 releases, I am still finalizing their 3D audio format, and may use a digital SRS platform for those programs. SRS is great because there is no sweet spot required for listening, and standard stereo playback gear can replicate the 3D sound field). This conversion project will pave the way for what is coming.
(LOL... Mental note: I’ll have to make a release called “Bitch Slap”. It just came to me, and I’ll figure out how it ties in later. The name is just funny. Maybe it could be a dance mix release based on Bitch and the upcoming Bitch 2, with a little RMX treatment blended in?).
In related news, work on the new GEN 5 Digital Program Releases should begin this summer, with the first GEN 5 DPR’s released beginning in the Spring of 2012. I’ll be experimenting with the Ableton Live 8 suite for at least a couple of months, as well as a program called Reason, which is used to make music. I will be buying a new laptop and a stereo microphone for most of this work. I will be buying a ton of music this year, too, with over 100 new CD’s procured. The first of those CD’s in que for purchase from Amazon will cost me about $500.00, and I expect to invest at least $2,000.00 into music CD’s in the next year (I do NOT do iTunes when it comes to buying music. It’s dumb. I’d rather buy CD’s, for backups, which is cheaper than buying the tracks online for download, and ripping them myself. My DJ rigs for event work and parties will all run on MP3 sets, including GEN 5 DPR fill sets. I’ve told Marlon that I do not entirely trust computers, so the rigs will be hybrid set ups designed by me. The primary system will be laptop driven, with DJ software and a massive MP3 database. The backup will be a pysical DJ mixing board, with two iPod’s. Trust me when I say that the last thing that any DJ wants to is to contract an event, and then have their rig crash. You HAVE to be able to fulfill the contract, and there is no do-over when it comes to live sets at any event. Back ups are mandatory! I had a rig crash at a wedding once, and it was a nightmare to get it up and running- I had to drive 60 miles back to the studio, and then back to the venue, and cannibalize parts to Frankenstein a working rig which was complicated to get to work. I almost didn’t make it, and was barely able to pull it off).
At any rate, preproduction work on several GEN 5 Digital Program Releases has already started, and includes Waveform 4, Futura 3, Futura RMX, Neo Horizons, Party Zone 2 RMX, Party Zone 3 RMX, Party Zone 5, and Waveform RMX.
Conversion of my existing DJ CD library is beginning now, with all of my CD and sample libraries being converted to WAV files, and organized for future use (those WAV files are then exported into MP3's for event set work). I’m even thinking about converting some older tapes to WAV files, and cleaning them up. I have strict protocols in place for digital archiving of support files, and this should streamline production of a variety of creative properties. If past GEN 3 releases would have had these rules in place for production, the GEN 3 releases would have been even better than they were, as well as having been produced more quickly, even with the limiting analog technology of the time.
All GEN 5 DPR’s, Commercial Releases, Podcasts, and other lines will all use high resolution WAV files as source files (Event sets will use MP3's).
Sharp-eyed readers may notice that I am working on Party Zone 3 RMX. Although Party Zone 2 was an awesome program, and is scheduled for the remix treatment to do it justice, Party Zone 3 was the most popular release in the Party Zone series. Party Zone 3 RMX is now officially in preproduction, and it will be the perfect companion to Party Zone 2 RMX (which will be done first). Unlike Party Zone 2 RMX, Party Zone 3 RMX will deviate even further from the original release, with a lot more new music added, although the material used will be limited to 1995; Party Zone 2 RMX is limited to content from 1994 and before, although the new monologues and dialogue don’t count. Each of the new programs will clock in at 140 minutes, which is almost 2 ½ hours; almost a full hour longer than the old 90 minute programs. Party Zone 3 RMX will also include music from Party Zone 4 and Party Zone RMX, as long as it does not break the 1995 source music rule. The original Party Zone, Party Zone 4, and Party Zone RMX will not be receiving the RMX treatment (and adding an RMX to Party Zone RMX would just be weird. Party Zone RMX2? Whatever! I have better things to do). I’m just doing the remix treatment to two of my favorite Party Zone releases, and will leave it at that.
Although redoing some classics will be fun, the real big project will be Party Zone 5. Party Zone 5 will bring the Party Zone series to the present, and it will be, technically, the best Party Zone program ever done (although Party Zone 2 RMX and Party Zone 3 RMX should be just as good, with the same technology and production protocols used). Another cool Party Zone release that I’m working on is a spinoff, and may end up starting an entirely new series of dance mix programs. Party Zone RTR is a retro dance mix, using mostly music from the 1980's and before. That should be really interesting.

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Friday, March 25, 2011 - 6:00 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

New DJ Frontier Site In Development

Progress is being made on the new Celebrity Class web site design which will be used for the DJ Frontier, DJ Wiz Kid, and the Tampa DJ Blog sites.
An early mock up of the upcoming DJ Frontier Celebrity Class site has just been released, and it is pictured in this post.
Although the site looks sparse, it isn’t. The new site is a front-line, late 3rd Generation web site by Eos MediaArts, and it is designed to be easily upgraded to a full 4th Generation web site, which would employ PHP databasing technology and flash.
Eventually, the DJ Frontier site will incorporate a streaming flash music player, allowing visitors to listen to my work as they read the site. The site will also incorporate video technology.
The menu is mostly complete here, except the “Fans” may be dropped and added to “Features”,and “Videos”, as well as “Store”, may be added (I’m also thinking of bringing some sections from the Featured section up to the main menu, such as the cybersuit technology, but have not decided anything, yet.). Then again, everything is pending. Consider this Photoshopped web site design mock up to be 80% complete. Basically, it is being used as a design reference during development of the site, and nothing more.
Sections planned under the Featured main section included the following. Please note that some features may end up on the main menu before the site is finalized.
Featured Sections:

About
History
News
Events
Technology
Dedications
Fans
Gallery
Lexicon
Releases
Projects

The DJ Frontier web site, the DJ Wiz Kid web site, and the new Tampa DJ Blog, which will all use this Celebrity Class design, are scheduled to be online this fall.
Actually, I’ve just changed my mind.
This mock up is only 50% there.
DJFrontier.Com, DJWizKid.Com, and TampaDJBlog.Com will all three share the same design, and will all center around DJFrontier.Com, although all three will be separate sites with their own content (and, I could add even more from the intersite navigation links on the upper right to the menu on the lower left, providing navigation continuity is maintained). Links to those sites will be on the left main menu, with a site-specific section menu just above the main content, centered near the top. All menu selections on the left main menu, with the exception of the menu options for the DJ Wiz Kid site and the Tampa DJ Blog, will link to sections on the DJ Frontier site, regardless of which of the three main sites the visitor is on. Thus, the DJ Wiz Kid site and the Tampa DJ Blog will seem to be expanded sections on the DJ Frontier site, although, technically, they won’t be. This intersite concept, of course, is also used by the Tampa Bay Film and Aurora PhotoArts sites, to a lesser extent.
I also need to add links to Eventi Events and Eventi Stage.
Design-wise, the site looks too plain. I may segment the header graphics, and make it more intense and colorful. I may also take the time to work on flash and PHP technology, and launch it as a 4th generation site from the beginning.
Welcome to the fluid world of design work. I had some ideas as I was writing this!
This is it for now. I now have to return to another project.

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Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 5:00 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier

Tampa DJ Blog On Hiatus

For now, DJ Frontier isn’t here. I’m on hiatus. So is this blog.
Although I did not take the Tampa DJ Blog completely offline, I have removed most of the content, which is now under review. I also suspended my other blogs for evaluation today. Two of those blogs, my photography blogs, are completely offline, with a reboot and relaunch of the blogs imminent. One of those blogs, the Tampa Film Blog, is a part of the Tampa Bay Film site network, and although it is still completely online, some content has been removed, and all of it is being reviewed.
Several of my blogs which are not stand-alone web sites, all part of my other sites, such as my popular talent resource sites, are still fully operational, although their content will be reviewed as those blogs are organized in the next few months.
This action is being done so that the blogs are fully compatible with business objectives of my companies. Additionally, it is felt that telegraphing plans to others in a competitive market is not wise, although some of the information on those blogs was specifically engineered for the consumption of competitors; disinformation dispensed to competitors is certainly not compatible with online marketing efforts. It was a difficult situation, and led to the deployment of certain legal disclaimers which brought the credibility of the information of the blogs under question. So, because it was a direct conflict with the online marketing of business, it was decided to take the blogs offline, review the content, and scrap most of what was on them. This, of course, was entirely my decision, and rest assured that this is, in no way, any admission of wrongdoing (and, no, I did not get into any trouble; I intend to keep it that way). I also stand behind the opinions that I have expressed on these blogs.
I have to remember why these sites are online. I need to aim them at clients, and support marketing and promotion. My competitors should have never been the target market of those blogs, and the competition should never be the focus of any of my work..
We’re now moving into another era, of course.
The issues with this Tampa DJ Blog were different, as I really don’t know much about the competition in this market, and without going into details, the content has to be reviewed and edited before it can be republished. There is a lot of really cool, and incredible information on this blog (I used this blog to keep notes on my plans, and referenced it with what I was working on. It’s proven to be very useful to me, and for sorting out issues, as well as developing some really awesome production formats), though, so rest assured that I will republish as much of it as possible as soon as I can, and since the content has to be organized anyway, I can add it back with the launch of the next Tampa DJ Blog.
So, when it the launch of the next Tampa DJ Blog?
Good question.
I will be concentrating 70% of my efforts, and my time, on my photography and design work in 2011. I need money, and right now, photography is the best way of making it. Eventi Events and Eventi Stage will not do anything until mid 2012, at the earliest. My return to DJ’ing will have to wait until next year, at the very least. Also, although my heart is in it, I have to consider what I invest my time into with my head. I’m having issues justifying sinking resources into things which I am limited in marketing. I may have to change my focus to things which are worth doing, such as podcasts and commercial releases. This will take time, and it’s not time that I have much of this year.
Just keep in mind that DJ’ing is very important to me, and I consider my event planning business to be my most important. In a few years, Eventi Events and Eventi Stage will return to being my main, core companies, and I will be DJ’ing and working on events and stage productions far more than I will be working as a photographer. Sure, photography is the way back to event planning, and it will provide the resources that I need to get the event and stage production companies back online, but it’s not the main goal. Event and production work is.
I’ll be back, though. I promise.

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