Video of gas station fire aftermath - By N.L. Belardes

When I drove out to a fuel pump fire today I instantly hoped that the entire gas station wouldn't blow up. That would be bad, really bad.

By the time I arrived, the fire was out. A burned fuel pump lie on its side. I got part of the story as I took photos. I got the rest at the station from watching interviews conducted by one of the ABC23 reporters. Read, "Motorist Causes Fire At Gas Station: Samaritan Attempts To Put Out Fire Caused By Negligent Motorist."

Wow. Lucky no one was hurt...

I did take this video:

Video publicity the newest trend in the literary world – By Melinda Carroll

How many hours a day do you spend watching videos on youtube.com or movie trailers online? With millions of people tuning in… clearly video makes a difference.

Poets and Writer’s magazine reports that the literary world is jumping on the video bandwagon.

“Taking their cue from the film industry, in which a well-produced trailer is infinitely more valuable than a print advertisement or press release, commercial publishers such as HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin are taking advantage of new technology to offer promotional videos on their web sites to augment their traditional publicity campaigns.”

(Check out HarperCollins Digital Media Café with downloadable videos).

“VidLit Productions (www.vidlit.com) in Santa Monica, California, has created promotional videos for publishers such as Penguin, Random House, and Bard Press, and uploads them to its own web site as well as more than seventy-five others, including YouTube. The book trailers, or VidLits, as they are called, can also be accessed using mobile devices such as iPods and video cell phones. “There’s no barrier to distribution,” says VidLit founder Liz Dubelman.”

(Read the full article)

Video is not new to Noveltown. With Noveltown’s Zowietown video productions and videos uploaded to Noveltown’s blog Paperback Writer; Noveltown’s been promoting Bakersfield’s music, art, theatre and film scenes for a while now. Book trailers or VidLits is a natural evolution in video for Noveltown.

Bakersfield Underground News Syndicate Four comin' at ya! But no Ed Jagels parody this week - By N.L. Belardes

I like this show better if it's just Rickey and Jason. The acting is getting... I mean newscasting is...

Well, just watch it... you can judge for yourself. I also think they should pick on Ed Jagels each week, especially since their fellow filmmaker Dane B. has been picked on by Ed Jagels in the DA's online diatribe (This week written by a Taft officer).