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I am a horrible blogger AND a decent hustler
By George Huff
I’m always reading these “how to blog” lists, well not so much of late, but I was reading them. They all say consistency is key!
“Blog on a consistent basis, if it’s one time a week, then make sure you do it…”
In reading that, it seemed easy enough - but nope! Anyhow, it’s retarded for me to even blog about blogging (no offense to the retards who read my blog). I’ve been so busy doing that I haven’t had time to really tell about any of it - so here goes.
Wait! I have to share this video from Home Skillet Fest - I think it’s rad.
Ok, here goes…
Nike
I do a lot of work for Nike, a lot… So much that I have had to build a team of very talented individuals to compensate for my lack of bandwidth. I can’t really say what we are working on currently but I can say what we have worked on in the past.
We launched nikecorre.com about a month ago and sportchangemakers.net a few months before that. Now we are working on managing both of these sites and doing consulting for a few bigger projects (I can’t name them and I won’t!). It’s been an amazing ride working with one of the most globally recognized brands in the world - I truly love it.
The stuff we are working on currently gets me all hyped up - I can’t wait to launch! Of course some of it will be over the course of a month, some of it all the way into January. Seems like awhile, but some of the stuff is really ambitious - we are learning how to, “Just Do It.”
Rahzel Live!
This is a project that came out of left field, but also one I couldn’t refuse. Working with Rahzel to help build him a site where he could manage all his merchandise and digital downloads has been a fun experience - the guy is the KING of beatboxing and I have been a fan since, “If Your Mother Only Knew.” This should drop soon as well.
Home Skillet Fest ‘08
In another life I used to be a commercial fisherman in Alaska and it was around this same time that I co-founded a record label called Home Skillet Records. About three years ago we started throwing an annual music festival in Sitka, Alaska called……Home Skillet Fest (we’re kind of a one-trick pony). We just wrapped up this year’s show and this had to of been my favorite year. We were well organized, we had tons of merchandise, and we put a little money back into the label - that was our goal. If you follow this sob-story of a blog, you may remember my last post that was questioning the whole project. I am over that now - the festival is a great thing and my hometown is truly a special place.
For the first time I walked away from Home Skillet Fest stoked and ready to build the momentum for next year. It’s turned into a family project for me, with both my parents and older sister helping with the organizing - it made it so much better. In having such a solid team in PDX I was able to call on people to help with design work - which is good because I’m really only decent at web design, the print world is perplexing.
Wrap Up
All in all business is good and growing. Our team is rad. I am getting married in September. My set didn’t suck at Home Skillet Fest. I am running for my health, so I feel better, AND…
…I am more happy now than I have ever been in my life. I think I am ok with that too - it’s ok to be happy for once.
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JPS July 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
congrats on all the work and mostly congrats on being “the happiest [you've] ever been in your life”. thats dope. keep up the hustle. and as we say in Brasil “Rala Que Rola”!!!
Jon Hopkins July 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
“When I say CD’s in the…y’all say BACK!”
Glad to hear Home Skillet Fest was the best yet! You got a date I can put on my calendar for next year…
Dylan July 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Glad to see you are busy and happy George. Keep knocking it out and stay happy. We all work too much and try to do to much, but in the end you are doing good stuff that you can be proud of, that engages your brain and that you and your team or hustlers are the people making it happen.
Rock Steady
Ty (tzmedia) July 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Please Leave Your Comment Here<– you mean after this???
As one of the retards reading your blog, I’m happy to report I got a few chuckles from your post, and a wee bit of inspiration from your portfolio blurbage.
Thanks once again George
You can’t necessarily write creatively without a topic.
blogging on blogging is just mundane, I don’t care if those guys are penning like 25 posts a week.
Ty (tzmedia) July 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Please Leave Your Comment Here: after this –> Hey George, I just had the recognition, is that Michael Bolton in your wallpaper background sitting there in the blue chair flaunting it, it practically could be.
Check it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bolton
Oh yeah, the http://NikeCorre.com site was pretty hot!
neil July 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 am
sounds like things are going well congratulations!
George Huff July 25th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for the kind words everyone - it’s a fun time for me right now and I couldn’t help myself but to write about it. Thanks for not calling me an attention whore!
Apparently my “Leave your Comment here” isn’t making sense - shoot!
Dige July 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Good to hear you’re doing well, G. I never doubted it for a minute. In this world, there are talkers and doers. You’ve always been the latter. I hope one of these days I can relocate back to Bridgetown to see you in action. Until that day, spread the light and be the light.
Pete schuft July 29th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hey, i can’t believe how successful your music test has become. Way to stick with it. I’d love to hook up with you at the next timbers game that you go to, so let me know when you go.