Barefoot Cornhole and Bizcards

i don't like wearing shoes, but i can't get into most places w/o them-not even in FL.

my friends, from Orlando and PSJ (Port St. John) even, always give me a hard time.

"y aren't you wearing shoes? jeez, jdot."

i just like to pick up things with my toes-they r a lil longer than what i would consider normal-and i like the way pavement, stone and sand feel on the soles of my feet-and it helps me fall on my face less (can be a klutz).

regardless . . .

i got conveinced to enter a cornhole competition at Bubbahlous (a restaurant off of HWY 50 and Challenger PKWY-in orlando). most of the people in the competition were regulars that play there every Tuesday and Thursday. i was severly intimidated, so i had to practice (shoes on).

(side-note: for any1 that has never played cornhole before-it's a game w/ sandbags and plywood boards held up by 2x4's with a hole cut towards the rear of it-1 of the most fun games ever-like horseshoes-irony-fake laugh)



i couldn't make a shot to save my life-maybe i was leaning on the board too much-maybe my freind, who was an ex-Hooters girl that i used to work w/ was distracting me-maybe it was the workout my other friend made me tag along on, after having not worked out for nearly 3 months. eiher way i was sucking it up royally.

finally we picked numbered poker chips to find out who was gonna be on what team. i got so lucky-1 of the guys that goes their all the time ended up being my partner. my workout buddy told me we had it in the bag and i felt a lil competative.

took off the shoes (as if you couldn't tell that was coming)-and it helped. we lost our first match, but i was shooting good. we won the second-got another shot 'cause it was double elimination. lost the third 'cause i got cocky and lost my shot.

no shoes good 4 shot-trying to impress a hot ex-Hooters girl by loosing a 5 bucks in a cornhole ternament bad

. . .

there was also a dj there from a local radio station in the competition-didn't feel like pimpin myself to win a contest i had no chance in @MTVTJ

met another local dj at a bartending competiton at Fridays-got there too l8 to see bottle flipping-got his card-he kindah looked like Guy from Food Network.

better story from home-less rushed.

9/27/10-Day 6-MTVTJ candadacy advocacy aka Going Home pt. 2

back to the chicken, bacon, ranch situation

2 friends that i haven't seen in a while let me stay the night on their couch while i was back home. that's how i got my last 2 nominations.

my itouch was almost dead (forgot to bring the charger-didn't expect to be staying around 5 days straight). i pass out on the couch not thinking. i finally wake up and check @MTVTJ and i find out that nominations were going to close at 10am.

got my friend and his roommates girlfriend to nominate me (cause my other friend already left for his 9-5). she helped me the most 'cause she kept nominating me the last 30 minutes before nominations closed (don't know if it made a difference to MTV, but it made me feel a little better that my friends were down).

regardless of all that it was just funny to me that my friend w/ the 9-5 was talking me up about blogging. i don't know how we got on the toppic-not like i'm some sort of authority. i just have ideas and i write them down.

i think we were talking about how the whole vampire show thing started w/ the Buffy movie-then the show-the the spin off shows-then the blade show that followed the movie(sucked)-then twilight (after some weird cartoon vampire shows).

i'm sure their is gonna be some weird twilight spoof web-series-if their isn't one already.

9/26/10-Day 6-MTVTJ candidacy advocacy

it's been about a week since i've blogged (almost no interweb access, no smartphone-only 1st stage itouch, that i won in a contest at my old job). it's hard getting my brain back in that mode.

here's what my notes say anyway:

the drive from Alexandria VA took about 15 hours w/ my dad-suprisingly one of the more entertaining car rides i've had.

he has this thing about changing the station on the radio to keep himself up-worked out for me though. music helps me think-the drive let me just think about stuff and come up with ideas.

everytime he turned the station something else would hit me-u know what it feels like when you have an idea and you write it tound 'cause you think it's gonna make you a mill-when you try to write it out it doesn't come out the same. (rammbling again-to the point)

he flip to a station while we drived through NC that only played old motown and i heard Beibers first single-but it wasn't the swoop king. some group made the song in the late 60's. i couldn't find it on the motown/universalwebsite cause none of the songs played.-i'll admit Beiber's version is better.

i guess it's not a cover it you snag the riff and courus from a song older than you that your record lable owns. Usher did the same thing with an old school Stevie Wonder song-couldn't remember the name of it. it's the one w/ Nikki Monaj-lil freak. (Stevie always make some good stuff -whoever gave that man a synthesizer made a mistake-just like when they invented vocoder).

the entertainment industry works in cycles like any other. they spelled it out in B Cool-the travolta remake of Get Shorty. when i was listening to the radio, watching cornfeilds pass by, talking to my dad about famous chicks he kept trying to hook me up w/ in some theoretical universe in his head.

recap of that before i go back to beiber:

him-Rhiana?

me-nope, couldn't deal w/ the five head (her people hide it good w/ the bangs and ll, but it's still their). my kids are gonna have enough to deal w/ when it comes to my lopsided dome. our kids would end up too top heavy.

him-Janet (Ms. Jackson-if you're nasty)?

me-nope, couldn't deal w/ her fam. my fam is off the wall enough. i couldn't have a brother-in-law willing to name their kid Jermajesty. her brother-MJ-was a genius, though.

here's the point-promised @KayKiSpeaks.

him-Christina Millian

him-maybe, then i remember she already had a kid and she's got a dude (in one of KayKiSpeaks older blogs). theoretically-yeah if i had a chance, but i can't have too many dreams.

and to make a long blog even longer-back to bieber:

when i heard that song all i could think of was Bieber in a shiny suite like all those Motown groups in the 70's-doing that doowop snap and slide.-he'd probably still sell a million copies and get 13 year old boys to put 'em on to impress the boppers.

(insert-funny vid of Biebers head on the temptations or swooping his hair with those giant shades that lighten up towards the bottom of the lenses.-not putting up vids yet)

9/25/10-Day 5-MTV TJ candidacy advocacy

yesterday i went to the Apple store in Pentagon City Mall. i needed a charger for my Touch, 'cause i'm leaving my laptop in D.C. when i go back to FL for a week (so my sister can continue to look for a more permanent gig).

i gotta b able to let the interweb know that i'm still here (gonna b scrounging for WiFi again-rents got dial up). and forgive typos in posts after today (not as good with the thumbs as a keyboard). might get some good tucker maxesque stories out of this trip though.

back to the apple store adventure-i knew that the iphone 4 was releasing, but i didn't think i was gonna have to stand in line for 40 min just to grab a charger. Apple did it up right, for its valued costumers.

a dude w/ donut wholes and water bottles was trolling the line. apple workers were constantly keeping the crowds energy up with games and candy bags. everyone got treaty like they found a golden ticket when it was their turn to enter the store (guided in by an Apple employee making relationships that would last the span of the 10 steps from the door to the store, where people were just playing with i-stuff and amazing themselves with apps).

i did meet a cool IT guy for Ocean Conservancy once i finally got n the store. he was getting ipads for the VP's of his company, while he was playing on his iphone 4 (got it early-must be on face2face terms with Jobs). we talked about compatibility issues between PC's and Macs. he recommended software to fix quicktime issues, while the cashier got change for me (never use cash at a store that doesn't have a register that dings-it does stop the world behind u).

guarantee i'll never see that guy again, but i did get his card so that i could link to his organization in this blog. go Ocean Conservancy ('cause he didn't give me guff when i told him i was gonna blog about our talk). i just realized that the IT guy looked just like the guy from gizmodo (irony-and no it wasn't 'cause they're both asian).

9/24/10-Day 4-MTV TJ candadacy advocacy

a good idea shouldn't be owned.

in all honesty good ideas come a dime a dozen (a good idea will get u a couple click throughs and maybe a twod-tweeter knod-if that). it all comes down to how far that idea goes after it's out.

Dr. Mark Drapeau is a twitter officianado (official type person) and a general social media impressario (makes an impression or inovates) for microsoft. he was my professor for a semester and his tutilouge help me develop my technique-if u can call it that.

earlier today he tweeted:

(srry bout the fuzzyness-screencapture-don't know how to embedd tweets yet. los links!!!-Part 1: http://is.gd/d1ZFD Part 2: http://is.gd/d1ZL9)

in these vids he mentioned something that i blogged about a couple days ago-'telling a good story.'

The Dizzle online-being a hologram-'by this kid' (forgot to put this link up when i first wrote this)

but he addressed something i only thought of later-'activating a community.'

that's something i barely considered in my blogging efforts in my candadacy advocacy series.

nominate @jdevo25 for @MTVTJ @ http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/ (sameless self promo)

i was just writing what was on my mind. is it better to reach out to a community and ask for support because u are one of them or because u need their support? if u r not one of them can u still represent them (will they even let u)? am i overthinking this (prbly)?

i know tit for tat works in a more complicated way when u r higher in the spere (blogo-, momo-, celebritypopo, et. al). regardless . . .

follow him @cheeky_geeky (if u don't already. he's got like 15, 000 followers-i'll get there contest or not) he's got a lot of things to say on social media objectively.

i gotta get involved, by doin me. then maybe i'll snag a spot.

9/23/10-Day 3- MTV TJ candadacy advocacy

after staying on this series for about two days, i'm already bored w/ it (my own content can't keep up w/ my ADD). it might be because i couldn't think of anything to blog about and begging for people to nominate me over the interweb isn't what my blog series should be focused on.

@jdevo25 nominate here http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/

this is the last blog about being nominated, but it is not the last in the series.

i do have to give a shout out to @AbbeyBrandon for giving me my first nomination and @AudreyReinhardt for my second officially (i hope i don't have to beg as hard for the rest that follow). i met both @AbbeyBrandon and @AudreyReinhardt after coming to D.C.

@AbbeyBrandon is more conservative with her tweets (it's just another way for her to keep up w/ face2face friends)

@AudreyReinhardt on the other hand is an aspiring travel blogger and her lighthearted disposition carries her from italy-to maine-to where she dreams of going.

both great girls and great friends.

nominate @jdevo25 for @MTVTJ @ http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/

9/22/10-Day 2 Mtv TJ candidacy advocacy

for the past few days, my mother, father, and sister have been staying with me in my VA apartment. i haven't seen them face to face in almost a year-how long i've been away since the 1 way ticket. i can already tell that this blog post is gonna end up being the twilight of my eclipsing melow-dramatic blogging days, however i luv my family and knowing it's lame i don't care if this one blog is a bit gushy and less caking.

long story short my sister is staying with me for the rest of the summer. it's funny 'cause she's a big time christian-no drinking-no smoking-and definately no other thing. and i'm a recovering tucker max wannabe (cause who could really match max-my cooking job helped bring this hermit crab out of his high school hell enduced hybernation.

if i can't find a brilliant blog idea to write about and link other stuff to within the next week that i have to get at least one person to nominate me-other than myself (short term goals-just like that chick in 'Julie and Julia'-again, lame-i know).

(side thoguht in the middle of writing:srry 4 the ADD)-that's an idea (taking it global). nobody owns their own ideas anymore. the moment it is out there the people that have the best resources and can use the idea the best get the most out of it-nothing to get frustrated about, 'cause the only way to make sure that's u (brokeness, crappy equipment, and lack of time travel tech-be damned) is to be the one that does it consistantly and differently.

put u'r unpredictable hats on kids . . . untill tomorrow.

The Dizzle online-being a hologram

I'm nobody and I know nothing.

I know it's a grandious statement. But it is true. I have a limited presence online. If someone that knew me from my Hooters days about a year and a half ago, typed 'the dizzle' in a search engine they would find nothing (nothing about me anyway-i hope). Put in J. Deveaux, jdevo25, J. L. Deveaux; facebook, youtube, linkedin, brazen careerest, vimeo and maybe two other sites might pop up. There's probably still a myspace account of me chugging a beer holding a cute girls in a bikini.

That was who I was online then.

Honestly I'm not an expert on online branding or cultivating relationships with other people through online media. I just know that it's all about telling a story. And Telling a story is just like any other kind of art-It can be broken down into a formula.

I'm not giving anything away by pointing out something people already know. There is a patern to all the randomness of shock humor, fart jokes and stupid humor of viral videos and random tweets (Russel Brand is weirdly brilliant-oh those brits-and @shitmydadsays-wish my dad could get me a book/movie deal-he's still awesome n his normalness)



Building tension

Maintaining poeples attention

Not waisting peoples time by bogging them down with long and unneccassry fluff and fodder to get to the point

Pay as you go(fulfill promises of enterainment in action)

Anybody can be a star online (Tila Tequila-anybody?-anybody?-exactly!). MTV just gave me a reason to break down the door they just cracked open.

I had better line than that to end this with but I got side tracked after I had to give my dad a trim and clean up.

Regardless on to Red Lobster for pops day. I may be broke but the simple things make the people that matter in my life feel special.

Nominate @jdevo25 for MTV TJ at www.zync.mtv.com.

I wanna be an MTV TJ

I just found out about an opportunity to work for MTV as a TJ; I'm assuming this stands for Twitter Jockey. The moment I saw Sway and his dreads and heard him say that there was yet another opportunity to be apart of the cattle call for budding unknown internet talent, I had to jump at the opportunity.

I saw a show that only had like 6 episodes that came on so late I'm not supprised barely anyone knew about it. It was called, 'I Want to Write For Rolling Stone.' It was around the time I decided to change my major from engineering to creative writing.

After I saw that show and the way that it changed those peoples' lives, it gave me faith that MTV might be getting back to a degree of substance with it's programing. Don't get me wrong, style sells well before substance is on the radar. But I just remembered when MTV used to be on the ragedy edge.

The first season of Real World changed the landscape of documentary film and helped sier in reality . . . entertainment-it goes way passed television now.

This experiment proves that. Yes I am doing a bit of **** riding, but it is still true.

I wann be an MTV TJ. http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/

And I can write. And I can edit. And I can produce entertaining viral video in FCP and Imovie without appearing on screen.

And I am just another nobody trying to make it with a crappy toshiba laptop; to much free time on my hands; and way too many networking tools at my disposal.