Paul Walhus

ACL Festival 2006

Paul Walhus — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:01:43 -0000

Austin City Limits
Festival 2006
By austincast

The Austin City Limits Festival had near perfect weather for the 3
days of concerts by over 150 bands in Zilker Park.  Watch my pictures and even
some mini-movies of Tom Petty’s closing act on day 3. I think you’ll enjoy these
slide shows of the event.

A CL Festival photo album
9/15/2006
ACL Festival day
2 - 9/16 - coming
ACL
Festival day 3 9/17/2006

The “Flaming Lips” were pretty outrageous and rolled a band member
out to the audience in a giant balloon. 

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Austin City Limits Festival

Paul Walhus — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:57:02 -0000

Austin City Limits Festival 2006
By austincast

The Austin City Limits Festival had near perfect weather for the 3 days of concerts by over 150 bands in Zilker Park. Watch my pictures and even some mini-movies of Tom Petty’s closing act on day 3. I think you’ll enjoy these slide shows of the event.

ACL Festival photo album 9/15/2006
ACL Festival day 2 - 9/16 - coming
ACL Festival day 3 9/17/2006

The “Flaming Lips” were pretty outrageous and rolled a band member out to the audience in a giant balloon.

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Open Letter to Mark Cuban from Paul Terry Walhus

Paul Walhus — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:39:06 -0000

Open Letter to Mark Cuban

By austincast

Mark,

My idea for the movie biz challenge.

Take the best of the Alamo Draft House concept of having food and drink served on counters at your seat and merge it with a low key touchscreen at each seat for ordering food and products, and roll in a perpetual “film festival” ambience and theme.

I can elaborate on all these in detail if you’re interested.

I have a friend in Austin who owns the old Aquarius movie theater in South Austin and he’s looking for a revival of it. This would be an ideal test bed.

You’ve covered the kids and rowdy cell phone users. This would be for the rest of us. The SXSWers, the boomers, the quiet crowd.

I think I’ve got your answer.

Ok, blog reader if you’re scratching your head I need to fill you in on a little background. Over the last few days, Mark Cuban has issued a “movie business challenge”. It’s … well, here it is:

This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously.

This is the problem that consumes me more than what Free Agent we are going to sign. How to get the NBA to get their act together. Which 7-11 Im going to run by to get a sandwich. Its that important.

Only HDNet takes more time out my day than trying to solve this problem. Its the holy grail of the movie business. How do you get people out of the house to see your movie without spending a fortune. How can you convince 5 million people to give up their weekend and go to a theater to see a specific movie without spending 60mm dollars.

For those of you doing the math. You are right. Its not unusual to spend 8, 10 , 12 dollars PER PERSON that goes to a movie in the opening weekend. Shoot, its not unusual for studios to spend that much per person to get people to go to the theater through a movies entire run !

How crazy is it to spend more on marketing than the revenue recieved when they go to the movie ? Its double crazy because that revenue is split with the theater. So if a studio spends 12 bucks to get someone to go to the theater, they might only be getting 4 dollars back in return.

You would think that there has to be a better way than spending 1x, 2x, 3x or more times the initial revenue received opening weekend or week ? Right ?

For all of you thinking that there are other downstream revenues such as PPV, DVD, TV, whatever….no shit. Yes, those revenue streams will benefit from the initial spend, but they dont make the economics of getting people into theaters any less frightening.

We are looking at affiliate programs. So people with lots of myspace or other social network friends could get a buck or 2 or 3 if someone goes from their myspace page directly to fandago, moviefone, movietickets.com etc and buys a ticket to a film of ours prior to its release. Get 100 friends to buy tickets to a movie, get a 100 bucks from us.

We are looking at other similar ideas.

We already do movie marketing 101. We do buzz marketing. We put up videos all over the net. We set up websites, myspace accounts for the movies and its characters, we work with movie forums, we buy ads, etc, etc, etc. If its been done before, we are doing it.

So if you want a job, and have a great idea on how to market movies in a completely different way. If your idea works for any and all kinds of movies. If it changes the dynamics and the economics of promoting movies, email it or post it. If its new and unique, i want to hear about it. If its a different way of doing the same thing you have seen before, it probably wont get you a job, but feel free to try.

So go for it. Come up with a great idea that i want to use and I will come up with a job for you to make that idea happen.

for real.

source http://www.blogmaverick.com/

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Floyd Landis Superman - from worst in history to best in history in one day

Paul Walhus — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:16:37 -0000

Floyd Landis - Superman? from worst to best in one day

By austincast

Two days ago Floyd Landis had one French newspapers depicted at the “worst performance in Tour history”. (pictured left on the podium with Bernard Hinault the five time Tour winner)

Yesterday, Floyd had what may be called the best peformance in Tour de France history.

The 30-year-old Landis, who said two weeks ago that he would soon need a full hip replacement, rebounded to ride alone to victory by almost six minutes in yesterday’s mountain stage.

The effort jumped Landis, who rides for the Swiss Phonak team, from 8 minutes, 8 seconds behind race leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain’s Caisse d’Epargne to third place, 30 seconds behind Pereiro and 18 seconds behind Carlos Sastre of CSC.

Landis performance was legendary, but he’s not satisfied.

If you want to read a great cycling bloggers rundown, check out Martin Dugard’s blog, here’s a tidbit from that blog entry:

“That he did. Per his style, Landis didn’t explode away from the peloton in the manner of most breakaways. Rather, he gradually left a yellow jersey group containing Oscar Pereiro, Cadel Evans, Andreas Kloden, and Denis Menchov. He tiptoes away like a cat burglar, as if afraid of drawing attention to himself. Landis then began an 80-mile individual time trial, constantly dousing himself with water on this humid mountain afternoon, at one point pulling so far ahead that he was the virtual leader of the race.” . . .

Ah… but when Floyd crossed the line today, fist thrust into the air and a scowl on his face, Amber Landis jumped up and down. “Oh, baby!” she screamed, fighting back tears. Only this time they were tears of joy. And, if I am to be honest here, I was a little misty, too…

So tomorrow the stage is a little on the downhill side, a 120-mile run from Morzine down into Macon. Teams might try to take a little bite out of Landis, hoping to gain a few seconds on him before Saturday’s time trial. With Pereiro (with whom Landis ate breakfast this morning, just the two of them) 30 seconds in front and Sastre 18 seconds up, Landis is close enough that a powerful time-trial Saturday will likely win him the Tour.”

Like I said, it’s a great blog entry from a guy who was sitting watching the race with Amber Landis. http://blogs.active.com/dugard/

This race, can you believe it, could go right down to the Champs Elysees on Sunday.

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Floyd Landis amazing recovery

By austincast

“I am here to win the Tour de France” was the reply given when he was asked to comment on his amazing comeback in today’s stage of the tour de france at the podium. At the start of the last mountain stage, the favourites for the yellow jersey were, the current holder Oscar Perreiro, Menchov, Carlos Sastre, Dressel and a few others. But Floyd Landis wasn’t even counted as a contender anymore.

At yesterdays mountain stage, Landis lost 10 minutes to Perreiro for an overall deficit of 8 minutes.

Coming into the final mountain stage today, no one expected Landis to be in the top 5 fnish let alone the maillot jaune (yellow jersey), but after todays incredible breakaway from the peloton, Landis managed to build up a 7 minute lead which he held on till the finish of the 200.5 km mountain stage with steep ascents amounting to upto 10 degrees in the final 20 kms.

Today’s stage was an awesome comeback by Landis, who had been written off by the Frech Press sometime back, when he held the yellow jersey, as some one who wasnt really worthy of it.

Like the OLN announcers said, Landis seemed like a man possessed. He didn’t know what went wrong yesterday having cracked in the final 20 kms losing a huge 10 minutes. He made no excuses and today he was the man to reckon.

As of today Perreiro leads in the general classification, with Sastre 12 seconds behind and Landis 30 seconds back. So who’s it going to be? Saturday’s time trial should tell the tale of this year’s Tour de France.

Lance bawdy at espys! Blasts French soccer team

Paul Walhus — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:39:16 -0000

Vince Young and Cat Osterman: Big 12 Athletes of the Year

Vince Young and Cat Osterman have been named the Big XII Players of the Year. Vince Young led his team to a last minute victory in the Rose Bowl and became the first person to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. Cat Osterman had a 38-4 record this season with a 0.42 ERA. She pitched 36 complete games with 28 shutouts, 5 no-hitters, 11 one-hitters, 12 two-hitters and also set a CWS record with 18 strikeouts in a single game.

So it’s not too surprising that Cat and Vince were also nominated for the same award at the 2006 ESPYS. Cat won an award for best female college athlete, Young won for “championship performance” and UT’s victory over Southern California in the Rose Bowl was named best game.

Lance Armstrong emceed the event and did a great job as a deadpan comedian, proving that Saturday Night Live wasn’t just a fluke. He pointed out Austin’s Mathew McConaughey in the audience as the “sexiest man alive” and then chided the audience that you don’t all have to look at him, we know what he looks like, then he motioned to Gyllenhaal, the co-star of “Brokeback Mountain,” and said “Up here Jake, eyes front!” Answering his own question “What am I doing here” he said he told the producers “Are you kidding, I would give my left ball” to do the gig.

“Lance Armstrong raised eyebrows – and got laughs – as host of Wednesday night’s ESPY Awards, where he cracked crude jokes about new best friends Jake Gyllenhaal and Matthew McConaughey.” – People

The actors, who’ve been photographed recently clad in Spandex and biking with Armstrong, were in the audience at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. Armstrong, in a reference to Gyllenhaal’s Brokeback Mountain role, asked why Gyllenhaal was sitting in the front when Armstrong thought he preferred to be “in the rear”. . . Of the theater, people.” – People

Armstrong took a punch at the World Cup runner-up French Soccer team, saying “all their players tested positive … for being assholes.” Part of the Lance Love Hate French thing.

People: At the afterparty at the Mondrian Hotel’s Skybar, Armstrong, McConaughey and Gyllenhaal hung out with actors Cole Hauser and Matthew Perry, while Arizona Cardinals footballer Matt Leinart stuck with Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo. Other guests included Ashley Judd, Brandy, Venus and Serena Williams and Kiefer Sutherland.

And there were the young Afghan girls who were honored by the ESPYs with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for defying Taliban authorities to play soccer.

Here’s the link to the YouTube video of Lance at the Espy’s

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building a team

Paul Walhus — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:18:02 -0000

I've been going to sxsw for several years and have about 20 hours of video and thousands of photos I plan to post up on the web some day.

I'm looking for a developer for a project called "slides". The second gen site is at http://web2.0slides.com and the 4th gen site is at http://tagslides.com.

I'd like to build a virtual team of people skilled in php, mysql, ajax, rails, javascript, etc.

Do you have and ideas who I might contact?

terry@spring.net is my email address

512.581.9617 is my office phone

Aralyn Hughes keeps Austin Weird by Paul Terry Walhus

Paul Walhus — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:43:05 -0000

TechPhile Podcast 0025 by Frank Linhares

Paul Walhus — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:17:11 -0000

Office Home Austin Texas trade for web development

Paul Walhus — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:30:02 -0000

Office Home for web developers / programmers
Trade Web Development work for rent and bandwidth (full fiber T-1 w Servers)

184 Clover Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612
call 512.581.9617 or 512.699.4000 cell phone.
rental applicaton - please fill out and email to terry@spring.net

The home office facility is at 184 Clover Road, see http://austincast.com/homeoffice and http://austincast.com/homeoffice/homeoffice.html

Rent in exchange for web development work and programming (php, mysql, ajax, java, etc) for 1 to 4 web developers and/or web site programmers who need an outstanding facility with awesome fast fiber bandwidth T-1 Internet access. The office home is 20 minutes East of the Austin Airport.

The web project is a calendar for sports ( http://calendarsports.com )with potential for full time work. Details on request. This is a full blown, evolving startup project with a great future.

The place shown has 9 bedroom/offices, 6 baths, 4 kitchens and 2 large 18' x 32' central areas. It also has a 24' ceiling on the top floor with a wrap around "L" shaped loft. You have to see this to believe it, this place has never been lived in and was just recently completed. It has wood floors, custom built kitchens (solid wood cabinets), hand hewn Cedar stairway and hand made kitchen bar with a Cedar slab counters. Most bedrooms are 12 x 14 in size with walk in closets. All have incredible views of the surrounding woods. There is also an in ground pool and basketball area and we're grading a large sports field for golf, baseball, football, etc. and building a new road to the facility as well.

There is a fiber optic dedicated internet connection with 4 dedicated Red Hat Linux Servers that are available for web projects. Every room is wired with outlets for ethernet, cable tv, phone (including the kitchens).

This may be a place where you can realize your maximum creativity and productivity and work in a great natural setting.

There are 15 acres to the property. Contact me 512.581.9617 and let's talk about all the details.

Shown the pictures: above left - stairway on top level to the "L" shaped loft
above right - one of the decks, there are decks on all three levels of the building.
below left - "L" shaped loft

pictured above - second level kitchen - custom built solid wood cabinets (no particle board)

All the ceilings in all rooms on the second floor are cathedral ceilings.

terry@spring.net - email contact or call 512.581.9617

Picture Gallery - all pictures are of the home office except those labeled 182 Clover

imeem at sxsw

Paul Walhus — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:18:02 -0000

I ran in to the imeem folks at sxsw and it's pretty useful for combing instant messengers, with the exception of not having voice, it's pretty great.

Paul Walhus

ACL Festival 2006

Austin City Limits Festival

Open Letter to Mark Cuban from Paul Terry Walhus

Open Letter to Mark Cuban

Floyd Landis Superman - from worst in history to best in history in one day

Floyd Landis - Superman? from worst to best in one day

Floyd Landis amazing recovery

Lance bawdy at espys! Blasts French soccer team

Vince Young and Cat Osterman: Big 12 Athletes of the Year

building a team

Aralyn Hughes keeps Austin Weird by Paul Terry Walhus

TechPhile Podcast 0025 by Frank Linhares

Office Home Austin Texas trade for web development

Office Home for web developers / programmersTrade Web Development work for rent and bandwidth (full fiber T-1 w Servers)

184 Clover Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612 call 512.581.9617 or 512.699.4000 cell phone. rental applicaton - please fill out and email to terry@spring.net The home office facility is at 184 Clover Road, see http://austincast.com/homeoffice and http://austincast.com/homeoffice/homeoffice.html

imeem at sxsw

Office Home for web developers / programmers
Trade Web Development work for rent and bandwidth (full fiber T-1 w Servers)

184 Clover Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612
call 512.581.9617 or 512.699.4000 cell phone.
rental applicaton - please fill out and email to terry@spring.net

The home office facility is at 184 Clover Road, see http://austincast.com/homeoffice and http://austincast.com/homeoffice/homeoffice.html