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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 14, 2019 10:40:08 GMT -5
I like the petoskies, but can you make the words a little darker? Gee, you're kind of demanding. Just kidding, I'm loving the help. This is 14 darker. I can go more.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 14, 2019 10:22:59 GMT -5
Hi Rob, I'm a little late to this one, but I agree with Tela. I like the first one, too, but I think I would like it better if the transparency on the picture was lowered. Still transparent, but not as much so you could see the picture a bit better and then the printing either not transparent at all -- maybe a dark grey so it stands out but also blends in.
Like this?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 14, 2019 9:55:30 GMT -5
Poor guy doesn't know what's going on. Unexpected weight loss.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 14, 2019 8:28:10 GMT -5
Shoot. It took me about three hours to find the right tutorial to help me do the first two. The third one is what I had up already. I’m glad I asked for opinions, because my intuition was way off. Thanks again everyone.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 20:09:10 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 18:50:01 GMT -5
Maybe there's a tutorial on the Michigan Rocks channel I can check out, but how in the hell do you get that heavy head up on top of your giant snowman!? Great work, though. Who would have thought that Northerners would have cornered the market on the Awesome Snowman? You guys must have missed the earlier thread from when this was built. There is a YouTube video, it's just unlisted
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 17:27:13 GMT -5
I just changed it to "Michigan Rocks". Thanks for the help, everyone. Do you know how long it will take to show up in You Tube search results? I just searched for "Michigan Rocks" (no quotes), and your channel did not populate in the results. Interestingly, a search for your old channel name (jugglerguy1) brings your channel right up under that old name. I have no idea. I have noticed very irregular results in statistics from YouTube. For example, if I pull up my channel on YouTube and look at the number of views for a video I get one result, but if I look under analytics, I’ll get an older or newer number, and the YouTube Studio app on my iPad might be different than those. So some parts of YouTube update at different times. I would expect my new name to come up in search results within a day or two.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 15:59:17 GMT -5
I just changed it to "Michigan Rocks". Thanks for the help, everyone.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 15:49:32 GMT -5
oooh, you gotta give him some shark teeth! Or those push-in teeth you use for jack o'lanterns! Scale might be a problem with that idea. Did you see my original post showing how big this thing is? I'm 6'2" for scale.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 15:47:40 GMT -5
There are some pretty good Youtube videos on how to select a name and will identify things to consider. Basic info such as - no numbers or special characters, pick something that people can spell, find something that is available on multiple platforms - there are websites to help with the latter. Once you pick a name, go grab that same name on the free sites (eg. Minds, Facebook, gmail, etc) or someone else will do it (to you). So if "michigan rocks" is taken, don't be tempted to make it mich4rocks as every time you get asked about your channel you will be spelling mich and explaining 4 is not for, four, phor, etc. Instead, MIrock would be a better alternative, but not perfect because you will end up saying "myrock" or some such problematic thing. It 'taint easy... The good news is you can change your name later with Youtube if you no longer like what you have... Thanks Greig. I watched a video saying the same things. I don't plan to do much on other sites, such as Twitter, but it doesn't hurt to have the name if I change my mind.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 9:42:30 GMT -5
I think I'm going to go with just "Michigan Rocks". Juggling will not be part of my channel going forward. Michigan Rocks is simple and to the point. Dave made a good argument about search too.
Thanks everyone!
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 13, 2019 4:59:21 GMT -5
aDave Tommy Jugglerguy None of y’all were around back when MichiganRocks was posting. Stalwart member. He hasn’t posted since July of 2010 and it’s actually good to see he’s checked in as recently as April of 2017. I was around. He even stopped by my house when he was in Alpena. Great guy. He got me started trying to tumble Petoskey stones. Edit: oops, I misread that. I was thinking about mibeachrocks.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 21:48:55 GMT -5
A blast from when I was a kid:
This guy wasn’t made of Christmas snow.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 20:58:10 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 20:53:27 GMT -5
I was actually surprised to see that "Michigan Rocks" hadn't been picked up as a channel yet. Other than the obvious tie to lapidary and rockhounding, I thought it would be able to tie into the other stuff that Rob spoke to having videos about. How cool would it be to have a rock channel but also be able to tie into other stuff that Michigan might have to offer? That was my thinking. In addition to the name itself, I'm thinking about the different search terms that some folks might use. I'm wondering what "rocks in Michigan" might turn up in a search. Whatever happens, good luck Rob Jugglerguy . I'll be looking to your other vids down the road. ETA: My wife does monarch raising as well. We'll have to check out what your daughter has done. Dave Allison’s friend Katie got her started raising monarchs. They raised over a hundred some years. I caught four hatching in one short video once. This is my daughter Allison: She tagged along on Katie’s senior picture photo shoot. Allison is on the right.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 19:20:24 GMT -5
I just checked, and "Michigan Rocks" is available. That's simple and to the point.
As for "Juggling Rocks", is that better than "Rock Juggler"? I think it might be. But I'm not sure why. Time to go do some more research on other channel names.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 17:57:17 GMT -5
As you may have noticed, I've been making a few YouTube videos lately. I've had a YouTube account for quite a while that I've used to post various videos that I've taken without any particular theme. I used the name " jugglerguy1" because that's what I've used on all online forums I've belonged to. I have some videos of my son and I unicycling on my channel and a video of my daughter's monarch butterflies hatching that has over a hundred thousand views, but going forward I plan to have rock related videos. I don't have high expectations, but I wouldn't mind earning a little extra money for my efforts. I think I need a different channel name if I'm going to get serious about this. My plan is to do lapidary stuff during the winter months and rock collecting videos in the summer. I have a video of me collecting Petoskey stones and pudding stones that is gaining popularity right now. From my small amount of research, rock collecting videos seem to be more popular than videos showing lapidary techniques. I just bought a GoPro to take with me on my hunts. Before I ask for advice, I'm going to let you know that I will not necessarily take your advice. Like when my wife asks me which shoes look better and then wears the opposite of whatever I choose. The trick is to find a descriptive name that is catchy that no one else has thought of. So far, my only idea is "Rock Juggler". I'm not thrilled with that name, but it's kind of fitting. I could make it a normal part of my videos to briefly juggle some rocks. Or maybe thats' a terrible idea. So what do you think?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 16:57:53 GMT -5
Looks like I’m going to have to put forth some effort to have a chance at this contest judging by your practice rock.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 12, 2019 16:53:31 GMT -5
Those turned out great!
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 10, 2019 12:47:14 GMT -5
Happy birthday, Tony!
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