We made it. 100 days, 100 videos.

Maybe more. I messed up numbering somewhere along the way. This may be 101. And I already have one more (a Comic Bento unboxing) that will be going up.

The vague plan for the new year is to do at least 52 videos. Far from the daily grind I did with this last 100 days. One or so a week should actually give me a chance to do things–things other than crank out videos and things like learning more about the software I’m using to crank out videos.

There will be a more coherent plan for the first 100 days of the new year. Then there’ll be one for the middle 100 days. And one for the final 100 days of 2016. That should space out some breaks nicely in the mix.

So how did things go with this challenge I posed myself?

Well, since the main goal was 100 videos in 100 days and I didn’t miss a single day, I’d say that was a success.

Other metrics… well… that didn’t stack up so well. It looks like I got a few (8) new subscribers, but some of them were likely spam, as were a few of the handful of comments that I got (including one that was so utterly off-topic and incoherent that I had to go and check out the videos on the page of the person who posted it… yep, complete nut job like whoa).

The most popular of the new videos is the review of Valley of the Sasquatch, with 103 views. That’s kind of surprising. The second most popular, with 83 views, is the one about the Rankin-Bass animated specials I grew up with (that’s also one of the two videos that seems to have garnered a “thumbs down”… yet no comments). The video with the most minutes watched (182) was the one about types of ghosts.

Overall, in the past 100 days, 3,992 minutes of my videos have been watched in 1,239 individual viewings. There were 84 likes and 47 comments with 15 shares.

Not horrible, especially for something that wasn’t really focused or promoted in any way, shape, or form… but far from groundbreaking.

So, here’s the last official vlog of these last 100 days of 2015. Hope you’ve enjoyed this experiment.

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Yeah, now all of you who grew up in the 80s have a Bon Jovi song stuck in your head. And I’m not at all sorry about that.

If you’re reading this, then we’ve both made it to the 50th installment of this vlog thing that I’ve been doing since September. While it may not make a difference if I make it or not, I have so far… so that reason to celebrate at least a little bit, right?

This daily schedule is still a total bear. If I didn’t lose an hour or so a day to commuting (and those other 8 or so hours to sitting in someone else’s office) this would be a lot easier to pull off. As it is, all it takes is trying to keep up with other things I like (such as my TV shows and YouTube videos and reading) to keep this skating on the razor’s edge of missing a day.

I obviously consume too much to create like this on a daily basis.

I’m still fighting the regular urge to re-shoot, re-edit, and generally tweak things to make them perfect. It’s utterly frustrating, but I’m still winning that fight.

There are still a number of topics I’m shying away from. Ones that I tell stories about in person but just can’t get the flow right when I’m not getting direct feedback. It really makes me realize how much I get from an actual audience… imagining one just doesn’t cut it. (And your post publishing likes and comments, while awesome, certainly don’t help me during production.)

So, 50 down and 50 to go. That’ll bring us straight to the end of the year.

I’m still not sure what else I’ll be doing to close out the year but I do want to know what you have planned.

How are you going to make the last 50 days of your year totally awesome? Let me know in comments somewhere.

But first, watch me flail about a little in today’s vlog.

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So, I’ve been slogging away at this project for 25 days now.

It’s been a bit trickier than I expected. Mainly because I still insist on editing things, which leads to more time spent exporting them and getting them up to YouTube. But… there’s been one video a day none the less.

What I haven’t had time to do–especially with the few other things that have come up during October (like the Spooky Movie Festival)–is play with other features of the software and really figure out how to get things like titles, multi-camera editing, and special effects working. I also still have to figure out how to best bring in other people in a way that doesn’t necessarily involve them sitting on my couch with me. Maybe I’ll have time for that in November.

I also haven’t had time to consume as much media as I usually do. Only so many hours in a day and all that. Ton of TV show episodes piling up in the Hulu queue and a bunch of YouTube postings sitting in my in-box waiting for me to have the time to watch them. Heck, I haven’t even gotten through all the comic books I got in my September Comic Bento delivery.

There’s apparently a good reason no one other than professional vloggers (or people who actually have a full crew working with them, like the various news YouTube channels) do this on a daily basis. It would’ve been much more sensible to do three days a week.

Not that I have any plans to change the daily plan. Nope. Still going to stick it out for the next 75 days.

Unless I drop dead from lack of sleep.

But that hasn’t ever happened before.

So, here’s vlog number 25… you can have it to watch while I’m out catching some more horror films tonight.

Thanks for sticking with me through this. It’s much appreciated.

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So… we’re one tenth of the way into this project. I’ve learned a bit about Premiere Pro and how much time it actually takes to produce a ten minute video. (Man, those processing times are killer.)

It’s also October… which means we’re well on our way to Halloween. It’s the season for strange and unusual things. Now, those who know me, I’m into a lot of strange and unusual things. This is the time of the year when it’s actually acceptable.

That means I’m going to take the opportunity to share some of that here. Maybe even with some guests on here. I’ll be trying a few new tricks to make that happen… like pulling in video from Google Hangouts and/or Skype and maybe multi-camera setups.

But, before we really get into all that, there are a few more TV show reviews to go.

Today, though, here’s the vlog talking a little about the mini-milestone.

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