Thursday, September 26, 2013

Hold On We're Going Home

Being an aspiring Music Video Director, and having produced, and directed a couple music video's myself, I follow, and keep a keen eye on new released music videos. I try to know them all, and what's hot, and what's not.

I absolutely loved this song by Drake the minute I heard it a month, and a half ago. I immediately downloaded it from the iTunes store, and have been waiting in anticipation to see what they would do with the Music Video, well dunn dun duh dunnnn, it's here.

I just finished watching it, and as much as I absolutely adore the newer cinematic approach to music videos, I was very disappointed with this one. It just falls flat for me, and doesn't really catch the essence of the song for me at all.

Drake, has had some cinematic video's in the past that have, like for instance, *Find Your Love*. That video to me is the very essence of what that song is. It feels real, but his latest video, and the latest Cash Money Production, just missed the mark with this one in my opinion.

The song, had all the fixings, to be another video like Justin Timberlakes VMA winner, "Mirrors", but they didn't even come close.

Still love the song though, and I am sure more people will like the video, than dislike it, and I don't dislike it, it's just not enticing to me. It just missed the mark.

Take a look, and let me know what you think.

Drake ~ Hold On We're Going Home from OctobersVeryOwn on Vimeo.




Monday, September 23, 2013

iPhone 4 texting lagging after iOS7 update.

If you are like myself, I was actually very excited about the new iOS7 update. I have a newer 3rd Generation iPad, that I knew should run the new software fine, but I was worried about my older iPhone 4, but after using the new iOS7 on my iPad with no significant problems, and a little research I decided to take the leap, and downloaded the new Apple Operating System.

Everything seemed to go off without a hitch. I checked apps, you name it, and everything on my iPhone seemed to be working fine, for a few hours I noticed no major problems after the upgrade. Then low, and behold, I decided to text a friend of mine who is in New York for a Indian Larry Block Party, and as soon as I started trying to text her, my texting didn't even show up. I couldn't even figure out what was going on at first, but after writing a word, or two, and waiting a good five, to seven seconds, my text showed up.

I was horrified at first because this was a MAJOR issue, one I knew, I would not be able to live with. I immediately began looking into going back to iOS6, and downgrading, and hoping my backup was sufficient for the process. I did a quick Google search to find others were having this exact same issue, and some of the post were made a couple days ago. I felt like an idiot for not doing a little more in-depth research before clicking the install update feature.

With all that being said I knew my phone was all backed up, so I decided to start doing some general reset's, and see if that changed anything. I first powered off my phone, and did a cold reboot, nothing, still same problem, but I decided to go into setting, and do a full feature reset, which will reset all wallpaper, volume settings back to the factory default. Low, and behold this worked perfectly, so I decided to do the following video showing exactly what I did to get my texting working properly again, and at normal speed for my Verizon 32gig iPhone 4, updated to iOS7. I hope this works for you as well. Try Settings; General; Reset all settings.