Today I’m going to tell you about my top 10 websites.   So get your web-surfing finger primed and ready to click.

Featuring flying monkeys and bags of crap woot.com is your place to find the deal of the day.  Every day a new deal is featured.   They also feature deals on t-shirts and wine on ShirtWoot and WineWoot.

While your checking out the deals on woot you ought to check out the deals at

Fat Wallet

FatWallet.com is an online deal shopping website.   The forums are a great place to post deals you have found and also find deals that others have posted.  People can also leave feedback on deals.

After all that shopping I’ll bet you need to just sit back, relax and watch some funny videos on

CollegeHumor.com is a place for you to waste hours and hours of time at work when your boss isn’t looking.   They feature the best videos on the internet as well as make their own original comedy shorts.   They also have a nice collection of hilarious photos that readers have uploaded.  Great place to waste time and get a good laugh.

Now when your tired of all that wasting time watching funny videos you can go to this website and actually learn something new.

Revision3.com is an internet tv station with some really interesting shows.  PixelPerfect features Bert Monroy teaching various photoshop tips and tricks.  Hack5 is a show for network security wizards and features various tips on network security, modding, open source and various other subjects that appel to your technolust.  Scam School is a show for tricksters and riddlers that want to scam their way to a few free drinks. Thats just a taste of what Revision3 Internet Television has to offer.

Getting tired of watching internet videos?  Well then why don’t you click your way to

BeinArt.org is a place to see some of the best artist of our time.  Big names such as Brom, Andrew Gonzalez, Alex Grey and HR Giger are featured on this site.

Another great online art gallery is

Its Art Magazine is a place for digital artist to have their work published in an online magazine.  There is some really cool stuff and amazing artwork on this website.

Now that you’ve seen all that awesome digital artwork I’ll bet you wish you had the resources to create your own.  Well I’m not going to tell you how to do it but I will give you a push in the right direction.   All aboard Mates, were heading to the

Arrrggg

Well there are some cool blogs out there as well.  Although it is indisputable that mine is the GREATEST WEB BLOG EVER!  Although these other blogs are worth reading as well.

Hack a day features different hard mods, soft mods and cool stuff for the technical elite.

If you like gadgets then you need to keep an eye on Engadget.  Always featuring new and cool electronics.

One last blog worth noting is maintained by Johnny Lee.  He talks about all sorts of cool tech stuff on there and is always an interesting, innovative and informative.

Well thats all, 10 new sites for you to surf.  Hope you enjoy!

I’m currently working on updating my blog and upgrading to wordpress.  Please bear with me as I make the switch and stay tuned for more interesting and exciting posts!!!

“Why switch to WordPress?”

Well I’m glad you asked, originally I was using a website called blogger to publish my blog.  I like blogger initially because it made setup easy and would FTP and automatically update pages for me when I made new postings.  The problem that arose as my postings increased in number was that the blogger category system doesn’t make much sense.  WordPress allows me to customize categories and subcategories to make the site easier to navigate for you!   WordPress is also full of useful widgets and plugins.  It lets me create a blog that is easy to navigate through my random content and very user friendly.

My blogger experience was overall quite enjoyable.  They make the template easy for you to setup and modify with very little effort.  Unfortunately the customization of blogger templates and themes was very technical.  If you have your blogger site hosted on your own domain (as I did) then you cannot install widgets!   The only way to update components of you blog was to do it manually in the code.  Being a tech savvy individual this was not too difficult for me to do but I foresee it being an issue for a less experienced individual.

WordPress is installed onto your server.  It uses PHP and SQL to maintain an updated and dynamically integrated website.  It allows you to customize just about everything you can imagine and you can also download a large variety of plugins, widgets and templates.   I found an excellent website for getting WordPress templates and downloaded several templates from there to customize later.  I also searched through the 4,000 available WordPress plugins and found the best few worth downloading.

All In 1 SEO Pack – This plugin allows you to customize and integrate your META data with your blog.  Definitely worth downloading, installing and configuring.

Buy Me A Beer – Lets you put a link at the bottom of your posts to allow people to donate money to you.  I set it up so that people can donate money to help me replace my stolen laptop.

Contact Form 7 – Lets you create forms for your website.  For example Contact Me

Events Calendar – Allows you to update an events calendar so your viewers can stay on top of upcoming events!  (coming soon!)

FM Tuner – Integrates your LastFM radio with your blog template!  (coming soon!)

Google Site Map Generator – If you don’t know what a site map is I recommend googling it.  This plugin creates one for you automatically!

Share This – Allows people to email your posts to others as well as spread the word through a number of social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and Digg.

WordPress Reports – If you own your website and your not using Google Analytics or another traffic reporting service I HIGHLY recommend you set it up.  This plugin integrates your traffic reports with your WordPress dashboard so you can easily monitor your site traffic.

Lightbox 2.0 for WordPress – I like this plugin alot!  It makes it really easy to integrate light box with any link your using on your page simply by including this code in the tag:  rel=”lightbox”

WordPress E-Commerece – I haven’t setup this plugin or got it working yet but it definitely looks like its worth the time to figure out.

WordPress Greet Box – Lets you to configure a custom greeting box for users based on how they found your website.  Very cool plugin!

Suscribe2 – Lets readers sign up to receive email updates on new blog postings.

So over the next couple days I’ll be tweaking and updating everything to make my blog better for YOU the reader!  Stay tuned…

will take you to some interesting places to meet some interesting people.

So take a moment to check this out!

First of all let me tell you about:
The Tree Of Life
The Tree Of Life is a rejuvenation center located in Patagonia Arizona. A place of holistic healing and spirituality. And the view from the Arizona mountains is amazing.

Next on the agenda of cool things you need to check out:
Orange Piel
Orange Piel does interior design and prints photography on wall sized screens. They have a few artists that are featured on the site but they can also print any image that is provided. They also print window screens that are really nice and look amazing when the light shines through them. They are perfect for home, office or store front.

ok now if wall sized prints wasn’t cool enough for you maybe you need to check out the 3D television by
Wazabee

They don’t have the 42″ 3D television available on their website yet but it should be available soon (starting around $4,000) They do have a 3D computer monitor that is quite impressive. Their products work with innovative lenticular technology to create the 3D effect.

I also discovered a new online digital art gallery that is worth checking out:
Its Art

Its Art magazine is a source of information and online gallery for digital art. Worth spending some time there and checking it all out.

Some more art worth checking out is my buddy Marco Valenzuela. This is his 2008 3D modeling reel. Marco is an amazing character model and is currently available for hire or freelance work.

Another project I’ll be working on this year is the
Coalessence Festival
Coalessence will be moving from Eureka Springs to Austin Texas this fall. For more information stay tuned to their website.

Well let me see… What else… I have so much cool software I have recently discovered but I think I’m going to just leave you with a my VJ promo clip.

So its a NEW YEAR! (yaaaaayyy!) and my new years resolution was to make
ONE MILLION DOLLARS

so now you ask “hey Nate, how do you expect to make a million dollars”
to which I reply “It Simple!”

Let me break it down for you all like this:
If you get 1,000,000 people to each give you $1.00, then you have ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

how do you do that? well thats the tricky part, but you know you can simplify it like this:

if PEOPLE (give me) MONEY = I’m a MILLIONAIRE!
or in mathmatical terms: x $ = $1,000,000
so for example: instead of getting a dollar from a million people I simply get $20 from 500,000 people then
BLING BLING
I’m RICH!
Or Quicker yet, if I can get $1,000 from 1,000 people then I’ll be RICH!
or BETTER YET!
if I just get $500,000 from 2 PEOPLE! thats right, only TWO people…
THEN I’ll BE A MILLIONAIRE!

See, when I break it down like that its just not that difficult! Right!?!
just remember
x $ = $1,000,000

This is a clip of some Live Video Mixing I did for an event at Burleson warehouse. If you need live video or visual mixing for an event please contact me.