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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
ijustinesiphone video: What is VEDA? Our favorite Renaissance blogger, Justine Ezarik, explains the concept and a couple of other things on her mind one sunny day in August of 2012, while vlogging.and driving towards this amazing area. Uploaded August 9, 2012. http://youtu.be/0k1oR0yi65I
Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica is just another one of the many things that iJustine and I both love.
Whenever I've gone somewhere in person to hear people like Bernard Zyscovich talk about making various parts of South Florida better, especially in Hollywood, this is what I always think of, but you have to get the mix right.
Unfortunately, The Village at Gulfstream Park retail complex here in Hallandale Beach still has NOT done this yet.
Back on April 13th, I remember writing some friends in LA about a fire near there, and a month later, they were in the news once again when a mountain lion swung by to check out the scene.
Justine Ezarik, a.k.a. iJustine, modern-day Digital Renaissance Woman and well-known YouTube Partner, back from CES, is in Miami for NATPE and checking-out the South Florida scene.
I originally meant to post the two videos -below- of lovely multi-tasker Justine about three months ago, back when she was visiting Norway and taking some awesome photos and videos of that beautiful country that's been the sad subject of so many posts of mine here since the massacre in Utøya, and home to so many friends, talented musicians -and, let's be honest, very beautiful women.
Plus, in case you missed it, Justine finally explained, to those who didn't know, what the reality of the Swedish Fish situation was. So there's that!
Curiously enough, that video of Justine and her Norwegian tech friends doing the glacier trek was one of the things that I had waiting for me in my YouTube inbox one night three months ago, when I'd come home from spending a few hours with my Dad when he wasn't doing very well after he'd taken a fall earlier in the afternoon at the Hollywood ALF he's living at up the street. I'd had to jump into the gridlocked traffic on US-1 and rush up US-1 to get him and then head south to the Mt. Sinai ER in Aventura, with a large and disconcerting gash above his right eye.
Right where he had had surgery back in 1973 after he was the innocent victim in a car accident in North Miami Beach, while I was in Junior High School.
When I finally got home and flipped on my computer and the TV, with Jimmy Kimmel
about mid-way thru his monologue, I was both physically exhausted and emotionally distraught, and driving home I'd once again been mentally debating my idea of whether or not my visiting Sweden and Iceland soon for two weeks to just get away from here for a while and clear my head is such a great idea. Something I've mentioned a time or two here before. But as she has so many times before, especially the rough last year-and-a-half, with all of its upsetting ups-and-downs concerning my Dad's health, Justine made me laugh and smile when I really needed it... so there's that. She's Pittsburgh thru-and-thru! Something my Steubenville-born dad would surely appreciate if he only fully comprehended the whole Influencer scene.
Months after I'd originally planned on doing so, I'm going to be over on South Beach Monday afternoon to take some photos and shoot some video of the space on Lincoln Road that was supposed to be the new H&Mstore many months ago, but which is, well, STILL not open.
I'm going to try to get some straight answers from some responsible people as to when that soon-to-be cash cow store is going to be a reality, but if by chance I run into Justine, with her camera in tow, well, that sleuthing of mine may well have to wait until another time.
Even though I'm NOT a fan of reality shows anymore, per se, since the only one I consistently watch is CBS'sThe Amazing Race, Justine is definitely someone whose quirky personal adventures, misadventures and hijinks I would watch on the small tube. Yes, smarts, savvy and personality still counts for a lot with me, and Justine has enough personality for any two women. Take that as a hint, NATPE programming types looking for new ideas.
A head's-up for those of you with YouTube Channels, esp. those of you who DON'T receive anywhere near the volume of visits that Justine gets.
Which is to say, all of you.
And me!
After originally planning on posting it over Christmas week but not being able to do so for reasons that some of you know about, in the next day or so I'll be posting the fascinating and instructive video of ABC News' 20/20 program from September called "YouTube Generation" that I've already spoken to some of you about via email.
I'll also post some of my pithy observations about it.
