Bee In The City Going Grocery

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♬ Music for the Wii - Ishike

I'm trying my hand at making little short videos on TikTok. I had been making occasional ones on Instagram, but really it's a site for pictures and not videos. So, I guess there's a Instagram and TikTok for more Zone Base. I can't promise what I'll make will be any good, but... well I can't promise anything. But I hope you all like what I make. I'm trying y'all.

The Devil's Video, Blockbusters Video

If it's one this I particularly miss about the bygone days of video stores, it's the horror section at the local video store. Nothing could beat those Mom and Pop stores with their cardboard standees of Nightmare of Elm Street faded from the sun next to the wall of VHS horror. When Blockbuster came on the scene, they outdid everybody. Bigger stores with bigger selections. Even their horror selection spanned a few aisles.

Blockbuster even outdid Mom and Pop stores with the holidays. Instead of a generic decoration or two, they'd generally have some sort of promotion. For a while you could get Blockbuster branded tapes of classic horror at Halloween time. You've probably guessed by now that I loved it. I still remember fall of 1995 and their specific release of Halloween. Truly a magical time.

Later they added more movies to the Halloween display, which didn't always have the branding, but had the sweet sale price. Friday the 13th for a few bucks, heck yeah! I wish pictures of their Michael Myers display were easier to find. You could see him peeking at you through the windows into the parking lot. Damn creeper.

Video Format Change

Unlike the past few Mondays, I didn't make any videos today. I stayed pretty busy all weekend celebrating my wife's birthday and stuff not leaving me wanting to do much today. Well, other than work through a pretty big backlog of keshi/mini figures and put pictures of them on Instagram. I decided to put my videos on Instagram TV again as opposed to YouTube. I'm not deleting my channel, just realizing (again) my best fit.

I think sometime next week or this week I'll take a few of the ones I put of YouTube and stick them on my Instagram. Not that I've got a bazillion followers or anything, but I get a good amount of likes and views there. Not to mention, the kinda of thing I do goes over more with the crowd there. That and admittedly, while I watch a lot of YouTube, I like uploading to Instagram a million times better. If desktop readers noticed the return of the Instagram widget on the sidebar. That's part of my annual January arranging of the site. It doesn't really change much, but I do figures out a bunch of things over the course of the month while moving stuff around. Thanks for coming back to another year of Zone Base!

YouTube Channel Update

I updated the YouTube Channel today if you'd like to check it out. Still a work in progress, I think I need to work on my lighting more. I have some good lights that I didn't think I need to use as the area I'm using 'looks' like it's well lit. Of course in the finished video, it's a different story. Still trying to keep the videos short as I go, but ones a little longer than normal. It's a work in progress, and I'm enjoying it. I think next week I'll do Ghostbusters toys.