Los Angeles Trip – SYTYCD Guinness record-setting event.

This year’s summer is turning out to be really busy for me and lots of updates will follow.

As the webmaster of SYTYCD.com, which is a dance fan blog, I had the pleasure of being part of a really fun event. ‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Guinness record-setting Dance Dance Revolution event.

The mission was to perform the largest simultaneous dance mat routine in history, a la Dance Dance Revolution. To set a new Guinness World Record, “SYTYCD” needed at least 100 people to participate in a dance pad performance for at least five minutes.

My cousin and I were there to cover the event and be part of the Guinness World Breaking Record!

DDR and “SYTYCD” enthusiasts were gathering at the Nokia Center. One hundred dance pads were assembled, and some solid prizes awaited the dancers: a video game console, a dance video game and mat, a 23-inch LCD flat-screen television and a year’s supply of Wrigley Extra gum. We both walked away with the DDR mat which we both have yet to try.

The atmosphere was great, everyone was pumped up and ready to go, even though it was about 100 degrees outside and really sunny.

People from Guinness stood by, waiting for the event to begin. Access Hollywood, E!, Local Radio Shows, and Fox 11 News were also covering this history making event.

As the Hosts of the show arrived along with several dancers from previous and this season’s show, paparazzi began shooting tons of photos and taking video of them.

You can view the video from the event by clicking here.

We were also able to snap a few photos and interview several dancers. Overall I was glad to experience this publicity stunt to promote the premier of the show.

So You Think You Can Guinnes Record Breaking Event DDR

We also had a chance to catch up with Rob, a good friend of ours, and spent the day roaming around Hollywood. We had lunch at the famous Ivy and then walked around Beverly Hills Park during the annual Art Festival. The next day we drove down to Santa Monica to enjoy a nice day on the pier.

So You Think You Can Guinnes Record Breaking Event DDR

My first experience of Los Angeles, was awesome and I can’t wait to go back! Next stop is San Diego and San Francisco.

June 28, 2008 | Filed Under News, Travel | Leave a Comment

PodCamp Philly 2008

We are gearing up to promote this year’s PodCamp Philly! I designed these cards for the organizers to give out at other events. I will be working on updating the new website aswell in the coming weeks.

Welcome to PodCamp Philly 2008 – a BarCamp-style UnConference dedicated to podcasting, blogging, video bloging and all things New Media. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new media “newbie,” you’ll find that PodCamp offers low cost, high-quality, user-generated content in a welcoming, all-inclusive environment.

PodCamp Philly 2008 is being held September 6th & 7th at Philadelphia’s Temple University. Rapidly becoming known as one of the area’s preeminent technical universities, Temple features the Tuttleman Learning Center containing 30 state-of-the-art multimedia classrooms, as well as the 75,000 ft² Temple TECH Center.

www.podcampphilly.com

June 13, 2008 | Filed Under Design, Events, News | Leave a Comment

Help Produce Film History – The 1 Second Film

I joined as the producer of “The 1 Second Film”, an original concept for a great cause. The 1 Second Film is a non-profit web fueled collaborative art project that anyone in the world can be part of, including celebrities. As a community, we’re creating the World’s Biggest Shortest Film. The 1 Second Film project is built around one-second of animation (24 frames); each frame is a large mural that was painted by hundreds of people during a collaborative event.

Anyone can help produce the film by donating $1.

All profits raised by the finished film will be donated to the Global Fund for Women.

Click on this pic to donate to this amazing project!Here is a video about The 1 Second Film.

March 29, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Presenting at Lower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce Technology Forum

About 50 people attended the Lower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce on February 8th, 2008. Among them were business owners, chamber members and clients of Media Components LLC.

The topics were Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), E-Mail Marketing, RSS, Blogging & Web 2.0 Technologies.
Along with me, there were two other presenters: Kathie Jankauskas, Edward T. MacConnell, and sponsored by PNC Bank / Newtown.

Photos from the event:

Denis Sinelnikov LBCCC

Denis Sinelnikov LBCCC
Me presenting about blogging, web 2.0 technologies

Denis Sinelnikov LBCCC

Overall the presentation went great and the discussion afterwards showed interest in the new internet technologies that are being used today for business purposes. I plan to have more of these in the near future.

The Presentation Slides can be downloaded here.

February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Events, News, Technology | Leave a Comment

ProPageBuilder – Complete Website Design & Hosting Solution

ProPageBuilder.com – No HTML skills needed and no scripts! New advances in internet technology have made it possible for anyone to create a website without any programming knowledge. Everything you need to do business on the Internet with online site editor, powerful management tools, professional designs, total ecommerce, and more!

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January 11, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Lunch with PhillyFoodGuys

PhillyFoodGuys

I recently met up with my friends Bill & Tushar from PhillyFoodGuys.com to join them for lunch and be part of their podcast show which reviews local lesser-known, food places in and around Philadelphia, PA. I took them to my local lunch spot in Northeast Philly called: Chaikhana Uzbekistan.

We had a great time eating and talking about the different dishes, you can listen to the whole episode at their blog: www.phillyfoodguys.com

December 17, 2007 | Filed Under News, Reviews | Leave a Comment

Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra Live Auction

On Sunday, February 11th 2007 I attended the Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra Live Auction.

The DVPO is dedicated to inspiring, entertaining and educating the community by providing high quality, artistic and diverse symphonic concerts performed by professional musicians. Our Creative Arts competition includes three Fine Arts with original compositions in Music, Poetry and Art. It is believed to be the only one of its kind in the region.

The second annual Youth in the Arts live auction raises over $20,000 for their spring concert. My company Media Components has donated an item for the Live Auction- a Custom Brochure Style Website (valued at $3500) to raise money for the concert. The Auction brought in several business owners, Bucks County residents and even our newly elected Congressman – Patrick Murphy who is born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia.

Photo from the event:

In this photo, left to right: Michael Pratt – DVPO Music Director, Patrick Murphy – Congressman, Jane Ward – Third Federal Bank, Denis Sinelnikov – Media Components, Elena Antonello, M.D., Vice President of DVPO, Stan Marcus, ESQ., President of DVPO.