Emmett Lollis+OneOK FreedomFest 2011 Fireworks Show OneOK put on a great fireworks show this year. The only problem was what appears to have been a lack of grand fanale at the end. There were about 24 minutes of fireworks out of a scheduled 30 minutes. It appears there was a build up, then everything fizzled. A few minutes later, one last firework was launched, but it was the last. People waited around for another 10 minutes … Continue reading
Sooner Boomerfest 2011 Fireworks Display Jenks Oklahoma celebrated independence day on July 3rd 2011 with one of Oklahoma’s largest fireworks displays. This year the name has been changed to Sooner Boomerfest 2011. I decided to take a short trip to get some video of the celebration. The fireworks display lasted for around half an hour and culminated with a 2 minute finale to rival any big name firework show. The fireworks were launched from the … Continue reading
Facebook’s New Skype Video Chat Facebook is going to have a major announcement about an exciting new product on July 6th. According to Facebook the new product is “something awesome”. While Facebook hasn’t commented on the new product officially, there have been rumors that they are launching a new video chat service. According to Mail Online, Facebook has been developing a new browser based video chat service in cooperation with Skype. The Partnership’s Effect in … Continue reading
Producer Tommy Parker on the Death of Jeff Conaway, dead at 60 I had the opportunity to interview producer Tommy Parker about the unfortunate death of Taxi and Grease star Jeff Conaway. Tommy was working with Jeff Conaway and Ten Travis on a project called Memoirs of a Medicated Child which had to be put on hold. In this interview Tommy speaks of Jeff Conaway’s girlfriend Vikki Lizzi who was very supportive of Jeff, Tommy … Continue reading
Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak of May 24th 2011 On May 24th 2011 the state of Oklahoma experienced a historical tornado outbreak. At current count seven tornadoes touched down across the state. One of the larger tornadoes stayed on the ground for a full 75 miles. Tornadoes touched down in or near El Reno, Piedmont, Chickasha, Canton, Bradley, Stillwater, Ravia and many more cities in Oklahoma. Sadly, nine people lost their lives and many more were injured … Continue reading
I just posted my first review in quite a while. I got the Canon EOS 60D a couple months ago so I could start doing film production. It really works great in that regard. Besides the video I’m really impressed with the improved picture quality and extra features. You can read the full review here: Canon EOS 60D Full Review
Photography Pricing, an Explanation of Rates As a photographer, I find a lot of people asking one question “Why are photographers so expensive“? Providing an answer to this simple question requires a very detailed explanation. This article is an attempt to give a somewhat full explanation of what’s behind a photographer’s pricing structure. The information I present should be of use to anyone looking to hire a photographer or any photographer who is just starting … Continue reading
Making the Exciting Move into Video Production For the past 12 years I’ve been working extensively on my photography, as time moves on it can become more of a chore than a joy unless something changes. For instance you might switch from events to weddings, from weddings to sports, or from sports to portraits. Sometimes a new technique such as high dynamic range photography comes along to re-ignite that spark. That time has come again … Continue reading
Use Facebook as Page Most of the time when Facebook adds a new feature it’s frustrating to say the least. The “new messaging” interface to Facebook is simply horrible in my opinion. Who wants to send email’s with no subject line, mix them with their chat messages and archive everything by default? Enough on that subject. Facebook just introduced a new feature called “Use Facebook as Page” and its great! The feature works by allowing you to … Continue reading
Well, unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you’ve probably heard that there is a snow storm on it’s way to Tulsa. What you might not have heard is that this could be the biggest snow storm in Tulsa’s history! I’ve been keeping my eye on it and according to the National Weather Service is currently predicting 4 to 8 inches of snow with some areas receiving 10 to 15 inches of snow! I don’t … Continue reading
Overview of This Article In this article, I explain the benefits of using PHP includes in site design as well as a technique which allows pre-set include paths to work on your local testing server as well as your hosting provider. The Benefits of PHP Includes Often times as website designers we are faced with the issue of designing a very large website. The pre-thinking and design of your site is the most important phase … Continue reading
New 2010 Galleries are Available I just finished creating the 3rd 2010 photo gallery for emmettlollis.com. So far I’ve added galleries for the Best Portraits of 2010, Storm Chasing Photos and a Winter Weather of 2010 gallery. I put a lot of work into each of the galleries, from taking the photos, editing, going through stacks of my 2010 images to spending an hours designing and creating the actual galleries on the site. Be sure … Continue reading
The Issue A few days ago I was downloading my raw log files so I could run my web analysis software. I noticed that the raw log file seemed to be extremely large for the amount of traffic my site typically receives. I didn’t think a whole lot about it because I’ve recently installed WordPress for this blog and I know that WordPress generates a lot more log file entries. I had a lot going on with … Continue reading
Hasty Decisions I’ve been running TulsaRockNRoll.com since 2001. In the beginning I was running apache on my home computer over a DSL connection which worked pretty good. I decided to make use of server side includes (SSI) to make the management of my site easier. I didn’t want to go through the mess of renaming my entire site from HTML to SHTML file extensions so I decided to just tell apache to treat HTML files … Continue reading
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher Last night I had the exciting opportunity to see a screening of “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher” at TU’s Alan Chapman Activity Center. For those of you who don’t know, Duncan Christopher was filmed entirely in Tulsa Oklahoma and surrounding areas. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher is doing something fairly unique in it’s marketing technique. They have taken the movie on … Continue reading
Fun with Breadcurmbs I decided to add breadcrumbs to my new blog to help with site navigation. I found a great plugin called Yoast WordPress SEO which has built in breadcrumb support. The plugin has a lot more than just breadcrumb support. If you have any concern about how well your blog displays in Google I would advise adding the plugin. I won’t go into detail about the other features since I’m focusing on breadcrumb support … Continue reading
Welcome to Emmett’s Blog After a great deal of work, I’ve finally got my blog designed to a point where I can present it to the public. There was quite a bit of work involved with the theme design. My goal was to get WordPress to work with my website template so I will be able to maintain the site without a lot of extra effort and after hours of PHP coding I finally have a working … Continue reading
adwords apache business celebrity development dreamweaver entertainment facebook film production fireworks google google plus html jenks linux marketing microsoft movies oklahoma photography photoshop php review SEO skype snow social networking storm chasing tulsa video videography weather web design winter YouTube
