So the other day someone wanted to know what "Before you Actuate" meant. So I figured anyone reading this might like an explanation as well. The whole business started with my friend Ray/Sebron and his YouTube channel. He had done a few videos before but was starting the YTO (YouTube Orbit) the objective is to post 1 video a day for an entire year. It doesn't have to be long or very interesting but there needs to be one a day with the opportunity for a few misses. As of today he has reached 310 videos so almost there. Which when you see the extremely long list of people who have failed trying to do this it is a very impressive feat.
So watching these got me interested in video and editing so I got hold of some software and started messing around. I released a video on 11/11/11 just because I thought it was cool. It really wasn't much of anything but I wanted to be able to say I put up my first video on that date. The video was all old footage I had taken with different cameras over a very long period of time so it had no point to it. It just looking like a movie trailer for nothing. Somehow that snip-it got a ton of hits at least for a first video on a channel with nothing else on it. That channel is called SelfActuate. The thought process behind that was that I wanted to do fun exciting things and share them on an epic scale. To actualize my hopes, dreams, plans, and whatnot. I only made one other video for that channel and decided that I needed to refine my skills a bit. So I jumped over to an old channel I had set up with the intention of posting stupid videos to practice with. Come to find out vlogging or video blogging is a thing and people actually started watching what I posted. That channel became SAVY SelfActuate Vlog on YouTube. Corny but everything on that channel is so it fits. I have still been uploading videos there that have a little less production time to them.
I had started my masters program around that time as well so as time was getting short I've made less and less. I wanted a place to write down ideas I had for videos that were never made so I was trying to track them here. So the original concept was before the SelfActuate video there is the blog. Hence "Before You Actuate". However since then it has taken on a bit of a different meaning. I've always been into fitness but more so recently. Now the title has come to mean "before you try this be prepared" or for geeks "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." So my new goal is to put together what I'm doing fitness wise and share what I find and let you know if it works or not. Hope your enjoying so far!
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PS: I should have some new videos up soon and they may even be health related!
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