Buffalo.com Podcast: The Mark Valentino (Hit-N-Run) Interview

Buffalo.com photo by Dan Ruggiero.

Our first "official" Buffalo.com podcast - our guest is Mark Valentino of the popular party band Hit-N-Run. The tightest 20 minutes in broadcasting, people! Check it out if you have some time.

Special thanks to Mark, a real Buffalo.com supporter (just ask Dan Ruggiero) and a genuinely good guy.

A little free publicity for a local artist

This guy is a buddy of my old boss. If you want to go to this exhibit to take photos or write a story, that is great - but maybe you just want to check it out as a civilian. It looks pretty interesting.

I am setting up an exhibit of my artwork (mostly Buffalo items, Frank Lloyd Wright, grain elevator, fireboat, etc.) August 1 at Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau in the Market Arcade, 617 Main St.

The exhibit will run through the month of August. I will be there August 1 between 10 am and at least 1:oo pm, primarily to make sure everything is properly displayed.

If you can't be there (I'd like to visit again) try to drop in sometime during the month and let me know what you think about it, good or bad.

Karl E. Kipp

Ultimate Bridal Show - April 5 - Looking for multiple volunteers for multimedia project

Buffalo.com photo by Erica Morano.

I'm unable to find a link for it at this precise moment, but I am looking for 3-4 interns to help me cover the Ultimate Wedding Show on Sunday, April 5 from roughly noon to 5 PM at Macy's at the Walden-Galleria Mall. It's the finale of the big bridal photo contest sponsored by BuffaloBrides.com.

What I would ideally like to do is to have a team that can shoot video, do on-camera interviews, write blogs/post to Twitter, and take photos. We would upload our content directly from the site, giving it a "live" feel.

Everyone will have a chance to do everything - that is, the writer will have a chance to do interviews or run the camera or take pictures, the photographer can do some quick writing, the cameraperson may also be sending Twitter messages, etc. This would be real fast-paced and, I think, a lot of fun.

This is a model that we would like to pursue for multiple events this summer (including a lot of fun stuff), so this would be a test run to see, logistically, how this works, what doesn't work, and what we may need to tweak.

If you are interested, please let me know. I will be there myself, and I'm going to be doing all of the same stuff that you are. I'm looking forward to this.