This One Time... At Band Camp (Issue 1)

Written by: Andrew Shain

~Got a funny story from ANY camp with no one to share it with? We all want to hear it!!! Just send in the story to thisonetime@nintendoboy.com with you name (optional) and a picture (also optional) and I will pick the best 5 and post them weekly! (Don't post them In the comments because I will most likely miss them!)~

This one time, at band camp...

... I wore a wedding dress to band rehearsal not realizing that it was a TOTAL mistake. Forget the dress, the MAKEUP was the worst.

-Joshua Indech

... the Euphonium skit was starting to get inappropriate... like Peter Fugate cross-dressing! So G rang the gong to stop the skit 50 times and the Euphoniums refused to stop the skit.

-Michelle C. Parkos

...  the year before my last I spent the night before the first rehearsal with instrumnets cleaning my horn, and then after breakfast I accidently left my case open and it fell out when I picked it up and the thrid valve got bent. D'OH!

-Richard Sponholz

... My 8th grade band camp (Encore) a few guys stole my bed and literally hid it in the closet which locked from the inside. I didn't realize this till late after free time. By the time I got my mattress out, I realized they also accidently broken one of the legs of my bed which I then had to pay $54 for.

-Andrew Shain

... someone tried to curl another girl's hair with one of those round brushes right before lights out one night and it got stuck in her hair and the chaperones were up for an extra hour untangling it from her hair.

-Christine 'Steen' Krause

~If you didn't see your story here, don't worry! We have plenty of time to post them, just send them in!~

Not a Celebration, more like a relief. *MUST READ*

Written by: Andrew Shain

As most of you know, the Nintendoboy himself was having doubts about his own site.  What a relief that Nintendoboy is here to stay. There must be some changes made though, mainly... the users. As users (the people Nintendoboy makes this site for), you have more power on this site than you know.  If he doesn't see activity on here he assumes no one will see it, so why bother? Now what are these changes you ask? We all need to be more active on here. That means comment on videos, use the forums, play the gamse, anything the you want on this site. E-mail either Jeffrey or Me and suggest things to do for videos, articles, or other ideas and we'll try to make it happen. If hard for just a handful of people to keep a site going if users rarely use it.

The End?

Not sure what to do anymore. This site, oh how much I love it, is dying. No one visits it anymore. I used to have almost around 500 unique visitors a day, now I'm lucky if I have 50. I don't know what's wrong. I try so hard. The Rendezvous... sure, that's my fault. But the forums, the games, everything else... it's just not what it used to be anymore. I mean, even the main part, the videos... I never received a single comment on my site with my latest video. :[ Guys, you have no idea how hard I work on this site and the videos for it, and I hardly ever see any love. So I'm pretty much thinking of deleting the site. Making videos is still up in the air, and even I'm not sure if that's going to remain alive on YouTube. I'm looking at other possible options for other sites. I'm still in a limbo, as I have just lost all hope, but don't want to see the site go down. If you want to have an idea of how bad we really are, the company that I sell advertising on actually yanked my ad box because my traffic was pretty low. Bummer indeed. x.x Leave me a comment with your thoughts... I'm open for ideas or anything you have to say. But for now, I may start digging the grave for The Nintendo Boy Project. :[ I'll hopefully see you again on some other site. Good bye for now... :(

Twitter or whatever

So what's the big thing right now? That's right, Twitter. Whether you want to believe it or not, Twitter, which started it out small, is becoming very popular, and is on it's way to rival facebook. While the two sites are very different, they could very well damage each other in the aspect of social networking. But not in the cases that I will examine today. Twitter... has actually created itself a presence where it integrates into many applications that are already available, and in another neat way to look at it, it's done the same thing with everyone's lives who have used or are using Twitter! I personally love it, and that is why I have brought it to a new level here on my site! (: I have used Twitter... back in the very early days, before it become increasingly popular. And if you have one yourself (and actually use it!), you'll know it's quite addicting in a strange way. I thought I was literally the bomb when I embedded a feed from my twitter onto the site in that little green box, so you guys could pretty much see what I was up to (aka my facebook status...haha). But I thought, why not take it a step further? I recently got the new iPhone 3GS, and the first app I downloaded was Twitterrific, and it is so amazing. Go ahead and get that if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, I highly recommend it! And so as I continued to integrate the simple "what are you doing?" aspect into my life, from the web, to my iPhone... I discovered a way where I could add it on to my site, and that is Tweetboard, which is now live on the site!

Replacing the old dusty shoutbox that lived in the Sidebar since the beginning, I have now a more robust, up-to-date app to get more discussions and activity on the site. This is Tweetboard, and it is currently in its alpha stage, meaning it's been just been released but no where near ready for large-scale distribution.. think of it as you being the beta-testers for them! Basically, you click that spiffy new tab on the left of any page, and the Tweetboard interface will slide out, letting you engage in discussions using your twitter profile, which quite literally is all the rage right now. So it's up to you. As I continue to streamline the site and tweak to make it as amazing as I can, the Tweetboard app is another exciting addition to the site! Also, I plan to link everyone's twitter who has been involved in the site, so you can follow them! But in the mean time, you can follow me! (; Ha, I kid I kid (but you really can though)! Well, congrats you made it through my rather boring blog post - but hey, I gotta get the word out about Twitter, and its integration with the site! So, go ahead, try it out! Please post your feedback, I need to know what works and what doesn't!

Whew... that was alotta Twitter-related info! Getting back to other news, a new video is in the works where the NintendoBoy crew will encounter a very sticky situation and will "literally" not know what will happen next (hint hint!) and will be out early July, as well as the long-anticipated return of everyone's favorite member adventure game that never actually existed, The Rendezvous!

Hiatus... we can explain!

And now, to open this blog post, we have words of wisdom from the guy who invented the word "cool," Mr. Josh Indech: "FOR REAL! finally we are going to have anew video. this willl be the best one yet. school is over and we ave time to do this video. For the little amount of fans we have left we hope you enjoy the new NB adventures in HD." Hahaha, ohhhh, you wish I would spell check his blog posts.. but nahhh, that's why we love him! (: Haaa... so anyway, yeah! There is so much truth to those bold words of Josh. We did it. After such a long time with no videos, we made a new video. And ironically enough, the video is about the reason why we haven't had any new content on this site in a while, which gives it the proper name... Hiatus. Such a cool word, no? This is actually an uncommon English word, so let me just give you the definition: "suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something." So... make sense now? :P If you already knew the meaning of the word, then my hat off to you!

Man, was it sure fun to make this one. An oh so satisfying feeling that we finally have under our belt, another video. And this, if you've been watching this blog lately, you will know that this is our first true high definition video. This 5 minute video took 2 hours to save from my Movie Studio Software in HD format, and then another 2 looooooong hours for it to upload to YouTube, as the video is almost a whopping 1 GB! :O But don't fret, iTunes users, the Podcast version of this episode will NOT be that big! Haha, oh geez! *pulls shirt collar nervously*

Hopefully this is the beginning of more to come. Haha, this new video is so random when I really think about. Let me know what you think in the YouTube comments page!  Thanks for loving us and stuff! :]

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

The Trials & Errors of HD

I sit here, in front of my computer, with a smug look on my face. I have recently graduated from high school (Class of '09!), and it is now summer! And with summer, comes a lot of free time... free time that will not be wasted... because there is a project that needs feeding... the Nintendo Boy Project! This summer will be a milestone for me because I have something now that will enhance us in the ranks of those top films you see on YouTube... well, not really, but our videos are gonna be amazing! Gahhhh, I'm getting excited just thinking about it!! [:HD. Two letters, yet so very powerful. I told you that I had recently graduated. My parents bought me a $600 Sony HD Handycam video recorder... to the say the least, it is quite aesthetically pleasing! This is the exact piece of equipment I've been dying for ever since I started making videos. We had the will, and there was a way, but we needed better mediums of making better quality films. Although what we had before wasn't so bad, don't you agree? Sooo yes... HD is now possible for my videos!! I'm so excited! But wow, it was not easy to get where I am now...

My adventure. Two words, yet so meaningless. Let me explain! Haha. I don't know what made it so difficult for me to figure it out, as I consider myself quite a wiz at these types of things. But not this time. Sony had me. Maybe it's because I'm NINTENDO BOY and not SONY BOY? Ehh, who knows. Haha, either way, I was determined to figure out how everything worked without reading the instructions. LAL, just kidding. I did read it... not much helped. After almost 3 days of working the super nice camera with amazing picture, and the Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platnium Premium Pro Pack (that's alotta P's), I have finally figured out how to best save the movie projects I work on when I edit. It's something like HDV 1080pi with some other letters and numbers that I can't remember. But after sooo many test uploads to YouTube (as well as test conversions to .mov for our new podcast), I finally got it. And our videos completely fit the YouTube widescreen player!!!! Yay! All the right settings. The perfect combination of behind-the-scene setups to have the finished video project very pleasing to watch. Nintendo Boy... from here on out.. will be in High-Definition, thanks to YouTube as well! :] Woot. Woot. lol. (:

I'm really excited about getting back into the swing of things. I doubt anyone is even reading this (well, I guess YOU are... thanks!!) since the site has been dead for almost half a year in terms of videos... and well, the rest of the site has had its share of cobwebs. Well, it's the summer now, so it's time to bring this back to life... and this time, in HD. My goal is to have a new video every week, more, if possible. I want to flood the video gallery with our pretty faces and witty lines... did I mention, which will be in HD?! Stay tuned for a new video at the end of the week... it's gonna be amazing!! I promise... stick around and watch this site come back aaaalllliivvvveeee!!!! (thumbs up)

We at Nintendoboy need your support!

Written by: jinxsprinkles999

With summer soon approaching the time for The chosen one has come!

With my cool AWOL self i came up with a bunch of great ideas for the summer season and hope you all look forward to the upcoming entertainment. While you jsut imagine the Nintendo greatness let me redirect you to the amazing Scatman. I believe it is very appropriate for the celebration of this time. Nintendoboy and myself have graduated so we can be consideredfree men. Anyway back to the focus. with the lack of shows i bet you guys really want a newe episode. I can just ask for your patience and support and trust me when i say we have a great idea on the way. As far as i know it will include commentary on... on.... heck i I know you'll have to ask nintendoboy. Anywa theres the update and what is happening. PEACE!

So Close, Yet So Far Away

GEEZ! What's with the lack of updates on this site? I check it everyday! And my moderators are lacking in the BLOG department. LAL. Welll, let's see, what to tell you? Well I guess I'll go back from the last post. Man, almost a month ago. Doesn't feel like it. Okay, so. Some new things... as I'm sure you've seen I have a twitter on the home page so you can keep track of me slash stalk me (preferably NOT the latter). If you've been keeping up, I'm not dead and am actually quite active on the world wide web. Perhaps you caught the tweet of me talking about filming in FL? Of course you do! Well that actually happened! Not even kidding. I got some filming done on a neat location, and I hope it will one day see the light... of YouTube. Haha. The filming I took would be the ending for a new video series I want to do... but it's in the very early stages of... well, thinking. Ehhh. We'll see. :)

Alright... sooo some more news related to the blog post title... maybe not as uplifting... but anyway... NEW YORK! I know I didn't blog about it, but it was on my twitter (tee hee)! The trip has come and gone... and... I'm sad to say that I was not able to enter the Nintendo World Store. :( When we had time to shop around Times Square, I managed to snap up the photo you see here of the Rockefeller Center, but it was not in our pre-determined perimeter of our shopping spree. D: So like I said... SO close!!! I didn't even get to see the store with my own eyes. *tear* But I did spend my time with someone special! :]

Oh well... maybe the Nintendo World Store isn't ready for Nintendo Boy... who knows. x.x Ehhh, so more news. I have 3 (THAT'S RIGHT, THREE) new scripts for possible new videos that I would like to shoot, but what do you care? All you want is results. My goal is to have the first one up before May. Cross your fingers!! Oh, and I have been working on a little neat thing for you iPod fans... it's been so frustrating, but I think I may have it down... all of you with your iTunes, and your fancy iPods will soon be able to carry The Nintendo Boy Project with you on the go via our brand new Video Podcast, free! (Haha, but who is gonna want that, honestly?)

Some Idealistic Future

Grrr... what's next? Maybe that's what you're thinking. I'm thinking it too. The site, if you're a regular, has been dead for weeks. However I can not emphasis enough of the fact that I view, login, and manage this site everyday. This is my pride and joy. (awkward silence) I have been thinking of completely re-designing the site, but that's a whole 'nother project on it's own. But ergh, getting away from tangents... so yeah, nothing new since the Rock Band video. Pretty sad, huh? I would probably go on to rant that I am a senior in high school, taking IB and AP classes and focusing in on college stuff, and asking you to imagine my crazy schedule, but you probably wouldn't care. :P It's... no excuse, right? Blahhh, so anyway. Videos. Man, I cry myself to sleep every night a new video isn't on the site. And guess what? WE WERE SO CLOSE TO RELEASING A NEW ONE. This video would have made history. It was a music video. I wanted to open a new category on the project page called "Music Videos," to join along side "Sketch Comedy." This video was about Nintendo Boy and Nintendo Girl getting into a fight, to the song of Nothing Better by The Postal Service. If you're wondering about the picture, that was a screenshot of the film you'll never see (well maybe on an upcoming DVD in the "deleted scenes"... LOL) , and there's a line that says "Don't you feed me lies about some idealistic future," which then cues the shot of the Scrabble board. Haha. And then our names and the site name was just a random touch. ERRRRRRR, but anyway, so we have so much filming on this. Like I seriously want to show you guys, and to be honest, I've seriously sat and thought long and hard on ways of how I could release this mess of clips of very well-shot scenes to us just goofing around, but I really couldn't come up with anything. Oh well? (hint hint: you guys have any ideas?) Ok, so the main gist is that in the editing process, there are some parts where either Megan or I sang too fast and the syncing up of the audio would not end up working, and pretty much the editing of this video as a whole would actually be impossible. However, I learned a lot about approaching the directing in a whole new way, and I think I may have a better idea of handling the NB shoots.

I'm writing this out to you on a Friday night. It's been a long week at school for me. Next week, all juniors are taking the Georgia High School Graduation Test (ie half-days for everyone else BUT juniors), and then, SPRING BREAK, and then NEW YORK BAND TRIP! ... I really don't know why I said all that. ...*2 minute break* ... You know, now that I read over this small random paragraph again, it's actually technically Saturday morning? I dunno. Well anyway, this weekend I do plan to try another video so I can push out an update for the project, as well as continue to work on actual site related things that you may never even notice. Why do I do it? I don't even know.

And... the beginning of the previous paragraph made me remember to mention that I am actually building a personal site of mine that will be seperate from this site, but will be integrated at the same time with NintendoBo- ahh, no no! You'll see, you'll see!! Haha! I will also be picking up on the twitter craze, so if you're into that, follow me! Anyway, please stick around. I know the site has been dead, but we are still here, alive and well. :)

Rant

Written by: Laura

HELLO everyone!

Rant is not only the name of my new phone (yey!) but also a fitting title for this post because I will be talking about a few things that are new to the site. I promise it won't be long so please read it thoroughly.

First off, the Photo App got recently updated, which means that any member can now post their own pictures to the site! Yey!! now you guys can put up appropriate material to the site under your profile so you get the credit. Which brings me to my next point, which are the comics that I drew like ages ago it seems, they do in fact still exist in case you were wondering (yeah right) and Jeff insisted that I put them under my name since he is all about giving 'full' credit to people. Also there is a new little group of comics that are being developed, I'm not really sure when they'll be up but I'm sure they are going to be fantastic!! Better than mine so yeah look out for those. There also might be some new and obscure drawing coming to the site as well no one really knows about it but it will hopefully be a pleasant surprise. AquiloComix also has some things planned out for NB.com so look out for those too. And I think thats all, wow this blog was shorter than I expected, but it's better for you guys since you don't have to sit here and read all the stuff I have to say! x]

Well that being said I hope you guys enjoy the new enhancements to the site and use them because they sure are interesting; and once again be on the lookout for the new content coming your way!!!