Chris Saribay

My family really wanted to go parasailing during their vacation at Walt Disney World, so we headed down to Sammy Duvall’s Watersports Centre at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. Unfortunately Allison and myself’s tandem flight was cut a bit short due to weather, so we re-scheduled to go again on Saturday. This is the full video from our second flight above Bay Lake, just about a mile or so away from the Magic Kingdom. And just for fine viewers of this blog, it comes with captions!

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Aloha Airlines, after over 60 years of serving Hawaii, unexpectedly ended all passenger service on Monday. After several last ditch efforts to save the carrier to no avail, there was little choice left but to call it quits. While there’s certainly some hope that Aloha may one day emerge and take to the skies again as a passenger airline, most of its 2,000 laid off employees have moved on. Aloha’s shutdown marks the end of an era, one once marked with great triumphs and success, and as of late, great challenges and hyper-competitive moves by entrants into the market.

Aloha’s ad agency and several partners have started running this spot on local television. The spot, based upon Aloha’s last ad “Anthem”, is a certainly a fitting emotional memorial for the defunct airline. I’ve flown Aloha in the past, and I will definitely miss the spirit and service that this company and its employees embodied. It is a shame that this had to happen.

Mahalo nui loa, Aloha. A hui hou!

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Wall•E, Andrew Stanton’s latest film from Disney/Pixar, is inching closer to its June 27th release. What appears to be the full-length theatrical trailer has been released, and it looks really great. Be sure to check it out.

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Gary Vaynerchuk is a 32 year-old self described master of wine. Recently speaking at Strategic Profits 08’, he talks about the power of branding and marketing, and the most important concept that any one person could take away: your own brand. His speech is a powerful lesson of what is, and is not important in today’s landscape. You are own brand; and you need to differentiate yourself from everything else, and everyone else’s brands. Check out the video below for an excerpt from his speech.

A lot of the public communication devices that I have are synchronized- that is, they all match each other within some varying degree. This video is the ultimate explanation of why things like personal branding, what I attempt to accomplish this website and most other things I do publicly, are important.

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Continuing on with the videos, I don’t know much about crimes that include fondling fruit, so uh, I’ll let Rupert Jee and David Letterman explain. This video is from a few weeks back. (Direct Link)

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I really like flying on American Airlines. Perhaps they don’t really know why I fly, but I’d say that I’m a fairly frequent flyer anyway. American is one of the older “legacy” carriers in the airline scene, but they’re one of the few that have avoided bankruptcy in today’s terrible competitive environment. That being said however, historically, they’re pretty terrible where it comes to promotion and marketing, which is the subject of today’s video. American ran this spot in the 1980’s, and boy, it’s a doosey. I just hope they continue to uh… ahem… do what they do best. (Direct Link)

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If you’ve listened to Apple’s recent earnings webcast, or read the recent Reuters report, you’ve heard a slight mention of a “second Cupertino campus.” There’s not much information out there, but with Steve Jobs’ public testimony available from Cupertino’s City Council, we’ve got word (and quasi location [alt] details) straight from the horse’s mouth. The CCC’s website is woefully difficult to navigate, so I’ve encoded a Quicktime version of their webcast and uploaded it here. Steve seems pretty happy about Apple’s recent acquisitions, and hopes others on the city concil are too: “Since we’re your largest taxpayer, I thought you might be happy for us.” (Direct Link)

Notes: Now hosted by the kind folks at Internet Archive. The Cupertino City Council’s original webcast is located here. Also now on YouTube.

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