Reader, For now my Youtube Channel's have been terminated and I've refocused my energy on the craft of Generative AI and AI coding. Holiday greetings I've got a new AI Coding Course and a new lesson on Open Ai's Sora. Generative AI Online Course I've added a new lesson to our Generative AI Masterclass, now featuring a brand-new lesson on OpenAI’s revolutionary tool, Sora. In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Sora to generate stunning, dynamic video...
3 days ago • 1 min read
Reader Last Sunday on Dec 1 my main Youtube Channel Chicvoyage was terminated permanently along with my 4 other channels (Digital Nomad World, Mulligan Greens, Wanderlustfootage, Investing Nomads). The main reason was that I made a mistake posting 5 UFC shorts to my main channel a few weekends ago. Little did I know that the UFC bot's would do their work and come down hard. It is a devastating blow to me to say the least. Chicvoyage almost had 12,000 subs, and the other channels maybe...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Reader, I apologize for a follow up email, but I figured out how to create black friday coupons to more of my Stock Footage products from Angkor Wat, Singapore's Jewel Airport, and Hong Kong. I've even included a very recent footage set from Tokyo shot in October 2024. For Black Friday we are offering a 30% discount on selected global stock footage sets, available royalty-free, until December 6 at 12 PM. This is a great chance to enrich projects with stunning visuals without extra licensing...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Greetings, It's Black Friday week and I realize that I needed to get some special offers out to you. Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market has come roaring back since Trump has won the US presidential election with Bitcoin breaking several all time high's this month (Almost passing $100,000) Trump is expected to elect a pro crypto leadership that has led to the upward movement on all altcoin as well. I've set up a couple of sales on popular Cryptocurency courses below as a result....
20 days ago • 1 min read
When I travel I always pack my video gear kit. My kit is fairly mobile, but allows me to capture high quality stock footage in 4K Pro res, but also talking head videos if needed. I pack several camera including a drone, A camera, and a B cam. This essentially allows me to create high quality videos from anywhere. Here are a few examples The Travel Videography Course I pack over a decade of knowledge in this course and cover my gear and key accessories, software, the stock footage model, as...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Reader I've just returned from 2 weeks in Asia (Japan, Malaysia, Thailand). It was a great trip where I gathered essential info for Digital Nomads, discovered new gems, shot new content, played Pickleball & Golf, reconnected with old friends, & even toured apartments. With so much to cover there probably will be more than one newsletter on this trip. I'll begin in Japan with Tokyo. It's still great because the city and country offer a lot and with a weaker yen it's still great value. Let's...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
This photo of Vancouver was created with Adobe photoshop 2025 and my drone. Adobe recently introduced a major feature with image generation into the product. I also saw my annual subscription was looming with an increase in price. I typically subscribe to the entire Adobe suite, which i think is worth the cost as a creator. Why? Adobe Premiere Pro - I use it more to Edit than Final Cut in 2024 for youtube videos, stock footage, & online course edits, & built in captioning Lightroom - To give...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
There have been a lot of great apps/services released in 2024, but one app that I discovered in the past week may just be the best in my opinion. Google released NotebookLM, which can digest numerous sources from PDF's, web links, & even youtube videos. Using those sources you can then ask it questions, create FAQ's, study guides, timelines, and the killer feature is the audio podcast. Implications for Creators I've already done experimentation on how use use the tool as a content creator &...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Reader If you have approved Stock footage assets you may have received some money from Stock Agencies like Adobestock, Pond 5, & Shutterstock. It hasn't been widely communicated and you may be pleasantly surprised to receive some additional income if your dataset was used to training the AI model. In March I received the Shutterstock AI fund called the contributor fund. Shutterstock AI Contributor Fund reward More information on the video. If you haven't already it may be worth your time to...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Digital Nomadism or the movement became mainstream after Covid, but in 2015 it was still a fringe sub-culture. I was in the right place in the right time in Taiwan. I discovered that Chiang Mai, Thailand was the place to be for networking as well as an ideal environment to bootstrap an online business. Last year I was fortunate to travel to Bali & Tokyo and share 2 videos. I'm sharing 9 hours of my experience & tips traveling he world today with my Digital Nomad World Course. Harajuku Tokyo I...
3 months ago • 1 min read