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8/07/2014

Prayers Are Answered! A Shot In The Dark For Lightt part 2

From: Alex Mostoufi <alex@.     .com>
Date: July 31, 2014 at 11:21:22 AM MDT
To: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Alex, please help a lover of Lightt regain the faith

Hello Mark,

Thank you for the note. This means a lot to me. We are constantly tweaking and unfortunately not always right! Our goal was to minimize confusion some of the users had as they accidentally made changes without not knowing what's going on. We also had the issue of clutter. But all that said, we had many people writing us about this master level feature so as result, we have to listen and bring it back.

Thanks again for being so great and hope we can fulfill your creative journey. 

See you on Lightt!

Alex Mostoufi


On Jul 31, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Alex,
I just started using Lightt a few days ago. I was falling in love with it. I thought what made your app unique was several different features, but Lightt possessed two new abilities heretofore unseen by me. The ability to switch between filters and between fx live while recording was something I had never done before. Once I realized this capability my mind was instantly inundated with a myriad of possible uses. The second feature I loved was the ability to manipulate the strength and quality of the fx while recording. The two sliders on the left while in landscape capture.  Lightt was the Rosetta Stone of iOS video apps for me. It made videography as improvisational as playing a solo in a jazz combo.
Now I can play the iPod camera like a trumpet?  Choosing different timbres or fx as I shoot? Or different filters on each at the same time? I was ready to walk the earth proclaiming Lightt as the new King of the iOS camera apps.
Alas, I updated Lightt the next morning. I Saw something about 'simpler capture' but didn't really comprehend and just tapped update...
To me, I only got to play on the Stradivarius violin for one day. Or  Imagine if immediately following Christmas morning was April 15. I realize I may seem a bit too involved, but this is my livelihood, one of my passions, and I will gladly pay for the older version 3.5.1. Is there anything you can do?
Thank you very much,
Mark Stenger


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Facebook.com/chicachicagoboom
Lightt.com/chicachicagoboom

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8/05/2014

A Shot In The Dark For Lightt.


First, a little background. I love shooting and making videos with my Apple devices. When crafting these short films I use several different apps, oftentimes on a single video,  to produce the haphazard equanimity in virtue they possess. Last week I downloaded the iOS app Lightt for the first time. After using it for only a matter of hours I realized how truly groundbreaking of a video editing and creation app it was. Then the next morning an update for Lightt came out and destroyed 75% of what made Lightt great. Gone was the ability to switch between visual fx or filters on the fly. Other aspects of the app were severely watered down. Confused, saddened, and underslept, I tried emailing Lightt to figure out what had happened but the response I got was so simplistic I began to wonder if I had really used such an amazing app at all. In a last ditch effort to understand what was going on, I decided to email Lightt's CEO. Here is the email.
From: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios <chicachicagoboom@gmail.com>
Date: July 31, 2014 at 3:04:35 AM MDT
To: "alex@.     .com" <alex@.     .com>
Subject: Alex, please help a lover of Lightt regain the faith

Hi Alex,
I just started using Lightt a few days ago. I was falling in love with it. I thought what made your app unique was several different features, but Lightt possessed two new abilities heretofore unseen by me. The ability to switch between filters and between fx live while recording was something I had never done before. Once I realized this capability my mind was instantly inundated with a myriad of possible uses. The second feature I loved was the ability to manipulate the strength and quality of the fx while recording. The two sliders on the left while in landscape capture.  Lightt was the Rosetta Stone of iOS video apps for me. It made videography as improvisational as playing a solo in a jazz combo.
Now I can play the iPod camera like a trumpet?  Choosing different timbres or fx as I shoot? Or different filters on each at the same time? I was ready to walk the earth proclaiming Lightt as the new King of the iOS camera apps.
Alas, I updated Lightt the next morning. I Saw something about 'simpler capture' but didn't really comprehend and just tapped update...
To me, I only got to play on the Stradivarius violin for one day. Or  Imagine if immediately following Christmas morning was April 15. I realize I may seem a bit too involved, but this is my livelihood, one of my passions, and I will gladly pay for the older version 3.5.1. Is there anything you can do?
Thank you very much,
M Stenger


YouTube.com/chicachicagoboom
Facebook.com/chicachicagoboom
Lightt.com/chicachicagoboom

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7/31/2014

Exclusive First Listen! Shhhhhh...

Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead... Oh wait. I mean don't tell mom that those bodacious blasphemers -AKA Tung & Gruv- are back at it. Take a listen!

7/29/2014

Matt Bassano Wins the Innernube Today! Me? Im zesty.

Ah yes, i am very very zesty. I am very zesty indeed. Gruv, the beats brains of Tung & Gruv, My Part nerd and Part nurse,(well he is marrying a Doctor!).Mr. M. Bassano  was chosen to be featured in one of those Chica Missed Calls Make Content thingies over at corporate (read: Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios). and so now  i'm supposed to freemote. freemote for our red headed, corporeal, corporate I mean, Bassano video. And it is
My pleasure y'all! Cuz this boy is good!


7/28/2014

Can You Believe This Song is 20 years old!?!!?

Is anybody curious about the 1990's yet? Or did 90's nostalgia subsume itself to the weight of carrying a grunge all these years? Here is my favorite rap song ever. From the 1994 movie soundtrack of 'Above The Rim' I present you....
Wait what?
Big Limpin?  Did we get Rickrolled?

Big Limpin' from Mr. Dr. on Vimeo.

Not Any Easier Still Might Be Better Because...


This is not going to be easy. 


Now she knows I'm awake. 
I should record this.
Her.
Or just turn the music up.
Something I could tell her
That would blow her mind
Or her faith.
And then the cats would stay. 
But how quickly I forget
Nothing ever goes away.

Why bother being good? 
When bad is here to play. 
How quickly I forget
Nothing ever goes away

When home becomes a hindrance
And roots reveal decay.
Turn the other cheek I speak. 
But Blessings enfilade.

Well I'll go and tell 
her that she wasn't just.
Because I am the loss 
of a loss of all trust.

Screaming so much it 
breaks down the time. 
Stop trying to help 
I am up every 
damn time. 
Want to make sure that the cats-

You must've erased it already
United is the first time 
What she's ever sent me. 

But how quickly I forget. 
Nothing ever goes away.

Why bother with life?
When if it's here to stay-
How quickly We'll forget. 
Nothing ever goes away


For Me, Ma bon vivant piquant!

7/23/2014

Sometimes It Snows In April.

It is April in Minneapolis. The sun is shining without a cloud in the sky. The temperature is 5 degrees fahrenheit. It is freezing. Its like the sun has reversed its natural function and is now sucking the heat from the earth instead of providing it. Its bright out. All the brighter to see your breath as it leaves your mouth and lungs and instantly frosts in the frigid air. Please Lord, you say, get me the heck out of Minnesota in April!  I cant even begin to imagine what January is like here!

And now please enjoy our Minneapolis Royalty Hisself's song 'Sometimes It Snows In April'.

7/21/2014

Dissed

A List.
 The Gist of which
 U Missed
On a Tryst.
 While we Kissed
 You fled Bliss
 And for This
 I am Pissed.
 Hiss.

7/10/2014

I Love @Lyft. Easy and True.



Click here to get your free $25 ride credit from @Lyft!

7/09/2014

Have I mentioned the Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios FB page?

No? Well here's a post from it.


6/27/2014

Quiz no man who is not yo man.

Did you really have the nerve to ask me Who and How For? 
Ok, here is your answer(s). 

Nunya. 
None. uh. ya. business. 
No really. How indeed! How is it even remotely tangential to your oeuvre to know WHO and HOW FOR?
     And what is 'how for?' even asking? I understand 'why come?' as an almost type of question, but your u-turn of a phrase 'how for?' gets my semiotics engine baffling. We'll have to come back to the latter half of your query later.  
    So instead let's push your 'Who' question of a premise a little further down the road. What if 'Who' is a someone you know? Does that create a mandate for snooping, simply because you are aware of their existence? OR, because of your mutual other awareness, do you now both share a bond in an expectation of privacy? It is almost exclusively a human quality, our fundamental choice whether or not we reveal any part of ourselves to one another, or many others. 
With me so far? 
No? 
Well too bad. Because now we have to ask; What if 'Who' is NOT someone that you know? Is their expectation of privacy with you, the unknown individual, diminished by a lack of personal familiarity? No, it is not. I posit that one's expectation of privacy from those they don't know is much stronger than with people they know. 
Why does your paltry 'want to know' complex tend to eclipse any sense of or respect for, a basic human decency? Could it be caused by modern society's over heightened appraisal of TMI in this modern age? Is it a matter of your own proprietary security? Or maybe it's just your big nose? Your big nose not belonging wherever you goes and sticks it?
You'll have to answer those last few Bon Mots on your own time...
Now it is time for your answer(s). 
The answer to Who is...

NUNYA!

And the answer to 'how for?' 
 Cuz 2+2. 
That's how for. 

6/26/2014

626 Day Yay!!! FLOW LIKE THIS

I thought this song was the perfect pairing for this video... Do I vague much?



That's David Arnold, the bassist doing lead vocals on the verse. Clap your hands for Dave.
Go on,
Thanks.

Happy 626 Day!!!

So I used to be in a band called 'Product 626’. Matt Loftin, David Arnold, Jonny Aderhold and myself. Today being June 26, it's really 626 day. I'll explain more as the day goes on. For now let's start off with some Product 626 music...