HD2O hits Visitor Count Milestone

Thank you for visiting HD2O. We recently hit a milestone worthy of mention. This blog we call a FLOG (floating log) has more than 100 visits per day averaged over the month of July. Better yet most visits are long, meaning folks like you are not just looking at the pictures. LOL The videos are not bad either, maybe that’s it?

We established the goal of 100 anticipating our audience would enjoy the quality over quantity. From our small but mighty team here is a big red wet kiss to say thank you. Bookmark us!

P.S.> Try the search and tag cloud to dig through our history and archives. There are 119 posts in 9 categories focused on Ocean, Earth, Ecology, and some of the technology we use to bring these awesome video in HD.

Get our video! (for cryin’ out loud) Click ? HD2O ? and get 67 minutes of unbelievable Ocean-scapes and many animals who call the coral reef home. The music is a spectacular original soundtrack, scored to the motion of the ocean AND IT LOOPS! Plus we added a five minute bonus track featuring the therapy dolphins from Island Dolphin Care that you have to see to believe.

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CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT: CAN Prevent wants people to feel empowered to stop child abuse. Click the logo for the task force web site.

YOU CAN make a difference. We are urging people to report child abuse if the see it, sense it or know it. Help kids and families get education and support to stop the cycle of violence that child abuse causes.

LVHD produced a 30-second awareness campaign for the task force. Music and lounge act provided by Garry Lee Rosenberg really draws attention in a new way to an old problem. He uses a classic song with a snappy melody and adds a lyrical twist to create an original timeless message. Sticky Message stays with you.

Video - HD2O-BlugreenSymphony Do not disturb the residents? I don’t think we could have bothered this blue parrot fish in a cleaning station. We take measures

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to be as non-intrusive as possible and to observe without touching anything but sand, which is exactly what this parrot fish returns to the sea at about the halfway point. An awesome toothed barracuda follows some divers who had no idea he was lurking about. They are predators, they look mean, they are very fast, but like the shark- barracudas think HUMANS taste like $#*^! (crap!)  Because if they liked us, as a flavor, they could take their pick of slow moving butts, which is another good reason to stay in shape; predators take the slow injured ones.  JUST KIDDING, eat up, and enjoy the clip.

PS. Somebody has a birthday approaching; I don’t know, but I DO know what you should get them… dah, our DVD.

Click iTunes logo for our HD PodCast!

VIDEO in this FLOG ARTICLE - Lots of things peter out; like gum. How about with HD2O?  THE ENTIRE DVD is nap time!

On the other hand; If you’re into entertaining @ home, an elegant dinner party to an intimate evening @ home ~ HD2O is a stimulating experience for your big-screen tv. Video and audio combined into a powerful underwater journey. Get it today in our store.

Grab this sample HD clip and see for yourself.

Musical composer Garry Lee Rosenberg is an exception to that rule. He doesn’t peter-out. Quite the opposite is true. He took on the “HD2O - The Keys” project thinking he would contribute a few tracks. That’s not what happened. Rosenberg ended up scoring all but 8-minutes of the 67-minute looping content, plus he scored the emotional visit to Island Dolphin Care. How the heck did I get a composer to contribute that much effort? I wish I could tell you, but I just don’t know where I went right!

I thought Island Dolphin Care would’ve mentally crippled him so I never released the final videos at that time. It wasn’t until after “Minnow Storm” which demanded a live flutist.

His first clue that I was dragging him into the deep blue water should have been when he found out my tracks were 12-minute compositions; not the usual 3-minute album track like he was expecting. (verse, verser, chorus, bridge, verse; doesn’t work) But that was only the beginning as tunes turned into tracks, a couple tracks turned into several tracks. That’s when I dropped “Track 14″ on him, a monster 20-minute track, I said, “Garry, would it make you feel better if you scored a 30-second disc-intro first? Then do the 20-minute piece?” Rosenberg had just completed Minnow Storm which required live musicians to include a monster flutist for the piece he had written.

By now Rosenberg was hooked, line and sinker. (LOL) Having scored 30 of what he thought was a 45-minute disc, so now he wanted to score the entire thing, and did just that… he scored a whopping 60 of 67-minutes. That’s right- Garry wasn’t counting as the disc blossomed from 45 to 67 minutes. In the end he did it all with the exception of an 8-minute piano solo. What’s most amazing is his Final Two Minutes. After an hour-and-five of amazing music he still had this left in the tank? The Final 2 are Magnificent!

With great admiration for his musical skills and Berkley education I say the DVD soundtrack on HD2O - The Keys is worth the price of the disc without video. The video too is worth the cost. Together the disc is a bargain truly worth having in your DVD and iPod library.

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Just let me go naturally.

1941 Billy Holiday first recorded God Bless the Child. Re-recorded by Blood Sweat and Tears , the song might seem a bit morbid, covering everyones final act, dying, but the song is pretty high spirited, calling out the devil and laughing a bit at life. David Clayton Thomas near the end belts out the final prayer-like lyrics, “Just let me go naturally.” Yes there’s more to read, why I’ve got half a mind

Hi Folks,

Last week I finished what has been to date the most challenging piece from the “HD2O - The Keys” soundtrack. I thought it might be interesting to share my experience. Video segment “14B” was over ten minutes long. It is a tall order to come up ten minutes worth of original music that will compliment and enhance the raw video.

Listen closely…

Garry Lee Rosenberg is the composer scoring music for us. He finished a track and posted the results for the timeline, and I promptly dropped it in. I was crying when I got to this part. Question is; Should the audio stay? Yes or No.

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Well folks, I’m making the clubhouse turn! I’ve been at it for about 5 months now. Several nights a week and pretty much every weekend. Basically every spare minute working around my “day job” and my other musical commitments. This is definitely a labor of love and I am thrilled to be working on this project with my long time friend and “former” golf buddy Paul Dymon. I say “former” because he doesn’t play much golf anymore and we haven’t lived in the same city (or time zone for that matter) for 17 years. Nonetheless our friendship has endured as we went through our separate life journeys.

I met Paul in 1987 while performing at the old Dunes on the strip in Vegas, where the Bellagio now stands. The Oasis Lounge was one of the hotter spots in