What iz Skeet ?
Author By: admin Date: Jan 21, 2023Skeet is a unique creature unlike anything you have ever met. What is he truly ? Let’s start with his name. What is Skeet ? The name Skeet is an English surname tracing back to the time of the Battle of Hastings in 1086. It emanated from Norfolk England and thousands of men bear this name today in the south east of England. The name means “swift” and thus is often assigned as a loving nickname similar to “scooter” or “sport”. The famous actor Brian Ulrich adopted this loving nick name and you know him as Skeet Ulrich. Basically it’s the same as saying "Swift Ulrich" or "Quick Ulrich". Skeet’s name goes back over 1,000 years in North West Europe and has been a surname and a nickname for centuries. In the world of storytelling, having a contradictory name is gold. Essentially we have a chonky and slow moving cat…
The Zero Stack
Author By: admin Date: Jan 21, 2023We have a phrase at Jazzmine and Skeet. We call it the zero stack. We set but a simple goal of 10. 10 followers. $10 in sales. 10 anything it doesn’t matter. You have to start somewhere. From there, we stack a zero. We go to 100, then 1000, then 10,000 and so on. Every great thing we will ever achieve will start with the innocuous number of ten. On October 1st, 2022 Skeet came to life on Twitter. The day before, to the world, he did not exist. On that day he came alive. Skeet’s first follower was an automated porn bot, that’s a true story. That bot is long gone from Musk’s bot purges… but you have to start somewhere. We stacked the second zero within a week. Each zero becomes exponentially harder to achieve… this isn’t linear growth… its exponential with a slope factor of ten. Try…
The Outcome Of The Sunbeam Life Mug Run…
Author By: admin Date: Dec 24, 2022Jazzmine and Skeet’s first product run ever, the Skeet Sunbeam Life mug ended up being quite an experience from beginning to end. I very generously offered one extra Sunbeam life mug plus an extra holiday mug so we ended up doing a 300 mug order out of a production floor that was being built as it was being used. Diane and I are without sleep, proper nutrition and are somewhere between wanting to commit hari kari and deciding every ill in the world is the other’s fault. Lets just say we are taxed. But rightly so, nothing great comes without tremendous hard work and our hearts are in this cause. They say if you love what you do then you never truly work and Jazzmine and Skeet has never been work to me. In the end, we thought of an economic construct… a collector’s edition… first of its kind for…
We Are Now In Harm’s Way
Author By: admin Date: Dec 12, 2022December 11th, 2022 is one of the most important days in the history of the development of Jazzmine and Skeet… a history stretching back six years. In the wake of the death of my ladies I had a vision. I am wrought with self-doubt and fight it every day but this vision on its own fought its way through that fog of doubt in my mind. It would not let itself not be heard and not be seen even in the times my fears tried to suppress it. I envisioned a mechanism to help cats and the people that support them. I remember the helpless feeling I had as mine were transitioning over the rainbow bridge and I wanted to help anyone that might be feeling it. I envisioned the creation of lovable feline characters that people would fall in love with just as I had. I envisioned a business…
Our Audience Is Growing With Us
Author By: admin Date: Nov 08, 2022Or a better way to say it, we are growing up in front of them. And the best of us were no different. Yes that is a REAL picture of the original Simpsons family during the days of the Tracey Ullman show. That's when I started watching. The animation was literally so bad they were changing shape as they stood there. It was hilarious. We didn't care ! We loved the characters and their personalities ! This is what I realized, it will never be perfect. You don't think they wanted it to look better ? Spend more time ? But something told them the heart of what they were doing would come across no matter the quality and they were right. They made the right call and I don't envy them, it could not have been an easy one. We are no different. Across all Social Media platforms we…
A Pocket Battleship…
Author By: admin Date: Oct 28, 2022In World War 2 there existed a class of ship called the pocket Battleship. They were feared on the high seas. The reason they were so feared was simple. The pocket battleship was strong enough to out gun anything its own size, and anything bigger it could out run. A very powerful combination of traits. This is what I have built Jazzmine and Skeet into. Because we have direct investment funding from private investors, we can push out content of our own choice at any schedule we choose. There are no competing networks, prime time deadlines… just regular people making content for regular people. It is rare anyone at our size has near unlimited funding they can tap into should the situation call for it. This makes us strong. In the same right, we have no one to tell us what to do. We can adapt and change our minds…
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles
Author By: admin Date: Oct 21, 2022After two and a half years in development we cast off the ropes and took the ship out on the water for the first time. Everything was not ready. I didn't care. Something told me to go, and I did. Everything has to start somewhere and for us it started on October 1st, 2022. We made a massive push across October to get the corporate structure, finances and social media platforms laid out. I worked over 600 hours in October between IT consulting and my night job as animator. Utterly exhausting but by now everybody knows why I am doing it and they get it. Nothing great and monumental ever came without great and monumental effort. Its simple physics. You put enough of your life force into something and it will catch fire I promise you. As Caesar said, Fortune Favors The Bold. More specifically, when you go at something…