Meet Michael and Crissa Boyink of DitchingSuburbia.com who in 2010 sold their home in Michigan and moved into a RV travel trailer. On their blog they write about having a simplier life, closer family, richer education and uncommon adventures.
Internet video has been around for over a decade but we’re all still trying to figure out how video can best help sell a software product. Selling online is tough because you’re trying to create a conversation with only one-way communication. Video can be used to make this one-way communication feel more conversational.
Eric will do anything for LessFilms. To prove it we dressed him up in a turkey costume and Allan hunted him down with a paintball gun. Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Enjoy the video!
November 20 is National Absurdity Day so we made an absurd lunch.
This week Eric enjoys Cabbage Metal, Planet Earth, and Colbert.
This week Jordan enjoys airbags, Buckbeak, and two guys dancing!
This week Eric enjoys Smarkers, Alaskan Living, and Hiking.
This week Jordan enjoys Magic Wands, Vacations, and Park Hopping!
This week Eric enjoys Cello Metal, Seeing Spots, and Wolf Engineers.
This week Eric enjoys Colorizebot, Thunderbolt Fantasy, and Lighthouse Caretakers.
This week Chris enjoys Monster Factory, Overwatch, and Tomorrow's World.
This week Jordan enjoys Edible Food Packaging, Spider Cars, and VFX Mashups!
This week Eric enjoys Fiber Fix, angry frogs, and Mongolian wrestling coaches.
This week Eric enjoys Slam Bamboo, glass blowing, and bluegrass music.
This week Jordan enjoys Positive News, Homeland, and family time at Dave & Buster's!
We are a group of brave souls, who always are on a conquest to eat the most delicious foods.
See what Eric's three favorite things are this week. Eric enjoys little puppies, Prism App and spoof outdoor videos.
See what Jordan's three favorite things are this week. Jordan enjoys brushing his wife's hair with a cool hairbrush, the Samsung Galaxy Note7 and the Cat Drone!
See what Chris' three favorite things are this week. Here's a hint...he loves Pokemon Go, Playing Slither the game and drinking Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
See what Eric's three favorite things are this week. Eric enjoys "Stranger Things" on Netflix, Hot Ones YouTube Channel and Black Bird Video Tool.
See what Eric's three favorite things are this week. Eric enjoys Bob Ross videos, Star Wars Theories and Home Alone Screams!!!
See what Eric's three favorite things are this week. Eric enjoys marketing videos, knives & survival videos.
See what Chris' three favorite things are this week. Here's a hint...he loves weird social eating, dancing and records.
See what Eric's three favorite things are this week. Here's a hint...he loves food and movies.
We created a little video to celebrate July 4th with a video. We love hot dogs!
We are a group of brave souls, who always are on a conquest to eat the most delicious foods.
Creating a meet the team page is a daunting task but there's hope...this blog post will help you understand what some of the best meet the team pages consist of.
If you're doing sales your email signature will play an important role in your sales cycle.
Sales doesn't have to be sneaky and slimey. It can be fun and creative... these companies have figured it out.
We love MicroConf so much we didn't want it to end. We took a couple short road trips to some of nature's wonders around Las Vegas.
Being a small business owner means you never know what you'll be working on that day. Here are something to consider as a business owner to focus on.
Study these contact pages and see who's building contact pages that convert to a goal.
Traditional business cards will be around for a few more years but here's some alternatives to paper business cards.
Email signatures seem simple enough but what's the purpose of them? Why leave out certain information, how much personality do you show in your email signature?
If you've been signing documents by hand and scannign them in to be digital you're doing it all wrong.
Satchel's Pizza in Gainesville Florida is truly one of my favorite places in the world. If you're within 100 miles of Gainesville Florida it's worth the drive there.
Software companies need to pay special attention
Having a business card designed and printed can be a stressful time but don't worry, we'll outline the steps needed to get this task completed.
Here's a summary of video conferencing software you should consider for your team.
We study design and copywriting, often FAQ sections of software company websites are the most lacking portion of their web experience.
Eric took a business trip to Las Vegas, it was long, we shot a bunch of video and ate too much good food. We're glad to be back.
Eric took a business trip to Las Vegas, it was long, we shot a bunch of video and ate too much good food. We're glad to be back.
Eric took a business trip to Las Vegas, it was long, we shot a bunch of video and ate too much good food. We're glad to be back.
myBrainshark shut down it's service a few months ago, here are alternatives to help you keep creating video presentations.
It's no secret that social proof and customer testimonials add credibility to your product and increase conversions.
Company culture videos give potential job applicants a glimpse into what it's like working for your company.
Greenspring's \(k\)Q system helps you improve your retirement plan.
Not every Facebook look back video should be shared...
Beautifully shot by [@timelapsegroup](http://twitter.com/timelapsegroup)
These commercials from New Zealand and the UK are extremely powerful and emotional.
2013 was a special year for LessFilms. Check out our reel and let us introduce you to some of our friends.
We wanted to share and give shout-outs to are favorite apps and tools that help us get our job done.
We're working on a music video with @andydlovesyou. Here's a quick peek of the upcoming awesome.
This is Lessfilms' most anticipated film of the year.
We decided to try out Skype's "Gift sharing" feature this year.
Besides making great videos and telling stories, our favorite thing to do is EAT.
alloween is one of our favorite days of the year, so we put together this little greeting for all of our friends.
We love games, so when Arkadium wanted to team up with us to make their new product video we had to hold back the girly squeals...
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed any instagram video using html.
For the first time LessConf had it's own theme song.
We had a great time at [MicroConf](http://www.microconf.com/) this year.
This morning we created a masterpiece for [LessAccounting](http://lessaccounting.com) in under 15 minutes!
We've always known that the LessFilms "[About Us](http://lessfilms.com/about/)" page was super awesome, but now it's official.
Recently LessFilms had the opportunity to vist Europe and document the goings-on at the first ever [LaConf](www.la-conf.org), a two-day conference for Ruby on Rails developers in Paris, France.
While we were in Vegas for [MicroConf](http://microconf.com), we stopped by the [Pinball Hall Of Fame](http://pinballmuseum.org) to play and to film a little documentary.
We love Madison, Wisconsin.
If session videos are your bricks, then the promos, sponsor "thank you's", etc. make up the mortar. We never stop rolling to make sure we catch all the action.
Pearstack unsucks the shopping process by forcing products to duke it out in head-to-head matchups.
LessConf 2012 was a success thanks to all of the passionate speakers, attendees and our sponsors.
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the design process of our latest film for EngineYard.com.
We just made a new promo video for LessConf.
We just made a new overview video for Promolabs.com
LessConf is a gathering of like-minded people who enjoy music, technology, business, marketing, and design and are passionate about their work.
Here is a tiny peek into the goings-on at Gowalla HQ in Austin, Texas.
While at the 2011 LessConf in Atlanta we had the chance to hear Allison Weiss live at The Loft and it was rad!
Here are two production stills for a rather disturbing film Eric is working on.
We are stoked to say that we created the animatic trailer for this book.
Philly Bar Camp was huge this year. Here is a quick recap of some of the chaos.
Lemi Shine has partnered with Living Water International and they are going to match up to $50,000 of donations dollar for dollar to help bring clean drinking water to Ethiopia.
Eric breaks down the technique for a "Ferris Wheel" text effect in After Effects.
Check out this "randomentary" we shot for Grooveshark.
Here's a short documentary of what went down in Austin, TX.
The view from Eric's hotel in St. Louis was nice.
Here's a bit of what went on at Strange Loop this year!
LessFilms is stoked to be one of the insanely rad sponsors of **Social Fresh Charlotte**.
The *Less-Ruby Conference Tour* presses onward to Madison, WI to film the first ever **Madison Ruby Conference**.
While we were in Austin, TX for the **Lone Star Ruby Conference** we stopped by Toy Joy to pick up some special gifts for the kids.
This weekend, the *Less-Ruby Conference Tour* begins!
Eric demonstrates his technique for creating a flashy logo reveal.
We heard that Hiten Shah's birthday was coming up, so we thought that it would be nice to wish him a happy birthday, LessFilms style.
We stopped by Dropkill's home studio to put the finishing touches on a top secret "Happy Birthday" project slated to drop sometime this weekend.
Thanks to everyone who gave the camera some face time and screamed at the top of their lungs.
We're headed to Gainesville, FL to film some tomfoolery with the Grooveshark team.
In between scenes on our recent three day LemiShine shoot, we were able to document Chris Merriam repurposing some old car windows.
We were in Texas for a few days shooting a series of webisodes for Lemishine!
Learn how to use parenting to create an evil robot arm in After Effects CS5.
Here is our latest film for Grasshopper.com.
