Notaphylic Culture 1 Year Old!

Wow! Thank you for taking the time to watch & the feedback. I see what you mean & always struggle with the timing (on all of them) for 2 reasons. One, when exporting (transforming) the powerpoint to video the program adds a second for transitions (between slides) so the timing is different (always longer). My 1st version was 9 minutes & the final (3rd) published version is around 6 min. The 2nd reason is I want the music to match the transitions & to keep the whole thing short. (In the past I've felt some of them were a bit too long). I have a terrible attention span for most Youtube material (esp longer than 5 minutes) so I'm always trying to pair it down. I will take your input into consideration on Video #8. Thanks again.

- I completely get that. That's how I started collecting world banknotes since they were so cheap. http://goccf.com/t/372083

Here's one of my first orders which I was so excited to post here:

(my shipping was about 20-25% of my total expense even though I got several notes). I was thrilled to get all these different designs & figured I could pass many off to my nephews. For a while I got hooked on "unboxing" each of my weekly purchases.

Then I stopped & reconsidered my priorities (+ the thickness of the album which was brimming with cheap notes). I decided to change my approach: decrease the # of purchases & combine (add up $ I would have spent) for less but more expensive (& eclectic) purchases. This was tough to do but I'm glad I did it.

About 25 years ago I met Don Olmstead http://goccf.com/t/376908 who suggested I buy a little less & go for tougher/original specimens. Other collector friends had hinted at the same. It took a few years before his advice finally sunk in. I thought why would a dealer even suggest that (shouldn't he just be happy that I buy his cheap stuff?) We joked around & hit it off. I finally decided it might have been decent/healthy advice he gave me. Anyway, I eventually upgraded my CDN collection (although I 'missed the boat' with the Devil's Faces). After my "shopping spree" with world notes I also figured it was time to apply some of the same principals to my World collection.

A year ago, when I started the site, I searched Youtube & found many videos with collectors showing off their amazing world collections. Video after video was the collector going through his/her album. I didn't want to make a video like that (there seemed to be enough out there). I know every collector will have his/her own approach & I think that's what makes this such a great, fun hobby.

walk2dwater. Nice video. I enjoyed watching it. I do have some thoughts.

As noted the timing on some of the slides doesn't allow enough time to get it completely read.
Another item from an aesthetics point of view. The color of your text on many slides changes color 3 or more times. That causes the eyes to be drawn all over the page. Using 2 colors reduces this and can still illustrate your points. Example the slide with title " My Switch to TPG" was very easy without my eyes being drawn back and forth.
You might also explore using a color theme on your text throughout the slides for a cohesive feel throughout the presentation.
Just some thoughts for you to consider.

Overall is a good video and very good information. Very well done good sir

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I turned the playback speed down to .75 and reduced the volume. More time to digest everything.


Thanks walk2dwater for your amazing effort in blogs and videos.

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