Born and raised in Wichita, KS, I moved to NYC to work at Vimeo. I like taking photos, trying new beers, and playing video games. allen[dot]aa[at]gmail doilookcoolrightnow secret Tumblr (3.0; @andreaallen)http://andreaiscool.com/<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SaNt9-QkiHI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://katiea.tumblr.com/post/23286263767/thanks-to-andrea-for-reminding-me-about-the-best">katiea</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Thanks to Andrea for reminding me about the best video ever and TGIF.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is a JAM</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/23287905640http://andreaiscool.com/post/23287905640Fri, 18 May 2012 07:53:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4728xx5WG1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Experimenting with new characters sometimes really pays off.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/23263888284http://andreaiscool.com/post/23263888284Thu, 17 May 2012 20:17:21 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/42304708" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vimeo.tumblr.com/post/23229211244/vimeo-festival-preparations-now-underway-by-vimeo">vimeo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><a href="http://vimeo.com/42304708">Vimeo Festival: Preparations now underway</a> by <a href="http://vimeo.com/42304708">Vimeo Festival + Awards</a></em></p> <p>Andrea recently checked in with Josh and Vinnie to see how preparations are going for their Vimeo Festival workshop, <a href="https://vimeo.com/awards/festival/workshops#impossible-things-on-a-shoestring">“Impossible Things On A Shoestring.”</a> Let’s just say they still have a bit of work to do.  Learn more about their workshop and <a href="https://vimeo.com/awards">get tickets to the Festival + Awards</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>You’re going to love this video! It stars a couple very funny dudes you may recognize from College Humor.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/23229254748http://andreaiscool.com/post/23229254748Thu, 17 May 2012 09:32:00 -0500vimeo festival + awards“Harrison placed his big hands on the girls tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness...http://andreaiscool.com/post/22484957716http://andreaiscool.com/post/22484957716Sat, 05 May 2012 20:17:36 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/40782331?portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p class="first">Hey guys, I tried something different with my personal footage from my recent trip to Vegas. I’ve decided to call it a <strong>Stredit</strong>.</p> <p>A <strong>Stredit</strong> is a straight edit using all your clips in order you filmed them.</p> <p>Official Rules for a video to be called a <strong>Stredit</strong>:<br/>1. You must use every clip from your camera in some way (editing and trimming is allowed and encouraged)<br/>2. Your clips must appear sequentially in the order you filmed them.<br/>3. That’s it!</p> <p>I learned so much from this method of editing!<br/>- It’s cool to see my trip in order that it happened. It made me wish I took more footage, but at the same time, I was glad I didn’t fill up my camera with footage I wouldn’t want to include in my video.<br/>- At first it was hard for me to obey the rule of using every clip from my camera, but finding the best parts of each clip was a fun challenge. I came away feeling that my experiences were worthy to be shared and seen. <br/>- My time limitation was the length of the song I used. Editing to a time limit can be frustrating but can make for a better video.</p> <div>   </div> <div>Hope you enjoy my video, and if you decide to try one, I’d really like to see it! </div>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21514565507http://andreaiscool.com/post/21514565507Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:05:00 -0500streditvegasNAB<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2u82h7Xjc1qz51vbo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>A few photos from my trip to Vegas to <a href="http://vimeo.com/album/1906682">cover NAB</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sloth_rider/sets/72157629502806282/">See more!</a></p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21503513958http://andreaiscool.com/post/21503513958Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:20:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r457sHen1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Day 6 in Las Vegas:</p> <p>Vegas is ________. And I can’t wait to _______ tonight with all the _______ I have now come to _________ and ________. I am looking forward to returning to _________.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21406998402http://andreaiscool.com/post/21406998402Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:03:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ppm8d4tm1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Three years in a row at Zingers in Vegas. A tradition.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21370365230http://andreaiscool.com/post/21370365230Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:51:44 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/40620829" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is my favorite NAB video our team made. I get to talk to Andrew Kramer of videocopilot.net and go to a really cool party.</p> <p>Casey and Bill, who came out here with me are absolute pros.</p> <p>Check out <a href="https://vimeo.com/album/1906682/sort:likes/format:thumbnail">the others</a>, too if you want. </p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21352424806http://andreaiscool.com/post/21352424806Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:18:13 -0500NABNAB2012<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ny82bkQG1qz5f3oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thecaseydonahue.com/post/21315749512">caseydonahue</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Vegas Log:</p> <p>Day 5,</p> <p>We left our minds behind on day 4. We will carry on without them.</p> </blockquote> <p>True.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21317787466http://andreaiscool.com/post/21317787466Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:03:44 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lllxxB6Y1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>My NAB DP (director of photography… also known as cameraman)</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21240177236http://andreaiscool.com/post/21240177236Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:34:45 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2k3y1fcvn1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>In Vegas with Blake! <br/> #NAB</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/21198532167http://andreaiscool.com/post/21198532167Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:15:37 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UoIagkuJre4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I’ve watched this video of Penn & Teller probably five times now, and it still makes me laugh just as hard as the first time. Actually, it gets funnier each time I watch it. </p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20903744879http://andreaiscool.com/post/20903744879Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:27:00 -0500penn and teller<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ag78Anke1qzp87ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sexpigeon.tumblr.com/post/20871700239/when-you-first-get-to-new-york-you-disdain-midtown" class="tumblr_blog">sexpigeon</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>When you first get to New York you disdain Midtown bars, and not without good reason. They are expensive, ugly, dull-beered, covered in televisions, caked in a phony Irish. </p> <p>After you’re in New York for a while you start to like Midtown bars, or at least I do, I shouldn’t speak for you. They are filled with schlubs and penny-ante lotharios, with forty-something middle-managers trying to get drunk enough to fuck each other, with legit sports dopes, with earnest hipsters of lesser cities (St. Louis? Wichita?) who clearly have no idea where it is they’re supposed to go. </p> <p>These people are much more compelling than the Brooklyn shithead cadre into which it’s too easy to seal yourself, because these people are the last true dum-dums in all of Manhattan. They’re precious at this point. It is amazing that you are allowed to touch them and talk to them. </p> <p>This bar is at 55th and 5th and everyone inside of it laughs like a horse.</p></blockquote> <p>Tag understands me better than anyone else.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20877614590http://andreaiscool.com/post/20877614590Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:25:13 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/40104109" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vimeo.tumblr.com/post/20855068496/next-week-april-14-19-is-the-big-nab-shindig-in">vimeo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Next week (April 14-19) is the big <a href="http://www.nabshow.com/2012/default.asp">NAB shindig in Las Vegas</a> — the annual tradeshow/clustercuss put on by the National Association of Broadcasters. <br/><br/>Our own <a href="http://vimeo.com/andreaallen">Andrea Allen</a> will be showing you the latest equipment on the show floor, heading into the wilds of Las Vegas to conduct exclusive interviews, and finding answers to all the burning questions others are afraid to ask.<br/><br/>Vimeo’s NAB coverage starts April 16 — follow our adventures at <a href="http://vimeo.com/staff">Vimeo.com/staff</a>!</p> </blockquote> <p>I’ll be in Vegas next week! </p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20855418069http://andreaiscool.com/post/20855418069Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:00 -0500NABvimeo<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28jvvny8P1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Pile & Peter</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20807352488http://andreaiscool.com/post/20807352488Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:28:00 -0500vimeo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28bhtDMVE1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://enjoystoneylife.tumblr.com/">Ian</a> came to visit the Vimeo HQ!</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20795837024http://andreaiscool.com/post/20795837024Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:27:00 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39910450?portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>My <a href="https://vimeo.com/39910450">Fall and Winterzeits</a> all rolled up into one video. Hope you enjoy it!</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20615668454http://andreaiscool.com/post/20615668454Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:52:25 -0500vidblog<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22e4z5v9k1qz51vbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>My Vimeo account turned 6 years old. I’m a grandma with <a href="http://vimeo.com/andreaallen/videos">247 videos</a>.</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20591728209http://andreaiscool.com/post/20591728209Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:38:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22bt46O8c1qz9zxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rumpl.tumblr.com/post/20589250615/taken-with-instagram-at-vimeo-hq">rumpl</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">Instagram</a> at Vimeo HQ</p> </blockquote> <p>We’re going hunting!</p>http://andreaiscool.com/post/20589296133http://andreaiscool.com/post/20589296133Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:49:41 -0500