Anyone check out the new Jupelo?

tammyandtommy

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I know this has created controversy in the past, but he has updates his site, and as annoying as the streaming video thing was, I think this is worse! I loved the site before, I know Im odd. I guess I thought it would be possible if he had new videos every day. I mean you can spend 2-3 weeks there and take pictures of everything and video things and put it on all the site from home, so now how do ya know if hes really there? Just my 2cents. What do you think?? Is this better or worse
 
I don't think it makes sense to sell these videos, but as a service, posting them on the Internet, it's a wonderful idea. He's not a very good videographer, though.
 
I liked watching the old site because it was fun to watch him go from place to place, trying to guess where he was, etc. Now, it's just...boring. I'll always be interested in a site that shows pictures from Disney but, I wonder how long it'll be until this gets "not fun" for him anymore. It stinks because the old site was fun to watch, now it's just uninteresting.
 
What's the point of this new setup? It's just pictures. Anyone can do that. The old setup was at least unique in that you could tell he was walking around the parks/resorts and documenting it. This new site...it's just...unimaginative.
 

The site now is nothing compaired to the tons of other great photo/video sites out there. Before it was original but now it's just an empty shell. Perhaps it will improve. I understand that he couldn't keep it up before, that it would ruin the magic for him although I really liked the way it was while it lasted :).

The video's are not his and the company he links to that sells them has had problems in the past with sending stuff out within a reasonable amount of time or even answering emails. Can anyone remember what the old name of that company was? They used to advertise that if you spent so much then you would get a free video of a ride..anyone? Maybe the problems have been sorted now if there is an new owner or management. However maybe not.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty much over Jupelo and his change of plans. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, I must agree. I liked the old way better. Bummer.
 
i liked the old way better too, though i'm not surprised he couldn't keep it up. that really sounds like a lot of work for one person....i'll keep checking in because i find his comments entertaining, like the captions he rights under the photos. but if he gives that up too, like his trip reports, i probably won't visit jupelo that often. like someone else said, it was fun to try to guess where he was while watching the videos.
 
Kristina said:
The video's are not his and the company he links to that sells them has had problems in the past with sending stuff out within a reasonable amount of time or even answering emails. Can anyone remember what the old name of that company was?

Could it be Main Street Megastore, that place is a nightmare to deal with. :furious:
 
The thing I liked about his old site were the trip reports. I could care less about the videos, though. I completely understand where he's coming from. Having spent too many DW trips seeing it all through a vidcam viewfinder, I can attest to the fact that it does ruin the magic. My thoughts on his new site:

  • navigation to the pictures just sucks. He should go with pages of thumbnails sorted by Park
  • the trip reports should be brought back. Maybe it's too onerous, but the real value in letting Us in on his experiment will be in knowing his thoughts and impressions as the year passes
Really... without the trip reports, the experiment just isn't too compelling. The pictures are a neat idea, but not central to theme of spending a year at Disney.
 
Yes Islandbeachnut, I believe that's the one!

I went to the site yesterday, and his latest update was pictures up close of a trash can, just loads of pictures of it. Who would want to look at that?
 
I don't like the new Jupelo either. I liked being able to figure out where he was by watching the video. Looking at a trash can from any & every angle is kinda, well, dumb, if you ask me. Today's update is a "Tarzan Rocks" video. Hmmm, when was that taken?
 
Well, Jupelo updated his site again, and.....well.....you'll just have to see it for yourself..... I don't know what to think. Looks like he got some not-so-positive feedback on the new site.
 
Wow. Very sad. The being at Disney all year and taking photos of everything was one thing. It was new and different. The photos of things such as a trash can was another. Unusual, but not so bad. But this? Taking photos off the web of people acting 'crazy' at Disney? And he's inviting hate mail (as the link at the bottom of his page states). Crazy. You're right Safetymom, he's really lost his way. :(
 
At first I got this weird feeling about him, but I supported him (I try to support everyone) and it just comes back and I'm going back on what I thought. He's a spoiled little brat. He'll probably end up engaged in some sort of violent crime or two in his life.
 
BeckWhy said:
At first I got this weird feeling about him, but I supported him (I try to support everyone) and it just comes back and I'm going back on what I thought. He's a spoiled little brat. He'll probably end up engaged in some sort of violent crime or two in his life.

I agree. When he was still doing the pictures of his day thing DH and I were at WDW and I had this creepy feeling like I was being watched. I kept looking around for some loner guy with a camera. :scared: Now he just seems angry that it didn't work out, just like a little kid would be that he didn't get his way.
 
I must have been living under a rock - I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Can anyone post a link to this site?


KC :sunny:
 
BeckWhy said:
At first I got this weird feeling about him, but I supported him (I try to support everyone) and it just comes back and I'm going back on what I thought. He's a spoiled little brat. He'll probably end up engaged in some sort of violent crime or two in his life.

i've been following jupelo religiously and stumbled on disboards about a month ago trying to find more info on his site and have been reading these boards ever since. i'm not much of a disney fan, but something about his site compelled me and it's been neat reading opinions on here. i haven't felt particularly compelled to chime in until now.

i'm a child psychologist and have been in practice for almost 20 years now. doesn't mean i know exactly what is going on but i believe i have some kind of a grip on this.

saying he will engage in 'violent crime' or whatever is pretty naive and a typical knee jerk reaction to the erraticism he is exhibiting on his site. i think he is, for the most part, telling the truth. i can tell from the just heaping energy he seemed to put into the site for the 1st month that i'm sure he's capable of running 3 businesses like he claimed. i wouldn't doubt it at all that he plans on spending the 100k he claims at disney, and i don't doubt it isn't money he made himself.

the whole thing isn't too complicated in my opinion. he has a larger ego than most of us 'normal' people do. i don't doubt for one second that it takes an enormous ego to start 3 (assumed) successful businesses as a minor.

so here's what i think happened. his continuous references to 'hate email' is the major clue. he has probably been getting an avalanche of hate mail. not now but when the site was in its first format. don't any of you remember that comments section he had? i can guarantee you most of the mail was probably just people who were jealous. but people with big egos tend to also be hurt very easily, and he probably did get more than he expected. but the difference between him and most people is these big ego people channel that hurt into work and 'success'. i even think his about me page referenced something along these lines. and he is deflecting the fact that he is hurt by the emails by turning it around and saying he likes hate mail

bottom line, i would bet my life he's still at disney. and, by no longer offering the neat content he used to, it's his own little way of getting back at the people who went out of their way to criticize him. it's a way of making himself feel better.

this is all just total conjecture. but i've seen things like this before, just not in this format, since he's rather extreme since it involves lots of money at a very young age and someone who is developmentally supercharged. he's probably been to hell and back engaging in so many adult things at such a young age and he probably comes off as a little 'off' because of it. almost like an abuse victim. a stretch though, because in this case it would self inflicted which turns the tables quite a bit.

but i just had to laugh at the violence comment. i mean, god, to be honest, he's probably lying around in bed at the grand floridian on his wireless broadband chuckling at all of you and counting his millions.

i love how he goes on and on about eventually starting a charity, and you all shoot back that he's going to be 'engaged in some sort of violent crime or two'.

really! if you were him, wouldn't comments like that make you want to just forget about it all and enjoy the year without having to cater to a bunch of disney fans? and i'm sure he's a pretty bottom line minded guy to do what he claims he did, so if people are just being jerks, all that probably says to him is time to move on.

look people. i've dealt with many gifted kids before, and he screams textbook example. 'jupelo' is to this kid as richard branson is to having tea parties on the top of hot air balloons over the english countryside. they're different than most of us. and some of us interpret that as being erratic and, as one poster said, violent, since its so detached from the realities we know.

just my 2c.
 




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