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Day 03 - Legacy
Everyday I walk past these pictures of men and women who founded the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. They inspire me to leave a legacy.Published 10 months ago
Day 06 - Got The Time?
30 Days of Vlog 30 vloggers steal a day from November and create something based on the day before. This is mine. Thanks to Michael Verdi. Good luck to Dee.Published 10 months ago
Day 28 - Seeing
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Brook Hinton and is followed by a post by Steve Garfield. Music by: Delmo from ccmixter.com.Posted 9 months ago
Day 21 - Life Walking - VloMo 2009
The Yahoo Videoblogging Group 30 Vloggers, 30 Day Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. Adam Quirk created Death In the Morning In honor of (Inter)National Videoblogging Posting Month this is my contribution to Day 21 for November 2009. This is my answer video, Life Walking 2009: This video is a mixture of what my original goal was, to get out and see life. Pulled in more directions but I hope to get back to doing more point and record slice of life videos. It is not the video I envisioned. It is ok. I'm good with it. My butt hurts, I've sat in this chair too long. It is a mixture of current and past videos I created. My main goal was to get out of the Bone yard. I don't like death. Not worried about the beyond because I'm good for an adventure or two whether it is a flicker of last light or a new dimension. I don't hate it or fear Death. I just don't like the process. The pain that is required to grow and go on as a human being is often too much. But what are the choices? Perhaps a ramble for another time. For more independent and not corporate videos check out the action at http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org.Posted 9 months ago
Day 19 - VIDEO: Sure
Here’s my contribution to NaVloPoMo2009, the brainchild of the (RAAAA!) Rupert Howe where we all make videos together in November. Our videoblogging community has worked on a number of group projects such as Videoblogging Week 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. There was also a couple years of Carp Caviar orchestrated by the quietly creative, Erik Nelson. The archive for these projects are gone, but here are my two contributions: 2006 and 2008. There’s also NaVloPoMo2007. And of course there was Semanal where we all tried to post every week for all of 2008. I’m really amazed at the quality of video I see these days. Either the video/film people have finally embraced the web…or regular peole are just getting better at it. Probably a little of both. And it’s been less than five years since all this started. Anyway here’s my contribution shot on my iPhone. In memory of my mom, Nancy Jean Dedman, 1949-2009.Posted 9 months ago
Day 02 - Ghosts
As I mentioned yesterday, I and a bunch of other people are playing a big game of video consequences this month. Each day, someone different makes a 90 second video, inspired in some way by the previous day’s piece. Adrian Miles kicked it off yesterday with Like A Match, a love poem in audio, looping over a video of a match being struck, which changes when you move your mouse over the video. The rules are that your video has to be 90 seconds or less, and inspired in any way (you don’t have to explain how) by the previous day’s video. While I was pondering my response late last night, and filming the fire in my father in law’s rambling old country house, I caught this moment, which I decided to share as it is. Then I went up to bed, in the haunted room. At 3am, Kate and I lay wide awake in the pitch black. Old country houses are dark. Every few minutes there was a loud and unexplained bang of wood on wood from somewhere within the room. Turning on the light would have woken the baby, so we spent a rigid hour with Kate asking me to whisper reassurances in her ear about the lack of scientific evidence for ghosts. Neither of us wanted to admit to the other how freaked out we were – Kate had already been in bed when I shot this video, and I didn’t want to frighten her by telling her what I’d just heard. Eventually, she quietly got up, turned on the light in the hallway, left the door open a little, and the noises stopped. Turns out that Kate had had the same conversation with her stepmother yesterday evening about ‘the flamingo room’ – only she had the details, which for obvious reasons aren’t widely available, but which do add an eerie extra level of synchronicity to this video. If you want to know, the code is here, you’ll just have to View the Fire again, and think “Fox†and “Sourceâ€Posted 10 months ago
Day 11 - more than one home, sadly.
for vlomo09 11-11we tried to bring "home" to my grandmother's final year at a nursing facility.the little tangible conveniences and intimate objects and memories. and accompany her as much as we could.in the end, she went to her final home.... her resting place.Published 10 months ago
Day 09 - Home is where the larch is.
Navlopomo #9(number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine)Miguel's video got me thinking about home -- specifically returning home. Brian & I have been sort of floundering re:home. Is the city home? Is the country home? Is New Orleans home? We seem unable to decide.Then I remembered the larch we planted last Spring. Our very first tree at our very first house. We planted it together so that we could watch it grow as we got old.Home is where the larch is. edit: I'm just now looking outside my office window and can see quite plainly the the larch is dead. This does not bode well.Published 10 months ago
Day 23 - where's daddy?
Here's my contribution for the NaVloPoMo videoblogging game 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos. The challenge? Each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. In Mike Moon's video, he appears and disappears a time or two, and his familiar backyard scene keeps jumping around. That reminded me of my busy work and travel schedule, and how I might be constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing again to my kids. Hence, I appear and disappear a bunch in the video, which is set to echoey music. Special thanks to the crow who somehow chirped in time to the beat.Posted 9 months ago
#10/30 - Consumers Distributing Catalogues
My first job was unloading trucks at Consumers Distributing in 1980. In 1996 the company closed down, I was the General Manager of a privately owned location, Whitby Store #308. The two catalogues I have are the 1982/83 annual and the 1995 Superstore Catalogue. This was a special catalogue that carried special merchandise along with the regular lineup.Posted 9 months ago
#11/30 - Buffy Things
Donna really enjoyed the whole Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series and over the years picked up some collectibles. There’s no talking in the video, but the music is the theme song. Items include some characters, autographed pictures, other adds and ends plus a replica Sunnydale High School ring. #11 on our list – Buffy Things.Posted 9 months ago
splitscreen - vlomo09 day 3
I used this music on Vlomo Day 3 last year, too – but tongue in cheek, at the start of The Placenta Video. I know it’s schmaltzy, but sometimes you find a piece of music which fits a video so perfectly that you just can’t not use it, even though your cheese alarm is waking people up three streets away.Posted 10 months ago
SOLD!
SOLD! says the website listing now. the loan came through and papers have been signed. it's done. it's not a very exciting video, and I forgot to unlick the 'use default song' in QT. but it's been so busy the past week preparing for the purchase (which is why I'm a few days behind with #vlomo09 this past week). the purchase went through OK this afternoon, and when I arrived home the papers from the bank had arrived. huge relief. now it's just packing and preparing to move in (hate packing, but I think this'll be the last time hopefully!) vlomo09 day2323/11/2009Published 9 months ago
