The following video is perhaps one of the most compelling videos I ever seen, let alone one of the more though provoking public service announcements. I like the approach it takes in using visuals to reinforce a positive message on wearing your seatbelt rather than hitting you over the head with it.
Quiet weekend for the most part. Hot weather and low funds meant few options for the family. I managed to finish up the painting the boy’s room even though I thought I had finished it a few weeks back but some splotches on one wall aggravated Andrea too much so I used up the rest of the paint I had reserved and redid the wall. She is now satisfied with the wall so she can move forward with the rest of her plans of decorating the room.
One highlight of the weekend was viewing the funeral procession of Hell’s Angels motorcyclists accompanying the hearse of the local chapter president who was murdered in his home two weeks. Over a 1000 people and 500 bikes came into town for the Saturday funeral. As can be expected, the police were out in force to keep order, direct traffic and separate locals from the motorcyclists. A large of onlookers viewed the procession opposite the Parklawn cemetery where he was laid to rest. Definitely something you will not see again anytime soon.
Just finished a biography of Nikola Tesla. While many people know of such inventors and scientists like Thomas Edison an Albert Einstein, Tesla truly was a giant whose inventions and discoveries made him at least their equal if not more. But he lived in a country where it is always good to have a favorable press or your own publicist. He was noted during his lifetime but seemingly forgotten in the years past but of his contributions enable us to enjoy the life we have today like electricity, motors, radar, and radio. He was a man with exceptional intelligence who lived in an age where one man’s endeavours can be recognized. Today it is extremely difficult for one person to do anything that can match his productivity given the way corporations make scientists virtually anonymous now. Still, his fame has seemingly been rehabilitated and he is receiving the fame now that should have been his since his passing.
Finally, here is a good video on the best 100 lines from many films in all sort of genres in 200 seconds of video. Most of them have entered the popular culture as very recognizable so no explanation is necessary for most of them though there are a few that I need to figure where they came from.
Enjoy…
… and that is all I wrote.
Not too long ago, Andrea bought herself a new inexpensive camera to more or less replace the one she currently had. She bought it not so much for the photographic capability (she leaves that mostly to me) but for a better video camera that had sound and a capability to take video longer than 30 seconds.
The older camera had video capability but it was limited to 30 second clips with no sound in Quicktime format. It was sufficient for basic needs but that was all it was capable of. Now we can do more with the newer camera.
Initially, I treated the clips as I did with the other ones which is played and upload to Youtube as individual clips. Then I remembered of an application that I had on my computer but never used before, Microsoft’s Movie Maker. So I started up the program and was presented with a screen and capability suitable for my needs. I do not need much; Basically be able to stitch clips together and provide some transition between scenes. The drag and drop functionally was a breeze then I discovered other effects like fading into the scene and then fading out along with building title pages.
No doubt for more serious video fans, the app is probably underpowered and with few options. But unlike my photography I make no pretense in being a decent video editor. But for clips of the family, this does work out well.
The latest videos can be found on my Youtube site.
to Fedex Office. From my experience with the business, it is actually quite good in getting copies taken care of along with other parcel needs. But for me, Fedex Kinkos will always be associated with one of the all favorites of commercials for me.