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Nine Months

Rupert — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:55:58 +0000

Looking for a very reliable car? Look no further than the Toyota Camry

Mount Washington, Vancouver Island, September 2008

for #vlomo10

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Lights in the sky – videoblogging week, day 7

Rupert — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:32:28 +0000

Watching Cumberland’s Taiwanese Lantern Festival from our house on the hill.

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Cumberland Snow – Son et Lumiere

Rupert — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:23:08 +0000

for videoblogging week, day 6
lumière style videos are silent, 60 seconds long, with a fixed camera.
this breaks the silent rule, so i’ve called it a son et lumière.

i wanted to keep the crunch of the snow, the voices carrying in the crisp smoky air. this is really just a postcard to myself, to remind me what it was like to live in Cumberland in the snow.

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90 Second Dawn – VloMo08 Day 18

Rupert — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:33:22 +0000

I created a 30 second version of this in August as a promo for a music festival I was videoblogging here in Cumberland. I put music over it and speeded it up to 8000x its original speed. But although the festival videos were well watched, this fell under the radar and few people saw it. And I think it lost some of its power being so compressed. So I’ve slowed it down a little – now you can see the outrageous colours and changes more clearly.

It’s shot from the balcony outside our bedroom. Amy gets up early, so I got to see a lot of spectacular dawns like this, this summer.

As the sky brightens, in the distance you can see the Coast Range mountains of mainland British Columbia and a small strip of the sea separating the island from the mainland. It’s a bit freaky, because Cumberland is quite a few miles from the coast, but our house is at the top of he biggest hill in town. On clear days, you can look out of our bedroom and see cruise ships on their way to Alaska.

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Smug Bastard – VloMo08 Day 17

Rupert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:43:33 +0000

Found in the vaults. From May 16, 2008, 2 weeks after we arrived in Canada.
Worth remembering this week, as the winter sets in. Started to get my first proper pangs of homesickness this weekend. Which may be partly why I’ve fallen a bit behind in posting.

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Night Life in Twin Peaks

Rupert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:38:13 +0000

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Wipers – VloMo Day 15

Rupert — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:33:04 +0000

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Loser – VloMo08 Day 14

Rupert — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:34:02 +0000

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Wild Salmon – VloMo08 Day 9

Rupert — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:26:16 +0000

Puntledge Hatchery, Courtenay, BC

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Amy’s Dream – Vlomo08 Day 8

Rupert — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:32:32 +0000

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Passing By An Open Door – VloMo Day 7

Rupert — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:37:23 +0000

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For everybody back home – VloMo Day 5

Rupert — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:45:04 +0000

I was putting together a big elaborate post-election video… but in the comments to the Placenta video, Frank Carver reminded me to take my own advice: the key to success in posting every day for Videoblogging Month is to avoid ambition – don’t up the ante each day. Just carry your camera with you, capture a simple moment and share it.

And I’ve been really enjoying Elsie Escobar’s VloMo videos – she’s recording her baby girl’s first few weeks. She made me realise: I have a videoblog, we’re thousands of miles from home, and I’ve hardly posted any video or pictures of Lila for all our family and friends. She’s seven weeks old and almost 14lbs already! So to start with, here’s 90 seconds from breakfast.

I love how all these VloMo videos and comments are creating responses and conversations.

Watch videoblogging month videos at:
http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08
and join the group at Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/groups/vlomo

Shot on my Nokia N93 phone.

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Halloween in Cumberland – VloMo08, Day 1

Rupert — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:21:15 +0000

Is this what Halloween is like everywhere in North America?

Madness.

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Speaking of madness, it’s suddenly Videoblogging Month again. Already? How did that happen?

Last year it was called NaVloPoMo, but it’s (sadly?) just been renamed Videoblogging Month 2008 – VloMo08 for short.

Post one video every day in November. That’s all you have to do…

2007 was the first year, and it turned out to be an incredible collaborative experiment. Exhausting but rewarding. I hope this year is as much fun.

Actually, I think for me it’ll be *more* fun. Last year I just didn’t have time to watch enough. But then, between us all, we made over 1000 videos in 30 days.

You can watch (and JOIN IN) at our new Mefeedia channel:
http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08

I can’t wait to see the videos start coming in.

Meanwhile, it’s now 2 a.m. – so you’ll have to excuse me. I have a *lot* of candy to get through before Amy wakes up.

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not london

Rupert — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:29:56 +0000

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How To Prepare For A Home Birth…

Rupert — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:26:58 +0000

As most of you know, Lila was born AGES ago. I’ve resisted publishing any videos until now. She’s four weeks old today, and with a prompt from Kate, I figure that’s enough of a respectful pause. It was about as good a birth as you could hope for – 3 hour labour from 6am to 9am, born in water, 8lbs 5oz. I won’t get into why we chose a home birth – that’s for another post, maybe. But this is quite a nice memento of the days leading up to it (she was born 7 days after this) and once it’s up on the web, I’m sure some of you watching it will be new parents who are frantically Googling for information about what your home birth will be like. Good luck! Our two have been the most amazing experiences of my life.

Music: Early Days, by The Helium Tapes

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