30 days / 30 videos / 30 seconds / 30 frames per second

for videoblogging week 2011

shot, cut and posted from my ipod touch with imovie app

(view in HD on YouTube)

shot and cut on kate’s iphone
for videoblogging week 2011

I just found out it’s videoblogging week. Starting today. Usually I’m on top of these things. At least to begin with.

So here’s one I made last week, when I got my iPad2. The girls had just watched a video of Amy riding a donkey on holiday, and as soon as it finished and reverted to Camera mode, they wanted to make their own. They didn’t need instructions.

for #Vlomo10 Day 9

in the Wye Valley
near Hay on Wye, Wales

This is from July 4 2005. I’d been videoblogging for just a few months. I was *loving* making little videos about the world around me. I just couldn’t bear to turn the camera round and point it at myself.

I’m re-posting it because it was on the now-deleted first version of FatGirlFromOhio.org and so isn’t in my archives, and as an answer to Krystian, who asked this on the videoblogging list today:

Ok, so here’s a little curiosity I have and was wondering If you wouldn’t mind sharing your experiences on the thought.

The majority of video-bloggers, and alot of my favourites feature themselves in their videos, talking to the audience directly about their day, about their thoughts or whatever. Do you think this is a personality trait, in the sense that you are just born comfortable to be in front of the camera, that you guys (or girls) have never had issues with it?

This is something that’s been plaguing me for a little while. The people that know me here, know that I love video, watching and making and if you’ve ever been to one of my site’s you’ve probably noticed that you’ve never actually seen me and I’m always behind the camera (or computer).

I ask because it’s something I’d like to get comfortable with. I’d like to have the ability to create a ‘talking head’ video series for my new site. A few of my reservations are: I have a slight accent (Welsh) which I myself often have trouble listening to others on the news and just generally not coming across like I am uncomfortable doing it.

Has anyone gone through this? Did you start out like this and got better? Do you have any advice?

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Quicktime Podcast file

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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H264 Podcast File

A slideshow of fragments from my day today.

Shot on my iPod Touch and cut using Reeldirector app, in the car.

Also shot on Kate’s iPhone and edited in iMovie HD on my Mac.

for #vlomo10

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H264 Podcast File

Dittisham, Devon

Shot, cut and uploaded with my iPod Touch & iMovie app.

H264 Podcast File

I’m in Cannes for Nokia, with Ernie and Robbie from WOMWorld, mobile videoblogging the Young Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival – young creatives from all over the world have 48 hours to make an advert using an N86 phone, to a brief set by the World Society for the Protection of Animals for their Compassionate Travel campaign.

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iPod/iPhone mp4 podcast file

Shot on my Nokia N93 phone

iPhone video file link

The slowest series ever. In November 2007, I posted Part 1, arriving in San Francisco; in November 2008, I posted Videoblogging The Conversation; this year it’s Vertigo. And they were all shot in November 2006. Holy shitsticks, I’ve aged more in the last three years than this movie location has in the last 50!

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Formats available: MPEG4 Podcast File (.mp4)

iPod / iPhone compatible MP4 podcast file

Old clips given a home for videoblogging week 2009.

Château de Quéribus (map) is one of the Cathar Castles in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in the south of France – the Pays Cathare, or “Cathar Country”. Quéribus is sometimes considered the last refuge of the Cathars – perhaps where the Cathar treasure (the Grail?) was carried to, by the four Cathars who escaped the bloody fall of Montségur.
It’s an eerie feeling to have it all to yourself before dawn.

iPhone / iPod compatible mp4 file