Published by Rupert on November 11, 2007
in Kate, NaBloPoMo, NaVloPoMo, amy, country, family, just a moment, movlog, rupert, toddler and vlog.
I handed the camera to Kate today. We were in Burnham Beeches, just outside London (map/satphoto). The colours are incredible this year. Another thing I’ll miss in evergreen Vancouver Island.
I was trying to persuade her to sing her song The Falling of the Leaves (a Yeats poem she set to music – you can hear it on her Myspace page) so that I could use it as a soundtrack for the other moments I shot all around the woods. But this is better.
I think I’m going to give her the camera more often.
Alternative file types:
Quicktime / Flash (click to play if player above doesn’t work)
NB – THIS HAS NO SOUND
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I said it before, I’ll say it again. I hate technology. I’m thinking of going Amish.
I’ve tried to upload this twice yesterday/today.
I’ve been away from the internet this weekend. Shocking, but true. Just testing out the Amish thing.
Anyway, here it is. I shot it in Canada in August, in the woods along Long Beach on Vancouver Island (map/satphoto). I usually shoot a lot of still photos on holiday. This time, I shot a lot of moving snapshots, only one or two of which I’ve published so far. Basically, I just experimented with keeping the camera still and shooting a movie instead of a still. Slightly different compositions from what I’d choose for photos, but you see what I mean. I was frequently surprised by what would unfold within the frame in the minute or so I kept the camera running – plus you get the extra dimensions of moving light, and sound (though not here). Futuristic holiday snaps.
This isn’t a Lumiere, strictly speaking, because it’s not under 60 seconds long, but I’ve muted it anyway because (in this case) I wanted to leave space for you to imagine the sound of a forest on the edge of the Pacific, and to imagine what’s being said and thought.
You can re-read Alice’s encounter with a mushroom here:
Alternative video files:
Quicktime / Flash
My first game of hide and seek with Amy, just before bedtime – a very particular time of day…
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Just a little moment – shot, cut and sent from my phone in the park just now.
For more animal fecal fun, see Gogen’s little kitty¬¨¬®‚Äö?тĆ
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)
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The only thing she loves more than watching herself in my videos (”again! AGAIN!”) is holding my phone and looking at herself on the screen, thru the little low-res camera next to the screen.
The camera was glitching, which produces quite a nice effect. There’s no sound because this is a Lumiere.
It doesn’t seem to matter how many times you say that, people still say “Oh! I can’t hear anything.”
Just goes to show how pointless it is to write text on a videoblog. Why am I even writing this? You’re not reading it. I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
I’m loving the Lumieres that are being made all over the world. Hundreds of them. To browse them, visit http://videoblogging.info/lumiere/
The rules are as follows. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s:
- 60 seconds max.
- Fixed camera
- No audio
- No zoom
- No edit
- No effects
Formats available: Third Generation Platform (.3gp)
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