I thought this was perfect!
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Humor
Christmas Animatronics
There’s something creepy about animatronic bears.
I was at a friend’s mom’s Christmas party yesterday and her house is amazingly decorated with animatronic characters, four Christmas trees, animated villages, lights, bows, bells, garlands… the works. It’s wonderfully festive.
Some of the animatronic characters are in a bit of shadow and while looking at the slowly-moving bears, I was just a little bit creeped out… so I decided to run with it and took some video using my phone. Adding a bit of not-particularly-festive music changed the whole vibe from festive to disturbingly creepy.
There you have it!
Bohemian Rhapsody
This evening, while checking out new posts on Facebook, I came across this gem.
Well, Lori and I thought it was hysterical, since we both fell right into the trap. Megan, who is 10, didn’t get it.
So, after Lori and I did a poorly-performed duet of the song verses in question, I went to YouTube and found a video of Queen performing Bohemian Rhapsody and had Megan listen to it. She gave me lots of weird "What the heck is THIS?" looks while the song was playing, but she then understood (as much as a 10-year-old can understand her parents’ ancient memories).
The kicker to this little story comes from one of the commenters on the YouTube video. An hour later and I’m still chuckling over it.
I hate it when people compare Freddie Mercury to God. He is good but for fuck’s sake, he is not Freddie Mercury.
Thanks, speslqueen, for that wonderful bit of cleverness!
Aluminum Journey
I just finished my latest video project today. This was probably the most effort I’ve put into anything I’ve done to date… more moving parts and shots than previous videos. I think it was also my first multi-location video as well.
Fun to shoot. Fun to edit (to a point). It changed focus from being an emotional, tiring journey to a lighthearted romp across various landscapes (the video, not my attitude toward making it). It also changed from having a somewhat serious message to… well… not.
I shot it using a Kodak Playsport and a Kodak Zi8. Editing was done using Hitfilm Ultimate. Music composed with SmartSound Sonicfire Pro. Additional sound cleanup was done using Audacity.
BadLipReading and Michele Bachmann
I saw this the other day and was stunned because of how well done it is… the substituted words match up perfectly with her mouth movements.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFB6LQ1-WKU
I’m also amused at the first comment.
It’s more coherent than she usually is.
Curse those scientists!
A bit of sarcasm from Phil Plait.
http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/19/none-so-blind/
Culinary Conscience
I just finished the latest video that Megan and I shot back in October. I had some issues with the effects back then and gave up for awhile, which is why it took so long.
Hooray for bacon!
The effects and 98% of the editing were done using FXHome’s HitFilm. I used Adobe Premiere Elements for the titles and some of the sound.
