I really don’t know what to do with the data life hands me sometimes. A coupla weeks ago I finished the run of a play. I was acting as Marley, and half a dozen minor roles, in a one-hour adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Mendocino Theatre Company. It was a smashing success. Why?…
Category: video
adventures up north
I’ve been having too many adventures, and getting too little work done. We recently took a week long camping/family trip up to Oregon. Several blog post worthy event happened on that trip. I’ll try to briefly cover a couple of them here. Vaux’s Swifts in Eugene The day after a family reunion, a cousin of…
Canon Vixia HFS 100: first impressions
Yippee! My new video camera arrived yesterday. A new learning curve to climb. Oh, boy. So far, I’ve had a little time to fiddle with it, I’ve walked around the area to do some actual shooting, I’ve imported some footage into Final Cut Pro, I’ve looked at raw footage on a TV/monitor, and I’ve tried…
Plunging into video production
For several years now, it’s seemed inevitable that I’d take a serious plunge into the shark-infested waters of video production. The inevitability has a lot to do with some sort of metaphorical mathematics: theatre + photography + computer graphics = video. Or something like that. A year and a half or so ago, I bought…