You Are My Present, a song by David Watson. Performed live to tape. Well, digital. https://youtu.be/G5t6D6wGgH4 It's my birthday so I put this relevant song on Facebook today, and thought I would share it here. I wrote this song years ago, shortly after my wife gave birth to our first child, but it really does... Continue Reading →
Video Revisit: The Best Camera Should Maybe Be With You?
Some considerations on whether you should leave your cameraphone in your pocket and just set up a real camera or camcorder when filming your kid or an event -- maybe even for family gatherings? And especially for sports, you know, in case you want to actually be able to see the ball on your screen... Continue Reading →
Automatic Star Trek Post Made By A Robot!
Well, AI, but not enough people liked the Steven Spielberg - Stanley Kubrik movie And not an android, because it doesn't look like a human, though that would be a better title. This video was created without editing from a pasted URL using Lumen5 AI-driven software, as reviewed the other day on this very blog. I... Continue Reading →
Everyone Needs A Repurpose In Life
Playing with a new video tool called Lumen5 today, that I think may just be out of beta. They use AI to help you quickly create social videos out of existing articles, or from scratch if you so desire. At least that's the promise. Premise? In real life, of course, a proper polished product takes... Continue Reading →
Wait, Video With Words On It? Cameraphone Tips Revisited
Here is a video version of an early post on cameraphone tips and editing, updated with a fresh look and more pictures than ever! Welcome to the video era, again! (Been happening since movies were invented, then TV, then TV again, then 3D and VCRs and DVDs and HD and Streaming and -- it's not... Continue Reading →
Bark! Insert Dog Pun (And Video) Here
Amy the Dog in "Dog Years," a movie made with Google Assistant. A few years ago I wrote * about how cool this app was and how easy it made it to share pictures and video snippets in video form. It's better and worse, but still neat and still only on Android and iOS. Click... Continue Reading →
So Many Apps: Microsoft Hyperlapse
Part one of who knows how many: I thought I would test one of the many camera apps on my phone that I have most forgotten about, waiting for another soccer game to start (which I was filming for a Florida company with a pretty cool setup I may discuss later.) This was done on... Continue Reading →
It’s Creepy Coffee Time!
I don't drink coffee, but the women in my family do. This is what it feels like as an outsider. I made this on my phone a while ago, possibly using the built-in Android camera, but I don't recall, and I just wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to make the... Continue Reading →
I Will Read (Watch) This Again: Michael Caine on Acting For Film, plus Beating Creative Blocks
Came across a blog post today from Stage 32 featuring a couple of videos that might be of interest to creative types that might want to download them into their brain (see what I did there? A truly terrible attempt at a joke. That's what you call a first draft, and would cut in editing.)... Continue Reading →