What does it even mean? Try hard until you succeed? No, that would be fine. Is it some perverse sexual wordplay? Well, art is art, but no. So, pretend that you can do something until you do? That's great if you're in an 80's movie*, but really, if you are trying to make something.... Wait... Continue Reading →
Nine Minutes of a Sleeping Puppy (dreaming of organizing gigabytes of video)
https://youtu.be/w9Mrer4tQao An adorable sleeping puppy accompanied with soft piano music. I was testing camera equipment in early 2016 and pointed it at the new dog (Waffles). Pulled out a few fluffy adorable bits and changed out the soundtrack with some piano improvisations I've recorded over the years. This recorded off my old Canon HV20 which... Continue Reading →
I’ll Read This Again: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 10 Tips For Screenwriters
The writers of "The Lego Movie" (and others, including the upcoming "Han Solo") gave a talk for BAFTA's Screenwriters’ Lecture master class, which is online in its entirety. I'm posting this partly to bookmark it so I can watch that video when I have time and focus, but meanwhile, here is a nice list-length summary... Continue Reading →
Free NPR Audio Training Online
A primer on audio issues with tips on preferably preventing them or trying to fix them after. This is fantastic if you use a microphone to record anything, for audio, video, music, podcasts, whatever. It will make you think first and have (less) problems later. At the very least, you'll learn the vocabulary so you... Continue Reading →
Build A Better Mousetrap
"And the world will beat a path to your door." That's the saying, isn't it? I don't know why the mice-killers get all the foot traffic, but I get it. Who wouldn't want to be able to mass murder cute little rodents? (I wonder what Walt Disney would counter with. I suppose he just made... Continue Reading →
Stick Up Your Cams
Been doing some timelapse captures. Going to have to finish another video edit before I get to them. But here's a #Prisma of my GoPro twelve feet in the air. (Comic style) I also grabbed some really low shots. But I do like the high overhead angles, what I used to refer to as the... Continue Reading →
As Seen on TV! Close Captioning For YouTube
So I suppose you were aware you could add closed captions to YouTube videos? What's that mean? It means you can add text to your video that viewers can turn off or on, and it's generally used to allow the hard of hearing to read along with what is actually being said in the video. I... Continue Reading →
Good Dog! Happy Dog!
Funny thing is the video that this comes from went on for a long, long time without even being a gif. -----David P.S. Created by Google Photo Assistant. Well, I took the video on the first place, but all the times I meant to make an animated GIF of something I never did, or found... Continue Reading →
Hey, Mr. Spaceman – The Musical
I decided to finally record the John Glenn parody song I posted lyrics for the other day. Here's the YouTube blurb as background: Honoring astronaut John Glenn's passing: in 1998 there was some controversy on sending John Glenn on the space shuttle at 77 in an expensive mission instead of other qualified candidates. I wrote this... Continue Reading →