I've lived in houses with pools on occasion in my life, and unlike a house that is near the beach, lake or ocean, we don't say the house is by a pool. Why is that? And stranger, why do we sometimes just forget that we have a pool or even look at it every single... Continue Reading →
A Wet Road At Very High Speed
This is how some people choose to live their life, and it's definitely an adrenaline rush, but that is not the subject we are exploring today. This wet road was traveled at a high but normal freeway speed for filming, but then sped up a lot for the video I posted on YouTube: Rainy Oregon... Continue Reading →
Eye contact matters
Can I just say kudos to The Late Late Show with James Corden for a brilliant solution to the annoying off-axis, lost eye contact that happens on video interviews!We humans don't know where to look; we should look in the camera, or at least not downward at a screen just staring at the other person....... Continue Reading →
Music Video Or Ad? (Always Both, Right?)
Last week I posted directly on the Facebook page for this blog after I created a promotional video for an upcoming concert and the client had issues publicizing it with their own Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/478531892336962/posts/875709779285836/ https://www.facebook.com/CreativeUploads/videos/254688168723961/ SERVICE WITH A SMILE I may get into how I captured and created the visuals later, but let's get... Continue Reading →
Music: You Are My Present
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 →
Hello, Snacking Shelled Fellow
I was having dinner with friends and they have turtles in the backyard. No, they have tortoises, because turtles tend to water and tortoises are land dwellers. Apparently they like snacking on hibiscus flowers, so my daughter laid a path to draw them out of their nest area. https://youtu.be/a0JA0sejhgk Being the photographer always looking for... 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 →