I’ve written before about how my interests tend to go in cycles. I haven’t played Sims 2 or Civ 4 in ages. In fact, since getting to work after Christmas Break I haven’t really taken many photos either. I became consumed with Blender and getting my animations done. Then Vimeo raised the upload limit from 30 mb to 250 mb and I suddenly had to digitize all those video clips I"d been waiting forever to digitize. Here’s a video Vimeo asked us to make - they said to make a video celebrating the increase.

Here it finally is:

Aida’s Life: The Interview on Vimeo

My brother Daniel and I worked together on this video, an assignment for one of his classes at school. It’s a wonderful thing to have now that I’m so into genealogy. I also thought it was a very neat historical document because we interviewed people who experienced the revolution first-hand.

This is not the interview I was talking about last night, but I think it’s a great thing to share while I am working on translating and editing the video of my grandmother.

That tape I was waiting to rewind was an interview I did with my grandmother. She was only 3-4 months from dying. It’s freakin’ surreal! I knew I had this tape, but I couldn’t find it for the past 3 years! I had wanted to do this for years - video tape an interview with my grandmother about her life - for genealogical purposes. A lot of questions I’ve recently asked my mother, my grandmother answers in this tape. I just didn’t bother writing it down since I was video taping it. I couldn’t believe it when she died because I wanted to do this so badly and I wanted to get more interviews. She used to tell me story upon story when I was a child. It was my favorite thing to do at her house. I will post it to vimeo with some translations and an introduction. Probably tomorrow if I’m feeling especially ambitious. ---- edit it was 1 year and 3-4 months from her death - but still came out of the blue for me!

I’m waiting for a video to rewind which is the last time my grandmother Aida was on tape. This is the longest rewind EVER!

222 views to my clips in ONE DAY! Once again - this is the best thing ever for a creator of content - to have it experienced!

just went to upload a file and to my delight discovered that we have a new limit from 30mb to 250mb!!!

I’ve been inspired by a string of videos on Vimeo involving live action stop-motion. Usually stop motion is used to animate inanimate objects or create movies such as “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. But with the cheapness of digital photography, more and more people are turning to using stop-motion to animate themselves. I didn’t have this intention when I shot this sequence of photos. I was just trying to make sure to get that moment when the person opens their Christmas present and has that sense of excitement in their eyes. So I took a lot of pictures before and after gifts were opened.

Bet you’ve wanted to see the budgie all the way around, eh? Well, here it is! I was doing a test on timing and light. Naturally, the timing is wrong! That’s why I’m doing a test! The camera is moving too fast, I’m going to try and work on that as I continue working on the modeling aspect.

Here ya go:

Budgie Camera Timing & Lighting Test 1 on Vimeo

Part three, freshly posted just two days ago and here it is for you to see the exciting conclusion to “10 Little S’mores”.

10 Little S’mores Part 3 of 3 on Vimeo