Sunday, April 20, 2008

earth day critical mass komoux

riders came from cumberland, comox, courtenay, royston, and other parts of the komoux valley for the second earth day critical mass ride through downtown courtenay to the fair grounds.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

waterboard challenge #2 03/08/08



this i put together and uploaded in short order (2 hours) - not much raw vlog to process, all i had to do was cut a bit here and there - abrupt beginnings, transitions, and endings but it's up, whatever that's worth.

the only additional equipment cost so far has been a used camera for $110 and have i mentioned the $300 computer running kubuntu.

Friday, March 7, 2008

waterboard challenge march 1/08



waterboard challenge

i now have my own camera, a sony dsc p150, found on craigs list (thanks a lot) for $105 - have shot lots more than what's up but as i get better with the linux editor, kino, i intend to get my garden vlogs up soon - good discipline for learning, thank semanal.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

cv peace demo feb 9/08


every saturday for over a year now the cv peace group has held a noon hour demo in downtown courtenay, bc.

this is the third vid for semanal, shot with a borrowed sony cybershot 4.1 and edited using kino on a kubuntu linux system.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

success methinks



it's still technically terrible (tt) but it is a short story that i managed to put together after several days of frustration, mainly due to rank ignorance.

this 2.6 min video is about the comox valley peace group at the world community film festival in courtenay, bc a couple of weeks ago.

raw footage shot with a borrowed sony cyber 4.1 or something like that - distilled 10 raw segments down to 7 scenes which i then cut and pasted together using kino dv editor on a $300 linux box running kubuntu.

this is the second vlog for semanal, which is responsible for motivating me to actually produce and publish these early film experiments, despite the fact that it's consuming my whole life - i have to start some seeds soon!

all of this so that we can learn to use these powerful new media as a way through the waves of propaganda that the msm spews forth.

got some more vid in the can from last week's demo which i now have to edit and put up before shooting the greenhouse move, feeding the worms, and the waterboard challenge.

3 days lost

big excitement, kino, the video editor for my linux kubuntu system seemed to work like a charm when i first tried it and now 3 days later i'm still trying to export the vids i have put together - the cutting/adding in kino was a snap but i had trouble with the import and export functions - sometimes i wouldn't get the whole clip imported, sometimes it cut off an export, and sometimes there was nothing there at all.

don't know why i'm bothering with this blog except i said i was going to record the process.

back to kino.

Monday, January 28, 2008

ern's world

i finally got this uploaded to youtube after being unable to upload it directly here...