In Memoriam: Lizard.

In Memoriam: Lizard.

In a previous video, I had featured some clips from our bearded dragon, Annie. Over the past few days, she's been looking pretty sickly and we tried to find a vet that would work on lizards... but alas, she died yesterday afternoon.

She's been a part of our family for as long as we've been a family. She'll be missed.

Oscar in SF

Oscar in SF

This is an Oscar the Grouch toy I've had for about 26 years... and it's still solid as rock. Anyway, the family had taken a trip to San Francisco in August, and I thought it be funny if Oscar had taken the trip with us.

The music is a derivative work, and only slightly similar to the theme of a popular children's show. It's actually parody. So please Mr. Ghost of Jim Henson -- don't sue me.

Jumping Bunny

Jumping Bunny

I've been calling this cheap, Happy Meal toy a "jumping bunny", but I'm now starting to think it may be a kangaroo... or dog... or something. Oh, well.

You wind it up, and it does a flip. But it has a problem landing on its feet.

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 3

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 3

Here we're talking to Brady. He's acting as a Navy Surgeon. He talks about the different tools that the Navy had at the time and gives a bit of history of our things worked.

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 2

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 2

Just after the "battle", they did a re-enactment of what surgery would be like during the Civil War. The best part was when they had to amputate an arm or leg.

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 1

Civil War Re-enactment Pt. 1

About an hour outside of Houston is a little town called Hempstead. Over this past weekend, there was a Civil War Re-enactment going on.

I had never been to one, but it was actually very enjoyable. These people take it all very seriously, and at the same time seem to have a lot of fun. Also, the food was GREAT.

I've got more video, some of a surgery being re-enacted, and some background info about various tools that were used in the medical field. I think I'll split them up into two more video.

Blowin' in the Wind.

Blowin' in the Wind.

Bob Dylan wrote the best war-protest song ever. These shots were all taken from Archive.org... I just did a search for "Iraq" and these were on the first couple of pages.

50th Wedding Anniversary.

50th Wedding Anniversary.

I found this 3rd generation VHS tape that my Uncle Jimmie had made for my grandparent's 50th Anniversary. I captured it from the best pro-sumer VCR I have, and it still had horrible scan lines... so I cropped them out the best I could. Hopefully, I can get a better quality tape from my uncle.

The whole tape was about an hour and a half long... here's 2 minutes.

Play-Doh Man hates Boxing Kangaroo.

Play-Doh Man hates Boxing Kangaroo.

I couldn't think of anything to shoot. So I created a fight between Play-Doh Man and Boxing Kangaroo.

Bottle Caps ®.

Bottle Caps ®.

These are one of my favorites candies. Ever since I was a child, I had to separate the flavors... and sometimes, I would get a "cola" and a "root beer" mixed in together (because they have similar colors) and it would be horrible.

A Busy, Busy Town.

A Busy, Busy Town.

7 minutes of time (condensed to about 45 seconds)... looking out my office window. The freeway in front is US59, and on the left is the 610 Loop.

music: me. a simple, little ditty with a "tick-tock" feel.

the B.S. Re-mix for 11/2/2005

the B.S. Re-mix for 11/2/2005.

Pretty simple really... looping videos of people to make it look like they're dancing to the tune. According to We Are the Media, November is "re-mix" month, so I thought I'd do another one.


The videos that got used:

- Michael Verdi - Sky
- Bottom Union - Hover
- One Girl, One World - Introduction
- Steve Garfield - Vlog Soup 7
- BluJett8 - Cue Wakes Up
- Illusion Junkie - Art Chantry

I started out wanting to only re-mix newer vloggers videos. I figured the "vets" get included in everyone's remixes anyway, so why not throw out some love to the noobs? I ended up using three newer ones I found on the Yahoo group , then three from "vets".

Oma.

Oma.

"Oma" is an informal German word for grandmother - the formal being Großmutter. Oma turns 84 on Sunday, and I made a fairly simple photo montage for her... this is the abridged version. Also featured is my grandfather, C.W. or "Opa". He passed away 4 years ago.

I really love looking at old pictures. I wonder if 60 years from now, there will be people who love looking through old computer files, the way I enjoy the pictures. It will be amazing if Archive.org is still going, and everything from today is still available ... they'll probably be beyond yottabytes of data.

The music is "Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen" -- roughly translated to "You, You Keep Me in Your Heart" -- I'm not sure who this exact artist is. It's a beautiful song.

Munamana.

Munamana.

I could've spent a whole lot of time on this and made it really fluid... but I get bored easily. So, here ya' go.

Videos taken from Archive.org and Crooks and Liars. The song comes from The Muppets, but I downloaded it from Zippy Videos.

campfire.

campfire.

The kids were off playing. The adults sat around the fire and talked. Somehow, without my knowledge, I became one of the latter group. I would mourn my youth... but sometimes I still feel like I'm 17. My wife would say I sometimes act it, as well.