soooo, where do i start?
how about with the link…
March 2006 Pics and Vids
it’s an interesting month for it this time around…
firstly, again i have a separate folder for the dozen or so autostitch pics i made and a folder with half a dozen or so webcam grabs, then a couple hundred pics/vids besides…
firstly, i want to mention that some of the pics are another great example of the church coming out (on very short notice) to help a member in need… cheryl had a pipe burst in her house and we all got calls asking us to help evacuate her stuff out… there are quite a few pics from that…
then, there is pics from the resets… they sent a guy out to supervise them this time… Tyler Trbovich… aka “Turbo”…
i am going to try to keep this story short…
when i first met him, the first thing i said was that i knew him from somewhere, but, could not figure out where… it must have been something having to do with work… then, as a couple days went by and we talked a bit, come to find out he lived in the dallas area for quite awhile, just like me… (he has even played the disc golf course at veteran’s park in arlington, lucky guy!) well, to keep it short, we were doing a set in farmington, having dinner at the ihop and i mentioned in passing having worked at six flags over texas… he said he had, too… i start feeling an “AHA!” coming on… so, i asked when… he gave the times, during which i worked there, too – and we’re talking like 12 years ago… he said he was security, i said i was a caricaturist, he said he hung out at the caricature booths and started naming names of the artists, as did i… and then, suddenly it came back in a flood, i could remember him leaning against the post watching us draw and everything…
i am almost certain i have even seen drawings that had him in them and i need to get around to going through my stack… if i get to it and find any, i will scan them and post a follow up to this… and, i even swear i remember a photo with him in it… i think it had both him and melissa (the “caricature groupie”) in it.. i can see it so clearly in my mind…
it is a small, small world indeed…
so, anyway, there are pics of him in this set as well…
moving right along – march had A LOT of disc golf played, and i ended up with 64 pics and vids just from that, so, i put them all in their own folder… but, i also had another reason to put them in their own folder…
i have been loving JAlbum for months and the BluPlusPlus skin, but, there was still a feature of it i had not tried yet, and that is audio commentary, which they call voice annotation… so, chris and i sat down and did commentary for all 27 videos and a few pics…
it was a lot of fun and very cool, BUT, i have to make it very clear that it was an experiment…
and it did not turn out exactly perfect…
for one, there is A LOT of skipping… see, we used the windows voice recorder (meh, i was in a hurry and just wanted to try it all out) and it limits recordings to 60 seconds unless you click the timeline bar thingy… but, what we did not realize when we were recording was that when you click it, it makes the recording stutter… some of the recordings came out really stuttery, but, we decided to use them anyway… also, sometimes we were asleep at the switch and it ran out while we were still talking, so, you will get a couple that just cut off in the middle of a sentence…
on the technical/implementation side, there are also some issues… a major one is that the sound file plays before the video starts playing… very bad… my advice for getting the best experience is to pause the sound file and wait for the vid to load… on that note, the vid does not loop… so, again, the best experience is to probably just keep hitting play on the vid to keep it looping… i originally created this album with the vids converted to avi format and they not only looped, but they played full screen on my secondary monitor… however, they also randomly crashed both firefox and i.e., so, i re-created the album with the original quicktime format vids…
before i go any further let me say it nice and loud:
IF YOU ARE ON DIAL-UP YOU SHOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY AVOID THE DISC GOLF FOLDER!!!!!
the vids are already pretty big and the sound files are pretty big, too, and they both stream, so, if you aren’t on a high-speed connection, you will probably get exasperated pretty quickly…
(btw, things being how they are in this album, i have also disabled the slideshow mode…)
ok, a couple more technical notes about it… we originally had sound issues… the file was rolling, but, there was no sound… this happened to me on firefox and those who use internet explorer (*spits*)… however, all i had to do was change my speaker settings from 5.1 to stereo and it works just fine… but, everyone can do me a favor… if you go and view this album and have no sound, please leave a comment here on the post and let me know what browser you use and any other info that might be useful… i may or may not do this audio commentary thing again in the future and would like to know what i am up against… as it is, it came out really rough… not to mention that, as far as content goes, you’ve got two guys on a couch making jokes to each other that probably no one else will get and the albums may or may not even be worth checking out for every one else just to listen to these two bozos amusing themselves…
hey, it was all just something to try out… we had fun 😛
if you want to view some “real” disc golf videos, try this google search…
and, before i leave the subject, there are plenty more disc golf pics and vids already taken (some with chris’s cam, which has much better video and has sound!) and many more to come, i’m sure… between me, gabe, chris, scott (and nathan!) and the rest, we’ve been getting in two or three after-work games during the week at vista hills and then big games saturdays at ladera (i was there EIGHT hours yesterday! and two shifts of opponents!) and more and more people keep agreeing to meet up with us, so, this whole thing is snowballing and i cannot let all this happen with my camera sitting at home 🙂
alright, anyway, that is about it, i think… badly written post, but, the album has actually been there for a couple of days and i needed to get this post out of the way before the week started, so, that was the quick version 😛
i had mentioned wanting to have a continually updated photo album, rather than having a new one every month and i still have not decided if i wantr to do that or not yet, but, i am considering uploading pics to my flickr photostream throughout the month, so, if you haven’t yet, and you are interested, you might go subscribe to the rss feed for it… if you have no idea what “subscribe to an rss feed” means, shame on you 😛
the link to my photostream is up at the top of my sidebar under “my stuff”…