You’ve seen them on my Flickr, but you must see my puppies in real time in order to appreciate their goofiness. I present my first video of them…acting…rather strange. (Just to set this up, Autumn is our female who appears to be attempting to assert dominance over Orion, our male.) I know they didn’t actually do anything, but I’m quite paranoid because we had an…ehm…incident with the two of them the first (and only) time she went into heat. Literally days before we had her spayed. So yeah, I’m always paranoid!

• dogswillbedogs.mov - (28.6 MB; I’m not sure why my .mov files are so large, maybe because I save them with best quality?) I hope I don’t have any technical difficulties like I did with my first video! You not only get to see my puppies, but you also get to hear my commentary. My voice sounds so weird played back. It doesn’t sound that way in my head!

Amy, I hope this one plays for you!

(btw, sorry if some previous posts are showing up again in your feed reader; I was editing the HTML, and WordPress is pinging every time I update. )

[tags]dogs, pets, video[/tags]

Posted: May 18th, 2006 under Filmmaker.
Comments: 3

kc had a really cool idea when she filmed herself knitting, so I’ve done it too. Here are two (the second one got eaten, sorry!) is one short clip:

• startinghedera.mov - here you get to see me knitting (English style, aka the “throw” method) a third of a round on my second Hedera sock. At some points it looks like I’m knitting kind of fast, and that’s because I chose the easiest part of the pattern repeat to film, hehe. The talking you here in the background is Christine’s Pointy Sticks podcast. And if you get bored, you can always stare at my stash in the background.

ok, I think I fixed my technical difficulties! The new file is semi-large (24.5 MB?), but hopefully it will play this time. Let me know if it still won’t play. Here is an alternate file; the same movie, but compressed. Less quality, but faster to download. phew!

[tags]knitting, video, hedera[/tags]

Posted: May 13th, 2006 under Filmmaker, Knitting.
Comments: 14