Stop-Start Animation Video Project

About what, I am not sure, but I have made some in the past, and I think it would be fun to make another one.

Just a thought...

Flip cam test in class

Interviews, Asac 100, and my amazing opening credits!

Lack of Color: Photo Montage

I made this picture slideshow in high school, from 2007 to 2008.

 I went around my home town and school and took colorful pictures to oppose the theme of the song Lack of Color.

My goal was to show that there is color in the world, unlike the songs message. The song promotes the notion that when life goes downhill that colors escape from all things.

I hope to show that even when times are tough, that the world is still bright and hopeful.

Enjoy!

Here is the YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPQoK12Um8

Here is the Link to my YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhee

Carbon Leaf- The War Was In Color Photo and Video Montage

I have watched this video plenty of times in the past. Sometimes to listen to this non-album version of the song "The War Was In Color" by Carbon Leaf.

Nonetheless, I believe this is an interesting and creative way to make a multimedia slideshow, by combining photos and video from American wars with a modern, well written song about war.

Carbon Leaf is a great band and this is a great song! I love this video especially because this version of the song is not the album rendition of the song.

I hear more of the vocals than the interments, where in the album version the instruments are prominent. For the most part the photos and videos match the words of the song, so that we, the viewers are able to see and react to what is happening as the lyrics are being sung.

Great montage! Great Song!

Outrageous American Roadside Attractions

Here is the link:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45804220/?slide=1

This is a gallery of pictures of different roadside attractions across America. There is a description of the history of each place to the left of the photo.

I found this on CNBC and thought it would be fitting to put onto my commuting blog. The pictures are neat and interesting, and sometime hopefully in my life it would be cool to stop by some of these places!

Gizmodo The Gadget Guide

http://gizmodo.com/

Interestingly, Gizmodo has a similar layout to Jalopnik. Basically, the layout is identical. However Gizmodo features the latest in technology and science.

If you like keeping up with new, interesting, and/or bizarre scientific findings and technology, this might be a site worth checking out!

Jalopnik- Drive Free or Die Multimedia Example 1

http://jalopnik.com/

This blog is features the latest in interesting, bizarre, funny, and serious motor vehicle stories and news. The layout is very simple, but enjoyable to navigate through.

With many photo gallery categories, text, and videos all being posted every day, this site is very active

If you are a car fanatic check this site out! 

First Blog Critique

http://easyhiker.co.uk/

This blog is about a British man who hikes all around Europe. Unfortunately, I have not found his name on his blog.

I like this blog a lot because there are a lot of tabs to click on, to read information about his travels, and many beautiful photos to view showing us his surrounding when he hikes. Navigation around his blog is very simple.

Tabs are easy to read and find and each have straight forward titles. Headlines are bold and easy to read.

I like how there is a side bar with a list of recent posts, for there are a lot of posts per page, it is nice to see he wants his blog to be organized, for older posts could be easily buried.

It is clear this man is very passionate about hiking. There are 35 very content heavy pages of just his own posts, not including guest comments, videos, and descriptions of some of the countries where he has hiked.

Although he seems to stress that hiking is for beginners, and is easy to start, he seems very advanced.

Commute Slideshow

This is still a work in progress. I do not believe that too much of the audio will change, but there will some lower third CG's too accompany the pictures coming soon. But this is what I have for now. Enjoy!

Initially, my intention for this slideshow was to show how I prepare for my commute, getting into my car, driving off, the drive and arriving at school. As I started to work on that idea, I realized that I would not complete my vision that idea in the time which I had to work on this assignment.

So I came up with another idea. I would focus on two or three different, interesting places or buildings that I pass every morning, that would be fun and aesthetically interesting to take pictures of.

I decided that I would stop to take pictures of the Martin Bridge in Marshfield.

This bridge was built by Herman Townsend in 1890 for William Martin Jr. and his first son Harry Martin, who were successful Marshfield farmers. At 44 feet long, the bridge was built solely to provide agricultural access to the Martins' land on the far side of the Winooski River.

The Martin Bridge is the only original covered "farm" bridge left in Vermont.

The agricultural heritage of the Martin Bridge is evident in many ways. The distinctive tall and narrow shape of the bridge, as well as the unuaually short knee braces, is a result of the need to allow for the passage of horse drawn hay wagons piled high with loose hay. Another unique reminder of the long agricultural history of the bridge is the functional cattle gate attached to one of the queenposts.

It is one of the few local covered bridges that survived the famous state-wide flood of 1927 which destroyed over 1200 bridges throughout Vermont.

My next stop was Joe's Pond in West Danville.

Covering 393 acres it's maximum depth is about 100 feet. It is three miles long and at its widest, three-quarters of a mile across.

According to the Vermont Department of Water Resources, the "Joe's Pond Basin" was formed during the Pleistocene glaciations under stagnating ice conditions. Research shows it is likely that before this period, Joe's Pond did not exist and the stream flowed southwesterly to the Winooski Drainage Basin.

As the ice advanced, it scoured deeply into the basin, and stagnating ice blocked a spillway through the ridge where West Danville and the present outlet is now.

Del Amitri - Driving With The Brakes On

"And we might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would ever come, but she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on; When you're driving with the brakes on; when you're swimming with your boots on..."