#i also took this on my handycam!

[zanderism]

good boy | daniels, wv

#zander’s photos #my neighbor's dog! i assume he's for hunting since he's out there like that #i also took this on my handycam! #southern gothic #handycam #appalachian gothic #rural gothic #regional gothic #hunting dog #southern west virginia #west virginia #forest #woods

[carlotaflaneur]

#6 november 2023

THERE'S THIS RUSH I'M IN IT MOVES TOO FAST FOR ME

hooooOooooooOooola :-)

how's life ? I'm going through of those periods in which everything feels hard to process and I feel like life is living ME, instead of me living it.

This past weeks Carlota + the flâneurs have been in Alicante, Castelló and Roses, and it's been beautiful !

In Alicante we played in a fairly big concert hall; it wasn't crowded so the feeling from stage was that the room was empty... BUT those who came payed such close attention, that the atmosphere was full of bliss when we finished playing. I met a guy (his name is Andrei) who had been googling what to do in Alicante and he'd found my gig, listened to my songs and decided to come over. The ticket was 15€ and he also bought the vinyl (18€). Now that's investment and trust in Carlota Flâneur !!! Andrei, you can't imagine how much I needed that, you lifted my mood and I'll be forever thankful !!!

We shared the evening with a band called Viscopaf, and the singer's dad also bought my album. He told me: I'm a big fan of Ferran Palau and a while ago I saw him live and it blew my mind, but I have to tell you that your live set has been even more impressive, but don't tell him !!!! hahahahah I believe ferran is not subscribed to my newsletter so all good, we won't tell him hahah

october 2023 – drinking water in Alicante (screenshot from Benja's footage)

Talking to the audience after a gig is what makes the whole "being on the road" thing really worth it. The day after playing in Alicante I had the pleasure to play in Alcoi on my own, at a little festival called "wow festival". I woke up in Alicante super early, and I had a horrible time because I had to take a taxi to the bus station and there were NO taxis ! I stood in the dark for more than 15 minutes and none came. I was so hopeless I began running (guitar, pedalboard, luggage in my hands & back) to the bus station, and then I saw the Alcoi bus standing by a traffic light. The driver told me I didn't need to go all the way to the bus station, I could reach the second station of the line, which was two minutes on foot away. I just had to walk straight to Avenida Salamanca and stand in front of the Lorca Café. I did so !!! It was still dark and I was already sweaty. At the bus stop I met this man who told me he was "el minutero de alicante", I got so moved by his story that I gave him a cd as a gift.

Going to Alcoi was super worth it, because everyone took such good care of me at the festival !!! They prepared vegan beef stew and I was given a really cute souvenir: a wooden spoon that has "alcoi octubre 2023" on it <3

Right after my gig in Alcoi, a woman came and bought my cd and I told her: I'm so sorry my songs are in english, maybe you didn't understand !!! and she said: you have the most beautiful melodies I've heard in a while, your music in english has really moved me !!! you can imagine the happiness spreading within my body after hearing that. Since I had to travel mostly on my own, I didn't bring a lot of merch with me, and I sold all of the vinyls !! some people that wanted the vinyl had to buy a cd instead.

Some days after the trip, I received a wetransfer from Benja Fernández who had recorded us with his handycam in Alicante :-) I guess I'll use some bits for promoting my upcoming gigs, but I felt like sharing the whole video with you, exactly how I received it. In the description you have the timing of the concert ! Borja recorded most of the songs we played. I LOVE having this material... Jordi Paula & Marcel look beautiful.

LASTLY I need to share with you L'ESMORZAR with Núria Graham. It's in catalan but you can find some interviews she's given in english as well. Talking to Núria is really inspiring to me... not only because I've followed her career and I admire her and I am in love with her work... also because she has a vision on music & creativity that gives me peace and hope. Lately (though I try not to think too much about it) numbers and the pressure of being active on social media are making me feel stressed out. And talking to Núria has reminded me of the real thing, the reason why I write songs. Thank you Núria u the best :-)

Carlota

[sgt-paul]

Here’s what happened. I had fallen in love with my lady, Nancy, but we weren’t an item yet. We went on holiday to Morocco, to a quiet little hotel I knew, but we didn’t stay together in the same room. Nancy got a room and I had a room, and my brother Mike and his wife, who were on holiday with us, also had a room. But it rained the whole bloody time, and we had paid all this money to come away to this paradise, and we might as well have stayed in Manchester! The rain was relentless, but we had a great time, and the lovely thing was that I was getting to know Nancy, as you do in that kind of situation. I kept apologising to her for the rain, like it was my fault. I said, ‘I’m really sorry, darling, about all this rain.’ And she said, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ And that attitude was so sweet that it really resonated with me. I thought, ‘That’s great.’

There was a pianist in the foyer of the hotel where we were staying, and every evening we would go down there and have drinks and listen to a guy playing a few tunes. He was an old Irish military man who had hung out in Morocco for one reason or another — we don’t even dare dream about why — but he was a great guy. He was particularly good on the piano, and he played just like my dad, all the old songs, so they were songs that took me back. We really enjoyed that, and he’d do requests and then we’d go and have dinner. The piano was sitting in the foyer all day long, and because the rain would not stop, I sometimes went and just noodled on the keys. It was just like the cupboard I always like to write in. I was just noodling, and although I didn’t know it at the time, I think I was influenced by him, the restaurant pianist, and perhaps even by my dad too, as I was going in a sort of old-fashioned direction with my chords. And it was Valentine’s Day. 

I thought, as I often do when I’ve come up with something good, ‘How the hell am I going to remember this?’ So I raced to my room and got my Handycam – this was before iPhones, but I did have a little camera – and I just set it up on the piano and sang the song, so at least I’d have the soundtrack to remind me.It was all very romantic. I was thinking all sorts of loving thoughts towards Nancy, and while I was at the piano, I could see that the waiters who were clearing up were listening. You can tell when someone’s got half an ear on you, even when they’re pretending just to do their work. But it was nice and romantic, it was a perfect moment, and I thought to myself, we’re not going to stay in separate rooms tonight.

I’ve always really liked that attitude: Don’t worry; it’s gonna be alright. ‘As days and nights / Would pass me by / I’d tell myself that I was waiting for a sign’. This is my life’s philosophy, and this is what happened before I met Nancy; I would always be thinking, ‘I’m gonna see something that’s gonna say, “Oh, this is the woman for you.”’ I had just been in Paris for my daughter Stella’s fashion show, and I’d bought a pink outfit in a shop window, thinking, “This’ll be for my next woman,” and I ended up giving it to Nancy. I knew from very early on that my relationship with Nancy was going to last, but we had to keep it under cover, at least for a while. I’m always having to look over my shoulder for paparazzi, so we’d go to things and Nancy would have to keep out of the way. We just wanted to announce ourselves as an item in our own way at our own pace, but they always catch you out. They always end up outing you. You’ll be on a Mediterranean beach, holding hands on one of those innocently beautiful spring days and thinking, ‘This is so good, nobody around for miles.’ And the next day you’ll look online and see yourselves caught on the beach in the most unflattering pose.

If you had to say one word about her, it’s that she’s real. I have a beautiful picture of when we went to the White House. It’s of Nancy and me talking to Barack and Michelle Obama, and we’re laughing at something the president said, and Nancy is paying such attention. She’s a great person. She’s multifaceted. She ran a trucking company, so there’s that side to her, which is very blue collar-esque. Nancy’s got that super-practical administrative side; she’s very interesting to talk to about things. She’s a sweetie — really, as the song says, “My valentine”. The phrase “for life” in this song is something Nancy picked up on. We know the painter Ed Ruscha, who often uses lettering in his pictures, so she asked him whether he would do a picture for my birthday. It’s one of Ed’s most beautiful pictures, and it just says, “For life”.

Paul talking about the song ‘My Valentine’  –  extracted from The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present; published in the Times.

#old paul #grandpaul #nancy shevell #*m #q #:) #'I thought to myself we’re not going to stay in separate rooms tonight' am i reading a romantic novel or #❤️ #lyrics: book

[formfeeding-blog]

Battery Hens – F*** Things (Music Video)

Music video I made for my band Battery Hens inspired by the science fiction and horror genres from 1950s B Movies to 1980s slashers.I took inspiration from the DIY approach of Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze with the pastiche/parody videos of the Beastie Boys being a key influence. I also took influence from the videos for Thriller, Victory and November Rain all of which use narrative to create videos with cinematic aspirations.

Shot using a Sony Handycam and two portable LED lights. Edited on Adobe Premiere Pro. Likes: 0 Viewed:

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[academersatz]

Tyrärock 25 - A documentary of rock n’ roll, warm beer and slamdancing children

Last weekend, I attended, performed and shot footage of Tyrärock, a small rock festival held at the Suutarinkylä schoolhouse, a few kilometers outside of potato capital of the world, Tyrnävä, Finland.

my god, it’s full of potatoes

In addition to many photos of endless potato fields, I shot a lot of footage of the groups and bands and solo performers (including myself), and I edited it all together in a short 23 minute documentary to celebrate the festival’s 25th anniversary. The video is below, and if you’re interested in how I put it together, all that information follows. If not, enjoy the video and let me know what you think.

Video production notes:

The video was shot primarily with two cameras, a Sony HDR-SR11 Handycam and a Nikon D3300 DSLR. I also shot a little footage and took some photos with my OnePlus 3 (mainly because it can shoot in super HQ 4K). I recorded the second and third song of each performance with the Sony atop a tripod, trying to find a sweet spot to shoot the whole thing. Because the size of the bands changed, and people weren’t always standing in the same spot, I figured a “whole stage” video would be a nice baseline video, from which I could add in complementary footage shot from the Nikon and the OnePlus. 

Not an ideal camera placement

I showed up to the festival hours and hours early with all the gear necessary to record the whole night’s performances straight from the mixer to my computer. However, the sound engineer told me that was unnecessary as he was multitrack recording everything. The next morning, he told me he had been too busy to record. So the sound in this video comes from two sources: the Handycam onboard microphone (which produced a lot of noise when the wind was blowing), and a cheap dynamic microphone I used when shooting the interviews. 

The final song played in the video is not actually from Tyrärock, because all the songs played in the All-Night Jam Band were covers, and I didn’t want to step on any legal toes. I used a Creative Commons song by the Catnips that I found on Archive.org, and then I added in some reverb and processing to make it sound more like the live performances.

I cheated a little on my own performance. 

I couldn’t hear the guitar on stage, not well anyway, and I wasn’t super-confident that anyone in the audience was hearing my guitar either. The video shot of that performance confirmed my fears. My wife told me that you could hear the guitar, until I started caterwauling up there. So I dubbed a recording of me playing along with myself, just to make the guitar stand out more against my voice. But it’s not like I’m up there playing Yngwie Malmsteen; they’re mostly open chords.

I had a little trouble with the editing, because my performance was chopped up into a bunch of videos (I played early in the day, and my assistant wasn’t paying attention when I told him NOT to do that.) 

“Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

But also, I didn’t have time to man two cameras, so the Handycam was on full auto most of the time, and I’m not the world’s greatest cameraman, so I got some bad footage with the Nikon. The OnePlus, however, shot pretty great-looking video all the time. 

The biggest headache for me was the titles. I haven’t done many titles in the past, but the contrast of colors and movement of the video made any captions or titles really hard to see, and I didn’t want to spend 100 years figuring out how to do it beautifully on Premiere Pro, so I just blurred the background and put white text over it. It works here, but next time, I’m coming prepared.

A final note on the name of the production “company.” 

Like the poor bastards responsible for Boaty McBoatface, I appealed to the Internet for the best name, and once I read “Your Mom is a Space Hooker,” I couldn’t get it out of my head. I don’t know if I’ll make more videos under that production name, but I love it.

If you have any questions, comments or legal documents to deliver, feel free to contact me here, on Facebook, or YouTube. 

#tyrarock #tyrärock #documentary #25 years #25 #video #video editing #rock festival #rockfest #rock n roll #stoner metal #acoustic rock #unplugged #your mom is a space hooker #thanks art for the title

[kansascityhappenings]

Patrolling sidelines and working from the pressbox, Belton manager helps football team improve

BELTON, Mo. — Teams without determination don’t win high school football games.

Even diehard fans of the Belton Pirate football team (0-2) know you have to work hard to find a spot on the team. When one of Belton’s best asked to join, coaches say they knew they had someone special.

“They tossed the ball to Bart, and then, Bart threw it,” Jon Coots could be heard whispering as he worked on Wednesday.

It’s not a long pass, but a long lens, that helps Coots, a high school junior, flex his football muscles. He’s worked as a team manager at Belton High School for two years, using his Sony handycam to record every practice and game.

“My second semester of my eighth grade year, I asked one of the coaches if they needed a manager,” Coots said.

Two years later, Jon is still at work with his camera, working both sidelines and the pressbox. Pirate players learn from the video Jon generates, as coaches use his work to help players improve.

“If they didn’t have me to film, they wouldn’t have anything to see,” Coots said.

When you see Jon, you also see his wheelchair. Coots was born with an advanced form of spina bifida, which leaves him dependent on his wheels or crutches to get around. Jon explains that his back didn’t completely close while he was in the womb, leaving him unable to walk without extreme pain.

However, Coots is anything but weak. Earlier in 2017, Coots left his wheelchair and took on a weight bench, competing against able-bodied athletes, setting a national high school bench press record in his weight class, lifting 187 pounds for Belton’s weightlifting team.

“It’s probably just the rush I get when I beat my goal. It’s all that adrenaline,” Coots said.

His Pirate teammates stand in awe of Jon’s strength, including the muscle that comes from within.

“He’s always positive. He’s never saying anything negative. He always has a smile on his face, and everyone seems to love to talk to him,” Bart Harris, Belton starting quarterback, told FOX 4 News.

“Filming and being able to evaluate film in practice is invaluable as a coach. It’s a part of our process and part of our getting better. Him not being here would be a disadvantage to us,” Todd Vaughn, Belton’s fifth-year head coach, said.

“I just tell them, ‘Treat me the same as you would anyone else’,” Coots said. “I still have to work for stuff.”

Jon’s journey continues next week as he’ll have the latest of many surgeries to remove scar tissue from around his spine. Coots says he’s having the procedure to help ease pressure on his back, which could help him walk more freely. Coots was on the sideline for Friday’s game at Liberty High School, as Belton lost to Liberty 43-17.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/25/patrolling-sidelines-and-working-from-the-pressbox-belton-manager-helps-football-team-improve/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/patrolling-sidelines-and-working-from-the-pressbox-belton-manager-helps-football-team-improve/

[rebeccahpedersen]

“What If The Whole World Worked The Same As The Toronto Real Estate Industry”

TorontoRealtyBlog

I am absolutely shocked at how slow the market is right now, both in terms of the number of sales, but also new listings.

There’s “nothing out there,” as we continuously say, while hundreds of properties sit on the market, and as we marvel when a hot new listing does hit the open market, albeit mistakenly, in my opinion, since every active buyer has his or her head in the sand.  Wait until after Labour Day, the consensus says.

In any event, we’ll get back to business next week on TRB, but as I soak in the last few days of the Idaho sun, have a gander at my last two videos from my 2015 series with the objectionably-long title.

As I mentioned in Monday’s blog, we actually filmed “The Discount Agent” about eight months previous, but it looked like a couple of eighth-graders filmed it on their handycam, circa 1996.

Another problem I was having early on was that I was asking people around my office to act in my videos (my assistant, my administrator, the part-timers…), and the results were awful.

Enter, Jared.  A guy that randomly showed up to play an extra during the “Real Estate Seminar” video, and who I knew we’d ask to be in our next video.

I know many home-owners, and some of you reading this right now, might see value in listing your home with a discount agent, and saving money on commission.

I don’t blame you.  It’s hard to turn down a $10,000 or $40,000 discount, and if I tell you, “As one of the top 100 out of 50,000 GTA Realtors, I’ll make you that money back, in quadruplicate,” there’s only so many ways I can try to quantify that.

But I’ve seen, first-hand, how awful the part-time, fly-by-night agents can be, and how quickly they’ll sell out their clients (it’s always fun going up against them when I’m on the buy side…), and so I once again thought I’d use the lowest-common-denominator approach in a video, and compare hiring a discount real estate agent, to hiring a discount laser eye surgeon.

I figured that a home is the largest sale the average person will ever make, and eyesight is probably the most important part of a person on which they can have elective surgery.

This is the longest of all my videos in this series at over five minutes, but I had fun with it, and Jared was hilarious.  Here’s the result:

  In the fall of 2015, a lot of my buyers were caught off-guard by how quickly the market was moving.

The spring of 2015, and summer of 2015, were hot, but not insane.

Once the fall market hit, all hell broke loose, and buyers who wanted to “wait until it’s convenient” to see a property were constantly getting left behind.

So once again, I asked myself, “What if the whole world worked the same way as the Toronto real estate market?”

With properties selling in the proverbial blink of an eye, what if I showcased a series of every-day occurrences, happening with the same speed?

I took some heat for this online (who doesn’t?) with the market bears saying I was force-feeding, fear-mongering, and causing mania.  But in reality, I was really just trying to tell people, who didn’t know, or wouldn’t listen, how quickly the market was moving.

Here’s the result:

Okay, that’s it for me, folks!

Back in the office on Saturday, back to work on Monday.

I don’t expect much to happen in the market until Tuesday, September 6th, although I did see a couple of hot new listings in the past couple days, and for the life of me, I don’t know why the sellers are choosing to list now.

Anyways, I’ll be back with some new posts next week.

Ask your dinner date or golf partner this weekend: should Glen Abbey be designated “historical,” or should we allow houses to be built on the land to help with our growing housing crisis in the Golden Horseshoe?

I guess you already know how I’d answer.

Have a great weekend!

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[jalexartis]

They also like my earlier pictures of the church. Today, I took many foreground shots and kept 43 of them to merge with eclipse pictures. Here are a few…

I will probably use my Sony HandyCam to retain perspective for post-eclipse blending.

Photography ~ Planning2–08/21 Solar Eclipse, 08/14 They also like my earlier pictures of the church. Today, I took many foreground shots and kept 43 of them to merge with eclipse pictures. Here are a few... I will probably use my Sony HandyCam to retain perspective for post-eclipse blending.

#eclipse #First Presbyterian #lighting #moon #sun

[rebeccahpedersen]

“What If The Whole World Worked The Same As The Toronto Real Estate Industry”

TorontoRealtyBlog

I am absolutely shocked at how slow the market is right now, both in terms of the number of sales, but also new listings.

There’s “nothing out there,” as we continuously say, while hundreds of properties sit on the market, and as we marvel when a hot new listing does hit the open market, albeit mistakenly, in my opinion, since every active buyer has his or her head in the sand.  Wait until after Labour Day, the consensus says.

In any event, we’ll get back to business next week on TRB, but as I soak in the last few days of the Idaho sun, have a gander at my last two videos from my 2015 series with the objectionably-long title.

As I mentioned in Monday’s blog, we actually filmed “The Discount Agent” about eight months previous, but it looked like a couple of eighth-graders filmed it on their handycam, circa 1996.

Another problem I was having early on was that I was asking people around my office to act in my videos (my assistant, my administrator, the part-timers…), and the results were awful.

Enter, Jared.  A guy that randomly showed up to play an extra during the “Real Estate Seminar” video, and who I knew we’d ask to be in our next video.

I know many home-owners, and some of you reading this right now, might see value in listing your home with a discount agent, and saving money on commission.

I don’t blame you.  It’s hard to turn down a $10,000 or $40,000 discount, and if I tell you, “As one of the top 100 out of 50,000 GTA Realtors, I’ll make you that money back, in quadruplicate,” there’s only so many ways I can try to quantify that.

But I’ve seen, first-hand, how awful the part-time, fly-by-night agents can be, and how quickly they’ll sell out their clients (it’s always fun going up against them when I’m on the buy side…), and so I once again thought I’d use the lowest-common-denominator approach in a video, and compare hiring a discount real estate agent, to hiring a discount laser eye surgeon.

I figured that a home is the largest sale the average person will ever make, and eyesight is probably the most important part of a person on which they can have elective surgery.

This is the longest of all my videos in this series at over five minutes, but I had fun with it, and Jared was hilarious.  Here’s the result:

  In the fall of 2015, a lot of my buyers were caught off-guard by how quickly the market was moving.

The spring of 2015, and summer of 2015, were hot, but not insane.

Once the fall market hit, all hell broke loose, and buyers who wanted to “wait until it’s convenient” to see a property were constantly getting left behind.

So once again, I asked myself, “What if the whole world worked the same way as the Toronto real estate market?”

With properties selling in the proverbial blink of an eye, what if I showcased a series of every-day occurrences, happening with the same speed?

I took some heat for this online (who doesn’t?) with the market bears saying I was force-feeding, fear-mongering, and causing mania.  But in reality, I was really just trying to tell people, who didn’t know, or wouldn’t listen, how quickly the market was moving.

Here’s the result:

Okay, that’s it for me, folks!

Back in the office on Saturday, back to work on Monday.

I don’t expect much to happen in the market until Tuesday, September 6th, although I did see a couple of hot new listings in the past couple days, and for the life of me, I don’t know why the sellers are choosing to list now.

Anyways, I’ll be back with some new posts next week.

Ask your dinner date or golf partner this weekend: should Glen Abbey be designated “historical,” or should we allow houses to be built on the land to help with our growing housing crisis in the Golden Horseshoe?

I guess you already know how I’d answer.

Have a great weekend!

The post “What If The Whole World Worked The Same As The Toronto Real Estate Industry” appeared first on Toronto Real Estate Property Sales & Investments | Toronto Realty Blog by David Fleming.

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