Okay, I’ve seen some people who were really good at jumping rope. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a lot of people who were good at jumping rope doing it at the same time to music in a choreographed dance routine. If you aren’t hooked in the first minute, wait another and keep watching. This is pretty impressive.
You know there are times in your life where something happens and you really can’t control how or why it happens, but it leaves you feeling frustrated and powerless? Okay, I had an experience like that. I am a collector by nature. I keep lots of pictures on my hard drive. I know I shouldn’t but it just happens like that. Ultimately, I think they all need backed up somewhere online, but I haven’t figured out where yet. Well, after my son was born in January, I had tons of pictures laying around in various places on my computer. I had bought a one terabyte hard drive and decided to start using it as a backup. I backed up everything. You know the way you are supposed to. Then I deleted everything off my computer after verifying everything was backed up.
A Month goes by, quickly, I might add. A first time dad. I was working at Olan Mills at the time. I kept the external drive plugged in, thought, why not just use it as my “my documents” folder. Everything is backed up to it. It will keep my computer cleaner and save the extra step of backing up every time.
One night, returning home much intoxicated from one of my haunts about the town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence…. oh wait, that’s Edger Allen Poe’s story, not mine.
One night, returning home, we had just opened the door, when I heard something fall. It sounded heavy. One of our cats was sitting in the middle of the floor, poised, ready to strike, and beside him was my external hard drive. Being the curious animal he was, he had jumped up on my desk and knocked the hard drive to the floor. Since my computer and the hard drive were on, the hard drive began making clicking noises. I plugged it in. Nothing but clicks. Everything gone. I gave it up as a total loss. I got frustrated, loaded up a linux distro I had laying around and got the hard drive working, at least until I posted about it.
While backing everything up from the drive, it failed again. I was too frustrated to post again that the thing had failed… miserable and angry at the whole ordeal, I again gave it all up for loss. I had small images that I had posted when he was born. Those would have to do. Family started asking questions about getting larger images. I told them what had happened. Now it wasn’t just me, other people were ready to kill one of our cats.
I remembered something this morning when Animoto, sent out their newsletter. I had made a video with them and used higher quality images to make it than I have on my blog.
I emailed them this morning if I could get a download of those images.
They emailed back wanting the exact url for the video I had put together.
I emailed it to them.
They emailed back with an individual url for every picture I had uploaded to the video.
I have since downloaded them all and backed them all up online.
Thank You Animoto. I also really loved the slideshow I put together using your service.
The origins of the name “decloned” for this site in truth come from a song by Christian Artist Steve Taylor. I wonder if Steve still has that “On the Fritz” suit.
ASBO Jesus hit on the same topic today, so I thought I’d share the video to spur on the discussion.
1984 Concert
2003 Concert
This is more of a why does decloned even exist? type of podcast with an emphasis on the future of the site and cartoons.
You don’t have to watch. It’s even boring. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
by the way, this is a screenshot of the podcast rendering… aaaahhh ooooohh, yeah, I’m not impressed either.
When you are doing any amount of video editing, there is always that portion of time where you are waiting for the thing to render completely.
I guess you could view it as a time where you can get up, stretch, use the bathroom, get something to eat and maybe take a nap… because it’s almost impossible to do anything else on the computer while you are “rendering” cause you might throw off the processing.
Maybe I just need a better software for rendering video?
Back when I was in High School during my sophomore year, I was given a project to make a music video for a communications class. I chose this song and to pull clips from a movie called “The book of Matthew”. This song was originally recorded by Michael Card.
This was also a project that I worked on a lot with my dad. He’s been asking me to remake it for awhile now as the old VHS version was pretty bad. I could not find the video anymore, so I pulled my original and remastered the footage cutting out the places where the VHS tape had worn away and no longer tracked correctly.
I remixed the movie this evening into a new trailer as if Tim Burton had directed the movie “Happy Feet”. I hope you like it.
