Category Archives: Video and Photography

Posts about Video and Photographic challenges. May include Graphic Design.

Live More Lightly_Green 365@VCC

I had so much fun doing the Live More Lightly Workshop at Vancouver Community College! Many thanks to staff and student assistants who were very supportive. I was able to give away a handout of an excerpt from my upcoming book, the “Live More Lightly Songbook and Workshop Guide”. The book contains a chapter giving [...]
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International Womens Day 2009

Last year I was so excited to be going to Bellingham, USA for the Watcom County International Women’s Day Celebration. Womens_Day_Song08 This truly was an International Women’s Day for me! One of the best parts was marching through the streets chanting. In Vancouver, I had always had to be setting up and getting ready for when everyone arrived, [...]
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Photography Made Clearer

Using the CanonS2 is very different from the CanonA80 as the greater number of pixels and better zoom lens mean I have a better chance of taking a good photo. The feel of the camera is another factor and the fact that I look through the viewfinder instead of the flip out screen. I [...]
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ManDido Morris – Master Drummer

Sometimes it is easy to forget that my friends are pillars of the Vancouver music community and have worked with and recorded with international music stars.  As I work on their computers, jam with them or trade jibes about our love life — or lack of that sort of attraction — these magical musicians are [...]
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Hitachi Blu-Ray Camcorder — Frustration

Still no video to post to the site, sorry. I have been getting to know the lovely folks at Hitachi customer support really well. Usually meeting new people can be a rewarding experience, but I am really getting worn down by this continued effort to resolve my problem. The very helpful customer support at Hitachi gave me [...]
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Time Investment

A new year and I have been thinking about one of the great topics of my life — time. These ideas may be totally obvious to everyone else, but I like to analyze and explain my perceptions. This is off topic for this blog, but indulge me this once, please. Perception of Time Passage It seems to me [...]
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Motivation and Project Management

In the depths of an snow fall that is very unusual for Vancouver, I am continuing to work on the Live More Lightly Project. The blog is more than a year old now and significant progress has been made on developing the project. This posting is a status update.
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Blu-ray Camcorder Purchased

After all of my painstaking research I went and bought the new kid on the block, the new Hitachi Blu-ray DZ-BD7H high definition video camera.
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Bringing the World Together

I attended a workshop on grant writing yesterday and I realized I have to be able to convey the idea behind my whole project more clearly. So I am going to post some other projects that I have been paying attention to that have had some impact on the world. Where the Hell is Matt?” When my [...]
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November in the Rain

Vancouver has settled into the “rainy with cloudy periods” weather pattern that will sustain until the spring. On November 13th my motorcycle insurance expires and the Big Bike goes into the carport for a long nap. Meanwhile, I have engine bars and a carry rack coming from Renntec Motorcycle Accessories and I am still trying [...]
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