No – it’s not the number of traffic accidents tomorrow which are caused as a side effect of Daylight Saving Time going into effect over most of the United States.
But that’s a good guess!
Category Archives: Video
Cloud Activity
I absolutely love the time lapse photography functions built into the iPhone. Add it to a rare day in LA where there’s a bit of weather moving through…
Now if I could just figure out how to get ride of the reflections off the inside of the windows. (There’s a “bar” across the top of the image about a fifth of the way down – that’s the top of the file cabinet the camera was tilted up against.)
Still, nice clouds. Next maybe some lightning? Please?
No Context For You – February 26th
Still here. Well, not here, but here.
Has anyone ever worked as a lifeguard? I’m seeing a meme going around on Twitter and FaceBook which says that a key rule (the first rule?) of being a lifeguard is to always remember that you have to save yourself in order to save anyone else.
It sounds kitschy and cliched, but it has enough of a ring of truth to it to make me wonder.
Any past or present Wendy Peffercorn types who can either confirm or deny?
Filed under Photography, Video
No Context For You – February 20th
Still here.
Three of the Labours of Hercules complete (more or less). More to start working on tomorrow.
The problem, unlike running a marathon, is that I’m not sure where the finish line is, how far away, or even if there *IS* a finish line.
That makes it all a bit more…challenging.
Filed under CAF, Photography, Video
No Context For You – February 15th (Video)
Shadows
And Haydn’s Piano Concerton In D Major, apparently.
Howling – The Video
Mondays are high on suckage. This morning, due a power outage overnight caused by the winds, the parking garage gate at work was working sporadically.
Of course, one of the sporads happened when I pulled up. Card was read, successful beep sound heard, reflexively started to pull forward – only to quickly realize that the gate hadn’t gone up. Stop, but now have to back up a couple of feet to reach the card reader again. Scan card again. Still no working gate. Punch the button to take a ticket. Nothing. Cars starting to honk behind me. (Only one gate into the stupid garage – lousy design!) Try the card again. Nada. Try the ticket thing again. Zippo. Now have probably a dozen cars behind me, impatient. One of the attendants sticks his head out to see what the honking’s about, pushes a button, the gate lifts. I stomp on the gas.
STILL IN REVERSE!
I still have good reflexes, apparently. No damage, but it was close.
With that disaster narrowly averted, here’s the video of yesterday’s winds that wouldn’t upload to save my life yesterday. (I’ve got a YouTube channel, let’s use it!)
Filed under Los Angeles, Video, Weather
Howling
As I said last night –
[this is where the video would go if it weren’t taking over ten minutes to load tonight when I really need to get to sleep]
A good day to invest in wind chimes and debris cleanup companies.
Do Yourself A Big Favor Today
Watch this video:
I do so dearly love Disturbed version of this song, and I’ve raved about their original video, which is spectacular. But their music and the accompanying video of our planet from space – I could just wallow in that combination of sounds and sights for hours.
Thank you, NASA Johnson! And Disturbed! And Paul Simon!
Looking For The Word…
…to describe the action of puckering your lips, blowing, emitting vowel-like sounds in your throat, all while simultaneously flicking your finger rapidly up & down across the lips to make “bur-burbeling” sounds.
You all know what I’m talking about. It’s a universal thing, we learn it as we’re pre-verbal infants, from the Australian outback to the strollers of Central Park. If you have no pride or self-respect and are willing to record yourself doing it and then putting that video clip out on the internet for all the world to see, it’s this:
For the record, Siri was no help, although she was hilarious. In particular, the first answer returned was profound!
So, that. THAT sound or noise or action or thing.
What’s that called?
Filed under Paul, Photography, Video
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 