Video Blog

My friend Rafael and I have been trying to put together this video blog thing. I haven’t had much to write about these past few weeks so I thought I’d enlist his help to liven up the blog. He is my ChrisKwanziKah partner and he cracks me up. So I thought it would be fun to do a regular video blog with him to make things a little more exciting here on the blog for you, the home viewer.

I had this idea quite some time ago.

I went over to his house one time and we set up the camera and turned it on, only to find that we only had about 10 minutes of battery time left. With our rambling asses we barely get our names out in 10 minutes. So that one didn’t go so well. Then this weekend we tried another one. I recently got my fancy camera back and I figured why not shoot with it. It’s a ridiculously expensive camera to be using on a video blog, but currently the camera isn’t being used, so why not. But now I can’t get the video from the camera onto my computer. Who even knows if the footage is decent, we shot it out by Rafael’s apartment’s pool. His two girls and one of their friends and my dog were coming in and out of the shot the entire time. The only really entertaining part is when I dive towards the camera anytime a kid or the dog comes near it.

We might have to shoot again, this time on a crappy little minidv cam, because at least I know that will work. Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out if this fancy camera is worth holding onto at all or if it might be time to try to sell it and make some of my money back. It’s a great camera, but I just know it’s going to end up sitting here unused while my bank account screams out for replenishment. It’s either the camera or my kidney. But if I went with the kidney then I could use the camera to document that and I’d end up with a hell of a movie...

So in short, I have no video blog to offer you. I’m hoping tomorrow someone smarter than me will tell me how to get the video from the camera to the computer. Or maybe we’ll just have to shoot a third edition of the vlog. You know what they say about the third time its charms...