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One of the things that excited Kate most about coming here was the idea of learning to garden, to have her own vegetable patch.
The topsoil here isn't so good, and would need more added - and it was important to Katie that she should do it all herself. And she was 7 months pregnant, so didn't feel much like digging and turning a big bed. So she built a raised bed.
She used the shipping boxes from our move as a base (they'll rot away), then covered that with compost and cut grass left by the previous owners of our house.
Then she bought organic soil and manure in big plastic bags - not the greenest solution - but hey, you gotta start somewhere.
Turns out she's got green fingers.
The RyanIsHungry.com video that Katie mentions is here:
http://ryanishungry.com/2007/12/29/food-not-lawns-no-lawn-left-behind/
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“This was a discount store,
Now it’s turned into a cornfield”
But lumière videos are silent, and I’m a big fan of videos with natural soundtrack.
Like Ryanne (and Jay)’s films, cut simply together, each clip with its natural background hum. There’s something very moving about the short rhythmic pulse of these sounds and images together.
I shot this one as a lumière, but it’d be half as good without its natural soundtrack. So I’m calling this a ’son et lumiere’ 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_et_lumière_(show)
(I used to love these, before irony)
Shot with the in-camera ‘Color Accent’ setting on the Canon IXUS 860, which allows you to sample a colour and turn everything else black and white.
30 second lumière
it's been almost too hot and sunny at the Vancouver Island Music Fest. the Puntledge River, which runs through the woods next to the festival grounds, draws as big a crowd as some of the stages.
Formats available:MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv), Cellphone - via Ovi (.3gp)
Shot with the in-camera time-lapse setting on the Canon IXUS 860.
Music:
Roadrunner, by Gurdonark, via NegativeSoundInstitute.com
out for an evening bike ride with amy.
glad i took my phone out with me, for the first time in a long time.
a.c.a.c.
I realised… it’s not clear… these are strawberries, dipped in chocolate, filled with ice cream. I love pregnancy.
I just watched three videos by Jen Proctor, Cheryl Colan and David Howell, and realised that I should really stop worrying about finding time to cut all this stuff I’ve been shooting. Nothing is too small. Moments are MacGuffins.
My favourite video anarchists at Wreck & Salvage have started the Mix & Match remix/mashup Group on Vimeo.
They’ve started by posting a track by Kevin Bewersdorf: “I’m Bruce Willis”. Great track - funny stuff - full of lines referencing Die Hard in silly ways.
“You can’t stop me / Roof of Nakatomi / People say they know me but those people don’t know me
I roll up in that limo / Kill all of them Euros
In that ventilation shaft shoot out that window…
I’m Bruce and yer nothin’!”
So I thought I’d get the ball rolling this morning, and knocked something up in 45 mins before breakfast - laying the track down over some scenes of Bruce singing in Moonlighting. Some tweaking, but serendipity did the rest.
You can watch it at:
vimeo.com/groups/mix/
And have a go yourselves. Mix anything. Or just post about other people’s work. I just posted links to two exceptional remixes about war that I saw today:
Robert Croma’s “Rules of Engagement”
and Loiez’s “Shame”
