The sounds of the sound of ….

I was so intrigued by a video that I saw on Youtube that it got my mind thinking about sampling… I’ve never given “video sampling” a go and put this together very quickly as an experiment. That’s all….

Video from our caravan holiday at Reighton Sands

I just got round to putting together a six minute film from our October holiday. Almost exclusively beach footage from the Filey and Bridlington coasts. Photos are here if you missed them.

A few of the 15 minutes of fame ticked off.

Part 1 – the video diary

Part 2 – the race

In a slightly odd and certainly unpredictable series of events, I had the enjoyable and very memorable experience working on a video diary with Sam Bailey of BBC’s Countryfile programme the other week. It was all strange in many ways – not least because I’ve worked for the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency for almost twelve years now and have been keen to promote my work on the programme, but when my turn came, it was because of a bike race!Most of the readers here will know of my obsession with the Three Peaks Cyclocross race, a long, hard, mountainous cycling race every September. Every training ride I do is taken over by thoughts of riding the Three Peaks, and part of my obsession has manifested itself in the race blog I keep. Anyway…. to cut a long story short, it’s because of the blog that, when the BBC heard about the race and were doing a feature on the area, they contacted me to do a video diary.I had a great day filming with them (the five hours or so was useful training and mind-preparation!), and the video diary and race were shown on 8th October. Click on the images to the left to watch the coverage, split into two episodes!

Slurping noodles and lounging on a mattress, aged two and a bit.

A ‘found’ video – found this footage and it had never been watched so a very quick editing job.  It proves how valuable video is when you’ve got children.  She’s at such a great age in this footage – a real person but so much less grown up than she is now – virtually double the age in this film.  Simple things in it just make Katie and I laugh.

Lily’s fourth birthday – film.

		Just finally got round to uploading the video of Lily’s fourth birthday party to youtube. It’s only four and a half minutes long but is a bit of fun with all her friends from Nursery etc.