Recently I dragged Dora out in the cold to shoot a short film with our new Lubitel 2 camera. It didn’t turn out quite the way I was planning. But it turned out nonetheless.
Tag: Life
Snow Day
For one of my classes I am taking this semester I had to put together a 2 minute montage video. Normally I really hate cold weather but love seeing beautiful photographs of snowy scenes. So on Saturday morning I woke up early and captured some footage and a few still photographs as well. Then I gathered up some older footage and put together this little video. I’m still trying to warm up from all that cold weather.
2012 Annual Report
Last year I discovered Nicholas Felton’s personal infographics. You can read all about that in my 2011 Annual Report blog post. Since then I have been tracking a few things about me throughout the year.
It is very interesting to look back and see a brief data set about my life and compare it to the previous year. It has been fun working on this and seeing that somehow I watched exactly 100 movies (including repeats) and exactly 100 different eating locations (includes picnics, restaurants and other’s homes). Click here to view the PDF version so you can actually read it.
Sledding
Yesterday my nieces and nephews braved the cold weather and went sledding. The fact that we couldn’t find any sleds didn’t stop them. They made use of Grandma and Grandpa’s snowshovels instead.
La Lasagna
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. While this video has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, it is full of food. Lasagna to be exact. For quite some time now, Dora has wanted me to make a cooking video for her. Almost like a video recipe card. So this is not a traditional cooking video that you would see on the food network or something. This is just a quick glimpse of the ingredients and process of making a lasagna with fresh pasta. I hope you enjoy the video, I know I enjoyed the lasagna.
Italy 2012 – Venice
We hadn’t originally planned on visiting Venice during this trip to Italy. But long story short, we had to change our flight home from Rome to Venice. So we hopped on a train and made our way north. We only spent one night there and I wanted to see as much as possible in that one night. So we wondered the streets late at night. Unfortunately Dora got a bit scared of our late night stroll.
Italy 2012 – Rome
We had a few days in Rome, the eternal city, to explore. We packed so many different things into those few days, it was no wonder we were so tired when we finally got home. One random little highlight in Rome was that our hotel window overlooked Piazza Navona. This was my first time in Rome with a nice view out my hotel window. The funny thing is, I didn’t realize until we got home that I never even took a picture out the window…oh well.
Italy 2012 – Florence
Florence is amazing. This is the heart of the Renaissance and the locals are very proud of their place in history. I think it is just amazing that you can go to Florence and practically turn back time and imagine things the way they were 500 years ago. You can see the work of all the ninja turtles all around. This is one place that always seems to fascinate me.
Italy 2012 – Siena
After our stay in Catania we took a night train to Florence then another down to Siena. I really like it there. It’s cool to see how everything in the city is built with the same burnt siena clay. I think it’s really quite beautiful. It’s also fun to go to the main piazza known as “Il Campo” and imagine the horse races that go on there.
Italy 2012 – Catania
While in Sicily we were able to visit Catania. Another of my favorites. I know, I have a lot of favorites. While there we had a chance to visit both the fish market and open market. We also had a chance to see some people I knew from when I lived there and eat at my favorite pizza place in the world. And the visit to Catania would not have been complete without a Sunday evening stroll down Via Etnea from Villa Bellini to Piazza D’uomo. Just like the locals do every week.
