If you missed it - I'm not quite sure how that could have happened considering the video was everywhere - be sure to check out part 1 of my awesome three part Video Tour of the "New Moon" filming locations; a little project I took part in for Movie Set.

In this episode, we get a look at the theatres and the location where the break-up scene was filmed. And because I'm so awesome, you also get my very, very bad Kristen Stewart impersenation. As I explained to Dana (aka Robsessed83), at least I had a moment with Edward. And it was captured on film. Enjoy.

I spent the better part of the night trying to get some video off of my phone, a Sony Ericsson W819i. I finally had to resort to tracking down the USB cable that goes with the phone, downloading the software and trying to navigate through a load of folders but I was successful. What I uploaded you ask? A very poor quality video, also from Saturday.

I'll have to see if I can figure out how to increase the quality of the video, if at all possible. We'll see how that goes.

Now, then I tried to set up the built in calendar with Goosync which is a service that syncs your Google calendar with nearly every phone...for free! The result was NOT good. I tried doing a manual set-up which also didn't go well. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to re-attempt a one-click set-up. Hopefully that will run a little more smoothly.

Also on the docket for tomorrow: trying to talk to Rogers about upgrading to an N95. I'll keep you posted on the ongoing drama.

It was an odd, if busy weekend. Dad decided the time was ripe for installing hardwood int he front room which meant a lot of prep work on Friday night/Saturday morning but he did finish with enough time left for us to re-organize the room before guests started arriving.

Mom and dad decided to have a small BBQ to celebrate 30 years of marriage - talk about low key. So while dad installed hardwood, mom and I cooked like worker bees prepping all the goodies for consumption. Between the cooking, moving everything back into the living room and getting ready for people to arrive, I didn't have much to eat during the day. No problem except that once sis arrived, it turned into a drink fest. No crazy drinking but enough to make me a bit tipsy and overly happy. Here are a few highlights from the evening:

S practices his lift with my little sis.


Sis playing it up. "This is my supermodel pose."


"I've got one too..." [I sense a little Zoolander action here...]


Gosh, little sis is adorable!


I fall into a laughing fit.


Cuz looking suave.
By this point, I was pretty beat and I'm not quite sure who took this video but it's a bit of fun...if only because my hair isn't as crazy as I thought it was. Plus, you see me dance, if you can really call it that...


An explanation on the video. The truncated voices are those of moi and dad. We're listening to Fado and dad thinks its Amalia and I am explaining that it's actually Mariza. And you can't see it but in the background, I'm showing dad my Zune with the album cover as proof.

I thought I'd clear that up 'cause, you know, you might care.

Common Craft to the rescue:

Now that you know what that's all about, be sure to check out our podcast!

Thanks to John Bollwitt for the heads up!

You know that New Kids on The Today Show bit I mentioned the other day? The YouTube gods spoke and the video is up. I'm a bit disappointed, mostly because I'd expected a longer segment and maybe a little singing but I'm not surprised that didn't happen, especially considering the endlessly screaming fans. You can barely hear anything over the screaming. What struck me most is that as the camera panned over the crowd, I noticed that only a handful of people looked old enough to remember the NKotB first hand. I feel a bit old after seeing that. Check out the video:

Poking around I also found this People.com clip which was kind of fun:


Looking forward to hearing some new material!

Sometime back I discovered that my little camera actually records some pretty decent video. Nothing spectacular but it does the job of capturing the moment and the microphone is pretty decent considering we're talking about a fairly middle-of-the-road digital camera. I've taken a couple of short little movies and done nothing with them but today, I happened to have an SD nearby with a video clip along with some spare time so I thought I'd check out the services at blip.tv which I discovered at NV.

It's nothing spectacular (Colleen and I talking about the weather and getting up early) but it's fun. At this point, I'll also direct your attention to my Flickr set with a bunch of pictures from NV including the shot of the North Vancouver sunrise which is pictured above. I must admit, I'm quite impressed by how beautiful that looks.

Yesterday was the date of our Public Information Meeting in which we introduced the neighbours to the Tower 3 and the commercial space of our project. Much better turn out this time around and now that people have seen the shopping, the consensus is that the City of NW needs the project to revitalize the downtown core. It went very well with positive feedback all around. We were looking out the window and the project and I don't think anyone quite realizes the height of these things. We're already 10 stories up - but that's all parking. The 26 (or whatever it is...not quite sure) stories of suites are still to come.

I had to work until 6 but on the plus side, the boss lady decided that I didn't have to stay and at 5:40 she took me home. I think she just wanted to get out of there and to be honest, I can't blame her - some strange folk showed up.

I spent the rest of the evening watching hockey and editing audio for our next podcast. I plan to just add some finishing stuff tonight and then it'll be ready to go live!

At the show on Tuesday, I put the video aspect of my new camera to the test. I managed to record two short videos before security asked me to stop: "Pictures are OK but no videotaping please!" I complied. I've uploaded both videos to Google video (since they have a larger limit on the video size) and I must say, they're not too bad. The second one is better than the first but, you can enjoy either/or/neither.

And I couldn't be happier. Seriously.

It's been a nasty week full of nasty projects but it's almost over! I can hardly wait to go home after class tonight knowing that there's an extra day of rest in the calendar for me. Lots of work to keep me busy but darn it! I'm going to make the best of the darn thing.

Nothing else to really talk about except that I walking into a cloud of pot smoke this morning and it's starting to make me a little sleepy. I'm such a lightweight when it comes to that stuff.

Instead of just posting the song of the day, I thought I'd post the video considering that it's a GREAT video. For a while this was one of my favourite songs and though it's been replaced by others, it's still great. Sad part is that at some point I read an article where Trent mentioned he didn't like this one because it was done at a time when he was heavily into drugs and alcohol. Either way, I like it. Enjoy.

Oh, and for those of you who are taking the weekend and heading away from technology, have a fantastic time!

Just got home from a little party with mom and dad.

It was fairly good. Food was mediocre at best but the dancing was fun.

Here's a little clip I capture with my fancy new toy (my other camera died - suddenly - yesterday). This is a local folk group from an area of Portugal called Pico (actually an island).