15 posts tagged “polyak”
- Four jobs I have had in my life: dishwasher/waiter at Bakers Square, desk clerk at U of Iowa Main Library, social worker for adult physically/mentally disabled, employment opportunity community liaison for adult mentally ill
- Four movies I've watched more than once: it happened one night, fast times at ridemont high, office space, casablanca
- Four Places I have lived: in a room with my two brothers, in an apartment with my dad, UK married student housing, a Fraternity room dubbed "second dorm"
- Four T.V. Shows that I watch: heroes, lost, dancing with the stars, rocketboom
- Four places I have been: 60 feet below water, at the top of the eiffel tower, in carnegie-mellon's robotics lab, right field as a little leaguer
- Four people who e-mail me (regularly): apple marketers, viagra salespeople, automated software agents, coworkers
- Four Favorite Foods: amy's trudy's lasagne, falbos pizza, sushi, beers
- Four Places I would like to visit: my bed, a rainforest, a ridiculuously steep french mountain on a bike (e.g. alpe d'huez) , my great grandkids home
- Things I am looking forward to in the coming year: a new president , ice-free bike commutes, the end of days http://the-end.com , a potential trip to Mumbai
thanksgiving 2007 pictures...
ouch, that was a painful game to be at...
On Thursday, I am participating in "Jumpstart's Read for the Record"
http://www1.pearsonfoundation.org/
http://www.readfortherecord.org/
Basically that just means that I am going to Joe's preschool class to read "The Story of Ferdinand". It is an interesting book about a bull and nonviolent conflict resolution. Some interesting facts: Hitler ordered this book to be burned and Ghandi called it his "favorite book".
As I am also working on improving my video editing skills, I thought it would be fun to turn this into a mini video project as well. The idea was to do one of those "blue/green screen effects" (chroma key) to replace a background. I was also interested in trying to manage multiple video layers at the same time, so I made a little PBS-style book reading. disclaimer: This is not my "best" reading of it and my pronunciation is wrong on the Spanish terms. My reading of this is wildly cheesy as well (i must have been in a weird mood when I captured this video). I made some mistakes with the audio levels on the soundtrack (i meant for the background music that i put together to be much louder and my voice, softer... maybe i'll go back and fix that.) Anywhoo, if you have time (and the patience) I hope you enjoy "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf (as read by Steve Polyak).
FWIW, it was mostly done by remixing the content available from:
http://www.funbrain.com/books/thestoryofferdinand/thestoryofferdinand.html
You can read the book there yourself or with others as well.
a little video set from our trip to the wisconsin dells 2007.
here is my latest edit session with the Oregon family video, pics...
...and so another year slips by.
on the Oregon coast...
