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Suicide Dive

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I must be on a stupid kick today.

You’ve got to see this video- it’s only 10 seconds long and it’s not in English so don’t worry if your sound isn’t turned on:



It’s gotta be some kind of contest, but I can’t figure out what they are trying to win, most elaborate funeral perhaps? They are actually rating the dives!

I don’t know how high the cliff is, but it must be a couple hundred feet wouldn’t you say? The diver looks like he’s landing on sandy ground. What could be the point of doing this other than as I said to get an elaborate funeral or into the Guinness book of records for stupidest stunt?

When I saw the beginning of this video I thought it was going to be a cliff dive into water.

I remember when I was very little there used to be a show on TV that broadcast an annual cliff diving competition. I can’t remember where it was but Hawaii comes to mind. The show was just a vague memory until I saw the beginning of this video and it all came back to me.





I could get addicted to these videos

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As you’ve probably noticed I’ve made a few videos of my own that I’ve posted to the site lately – well Wednesday and Thursday. Did you see them? If you didn’t you should check out my turtle race video – you can see my turtles and hear my voice if you do. Sorry I didn’t make an appearance in that one. Maybe next time. Maybe.

‘ve been using my digital camera to make the videos. It’s really easy. I just make the video, upload it onto my computer, then I open up Windows movie maker import the video into it, do a bit of editing and ta da! I can upload it to youtube for all to see. I can’t do this as easily with any videos that I’ve made with my cellphone. It saves the videos into a format with the extension 3gp. Windows Movie maker doesn’t accept that file type. I have to use another program to convert it to avi first. It’s a pain in the ass.

This is opening up new possibilities for me know that I know how easy it is to make videos. Stay tuned you might start to see some crazy stuff here. LOL

Oh and if anyone knows of any easy to use programs that convert 3gp video to avi or mpeg I’d love to hear about it. Thanks.

I’m a video Spazoid!

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Speaking of Spaz, I just made a cute little video for one of my favorite companies. In fact, you too could get paid to make videos for certain companies. I had so much fun doing this one.

I wanted to do something a little different for the video, so I set my two box turtles up to have a race in the kitchen. Watch the video to see how well the race went and who won. LOL



Well we had fun doing that and that’s what counts in the end right? 🙂

This is my ride

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Have you heard of Pinks? It has apparently become the most watched weekly series on SPEED. Pinks has been called “the hottest car show on Television” with over 2 million visitors each week.

Pinks sets up Drag Racing matches in the setting of a 1950’s drag race. Contestants drag race to win the best 3 out of 5 races. The loser gets the “pink” slip. They’re casting for season four of the program now – so if you’d like to find out if you are the best drag racer in a competition go to the site and sign up. Maybe they’ll pick you for an episode.

If you love watching drag racing check out the Pinks Marathon on www.speedtv.com Nov 23, 2006. I haven’t seen the show yet but it sounds like an interesting concept. If you are a drag racing fan you should check it out.

Here’s my ride. Sorry it’s a bit dark, I took the video at 5 p.m. and it starts to get dark here at that time.



Yeah, it’s just a Ford Contour with major muffler and manifold problems. It’s not all that fast but with the muffler problem it certainly sounds like a drag racing car.

Here’s another video featuring our Contour. Chris and I got to drive on the Molson Indy race track here in Toronto when they were setting it up. This video isn’t very good because I took it with my new cell phone and then mucked up the editing. But you’ll get the idea if you watch it. Oh and I sound like I’m snapping at Chris at the beginning of the video- I wasn’t. He’d just told me to turn the camera on and I already had, my voice sounds loud and tinny since it was so close to the microphone around that time.



Dove ad Evolution

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Have you seen the short film put out by Dove for their Campaign for real beauty? If you haven’t you really should watch this 1 minute video.

A woman goes through having her face and hair done up for a photo shoot for an ad.

Near the end of the film, once she’s all made up and looking beautiful- going from no make up and being an average looking woman to a beautifully glamorous woman – you see her photo on a computer screen being adjusted for the ad. Her features are changed, some times very slightly, others dramatically using photoshop.

The whole point of this film is to show that none of the photos of beautiful models, actresses or actors that we see in magazines are real. They don’t look like that in real life. No one does!

Watch this very short film and tell me how you feel after seeing it:




How do you feel about your favorite magazines now?

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