Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Old Film Digitized

Here is some old Super8 film (family home movies) from 1992 that we paid to have converted to a HD computer format. I think the quality is pretty good. I did have some trouble getting the audio in sync however.


UPDATE:

I changed the brightness/contrast of the video and zoomed in a little bit so hopefully now you can see people's faces better.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Six upcoming videos

Since I don't update this blog very often (and neither does Heather) I went through my last tape from our camcorder and extracted 8 clips of stuff that I think will be fun to put on here. I have so far posted 2 of those 8 clips and I will post one every week (on Sunday) so that there will be fresh content on this blog for a while.

So now it is safe to check this blog weekly for new stuff (at least for the next 6 weeks hehehe).

July 4th Video

I'm a little late getting these videos up, but better late than never!

Here is our Fourth of July party for 2009.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Journey to the Jetty!

From a comment I posted on the deseret news (who recently ran an article about the Spiral Jetty).

"My wife and I tried to visit the Jetty in 2004 but ended up being fooled by the "fake" oil-drilling jetty. We took lots of pictures and I left confused and confounded about how the jetty we found did not resemble the ones in the pictures.

Then this year (2009) I again started reading about the spiral jetty and came across something that said that there was another misleading jetty nearby. And I thought "I wonder if we went to the wrong one?" So I pulled up google maps looked at the satellite view of the jetty, and scrolled over a bit and lo and behold, I found the other jetty that we had seen!

So naturally, I _had_ to go back and see the real one. So my wife and I and our two kids (which hadn't been born yet in 2004) all made the day-long trek from West Jordan (2 hours each way, I estimate, which isn't bad). We got video and pictures of the whole thing. Unfortunately, the water level was very low, so the jetty was completely "dry" which was a bit disappointing. Ah well, good times!"