I've been shooting some new videos with my iPod touch. Using eht regualr camera on it led to some really pretty decent videos. I was estatic. It also made uploading a breeze. One of the issues that I've had with my Everio is trying to figure out which video format do I save in? I really don't want to mess around with that, I want to add a few titles, trim the crap off and upload it. Easy.

The iPod with out iMovie won't let me edit or add titles. It's a one shot video and then upload. I could upload to yutube and use their editor. But I don't want to put stuff up love and then worry that I'll have an embarassing moment of picking my nose or swearing visible. iMovie was $4.99 and well worth the $5.

One thing that I noticed is that it takes more than double the amount of time to load to YouTube as the plain uploader. So what I've learned to do is export to the "camera roll" on my iPod and then upload to YouTube. Much faster. The iCamera app will also let you load directly to vimeo as well, which is nice.

Anyway, check out my videos on youtube:

I used this journal for NaNoJouMo 2009. You'll recognize a lot of the images from my other YouTube videos.

I worked on this journal through the winter of 2010. It was where I decided I really needed to record my daily life. The journal itself was a college admissions catalog from years ago that was designed to look like the standard black sketchbook of the time. I glued together pages and slapped in a lot of personal ephemera and layers a great deal of pain over the top of that. It was  a lot of fun. I did a lot of Ustream videos featuring this journal.

I took a break from a lot of online stuff ove rhte last 6 months or so. I realized I hadn't done a video in over a year. Holy smokes that's a long time. So I did a quick flip through of ONE of my current art journals and I'm loading a few more now. See it below.

I've gotten a lot of quesions on my new video asking "What is the cult of stuff?" The best explanation is to direct you to the rant here, start on part 1 and work your way through. I'm planning a series of posts about how I've integrated the CoS philosophy into my art journaling habit.

Eveline pointed this little video out to me this AM, and it's a good video showing the WIDE range of techniques one can use to customize cases to make watercolor travel sets. Now… I need to get my hands on some empty pans…

I’ve been testing out some apps to see how useful they are for composing posts and zine blurbs and so far the one I like the most is, believe it or not, Microsoft OneNote. Shocking. But it let’s me add photos to my writing with ease and it auto backs up to an online folder as well as my computer if I want. Unlike the stupid typepad app that won’t autorotate the onscreen keyboard for entries OneNote let’s me do that. (and then I can copy and paste into typepad.)

Go figure, Microsoft does something right!

So, I suppose now would be a good time to tell you about my latest project…. But Imma leave you hanging for another few days. A hint though, it involves the iPoo, writing, photos, and art journaling.

Also the photo in the post was taken with the iPoo and edited with instagram and camera+.

I had the greatest intentions of posting some pics of my painting in progress, a Hopper inspired view of Super Chicken, whichyou can see in black and white in the photo below. I'm combining on site (in situ) viewing as well as photographic reference for the painting.

However. I worked on the painting diligently for a weekend, went to Maine the following weekend (I'm an Aunt!) and now I've been sick and this weekend I'll be at a funeral. So, painting and updates wait.

Woprk has been interesting. People come into my office and start to talk, their eyes narrow, they say, "Are your allergies bugging you or are you sick?" I tell them I'm sick and they slowly start to back away from my office door. It has greatly decreased the real actual work that is occuring. Additionally my voice has that smokey husky quality that Pheobe in Friends had in that episode where she sang, "Smelly Cat," and people really liked her music until she got better. I still can't sing but these are the kinds of things that I think of when I'm on DayQuill. People, it's not good.

Anyway, Super Chicken…

On another note, can I stop hacking and sneezing and oozing from my sinuses? Just for a few weeks so I can ()**&^^&%&*(^(*&(*_ enjoy fall, after all it IS my favorite season.