Make Your Own Video » videoblog

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:25 10.5MB) The Yahoo Videoblogging Group’s “30 videos by 30 Vloggers in 30 Day” Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. I was intrigued by all the chopping ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 02:12 13.7MB) On Wednesday evening I joined a group from the IET and took a special tour of the East Anglian Film Archive. This is a fascinating place, filled with hundreds of thousands of films and tapes ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:29 9.7MB) At the start of VloMo ‘08 I honestly did not think I would make it. Now I am really “chuffed” to have got to the end having posted a new video every day for a whole month. I have ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:19 9.7MB) After leaving Vancouver we picked up our RV (camper van) and headed north into the mountains. At home we barely even have hills, so this was an exciting (if rattle-clattery) adventure all of its own. ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:41 9.8MB) While I did not manage to fit in any time to record and edit yesterday’s post the evening before (as I have often done this month), I did decide what I would do for today’s video, and ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 00:53 5.2MB) I didn’t manage to work on video stuff last night, so here is a quick piece from this morning.

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 02:12 16MB) Margaret and I got married in August 1995. Our recent trip to Canada was a kind of honeymoon, and brought back memories of what it had been like thirteen years before. For this video I delved right ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:13 8.2MB) This is probably the last Vancouver video for a while. It’s from our last day in BC. We were a little sad because we had dropped off the camper van which had been our home for ten days, and ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:50 11.2MB) Another tiny slice of Canada. This time a trip up Grouse Mountain, Vancouver’s nearest and most popular recreation peak. You can walk up if you really want to (some people even run), but we ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:10 6.3MB) Yesterday we had the first tentative snow flurries of the winter. At the same petrol prices are the lowest they have been in years, so while ate my lunch I sat and watched drivers queuing for fuel in ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:09 6.9MB) This year we spent most of August travelling around Canada, I took a lot of photos and video, so don’t be surprised if some of our experiences appear here Our first stop was Vancouver, and ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 00:54 5.3MB) Yesterday lunchtime I found two of my colleagues enjoying their sandwiches while cooling down after a run. For no obvious reason, they wanted to tell me all about bread!

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 00:47 2.2MB) I was doing something or other in my home office back in June 2006, when I noticed that some unexpected object on my windowsill was casting a beautiful rainbow right across the ceiling. I recorded a ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:11 8.7MB) In May 2006 we were staying for a few days in Norfolk. One rainy day we took a trip out to see the otters at the nearby Otter Trust. It was a fun day despite the poor weather - the otters were cute ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 00:31 2.4MB) I’m having a lot of fun digging around my various hard drives and tapes looking for inspiration about what to post as a videoblog. This one is very short, but it made me smile when I found ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:12 8.8MB) At the start of the month we went to visit Margaret’s parents in the midlands. As is traditional at this time of year we went to see the Walsall Illuminations. The weather was pretty bad this ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:35 11.6MB) A bit of speeded-up demolition fun. Before I left to take all that wood to the landfill, Margaret reminded me that we have some friends with a wood-burning stove who would probably appreciate it. So ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 03:33 20.9MB) Every morning at work I make myself a pot of green tea. The hot and tasty beverage is a great start to my working day. During the day I top up the pot with fresh boiled water, and usually get five ...

Click the image to play the video: (WMV 01:07 6.8MB) Today’s video is a collection of fragments which I recorded yesterday (2008-11-13). A little bit of my drive to work; A colleague goes to investigate a strange patch of unlikely ...