All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from
a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.~ Eckhart Tolle
It's been about 36 hours since we got home and I'm just opening my Gmail email and that's only on the urging of my eldest son who transferred money to me from an eBay sale in order to pay part of his "rent."
Yay.
I like the quote above as the idea of a "a place of no-mind" is really appealing to me, atm.
I dunno--could be the state of the house, the pile of laundry, or the dog vomit on the duvet but I wouldn't mind being in that place right now...
Okay enough about me, how 'bout some pretty scenery?
September 1, 2007, 7:30 a.m. Apologies for the initial stomach churning qualities of this.
I know this is going to sound shocking but I have never made a video with my camera and in fact have not shot video of any kind in about twelve years. Not shocking? Huh. ;)
I've purposely stayed with still pictures because I wanted to 'get good' at taking them and the format appeals to me more--usually. But to get a little slice of the Lake for my parents, who were not able to go this year, I broke down and took a couple of short videos. "Not that bad," you say? ('Cept the audio--holy mackerel what's with that?) You should see the outtakes. lol.
The best video that I shot is of course messed up because in order to "crop" some extraneous um, stuff, I flipped the camera so it shot in "portrait" rather than "horizon."
Quelle horror!
Hey, why not just flip it like a picture...?
I'm jaded enough that once I saw that there was not quick and dirty explanation for doing this...I knew that I'd be in for hours of trying to figure it out. So I spent hours yesterday (in truth, after pulling an all-nighter coming home, I wasn't up for much else) searching for the answer. And in the end...I found that there exists no easy answer. Right now I have stashed away a rather mealy-mouthed suggestion of tip-toeing over to the dreaded Windows "help" area on their official site and following a long-winded step-by-step. OK. Maybe tomorrow. It is a very nice video though so I will get it "straightened out." Har.
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