The temperature a few days ago was -5 to 15, today it almost got to 32 before the sun went down. As I walked home from work I could *smell* things, like vegitation. When it’s reall cold out smells are fewer. When I got home the bushes smelled pretty bad…
Diana contaced me about a video project. Not shooting new materials, but taking MiniDV, Digital-8 and Hi-8 tapes and putting them on to DVDs. She also has some stuff from previous concerts at the Echo Center that she wants to make into a presentation video for display at the new performance area at Echo.
Bow hired me again to shoot the concert for his new CD EDEN. I hired Finn and he suggested a third helper, a guy named Cal from Monkton. Each of us brought a primary camera and a still camera that can shoot video, and Finn brought his Steadicam. Bow had a dress rehearsal before the […]
Mom’s 1996 pathfinder is not enjoying Vermont winters. Oh, it starts OK, that is when the starter finally engages. But the exhaust manifold gasket leak is really loud because the cold has contracted the metal parts more than usual, the shift button is sticky and doesn’t want to depress properly, and the tires really aren’t […]
I finally figured out what is up with the fiber optic lights. I couldn’t find my ammeter jumper, so I made one from one of my old extension cords that needed to have it’s ends reset because the neoprene jacket was cracking. I plugged a 100watt light into this and plugged the extension cord into […]
Errol has been saying ‘Buttcrack’ now for months. It is his favorite epithet.
Olivia and Errol playing:
Olivia: (deep voice) Luke, I am your father.
Errol: NOOOOOOOoooooooooooo – Buttcrack!
Yes, one cylinder is 60 pounds…
I did a compression check on the red volvo using dad’s old meter. I got 130, 90, 130, 90, 60. That’s not good.
Took Audrey to Kadesha’s on my way back to Norwich. She hasn’t seen Kd in months. I took out the whole fiber-optic projector pan and shook it and tested it, and it was fine. I wrapped some tape around the leads, just to make sure. Not friction tape, unfortunately, regular e-tape. Re-installed the pan at […]
Carefully gathered everything up, remembered my light meter and the lamp slide for the fiber optic projector and headed to Norwich. I forgot how humid they keep the place. It was like the ‘oven effect’, but with moisture. I and the outside world are so dry, but the 65% (or so) humidity was palpable. I […]
Today is the last warm (40˚) day. In the afternoon I went to work on it. I figure I’ll take out the sparkplugs and at least start there. But the 850 has a plastic cover over the spark plugs and injection system. I went to take it off and two bolts stripped out. I went […]
I went to start the Volvo and it cranked a couple of turns, but when it went to start, it sort of chuffed. Ever since then when I crank the starter it sounds like two or three cylinders isn’t firing. Crank it long enough and it really almost wants to catch, but it never can. […]
I was working on Jerry Hall’s home movies last night. The 50′ reels, one after the other. I remember my HD camera has a DV/FireWire port. Sure enough, I can siphon off a 4:3 DV stream. Instead of taking 36 hours to crunch the 6000 feet because I shot it in HDV onto the cards, […]
Last Thursday I was contemplating the procurement of rent when I received a phone call from Gerry Hall of Hall’s Market. He wanted to get some home movies onto DVD before Christmas. His 1900 feet of Regular and Super-8 film is exactly the rent. How cool is that? Now there’s finishing Bow, editing Acheson, the […]
It’s that time of year, the annual pilgrimage to Bristol for Hildgund’s amazing Thanksgiving feast. Dad got solar panels installed out by the barn. 215 watts, 1.1 amps per panel and there are 15 panels. We went and watched his power meter spinning in reverse. About as fast as it would spin forward, so wow. […]
