Now Playing: "National Treasure" - another 10 for $25. DVD from the pawnshop. Great movie !
Current Mood : Happily surprised and a little day-dreamy.
Not a lot going on today, either - Dearest Son's got a stripped throat and some coughing, so we kept him home from school. Poor sweetie !
Did four loads of laundry, and got the most recent fabric washed and dried. The laundry basket I emptied for all the new stuff is nearly overflowing. I'm hoping to get a little sewing in this weekend, before I have to start the shoe pincushions. Those have to be done and ready-to-go by noon on 20 Dec. So if I do two a day, I should finish in plenty of time. Made one today, carefully noting directions and measurements. While I've made about a dozen of these at one time or another, I've never written down anything. Today's went OK, but not stellar. Need to tweak the pattern a bit.
I've been toying with the idea of doing some doll videos. Not sure why, but heck, when ya got as many dolls and props - and that magnificent dollhouse Beloved Hubby's making me for Christmas - as I do, ya kinda wanna do something neat with ‘em. Beloved's been wanting to do a few things with his hobbies on tape, too. Camcorders are pretty cheap new or used...the pawnshop we buy DVDs from had about 50, with prices ranging from $60. to $300. We saw new no-name ones at Kohl's (when we were getting Elphie and Fiyero's sweaters) for $129. So we've both been thinking about it.
We had one, bought waaay back in '00, but never used it. And it's long gone. So while the interest is there, at least temporarily, we don't have the cash or the guarantee of continuing interest to buy one. I mean, I already have enough hobby stuff to take me into 2050 without a camcorder ! And you know me, it may be a passing fancy I intend to try, but end up chickening out when rubber = road. I'd hate to shell $200. for another one, just to have it sit around and make me feel guilty.
That's when Beloved remembered that our big-ticket family gift for ourselves last year was that super-nice Fuji digital camera I use for all the photos here. I'd broken our '02 Olympus digital a few months prior. Olympus still mostly works, so Dearest uses it to take his own photos, mostly of toys and himself. Anyway, we studied long and hard before investing $200. into a replacement camera, and the Fuji had all we wanted. And it has a camcorder function !
Cool ! With the memory chip we have, it can record up to 20 minutes of top-grade 640x480, twice that in 320x240. We can playback in either camera (battery sapper !) or the computer, to save the batteries. So we tested it out, and it's really very nice ! I've used camcorders that were far less steady than this camera. It's kind of fun to have your own digital ‘confession booth' that you can watch and laugh over - then delete !
So, as it turns out, we already have a camcorder ! And if I don't ever do a doll movie, that's fine, ‘cause I certainly use the camera enough already ! (smile) According to legend (and imdb.com), Mystery Science Theater 3000 classic "Manos : The Hands of Fate" was filmed with a hand-held camera that only held 32 seconds of film at a time. With no sound. Whole thing was edited and spliced and dubbed. I now have more filmmaking capability in my chubby little grasp than many theatrical films out the year I was born. Or even just 20 years ago.
Now, what to do besides rant about Book Fair volunteers with all this power...
