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Susan Boyle

Claude — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:36:41 +0000

What I love about this video that I got through Chanteuse on Plurk (thanks Chanteuse) is how because Susan is neither young nor pretty, the judges AND the audience all think she can’t have talent.

Susan Boyle

This is an extract of Britain’s got talent, which, I guess is the equivalent of American Idol.
We have the equivalent here in France, but I can’t remember what it’s called.
If the video doesn’t show, please click the link to see it directly from YouTube Sorry! Had forgotten to post the link

Posted in Vlogging Tagged: Britain's got talent, great voice, Susan Boyle, youth and beauty vs talent

Extreme Shepherding

Claude — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:56:42 +0000

If you haven’t come across this yet, you’ll want to watch it. It’s called Extreme Sheep LED Art, but I thought that it as also a bit of extreme shepherding

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Via ChanteuseClassique and Myrgrim on Plurk

Posted in Vlogging Tagged: fun, LED, sheep, shepherds, video, YouTube

They’re gone

Claude — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:28:59 +0000

and a lot of them almost felt like they were part of my life. Like Paul Newman…

2009 Academy Awards In Memoriam

Posted in Vlogging Tagged: actors, cinema, dead, directors, In Memoriam, technicians

Language learning?

Claude — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:18:36 +0000

I can’t resist sharing this with you!

Good dog!

Thanks to Curiouskiwi on Plurk

Posted in Blogs and blogging, Vlogging Tagged: barking, dog, I love you, language, learning

Feeding the gulls

Claude — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:54:24 +0000

I took the underground from my place to Hôtel de Ville and walked back in two stretches.
On the way back to Montparnasse, I stopped on a bridge and briefly filmed this old lady feeding the gulls!

I think she saw me and didn’t mind being filmed

Posted in Vlogging Tagged: feeding, flickr, gulls, video

Quilters at work

Claude — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:33:46 +0000

Just to keep you posted on the things I do and that keep me away from my blogs..
As I’ve mentioned before, my friend Fazou is a great quilter and has been part of a quilters’ association for some years now. I started taking photos at the meetings and last Thursday, I filmed a few clips with my darling Flip Video. stitched them together with iMovie and here’s the result.

Sonata No. 10 In C Major, K. 330 – III. Allegretto by W. A. Mozart, performed by Vadim Chaimovich

For better viewing, let the clip completely load first, and then watch it.
And no worry, flickr doesn’t allow more than 90 seconds’ videos, which I find perfect.
Not time to get bored

Time flies!

Claude — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:43:24 +0000

It can’t be the first time I entitle a post ‘Time flies’. Well, the older I get, the more I feel it. Is it because I am slower, or because I like taking up new things with new toys?
Is it the (almost) daily exercise? It might be a bit of all these things put together.
I just realised that I still have photographs that I took last summer in Manchester, and that I haven’t processed, sorted out or uploaded yet.
And there’s this new toy I got that takes up a lot of my time.

My brand new Flip Ultra Video

and the time it takes to process the video clips I take with it
So of course, I try to combine everything together,

All set to do Word Time 6 and bike at the same time

Or I walk and use my Flip while walking.

Because of flickr video feature, I have gone through the photos I have accumulated through the years and fished out a few clips that I took with my video camera and am trying to tame iMovie to edit them and upload them.
Like this one I took last September with my Lumix FZ8, when I went to Chaumont sur Loire with my friend Sarah.

In a hammock with Sarah*

I have no idea where my second foot had disappeared, but I swear it was there.
So between one thing and another, I just don’t have much time for blogging, although I am also posting once a week at ElderExercise.
I do try to read blogs as much as I can, but that’s still not much! Sorry about this.

* The music is an extract of Franz Schubert’s Sonata in B flat performed by David H. Porter, copyright free music (public domain music).

Fun and silly!

Claude — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:09:50 +0000

or should it be silly but fun?
Leo Reynolds found a new flickr group called Word Time, in which once a week, a new list of words comes out and you read them in front of your camera. The idea is to hear people throughout the world pronounce the same words with a different accent.

The words were: because, drawer, radiator, garage, aluminum, Subaru, New Zealand, herb, oregano, route.
One of my friends saw it and asked me what the point was.
Good question! There is no point really, I guess, but I think it’s fun!
So I did it, and before I knew it, it had been blogged at Flickr Blog.
Have to get ready for Week 2…

Black and white beauties

Claude — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:46:37 +0000

I found this clip on a French blog, le blog de l’alsacienne rose, and thought you might like it. It reminds me a bit of another one I posted on my French blog

For a list of the movie stars shown in the clip, go to L’Alsacienne Rose. You don’t need to understand French

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Happy birthday, Millie!

Claude — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:30:34 +0000

Today, Millie Garfield at My Mom’s Blog turns 82! Go and wish her a happy birthday!

In case you have problems viewing this on this page, you can try to see it on Blip.tv

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