I watched Sweeny Todd last night. Longest Cure video of all time. Robert Smith sounded better than ever.  ¶ 3:50 PM

  YouTube has gone widescreen, which kind of makes all my videos look worse than before. They need to have a replace video option like Vimeo so that many of us can replace the old 4:3 video for higher quality 16:9. Also, they need to up the video limit from 100 megs to at least 200 megs. My first attempts at widescreen video resulted in 104 meg video. YouTube also needs to have a How-To section like Vimeo that shows settings for Adobe Premiere and Final Cut.

Never the less, here's my first attempt. Yes, it's Sarah Palin as the Turkey Slayer. Audio is the band Slayer preforming "Raining Blood" live.



YouTube's version of HD. May have to let it buffer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvANjFeJAQ&fmt=22





YouTube's High Quality version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvANjFeJAQ&fmt=18



It's nice they are giving us more options, but they're not making it clear on how to use them. I had to use &fmt=22 at the end of links for the HD version. And to embed the HD video, I had to add &ap=%2526fmt%3D22 to the links and change the width and height to 635 by 380, which is a guess.  ¶ 5:21 PM

 
The Fire of November 9th, 2008 from A Musing Propaganda on Vimeo. Higher quality on Vimeo. Remember, vimeo.com/ampvideos for the A Musing Propaganda Channel.

There was a house fire not to far from my house early that night. I tried to shoot some video of it, but the smoke clouds were just too dark.

Then morning came. Just after half past six am, firetrucks went down again. I ran outside and shot this. Bare in mind, it was about 32 degrees, and I couldn't stop shaking. I had to use the auto stabilizer on the camera, which makes the video quality less while trying to hold the image still.

If you listen closely, you can hear the fire truck from a distance shift gears and rev up to provide pressure for the hoses.

That afternoon, I decided to drive down and check out the house. I pulled into their neighbors yard and stuck the camera out of the window and shot for about a minute before people started to come outside. I then threw it into reverse and quickly left.

I am very concerned about what is happening in the same area my town. I said it was the third fire in three months, and people tell me there have been more than that.

Source: MinDV 620 x 480i 24 fps exported to 720p HD, Quicktime MP4, H.264, 24 fps, Frame Distance 30, Frame Recording On, Deinterlace On, Bitrate 3,120 kbits/sec.  ¶ 4:04 AM

  Don't forget to visit my Vimeo Channel, vimeo.com/ampvideos.  ¶ 12:50 AM

 
Inside the Murder House from A Musing Propaganda on Vimeo. Higher Quality on Vimeo.

A long time ago, my friend and I had a web project for a band, and I had an abandoned house with some tornado damage. Add in some fake blood, and the two seemed like a match made in... well, the other place. The house has fallen more into decay while dust has settled on the fake blood, coloring it brown. I've often wondered what would happen if somebody, who didn't know about the photo shoot, stumbled into it.

I shot this video as a test originally in color, but I think it looks better in black and white.

Source: MinDV 620 x 480i 24 fps exported to 720p HD, Quicktime MP4, H.264, 24 fps, Frame Distance 30, Frame Recording On, Deinterlace On, Bitrate 3,120 kbits/sec.  ¶ 12:34 AM

  I started a video channel on Vimeo. You can see see my profile at vimeo.com/monzeki and now there's a channel at vimeo.com/ampvideos. The channel has a blog which I'll use to post tid bits about the videos. There's also a forum so folks can talk about stuff. I don't expect much activity on the forum; there's a lot of fish in that big lake, but it's there never the less. Feel free to leave comments about the videos and the logo. I hastily designed a logo. I like it, but I haven't done any graphic stuff in a while so I'm a bit unsure about it.

Here's the latest video on Vimeo:


Riding With Tom from A Musing Propaganda on Vimeo.

Visit the A Musing Propaganda channel for a larger and higher quality version.  ¶ 12:50 PM