8Dec07A little Distractable
Ok sometimes I even surprise myself how distractable I am. Just ask my wife… I can be right in the middle of something and be determined to get it done and then all the sudden I am off doing something else and have no idea what got me off on that tangent. This happens all the time when I am work on pictures. I will processing away and then all the sudden YouTube is up and I am spinning in the black hole of internet that is YouTube.
Well this is a little story about how I got distracted about 4 1/2 years ago and just figured out that I got distracted when I was looking for an image on a backup DVD (which incidentally was because I had been distracted from my work by trying to find a little background image for my blog that I created a few years back)… anyway I started this slideshow video of the pictures that I took while on a family vacation to Europe back in 2002! Yes 2002!
Anyway I really liked the video but I did it on a PC and am now completely Mac so the small edits that I wanted to make were out of the question so what did I do? You guessed it I stopped what I was doing and opened iMovie to recreate some of the magic. Now I have never used iMovie so some of this is not exactly what I wanted but the pics are there. I am done with it too :) So here you go! (just click the play button) oh and I think you will have to have a Quicktime plugin for your browser or be on a Mac. Sorry windows folks… what can I say I am a photographer not a video guy.
EDIT: Had to change the way this worked cause it was killing some other stuff that needed to load in the page. Just click the link to see the vid. Click HERE to watch the slideshow.
EDIT 2: Just uploaded it to YouTube so here you go :)

December 8th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Thank you, Matt. What a surprise…..Great memories!
Thank goodness for A.D.D.!
December 9th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I’m looking forward to getting a new MacBook so I can play with the new iMovie.
Wouldn’t you love to go back now with 5 years of camera experience behind you? Although I see some very Matt angles in some of the shots.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
This was so fun to watch Matt! Thanks for putting this up. Who is the music by? That was a nice touch.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
The first song is by Luka Bloom and the second is by Brooks Williams.
December 24th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Doood. Niiice hair! Bring the buzz back!