Day: January 27, 2007

Ten minute warmup, then 5000m on the ergometer in 19:02. Pushing the last 1000m got me a bit ahead of the target I had set beforehand, and was in danger of missing without a good finish. Once every two weeks won’t cut it for erging, if I want to improve here. I’m not sure just how much I want to do, though.

Another experiment with iStopMotion, this time with the kids, and we have two (very) short films to show for it on YouTube: Race car goes fast (stop-motion) and Batman gets in the Batmobile.

Each one is two seconds long. It was hard to keep their attention this long. Remember, 24 frames/second. What did help was turning on voice activation, so I could say (and say again) “capture one” rather than reaching back to the computer to take each frame. It wasn’t foolproof, but a timesaver all the same.

To my annoyance, YouTube actually clipped the last frame of the “Race car” video, probably to put their Share / Watch Again frame on there. Frustrating, since the final frame had the kids entering the picture (deliberately).