Hello all! Welcome to the Valentine’s Day Edition of World Wide Wood!
I would like to wish a happy Valentine’s Day to my wonderful wife Rebecca. We have been together for two years and five months, and we have been married for just under four of those months. Every minute continues to be better than the one before, and I can’t think of any more wonderful person to spend my life with. What a wonderful deal, to spend the rest of one’s life with one’s best friend.
To My Becky, With Love.
If you were following my old blog, you may remember that I recently upgraded my J700 into a tricked-out S900. Well, I’ve sold some of the J700’s remaining parts, but before I sent them off, I decided to document them and make a little gallery of the transplanting of the J700 into the S900:
I’ve discovered quite an interesting picture of me on Corey’s page:
This is a couple days old, but I figured I’d report it here in case you had not heard. Benjamin Curtis (aka Dell Dude “Steven”) was arrested on Sunday on criminal possession of marijuana. He’s been released, and is being given a year to stay on good behavior. They’ll dismiss the case if he stays clean for the year.
Story is here on CNN:
A few bumper stickers I’ve seen recently:
“My cat is smarter than your honor student.”
“The more people I meet, the more I love my cat.”
And from the schtick of “Joe Millionaire” to fine Russian cinema, we bring you Russian Ark. Russian Ark is being released in art cinemas around the US right now. It is the story of a contemporary filmmaker who jumps back 300 years into Russia’s past, and finds himself invisible and able to observe historical events unnoticed. What is amazing about this film is that it was shot in one single continuous shot, and that it was done in one single take. It took months of rehearsal, mounds of Russian ingenuity, and the design of a special hard drive for a digital video camera in order to pull off this feat. Wow!
I fixed the error in the Bridal Party movie… sorry Kirsten!
Oops! For anyone who’s watched the Bridal Party video, I must confess to making a goof. I labeled the picture of my sister as “Kirsten Wood”, when in fact I should have labeled it “Kirsten Carter” (seeing as how she is married to Mark Carter). I’ll fix that later tonight when I get a chance. Sorry!!
I’ve finished my first movie using iMovie 3. It was an excruciating task, what with iMovie 3’s intrinsic slowness, and the additional slowness by my computer’s (relatively) slow processor. But it’s done! I stitched together photos of all the folks in our bridal party, using the “Ken Burns” effect, added a soundtrack (which any of our reception guests should recognize), and added some subtitles and transitions.
You can see the finished product here:
It’s in Apple QuickTime format, so make sure you have that installed before you try it. Also, the file is around 9.3 megabytes in size, so if you are on a modem-speed connection, it may take a little while to download it.
Enjoy!
I just finished writing up a new page for our site: The Photo Guide. This is a semi-narrative guide of most of the photos that are in our gallery. It can sometimes be daunting to wade through them, but hopefully this page will give you an overview of what’s in there, and perhaps lead you to find some previously-undiscovered photos. 🙂