In the spirit of Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow, we bring you this newsreel of the latest events and twists of fate in the lives of the small tribe of Johnstadts that inhabits the wilds of Western Massachusetts. (Warning: This video contains mild to moderate scalping.)
Went home from work early today and took a two-hour nap, thus warding off a migraine. And after supper, we all went to a contra dance that was sponsored by a few graduating students who belong to the cotra dance crowd here at Williams. There are many a thing I could say about that particular clique, but I will limit myself to this: They remind me, in many ways, of hobbits. And they put on a heck of a contra dance.
I also made a purchase recently: a Flip. It's a good-enough video camera ($149) that has sound and a far clearer picture than the digital still camera I've been using up to now. So the quality of the images in future films should be vastly improved. And the sound...? I may occasionally let it through. But tonight, in preparing the newsreel, I used Garage Band for the first time, and I have to say: I'm kind of a Buster Keaton-type filmmaker. Music over images, and nothing more. The video of Q's first experience pitching would have had far smoother musical transitions had I learned about it a few weeks earlier.
Hope to feel better tomorrow - been low-grade sick for a month now.
Hasta pronto!
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