Second last day of practice…let’s see what’s starting to happen. [Watch some day 6 practice.][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 224, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/day_6_small.flv’, 640, 360 );

Where’s the sun?! It’s started raining now and it’s supposed to do so over the weekend/tournament. Weren’t many willing to practice today so I did a walk around the city. Of course, the lighting was bad so nothing good to report of…but here’s a video taken of the beach and the shells. [Watch HD video of the beach and the shells.][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 223, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/rimini_beach_shells.flv’, 1280, 720 );

There was a lot of shaky camera work today so I’m posting the only good clip that made it. For the rest I’m going to have to edit heavily before I post it. This clip is also in 720p30 so don’t be surprised by the big window. [San Marino Quick Look around clip (HD)][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 222, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/san_marino_quick_look_around.flv’, 1280, 720 );

I’m posting a short clip now for each of the days. I plan on putting together a longer movie when I return with much more footage. For now though, enjoy an approximately 30 second recap of the last two days. [Watch it now!][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 221, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/day_1_and_2.flv’, 640, 360 );

Things get boring when you’re sitting around. Here’s some poorly shot video. In better news, I found a power source! [See shaky video of the terminal.][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 220, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/yyz_cieling.flv’, 1280, 720 );

Well…things are delayed…probably because of that storm out east. Let’s hope it doesn’t affect this flight. Not much exciting to post but hey, you can see video of me sitting in a terminal. [Watch exciting video of me doing nooooooooooothing!][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 219, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/waiting_at_yyz.flv’, 640, 480 );

It’s the night before I head off to Italy for a few days…yes…I know it’s a surprise but it’s going to be interesting. I’ve thought about getting a little video blagging going and this is my attempt at it below. I’ll try to have pictures and video posted as often as possible. [Click here to watch “Technical Test”.][1] [1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 218, ‘/data/videos/2008/italy/technical_test.flv’, 640, 480 );

I get in moods sometimes. Moods where I’ll be able to write interesting things. Moods where what I write will mean something. Moods where I don’t feel like writing and what I write doesn’t mean much and doesn’t read read well. I’ve made it a goal to write more and post more to my blag. You’ll experience all the moods with some good writing and quite a bit of bad writing.

I purchased a Macbook Pro a few days ago as my old laptop was terribly slow. Don’t get me wrong, old laptops have their uses but over the years I’ve been taking more photos and video and when I travel I need a laptop that can be used for the purposes of managing, storing, and editing content. My old laptop used to take 2 hours just to copy 4GB of content whereas my new laptop takes around 5 minutes.

I’ve been anticipating the next Pixar film for quite some time…that film, of course, is WALL-E. There have been many trailersgoing around but the newest bit of information that contains a tidbit of information was recently posted at Slashfilmand Cinematical. If you click on the image in the link above you’ll see some text under WALL-E’s hand. With some trivial manipulation in Photoshop you see this…hmmm…strange language…considering what we’ve seen in the trailers so far.