Real World Cut the Rope Game

I made a game board for a real-world version of the I-phone game Cut the Rope. THEN, I put together this little video that looks kind of like you are playing the game. I drew the menu screen myself too. My favorite part of the video is the menu screen, which I hand-drew and then edited on the computer. It is similar to the one in the game but oriented horizontal instead of vertical. Then I have my crappy animation of a hand pushing the button. Maybe I will try animation again and a little better?

My video was blogged on some Portuguese website called Treta.

Isabella Gets Her Ears Pierced

They wouldn't let me record the actual piercing, so I had to settle for pictures only.

Crew Trip San Diego 2010

Video from our annual crew trip to San Diego.

The Girls Swimming

The girls have been really impressing me with their improvement in swimming ability this summer. Isabella is 3 and swimming pretty good, and Olivia is 2 and swimming about as good as I could imagine a 2 year old swimming.

Chocolate Cake Smoothie

I tried to leave all of the unnecessary parts of this video on the cutting room floor. Check out my sweet editing. My spinach smoothie video was so popular ( 255 views so far) that I decided I just had to do a sequel.

Videos of the Girls

Olivia counting and making other funny noises.

Isabella singing Allstar from the movie Shrek and made popular in the late 90s by Smashmouth.

Halloween 2009

Here is a video of Olivia talking, and the girls dancing around on Halloween. If you look closely, you can see me Time Warping in the background.



Here are our jack-o-lanterns. I carved the cyclops for myself, and the skull for Olivia. Julie carved herself the witch, and the bird for Isabella. The pictures of them lit up didn't turn out all that great.

So Cal Dude Trip 2009

How to Make a Spinach Smoothie

Most days before I go to work, I make a delicious and healthy smoothie to take with me. I have had a number of people ask about what I put in them, so I figured the best way to show it would be with a video. Wanna make your own green smoothies? Check it out.

My Girls May 2009

My girls are super cute, and I was able to catch some of their super-cutosity on video this month so I thought I would share it with the world.

Newest Video of the Girls

Here is a video of Olivia from last month when she was just getting walking figured out. Isabella is also acting silly by running in circles, and making faces for the camera.

Rad Video (Well, kinda rad)

Link to video

Time Lapse video I made on my camera. I paused at each spot for a count of ten. Bet I would have looked funny if the video had been shot in real time.

Breakdancing 101 Video

I had my last breakdancing class last night. I learned quite a bit, but still have plenty to learn. The teacher recorded a few of our routines and here they are all cut together. Plenty of mistakes, but here is what I ended up with.

Isabella Dancing

Here is a fun video of Isabella dancing in the kitchen to the music from her little magnetic farm.

Stupid Sign

I saw this sign when I was taking Diesel for a walk and the nerdiness took over. The result was this short film. Audio commentary done by me.

Tobogganing The Great Wall

Faizal shared this video with me of where we rode toboggans down the Great wall. If you have 3 minutes, you can pretend you were there with us.

Spinning Isabella

This was funny to watch. That air conditioner is sure loud.

Montana: The Video

This year our annual "boys trip" was just Faizal, Adam, Paul and I in Montana.
What did we do?
We got groceries, ate Taco Bell, did push-ups, had some Herkey's Sammiches, went tubing, went wakeboarding, ate at Los Caporales, water skied, saw The Dark Knight, mountain biked, ate Mongolian food at HuHot, used Paul's pogo-stick, watched Jumper, set off fireworks, rode Kash's 50cc dirtbike, went to Glacier National Park, hit up Costco, went to Famous Dave's for BBQ, and watched Inside Man.
All in all, we had a great time!

Isabella Rocks Out

I thought that this video was pretty cool, and made it with a free program that came on my computer. You just add video clips, a song, title, credits, and hit "make muvee" and it spits it out looking like this. I was a little worried about posting it on You Tube because of the music and copyrights, but thought that there are tons of videos that are up with copyrighted music. Within a couple hours I got this e-mail from You Tube:

Dear YouTube Member:

UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Isabella Rocks Out. This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program.

Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page.

Claim Details:

Copyright owner:	UMG
Content claimed:	Some or all of the audio content
Policy:	Allow this content to remain on YouTube. Place advertisements on this video's watch page. Applies to these locations: Everywhere

UMG claimed this content as a part of the YouTube Content Identification program. YouTube allows partners to review YouTube videos for content to which they own the rights. Partners may use our automated video / audio matching system to identify their content, or they may manually review videos.

If you believe that this claim was made in error, or that you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, you can dispute this claim with UMG and view other options in the Video ID Matches section of your YouTube account. Please note that YouTube does not mediate copyright disputes between YouTube owners. Learn more about video identification disputes.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team

It seemed scary when I first started reading, but then I realized it basically said, "You WOULD BE violating copyright laws if we didn't already have this relationship with Universal Music Group. Shame on you! You got lucky this time.

So, enjoy the video.

Bella and Liv

I just dropped a couple videos in The Tube so I thought I would share them.


Olivia just being cute and kind of bobbing around for the camera.



Isabella looking at the webcam on my laptop and telling us some animal sounds.

In other strange (to me) news, I have over 2,700 views on my other You Tube video of Isabella walking. That seems crazy to me.