Posts Tagged ‘video’

Brief Update

// April 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I’m having great difficulty posting the Mount Fuji video to blip.tv, which distributes all my videos to this blog and to the iTunes feed. Anyway, those of you who would like to watch it with sound may do so at http://www.vimeo.com/4129654.
On a side note, I said goodbye to my sannensei today, who graduated last month and is moving to Canada. She gave me a beautiful wooden case as a goodbye present. I am trying to decide whether to keep pens or jewelry in it.
Kory is going camping this weekend, and I am having girls’ night/day/weekend. We’ll see what ends up happening, but it’s bound to be fun!

Happy New Years!

// January 2nd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

As per my New Years resolution to be a better blogger (don’t we all say that?), I am busy editing and uploading a bunch of videos from the past six months. You can view my videos here on the blog, but they will also be posted to blip.tv, Vimeo (which supports HD), YouTube (if they quit sucking), and iTunes. Supposedly blip also exports to Facebook, but that feature is down right now. It also exports to MySpace, but I don’t ever check my MySpace anymore so I wouldn’t recommend watching or commenting there. And it alerts Twitter when I post a new video.

I’ve also made a couple of new pages here on the site, Photo and Video, where you can thumb through both forms of media. Just in case you’re ever bored (Grandma, I’m talking about you!) … :)

As for New Years itself, we were pretty low-key this year. We had dinner over at Joe & Andrea’s. Joe made queso and we played Bomberman on Wii. I won a respectable amount of games, and even Kory made a good showing! We didn’t visit any temples or shrines, mainly because Joe and Andrea swore the line would not be worth it. In any case, we’re a little vacationed out and it didn’t take much convincing for us to stay home, edit pictures (me) and play iConquer on our laptops.

I got New Years notes from two of my JTEs, which I thought was very sweet of them. We ate sushi today and go back to work on Monday.

Fukuroi Fireworks Festival

// January 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

The Fukuroi fireworks festival was one of the first events we attended in Japan. There are fireworks celebrations everywhere in summer, and this was supposedly one of the bigger ones in our area. The line to get back on the train afterward was blocks long, but the fireworks made up for it.