A 1965 teenager

As I've mentioned before, I don't believe that vinyl sounds better:  instead, I enjoy the ritual of it, plus imaging that the (used) LP I'm playing was listened to by someone else ten, twenty, thirty years ago.

Case in point:  today I picked up the Beatles album Help! -- not a reissue - for AU$25 (about US$20).  There's light scuffing (but no scratches), and the cover has some minor damage -- so it's not of "collectable" quality.  Still totally playable, of course. 

It's a good album -- I really like most of the songs (and the rest are good, as well:  no clunkers).  It's the third(?) CD I bought (at least among the first five):  #1 was a Devo live album, and #2 was Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever album.

I can imagine a teenager, 1965-ish, having saved up his or her allowance, sitting on the bedroom floor listening to this.

--GG

What is the up?

 Huh!  Apparently I started my blog in April of 2006.  I've drifted away a bit -- but every once in a while I'll throw something online.  I don't do Facebook or Twitter or whatever is the popular social media platform:  I'm more "long form".

My last post -- back in October -- mentioned that I was "drifty".  Still am -- but getting better.  Watching more YouTube than I ought to -- but, it amuses me.  Still -- I ought to try to squeeze in something else between the time I get home from work and the time I go to bed.

Discovered Reddit about a month ago.  Dabbled in a few forums, but have settled on the filmmaking, cinematography, 8mm (film), and Super 8 forums.  I read the entries that sound interesting, comment on a few, and learn things I didn't know.  :) 

Am getting more into filmmaking these last few months, and am drifting away from woodworking and music:  haven't touched my guitar in months (but keep meaning top); haven't listened to LPs in perhaps a month (could do it tonight -- but really need to get back into a "nine to five" sleep cycle:  have been staying up 'til 2am-3am for the last week (most office workers in AU have Christmas through New Year's off).  

Spent my Christmas and birthday money on camera lenses and.... a smoke machine!!!  :)   Am editing the footage for my test/demo of the smoke machine, and one of the lenses, and am hoping to post them to YouTube in the next week or so.  Have already posted my "wide angle lens" comparison (nothing fancy; just something potentially useful for other beginners to reference:

 

I have eighteen (!!! - whoops!) micro-shorts where I've shot the footage, just need to edit, or add sound to the edit.  "Adding sound" is kind of the sticking point, as I don't currently have a good set-up for recording audio.  "Tidying my 'home office' space" is somewhere on my "To Do" list.

Lots of backlog -- but, I guess I won't be bored.  The backlog includes an edit I was doing for a video short of my kids, for my parents' birthday -- about half a year ago (whoops, also).  The edit has to be accurate within a frame or two -- but the software is getting laggy (I think due to saving all of the previous edits), such that it's hard to briskly scroll to to exact edit point -- so the work becomes tedious, and I abandon it.  I had planned to work on it during this week off -- but instead I ran errands, had a head cold, spent time with family, and shot test footage of my various film purchases -- not necessarily in that order.  :) 

Broadly, though:  things are going well, and I'm in a good place.  We'll see how 2022 turns out.  :) 

--GG