Yesterday Nathaniel and I tried our hand at some stop-motion movie making. His idea with the rocks.
Song is Modest Mouse - March Into the Sea.
It was a lot of work for only 21 seconds of video. But it was his idea to use big rocks! He did all the rock positioning. I stood and clicked the shutter on the camera.
On Christmas Day we went to a nearby elementary school and played kickball. Our version of kickball, anyway, which means we kick the ball but don’t run bases. Maybe if we had more people playing we’d do the bases. Because like Elijah said, the funnest part is throwing the ball at people to tag them out.
When Elijah was smaller he wanted to grow up to be a professional kickball player.
Here is our kickball game, speeded up to about 4 minutes:
The video was longer but youtube cut it off for some reason. And it cut off the funniest parts. We were acting goofy because we knew we were going to speed the video up. The song is by Boards of Canada.
My parents asked what they could get Daniel for Christmas, so I suggested a portable satellite radio. This particular kind also lets you play mp3s. I had to take a picture of the music my husband has loaded on it so far. He’s one of the few people I’ve ever known who has as diverse taste in music as I do.
We went to a park on Christmas Day and played kickball. Our version of kickball, anyway. We took video which I’ll post when it’s online.
On Christmas Eve, Nathaniel, his friend Dillon, Cat and I went to the Santa Ana River bike trail and Nathaniel filmed our bike ride. Here it is, sped up and condensed into four minutes.
Nathaniel was hand-holding the camera so it’s a bit jerky, primarily at the beginning. Cat’s in blue and later red (she sheds her jacket off-screen in the middle). I’m in brown and Dillon’s on the skateboard being goofy. It was fun.
My brother got me a Lomo Fisheye camera for Christmas. Cool, huh?