New Beginnings Art Gallery

Tonight was a reception at the New Beginnings Gallery that is located at 2124 3rd Street (Jefferson Highway) in Kenner (Rivertown). My art hangs there along with the art by artist and gallery owner Christine Coleman. The gallery has only been open a couple of months and my work has been hanging only a few weeks. See more photos from the reception on my blog, pic journal.

First Video Using Flip Cam

For a couple of months I’ve been noticing YouTubers talk about their Flip cams. Naturally I became interested in purchasing one. The question I had was whether it would work with my Mac. I was assured when I bought mine there would be no problem. Well, I did run into trouble getting my file, from the camera over to iMovie ’08, as a usable file.

Fortunately a friend e-mailed me a site that had three things to try. The last one on the list was Div X Doctor II. Finally I was able to make a file that maintained sound. Then I used MPEG Streamclip to make a MPEG 4 file. After that I had no problems.

The video was shot since renovations were completed at Cleanerama. I figured it would be nice to show how much nicer the place looks. Using the same music from the last video I shot there, I assembled my video in iMovie '08. Flip cam handles low light levels very well. I was pleased with the results.



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