Coolest Summer Video Ever (uh-huh) 2006

Created during the summer of 2006, one of my favorite video edits. (All my videos are short and to the point, sort of the "best of reel", so don't be afraid to watch 'em).

SCENE 1: We had this little pool on our deck (ultimately bundled up on the garage floor and then burned by the undercarriage of our car), and Aaron learned to swim in it. Interesting swimming style. Mom's and Dad's, swimming goggles work great to help get kids over their fear of swimming.

SCENE 2: Beach montage. Aaron and Sammy befriend this 8 or 9 year old girl at Newport Beach. She let them play with her kite for hours.

SCENE 3: Sammy decides the little girl is more interesting than her kite, and it's a real crackup how he takes her hand and walks her to the shore "surf style". He manages to keep the kite, too.

SCENE 4: Aaron sort of skim boarding, but rather standing on his boogie board on shore and letting the dangerous Newport shore-break speed under him (life jacket included).

FINAL SHOTS: More of Sammy and girl. My second day trying skim boarding. Sammy gets hit by it (not so bad), drops the kite string--never fear, all is well.

Best of Aaron Trying to Hang a Towel (Crackup)

Aaron (just before turning 3) repeatedly trying to hang a little hand towel up. Maybe he was just stalling to avoid going to bed, because this literally went on for about like 8+ minutes--but I boiled it down to a 1 minute best-of reel. My favorite part is when he makes a song about it, "Sing a song, put a towel up." Also when he tells the stool to "stay right there" and then moments later seems to be disciplining it for it's failure to cooperate. You have to admire his can-do spirit all the way through till the end whimper when he puts his li'l head down after Elisa unfortunately has to tell him she doesn't think he can do it, that it's time for bed.

FYI, I'm still updating the blog with old stuff, keeping it chronological by when it happened. But if you've never seen this, and you're not cynical (if so, why are you reading this?), it's worth a view.

Disc Golf in Wrightwood (my first video edit - 2002)

Okay, so I didn't really post this on 8/27/2002, but that's the date I made the video. Plus I wanted it archived way back! If you've never seen disc golf (aka "frisbee golf" or "folf") before, you might want to watch my short explanation of it that I made for my relatives in Canada. You might want to watch it regardless. It features the old "short-hair glasses-wearing" version of me, and my nephew Johnny as he looked back then (fairness to him: this was his very first day folfing).

As for the video, well it was my first time exploring video editing using my computer, so please forgive the bugs.