Posts Tagged ‘Family’

We colored & cut, played with trains, and began to enjoy the outdoors without snow!

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Snippets of life from March, 2011:

We colored:
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We cut:
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Played with trains:
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Started enjoying the outdoors without snow on the ground:
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And loved our kitty, Draco:
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We played doctor, read books, and cleaned the house

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More snippets of life, these from March, 2011.

We played doctor:
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We read books:
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Tied shoes:
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Cleaned the house:
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And climbed to new heights:
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We went to the museum

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The next few posts will be mostly pictures of things we’ve been doing lately. Every day, I have high hopes of writing novellas on our recent adventures with the kids, but never manage to accomplish much, so I’ll just stick to images for a bit. At least I can offer a glimpse of what the kids have been doing and how they are growing. 🙂

In February, we went to the museum with Grammy & Aunt Becky.

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High-speed video slide show! (or “Pummelvision”)

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I ran across this neat online tool a few weeks ago called Pummelvision that will create a video of any selection of your photos from various online photo repositories and throw a simple, energetic beat soundtrack on it.  It is no more than a photo slide show, but it is done at high speed, which encourages you to use more photos than you would use in a traditional photo slide show.

This can give a really neat effect, showing a lot of the things you have done over time.  Obviously, you can choose specific photo sets for particular effect, whether that is a kid-based slide show (of a specific year, age, school-year, project, all birthdays, etc.) or a specific vacation, or a style of photography that you have done…  Like I said, no different than any slide show you can make yourself, but like many things available online these days, it is a fast & easy tool to create something that may just have an emotional impact.

Here is the “Pummelvision” of my entire Flickr photo stream from the beginning through February 2, 2011.  Check it out, and feel free to add links to your own slide show videos (of any sort, from anywhere, doesn’t need to be Pummelvision) in the comments.

Note 1: If you are reading this in an e-mail, please click on the title of the post (High-speed video slide show! (or “PummelVision”)) to watch the video in your web browser.

Note 2: If you have any quality issues or problems viewing the video, try clicking through to the original video here: Pummelvision of all Flickr photos through 2011-02-02