Time-Lapse Drawing With A Message

I know the message toward the end of this two-minute video to be a fact; but the presentation here shows how something painted as one thing can well be quite the opposite in reality.

This is from the always-excellent artist Mark Crilley, whose work (and videos) I have been following for a little while now...

A Thousand Views

This morning, the number of views of my uploaded videos passed the one thousand mark.

This is quite an achievement for me, especially as there is no obvious reason for anyone to stumble across them naturally and I certainly don't actively promote them beyond a mention here and on Twitter when they first go up.

Most haven't been up very long, and none longer than seven months. In other words, my comparatively modest numbers are still quite a lot better than might be expected.

All of this reminds me that I still have several more event videos to prepare and upload; and the main reason that hasn't been done so far is that I am having a certain amount of difficulty concentrating enough to to a proper job of editing my source material. That's the strong medication I am on nowadays, which periodically affects me like this, but it'll pass and then I'll do the necessary.

Videos Advance Notice

Just to let everyone know...

I am still editing my video recordings from last weekend's Bicentenary Dickens Festival, and this weekend am recording at the FUSE Festival. I recorded nearly three GigaBytes of material today, and I might add to that tomorrow, weather and health permitting (I am not very well this evening).

Both finished products should go up during this coming week, in that order – in parts again as it is obvious that, for some reason, YouTube is not handling the longer uploads correctly, despite its perpetual banner reminding me that I am now allowed to upload longer videos.

I mention this now only because I have had a fair amount of interest expressed in these 'event' videos and enquiries about both of these new ones.

Meanwhile, I hope that visitors here have now viewed the rest of the River Festival that I recently added to the original post. There is some good material in the new parts, including the full sail-by of the Kingswear Castle paddle steamer and the complete award ceremony.

Sorry for the delay...

YouTube decided to wait until it had fully uploaded my video of the first Medway River Festival before telling me there was a fault (of undisclosed nature) and it had just wasted almost thirty hours with no result.

I have completely remade the video from the project file and am now uploading that.

It seemed to play through all right here, so I am reasonably confident that there is no fault in the source file.

Whether it'll get up the line successfully, a day or so hence, I shall not know until the end of that 28-hour period; but if all is well I shall be able to embed it here late tomorrow evening. (UPDATE @ 0055 hrs on 11 June: It has failed again! I don't know what to do about this. There seems to be nothing whatsoever wrong with the source file here. I am now trying uploading it in three shorter parts, to see if one part fails or all do. FURTHER UPDATE: Exactly the same edited file has now gone up successfully, in three parts, proving that it has been a YouTube failure all along!)

In the meantime, I have another GigaByte or so, in 51 video clips from today's Dickens Festival, to start cataloguing in preparation for editing all of that. I shall probably add something like as much source material again tomorrow, on the festival's final day.