While making a video of snow falling to send to a friend who's never seen it, I somehow managed to knock myself nearly unconscious. Fortunately, though I've got a nasty headache, I survived to bring you this gripping drama, captured live due to my own courage and resiliency and the good offices of You Tube.
WARNING: This video contains scenes of uncensored stupidity.
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wincing in sympathy
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the scene is gorgeous, for what it's worth.
So great to hear your laughter - do you always find blunt head trauma amusing? :P
Thank you again! (and sorry)
More video tours, this was enjoyable. What kind of camera thingie were you using? Quality good even considering the handicaps of the shooter.
No, the comment by Steve Blevins caused me to nearly choke on my algal water (don't ask). There is pithy, and there is Steve Blevins. Very good.
Wouldn't it be funny for everyone to shoot 2.5 minutes of video and then have it all edited in some really cool way, like "OS - Up Close and Personal. Don't laugh kiddies, done well this has potential. Maybe a little Best in Show (he knew that post would get an EP), maybe a bit Juno (she nearly deleted the post that gained the attention of the NY book agent and then brought fame and fortune), a love story (their bicoastal romance caught the attention of bloggers everywhere), a heartbreak (she had just gone to swim a few laps at the gym, and she was dead.
You get the idea.
Oh, hope the head is feeling better nana. Next time don't shrink from adding a little drama with some blood on the snow. I was struck by the evocation of my favorite saturday morning cartoon, "George of the Jungle." Oh, the memories, thank you.
Priceless!
Now, see, if you hadn't been focussed on photographing your feet, you wouldn't have walked into that tree branch.
But this gives me an idea. I got this (real cheap) video camera and I've been waiting until I got out into the world again, with *people*, in order to try it out. But, hell, I can go out in the backyard too and video snow falling. Actually, it's freezing rain at the moment, and night, so I guess I'll wait. I just the other day figured out (well, I clicked on a thing and that's all there was to it) how to deliver stuff to yoo-toob. I have been working on a set of stills (but made to move thru the magic of the Ken Burns effect) to accompany a song by a friend of mine. Eeep, really got obsessed with it (working on yet another edit and set of tweaks), and put it on U-T, but only private (gotta get permission from the back-up singers and then I'll put it in the public section...and on here.)
Meantime, hope your head feels better. The snow in your cap must have cooled it right down...
R~
The tree with the sun sculpture on it was a Scotch pine Janie, but it was a redbud that had the hook. It's ironic; they're lovely in the springtime.
Kyle, I shudder to think of what some of the bloggers here would come up with for candid home video. Can you imagine Surly livebloggin one of her vintage recipes?
Scanner, at least I didn't cut my ear off.
Cap'n, I'm proud that, if I hadn't admitted it, you could barely tell I was severely injured.
Lady M; me too! I think there's something wrong with me.
Don't worry.
As long as you're not seeing double
As long as you're not seeing double
You'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
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I was going to go outside and take pictures of the snow when it was coming down, up here. We couldn't even see the houses across the street because it was snowing so fast and blowing everywhere.
Comparing the two up here and yours I would have to say we got it worse then you guy did down there. We had zero visibility for since Thursday night. We got more then 8" inches up here. It finally stopped snowing this afternoon..
Thank you so much for sharing the snow day video with us.
Concussed myself is a classic
truth is, medical doctors dont have great ability to detect either concussions or hemorraging from what I understand
Hello?
Junk, Lisa, Trig, COS, FE, Hells Bells, Ocular, Spud, VZN, Tai, Blue in TX, Lea, welcome to the trauma ward. I honestly didn't intend to injure myself for a few rates. I was going for sort of a Fellini meets Cohen brothers meets Tarantino thing when that hook came out of nowhere. It reminds me of when Vic Morrow was killed by a helicopter crash on the set of the "Twilight Zone" movie. With fewer body parts of course.
And Deborah, thanks for visiting my blog:) I wanted to call this "Cognitively Impaired Blogger Suffers Blunt Head Trauma" but they only allow us 60 characters for our titles. I may speak to the new editor about that; I hear she's open to good ideas. Not that I can say I've had one recently.
I don't miss the snow at all.
I am still laughing here and thinking about how it must have hurt. I would have had to edited the sound I would have cussed so much...
That was by far the funniest thing I've ever seen. Next time, have another camera person taking photos when you knock yourself out.
Yarn Over; that's what I said:P
Deborah, Doc Blevins advised me not to go swimming or I'd get a cramp and drown. Or maybe that was my grandma; it's all a blur at this stage, even though I don't have any opiates:(
Skeltnwmn; note to self: "Have a back up camera guy so we're still filming even if I bleed out." Check!
Scupper, you know what they say; humor is bad things happening to other people.
'That was by far the funniest thing I've ever seen. Next time, have another camera person taking photos when you knock yourself out."
Is so funny it's making me choke. Hilarious. I can't read it without cracking up. This must go down in history as the best advice you could ever give, "Next time have another camera person take pictures when you knock yourself out."
Good advice I think, don't you? Pretty fucking basic but I guess it needed to be said...
And Ablonde, I get now why war correspondents usually have not only a backup camera, but a backup camera dude. It's all about getting the bang bang; sometimes you have to break some eggs to make an omelette.
Leeandra, I'm glad you weren't injured. Still though, I'd take a compound fracture for the chance to video kangaroos chasing inmates on lawnmowers. Or vice versa even.
Head injury aside, you never dropped the damned camera, and for that, I say "salud." (But then I'm drinking tequila and say it every few minutes anyway.)
I adore the idea of OS'ers posting vids of their yards. My hibiscus are blooming gorgeous, and I can show you where to hang your danged hammocks between my royal palms when you visit......
(rated, although t'would have been much more engaging with blood.)
Ginny, I apologize for the lack of ichor; next time, there'll be hemorrhaging, you've got my word. And hibiscus and royal palms work for me, as would anything green and alive right now. I seriously do NOT know why I live in this arctic hell. Salud!
:-)