Transmissions from the pop culture battlefront, with emphasis on guerrilla audio technique

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Memorizations Relations


Took some video footage today of Timmy's Birthday at the MiniGolf Castle in Sherman Oaks. That's not exactly what it's called. I've been using the

DCR-SR42 30GB Handycam® Camcorder

from Sony for a lot of my personal journalizing lately. Takes a good quality standard-def picture... I like the colors it gets, especially while in Super NightShot mode, which mixes visual and infrared spectral signals into a hybrid output that's one part spooky, eight parts useful, and three parts exciting, depending on the compositions you are able to put together. Use your head.
The camera is flexible, small, reasonably quick... I like the zoom motor control. Tolerates a subtle touch. But,,, you may desire more manual controls, focus and exposure controls... Man, get yourself a different camera then. Shit, man. Don't look for conflict in your life. Look for opportunity. Everybody's drunk and they want to go home right now. People are ill. Party bitters. It can all change in an instant.

Remember things for your stories and tell your stories and share. And the sharing should be sharing. And then you don't have to worry about getting it all or missing moments or whatnot. They will be what they will be, and you get what you get and sometimes you are more active in seeking out what you are looking for and other times you look for the things that seek you out... But regardless, others will remember and tell and hopefully share stories. We will all share, BUT,,, because I've got 30 GB of hard disk drive space onboard my cam, and because I have editing capabilities at home and at work, and because memory is cheap these days, I am able to produce memorizations--representations of lifemoments that benefit from plentiful flexible footage sources. Most specifically the

DCR-SR42 30GB Handycam® Camcorder

, which allows me hours and hours of shooting opportunities and quick access. Sleek and nimble. Doesn't take too long to boot up from cold. Offloads as .mpeg files that Premiere 2.0 reads just fine. I use that programme on a PC computer.
And, for the record, I believe firmly that memorizations and journalizations are sisterizations, and, when taken together by the media-literate (which all preschoolers ought to be started on, education-wise), are totally great ways to rememberize things.

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