$75 Edit Solution

1. Take a $30 single-use video-recorder
2. Hack it so it's re-usable
3. Buy QuickTime Pro for $30
4. Get assorted apps and hardware for $15

Want Camera

The Little Bun from a year ago. I had just purchased and hacked my first CVS camera. Thirty dollars is the perfect price point for a cam to give to a 2 year old.

This is the Bun's first video. I love the gleeful abandon he shows by swinging the camera around wildly and squeeling

Mourning

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Everything changes. Just when I've got it all figured out. The sneaky thing is the people all look the same and sound the same. Somehow they are different. It's a sneaky kind of different that slithers silently on top of the water and slips into my boat. Before I know it, BAM! I'm either getting bitten or drenched from capsizing the boat.

Magical Saturday

Still no batteries for my camera. Using the backup phone camera again today.

This is a long clip. Meditative. There's something satisfying about watching my son play. He loses himself in the fun.

We made some paintings with left over fabric paints. The Little Bun loves the feel of paint in his hands and on his face. He'll squeeze his fists so tight that all of the paint oozes out onto his knuckles.

I had all sorts of plans to record something dealing with delayed gratification. Since my day started out mostly planned, I wasn't going to be able to do any sort of video taping until much later. An idea for another day.

This day the gratification was right there in front of me getting soaking wet. He was experimenting with paper and water and gravity and thermodynamics. Eventually he got cold and couldn't understand why. I told him that the wet takes heat away from us. After an infinite number of why questions we ended on "Because, it's an immutable law of the universe." And that is his notice that I can go no further.

It's actually comforting that there aren't answers for everything. That allows for mystery and magic. Where there's mystery and magic, there's discovery.

Video for Ray

The Video for Ray is not yet complete. How much work remains? Here's a visual metaphor to help understand the road ahead.

Today's a rest day so no running. That also means I get my footage up the same day. Yeah!