03 September, 2007

Is this on?

Finally, a video button! Let's see if it works with uncompressed video... this is a clip from a singing session given by a complete stranger in a hotel bar at Stu and Jessica's wedding. Note: this was shortly before the elderly relative in a kilt disrobed for mystified onlookers. By the way, does anyone know of a free video-for-web compressor I can use to convert my digicam video material?

Freedom found in Red Hook

I wish someone had told me I was riding into the ghetto when I pedalled over to Red Hook in Brooklyn this afternoon. And it's not like can even cycle off into the distance with my dinky yellow foldy. In any case, I discovered all too late that I had a beautiful public pool 10 minutes down the road from me. And apart from seeing some scary-ish projects and lots of empty warehouses (including the shell of the new super-Ikea), I found these. They are what seem to be foundation blocks for Freedom Tower (the new Ground Zero building) - I thought it was cool even if no one else does.

Labor Day weekend

It's Labor Day weekend in the States, where everyone takes a day off work to celebrate... work?? (and people say American's don't get irony) In the true American spirit of world's worst pun, I attended a Labor Day party with a theme of... you guessed it... Labor. It's amazing what a towel and a bit of surgical tape can do to a woman. Truly frightening psychology on show, with lots of baby(towel/balloon) patting and cooing. No stopping the ladies with their booze and cigarettes though. This is New York, after all!