I present to you the Thanksgiving 2008 movie, brought to you in true HD quality via VimeoYouTube!!! (or not HD if your computer is slow) YouTube HD is below.
I also uploaded the small amount of photos that I took from Thanksgiving to a Flickr photoset, but there are very few photos as I mostly took videos.
I took the videos and pictures using my new, obviously totally awesome, digital camera! It’s a great still camera but also takes 720p HD videos, which are the videos which consist of the movie above (which unfortunately is super-compressed.) I’ll post more on the camera later.
If I do say so myself, I think that my new desktop looks very cool. The dock is hidden on the right and the windows taskbar comes from running Parallels. Which is awwwesome. Just in case you didn’t know that.
Well, I’ve thought of a name for the spy movie that I made with Vance and Lulu. Mission Improbable: The Evil Spy. And here’s the poster that I made for it because I was bored. Obviously, a take-off of Mission Impossible. “Improbable” because you probably don’t expect little kids to be spies and save the world. I think the poster turned out pretty well.
I just uploaded photos to Flickr from our trip to Florida next week. There are only a few, much less than I should have taken – so few that I think I completely left out a few people from my photos. (An accident, I swear!)
The New York City marathon is today, and it’s always a cool day to live in New York, because they’re running in our backyard (or the ciy equivalent of it; central park.) Gothamist has a post about the death of a runner during the Olympic trials (completely different races) yesterday. Ironically, the winner of the trials was a close friend of Ryan Shay, whose death is still unclear.
On a happier note, there was a marathon “kick-off” last night in Central Park (I believe that it’s a 2 mile run to “warm up” for the next day) and there were fireworks! I got some good pictures of the fireworks behind a water tower in my Flickr photostream.
Reader Austen took some photographs of an injured man being lifted from an Upper West Side construction site. A firefighter and the injured man, who is strapped on a board, is being hoisted by a crane to the ground level. The site is at Amsterdam and West 77th, where the Dakota stables once stood but where, after a fight with preservationists, condos will soon rise.
Yep, that’s my photo! I sent the photos in to Gothamist earlier this afternoon. We’ve had a front row seat to the demolition of the Dakota Stables, and now to this serious event that’s also a teensy bit cool just because of how creative the firemen were.
Apparently the guy broke his leg. But it seems like he may have broken some other stuff too, seeing as they had to lift him out with a crane. More pics here.
Austen Saltz is a 16-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents and is interested in filmmaking and technology.
Netsua is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also writes for the mac application blog MacApper.
I present to you the Thanksgiving 2008 movie, brought to you in true HD quality via Vimeo YouTube!!! (or not HD if your computer is slow) YouTube HD is below.
