Slicing the air

Putting together a cool, polished, professional drone video is cool but where are all the startup/practice/learning crash videos?

I don't know (in other words, I haven't looked).

However, there is one way to find out and that's to create your own.

Therefore, here's my compilation music video of first drone flight tests.

Is it art? science? both? neither?

You decide...

More as it develops!

Who is this person trying to impersonate me 22 years ago?!

Oh, the days when I worked at GE as a schedule analyst on weekdays and a Christmas tree recycling expert on weekends?

No, that wasn't me, was it?  ;)

Huntsville Christmas Tree Recycling Project -- 1990

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

I never have been certain about the meaning of the Christmas tree.  Even so, it's a tradition.  Here's a video of Rhonda Vincent paper doll parts (in store) with Rhonda singing "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree":

The first effort is rather simplistic -- more of a slideshow.  No time for more complex video production this weekend. Merry Christmas! Thanks, Rhonda, for your music, Janet Shelby for the graphics, and to my wife and family for their patience.

Enjoy!

A Simple Nod to My Mother In-Law

In Honour of the Last Bataan Death March Survivor

Lest we forget the brutality of war, let us pay a leafy tribute to the men who died during the Bataan Death March, and all the millions of others who've suffered and died because of our inhumane treatment of one another, no matter how un/justified it seemed at the time or in the long reflection of history.

And don't worry, the future is the same in one form or another -

let descendants decide how to measure our progress in developing a civilised world.

As we have done for our ancestors...

Retiring the Fleet

Looking 30 years back in a last day-and-a-half flurry of descent and landing:

A Dancin' We Will Go

Who says they don't have fun on the ISS?  Here's a clear example of the ISS crew members taking their shoes off and tearing up the dance floor:

Music brought you to by the following [from: http://www.barynya.com/mp3/index.stm]:

Elina Karokhina and ensemble Barynya "Balalaika Music Album"

Balalaika virtuoso Elina Karokhina & Russian dance and music ensemble Barynya compact disk Balalaika Music Album (2011). Elina Karokhina (balalaika), Leonid Bruk (balalaika-contrabass), Mikhail Smirnov (guitar, vocals). Elina Karokhina is Russia’s top balalaika player and a musician of international renown. Her speed, grace, and fluidity on the instrument must be seen and heard to believe. She began her formal training at the Mussorgsky College of St. Petersburg and continued her training at the Rimskii-Korsakov Conservatory, which included a residency in Germany. She returned to her native St. Petersburg, where she earned her Doctorate of Music/Balalaika...