I should be getting a new computer in 2 weeks and then I will be back with a new and improved little piece of sunshine for you all!  Thanks for sticking around

Well, after I was robbed I made this video at 4:30am… and don’t I look lovely?

So you may have noticed that I didn’t post a video yet today and thought to yourself “I thought she said she’d post a video everyday no matter what happened!” The truth is, I thought for sure that I would– whether it was rainy or sunny, whether I was tired or sick, or even if a UFO landed and a 3-eyed blue monster got out and told me to stop making videos. Unfortunately, last night the one thing that I hadn’t taken into consideration happened… and it’s only the 6th day!!

I arrived home from a friend’s bachelorette party around 1:30am and noticed that all my lights were on, my front door was unlocked, the bars on my window were ripped off and laying on the ground outside and both of my laptops were missing in action. Luckily the laptops were the only things that were missing and (most importantly!!) my dog, Shechi, was unharmed.

However, it seems that without my computers I am completely incapable of making videos every day. Rest assured, once I get set up with a new computer I will resume the project but I can’t say exactly when that will be for now… computers are expensive! I’ll be sure to keep updating you all when I can.

Another thing that really blows is that I had prepared about 2 weeks worth of videos in advance and they were all waiting on one of the laptops to be posted. I vaguely remember moving some of them to an external hard drive last week so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they aren’t all gone forever and I can post a few of them in the meantime while I’m waiting on a new computer.

In any case, stay tuned for updates and I just want to say that BAHHHHHHHH THIS TOTALLY SUCKS!!!!!

Hey everyone, it’s “Things I Like Thursday”, the day when I make a video about something that I like!

Something that I am quite fond of is television theme songs, particularly television theme songs from the 80s.  The Cosby Show theme is one of my favorites.  Anyhow, when I was in college I took a studio recording class and while I was in the class learning how to use ProTools I make a remix of the Cosby Show theme song.

I remixed the sound, added a beat (a beat known as the “Run DMC Beat” made by my friend Chris Sousa and myself, woo!), and cut it together with some video from the actual Cosby Show opening credits and here it is!  Enjoy

p.s. Just for the record– I am not claiming to have produced any of the actual footage from the Cosby Show or written and played the original Cosby Show theme.  This is just something I mixed and edited together for fun.

Hi!  It’s “Would You Rather?” Wednesday and what I want to know is, would you rather have no elbows or no knees??

If you have no elbows you can’t really do anything with your arms– you can’t bring your hand to your mouth to eat, you can’t write or type very comfortably, if you have an itch on your back (or anywhere for that matter) you certainly can’t scratch it.

On the other hand, if you have no knees you can’t walk comfortably and can’t run at all, every time you sit down you have to stick your legs straight out in front of you and if a bad, bad, scary man is chasing you you’re chances of outrunning him are slim to nothing.

Check out the video to see what I chose, as well as what a couple of my friends chose.  Then let me know what you would rather!!

p.s.  I wanna send a shout out to Gina and Yossi for being awesome in my video, woo!  Oh, and Shechi too of course… Yay for Gina and Yossi and Shechi and yay for Shout-Outs!!

Hey everyone, it’s “Toilet Humor Tuesday”!!  I think this just might be my favorite day of all.  I mean, how can you beat a talking toilet, a talking trash can and a slew of horribly lame jokes?!  You can’t!  So with no further adieu I present to you video 3/365– “Tina’s Sticky Muffins”!!!

Additionally, I would like to wish a very happy birthday to my friend Gina.  She will also be appearing in tomorrow’s “Would You Rather Wednesday” video so check it out!!

Hiya!  It’s “Music, Art & Culture” Monday, the day of the week in which I profile a Musician/Artist/Writer/”Cultural Thingamabopper” here in Israel.  (Just as a side note, remember that I am looking for people to profile so if you are an artist in Israel or know someone who is, please contact me!)

Today’s video presents the poetry and photography of my friend Joseph Neudorfer AKA Yossi.  Yossi is originally from Montreal, Canada but he now lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.  His poem is called “In Circles of Lust and אהבה Irony”.  The photographs of flowers in the video are taken by Yossi as well.  Enjoy!!

In Circles of Lust and אהבה Irony

That first illustrious moment I laid eyes on you in the מסדרון to our בניון
I too was bent from כתף לאוזן, with a chikita bonita, on the phone:
She was a Love from the past, and she showered me with praise
But she could not meet my gaze

And when I thought of you,
I forgot of her, and it was good,
וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוב

She was a Love from the past,
and she showered me with praise, (like you do now)
but she could not meet my gaze, (like you do now)

In circles of lust and אהבה irony
I wish you Happiness
Wherever you may grab of it fruits
And with whomever you may enjoy of its nectar

May you be far from Fear,
May you fight Fear forever,
And may you not fall to Fear’s faults

In circles of lust and אהבה irony
May compromise, that ill-fated of diseases, never follow you
May these words find you in health and may you smile with thoughts
of a few beautifully confusing moments

Brief, anxious trains cross in the silence of the night

* Hebrew words within the text are translated in the subtitles of the video

Come back tomorrow for Toilet Humor Tuesday!!

Well, the first day of 365videoblog has finally arrived and how excited am I?  Well, I’m THIS excited:  Picture me holding my arms out to the sides as far as I can…

Wait just a second… apparently, according to my video, I have no arms.  Well, this is because I simply don’t know how to draw hands.  I wish I could and I’m trying to learn, but in the meantime you’re just going to have to pretend that the arms and hands are there.

So enough of the small talk… here’s the video!!

As you can see, this is a stop motion animation for Stop Motion Sunday.  I made it with markers, watercolor paper and a pair of scissors.  The music is “Autumn Sweater” by Yo La Tengo.  I hope you enjoyed it!!

Have a wonderful day and come back tomorrow for video 2/365!!

You’re only a day away!

Video 1/365 goes up tomorrow… LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUUUMBLE!

When I first decided that I wanted to do this whole 365 days of videos project I decided to take a look around to see if there were other people doing the same thing so that I could see how it was going for them, ask them for advice and most importantly steal all of their video ideas and pass them off as my own!!  Okay, I kid, I kid…

Anyhow, in my search I discovered Sascha Assbach, a designer from Cologne, Germany, who started the 365 video project last year and has now made around 220 videos.  I asked him a few questions about the project and he gave some interesting responses:

I asked Sascha what sparked his interest in this project and he told me that he had taken part in a Flickr group almost two years ago called 365 Self Portraits, in which members took a self portrait every day for a year.  He successfully completed the project, taking a picture of himself every day for a year.  He says “I learned a lot at this time about people, myself, techniques and photography.”  He went on to say that when a friend of his at ipernity, David, began a 365minutes video group he jumped at the chance, wanting to take the Flickr project a step further with video.

For this project, Sascha is creating a 1 minute long personal video each day.  He says that, on average, each video takes between 30 minutes and 4 hours from the shooting phase to the final upload depending on the complexity of the video.  His videos do not have any predetermined theme and consist basically of whatever comes to mind on a given day.  He says he comes up with his ideas “spontaneously, mostly.  I usually don’t have any concept before I shoot.  It’s in the process, since a lot of the videos are part of my (self) therapy.  It is created as I am working on it mostly.”

The feeling that I get from Sascha is that sometimes it can be difficult coming up with an idea and sometimes the entire project can become completely tiring and stressful but if you push on you can come up with some wonderful stuff and the whole thing is worthwhile.  I find him to be completely inspiring!

The following are a couple of Sascha’s videos.  You can see many more on his channel 365minutes at Vimeo.com.

A lot of Sascha’s videos incorporate his children in some way.  This is one of my favorites, a video about him scanning his kids’ artwork:

Here is another one that I think is very cool… 2 Saschas on a couch!

And here is one more I really like… It is a birthday message and it’s in German, so i don’t have any idea what is being said but still, so cool!

These are only 3 of more than 200 personal, original and unique videos that Sascha has created since embarking on the 365minute project.  Check out more of Sascha’s videos on your own!