As it stands, we ordered some official Disney-shot family photos yesterday. There's this in-park product called "Photo Pass" that is really cool. You get a laminated card with a barcode and a serial number, and every time you see an official Disney photographer, they'll take your picture, and then scan the card, and your picture is added to an online database of photos. They had these photographers all over at every park, either at especially iconic locations (on Main Street, in front of the castle, etc.) or at character meet and greet locations.
So, we ordered a few pictures from there that we weren't able to get ourselves. That just leaves the 1,000 or so photos that we took ourselves to put together into an Apple iPhoto album and order. With any luck, the album will be cheaper than the handful of prints we ordered from Disney.
Meanwhile, I put a handful of photos up in my MobileMe webspace. As of this writing, it's still rough, as there's a few pics to swap out, and the pics aren't captioned. I've still got to figure out what to do with the two hours+ of digital video I shot, and then there's all the podcast audio to deal with... should be some fun memories when I dig into it, though. I'll keep you all posted when things start moving again.
]]>(Sorry, we finally rented Dark Knight this weekend, and the line came to mind.)
Still... here we are, the first podcast of the new year. Hope my myriad half dozen listeners enjoy it. Maybe I'll shift to Sunday for releases - it'll give me a chance to record on the weekend and make is still feel fresh.
]]>This meme was passed along to me by Zaldor, someone I follow on twitter. You're supposed to list seven things someone might not know about you, and then ask seven others to do the same. Well, here's my seven things:
Umm... still working on the list. I'll finish this up later :)]]>
(Googling to confirm the lyrics... Okay, got them wrong the first time. Cup of Wonder is a great old song...)
At any rate, I'm back! First episode in a month and a half, so excuse any strangeness in audio, I'm trying new things. Keep an eye on this space, I'm gonna start posting regularly again :)
]]>Holy cow! I went to see how long it's been since I posted something here, and realized I totally forgot to mention that I posted episode #51 of the podcast back on November 22nd! I guess that means I should get cracking on #52, since it's now two weeks since I posted that one.
]]>It occured to me this evening that I stumbled into something really cool. Twitter is a whole new area of writing and social communication. I've been following famed D&D cartoonist and writer Phil Foglio on Twitter for a while, where he took a character from his great webcomic Girl Genius and is continuing their story there, 140 characters at a time. I've checked out a few other people who tried their hand at writing a novel and posted it a bit at a time on Twitter, but they always managed to fade out before completion. There was also a one-day event between a few authors on Twitter a little while ago where they made up a story as they went along, feeding off of each others ideas. But this is a different animal.
This time, there's nine different people, all contributing to the same story - okay, eight, since one of the twitterers seems to have gone awol. And unlike the previous one-day event I was talking about, I don't think these writers know each other - there's no contact info in the character accounts, and nobody's attempted to contact me to find out who I am. A missing character just showed up one day, and they were welcomed into the flow of the story.
The tricky part right now is trying to figure how to play things with this lack of communication - where might we be in the canon of the series, for example? What do "we" know about each other as we're making up our entries? Obviously, we're not as far as the end of the series, or the follow-up movie, since everyone is still here. But where exactly is here? Are we playing along just past where the series ended? Just before the movie? Does it even matter? We could easily take our story off the track of the series - would it matter? Should it matter? This is interesting stuff, and it's gonna be fun, I think.
I'm pretty sure this put the nail in my NaNoWriMo coffin for the year, whatever happens.]]>
Podcast #62