Something About Elana's RO BH Layout

Like other kids, she encountered a mental block on something she does easily...when she does it.

From 2007.

Happy Birthday, Elana!

Pass It On

Summer is Here!

Ever since the Toyota Prius "Harmony" commercial, I've been waiting for Petra Haden to release her cover version of the Bellamy Brothers song, "Let Your Love Flow." I decided to use the song for a nostalgia video of SMGC summer camp:





For a free download of the song, go here.

Happy Halloween!

Acro Batman and Coach Robyn

Gymnastics Halloween riddle:

What kind of bat likes to tumble?

Answer: is found in the video



This video was dreamt up by Shachar. So I attributed half credit to her for it (I know I only got half her last name right in the credits). I wasn't sure there'd really be much of anything worth filming, because it's so dark inside the labyrinth.

I wasn't sure how I'd edit this together, but I think it came out well, albeit very long at over 15 minutes. Trimming it down would mean more work. I'm not THAT devoted.

I began working on this Sunday night, and finished it 4am. Probably about 10 hours of my life. But my deadline was Halloween. So I feel good about that.

If you saw the "sneak" preview for this video....this video isn't much like what you got in the trailer.

The first half is a bit light, to the music of Ghostbusters. Second half is "creepy-lovely". It's to Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Poltergeist. Melodically beautiful and hauntingly chilling. It's amazing how much music enhances and fabricates a mood.

I'm worried that the video might be too scary, at the end. Madison has a big speaking role in the video; but I don't know if she'd be able to view the final clip of Alex. I saved it at the very end, when the Poltergeist music cuts into the eerie children-ghost laughing. Growing up, that part always wracked my nerves (I had a casette soundtrack).

If I had anything to add to the video, it would be filming a graveyard scene of an empty gym from unique angles....perhaps the rings swaying back and forth with no one present....an abandoned SMGC cartwheel-a-thon doll smiling into the camera....



....but that would mean re-editing the video, huh?


I do have "cutting room floor" clips of the kids tearing down the labyrinth and putting the mats away; so maybe I'll do that and add it on as a separate "closing credits" video, to this blogpost.

I am having trouble uploading it to Google video. I'm going to try my LiveDigital account. In the meantime, you can download the file directly to your computer. It's a pretty large file at around 247 MBs. If clicking the link takes you to the fileden.com website with lots of registration fill-out info, just skip all that, scroll down the page, and click "pass", or whatever it says. You don't have to fill all that gunk out.

My favorite part remains the 2nd half of the video. Stay-tuned to updates to this post.

Happy safe Tricks-or-Treating!