Nathan and his Open Ideals » Personal http://openideals.org ... and the trouble it often gets him in Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:10:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Christmas Vlog on a Flip Mino HD http://openideals.org/2008/12/29/my-christmas-vlog-on-a-flip-mino-hd/ http://openideals.org/2008/12/29/my-christmas-vlog-on-a-flip-mino-hd/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:50:34 +0000 nathan http://openideals.com/?p=175 MC bought me a swell gift for Christmas – the Flip Mino HD – a tiny wonder that delivers on the promise of high quality video in a small package. The only real issue I have with it is that being so small, it is difficult to keep steady. Perhaps with time and practice I’ll improve. However, the upside of the stealth profile is that almost no one notices I am filming them at all, allowing me to capture people in very natural moments. Also, according to my buddy noneck, you can hack your flip, adding a wide angle lens to it!

Anyhow, enjoy this four minute peek into my Christmas day revelry….


Christmas in the Colonies from natdefreitas on Vimeo.

This was definitely the year of gadgets for me, as I also was given a Polaroid Pogo mobile printer and a ThinkGeek Wifi Finder T-Shirt! More on these awesome toys in a later post…

Many thanks to Snr. Sufjan Stevens for the tune… go buy his Christmas album if you like it!

]]> http://openideals.org/2008/12/29/my-christmas-vlog-on-a-flip-mino-hd/feed/ 0 Four Years of Videoblogging http://openideals.org/2008/09/24/four-years-of-videoblogging/ http://openideals.org/2008/09/24/four-years-of-videoblogging/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:06:52 +0000 nathan http://openideals.com/?p=80 You may have heard, I recently got married, and as part of that spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with photo and video archives. I’m not much of a “filmmaker”, but Micaela and I have had fun sharing some of our personal adventures with our family, friends and the world.

What I appreciate the most was the fact that we hadn’t set out to document so much of our lives, we just did it, in true blogging style. What we ended up with was a wonderful retrospective of some of the amazing days that led us to our wedding day.

And now for your enjoyment…

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