Here are some short videos taken with our cheap camera of Trevor doing his floor routine at last week’s Winter Invitational at Gymnastics Village. The last one is about half of the actual routine.
* trevor-floor-warmup-1.mov (628k)
* trevor-floor-warmup-2.mov (888k)
* trevor-floor-route-partial.mov (7.5M)
I took a couple of the boys and some of their friends to the Thunder Nationals up in Manchester, NH this weekend.
It had everything — Monster Truck free style, Quad racing, motocross jumps and of course Monster Truck racing.
Here are some photos to give you the feel of being there –
Another busy holiday at our house.
After months of hounding him, Griffin made me this adorable Tux pengin christmas ornament for his Secret Santa.
Emma just loves the Kerry/Edwards sign she made Saturday at the headquarters.
She knows the letters are L E 5 4 and E S 5 4 and that it says “John Kerry”.
Griffin was the sole director, producer, photographer and set designer for this mini-movie.
All I did was knock down the resolution for the web version (the original is 20M, this is only 2M)
and run the magic command to convert it to an animated GIF image (convert -delay 20 *.jpg output.gif).
[Check it out!](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/griffin-stop-motion-snake-video-small-format.gif)
Send kudos to Griffin by sending email to his first name @ his last name dot com
This evening Griffin and I made some stop-motion videos using some clay figures he made and my HP camera.
[Take a look](http://www.nozell.com/blog/data/griffin-video-02.avi)
This is how we did it:
* Set the HP 318 Camera to the lowest resolution, turn off flash
* Screw in the little tripod I got years ago for one of the first webcams
* Have plenty of light
* Take about 90+ photos
* dump onto my Linux/Debian laptop (gphoto2 –get-all-files)
* Convert to an animated gif ( convert -delay 10 IM*.jpg out.gif) with a 10/100 second delay. Realize it is a huge 20M file
* Convert to AVI ( mencoder “mf://IM*.jpg” -mf type=jpg:fps=7 -ovc lavc -o output.avi) which gives a much smaller (~1M) file.
Repeat until the batteries need to be recharged.
In honor five of our six kids heading to the school bus tomorrow, I present this picture of me, perhaps the day before *I* had to go back to school.
On the whole, I’d rather read my comic book
Originally uploaded by marcn.
On the whole, I’d rather read my comic books
Have fun kids! Mom & I have been looking forward to this day for about 13 weeks…
Yeah, dad knows all the cool character video games.
Fear my mad skillz.
At noon time [Gymnastics Village](http://www.gymnasticsvillage.com) had a clinic taught by three former female Olympic gymnastics team members — Tasha Swikert, Hollie Vise and someone whose name I didn’t catch. Mary Lee Tracy, the Women’s International team coach was also there promoting _Rock with the Stars from Athens_ at the Whittemore Center next week. It was really focused on just the girls, so we didn’t stay too long after buying tickets to the show for Trevor and a parent to be determined later.
Here are some photos:
Tasha Swikert, Hollie Vise and someone whose name I didn’t catch (drop me a note)
Hollie Vise showing the girls how to stretch
