Due to my laptop being stolen and a series of events that followed (A.K.A. a quarter-life crisis) I have decided to discontinue 365 Video Blog.  I took the robbery on the 6th day of the project as a sign that making a video a day for an entire year just wasn’t in the cards for me.

However, I’m not leaving the video blogosphere completely.  I have chosen to start a new blog, Beware the Loquat.  Beware the Loquat will be dedicated to all of the things I like– namely, video, art, culture, animation, literature and the bizarre.

Today I posted my first video and post on Beware the Loquat.  I hope you’ll check it out and follow the progress of my new blog!

As a side note, I am still trying to figure out what’s happening with the blog.  It is becoming less and less likely that I will have the time and energy to make and post a video every single day for a year… Since my computers were stolen I got a new job that is much more time consuming than my last and I have taken on a lot of other projects and responsibilities.  Rest assured, I will continue to do something and I will let you know what’s going on as soon as I figure it out!

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!!!!!

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.

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!!

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!!

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!!

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!!