Bar Juggling in the English Garden

Walking one warm summer day in the English Garden (a public park) in Geneva, I came across these three young men who were practicing their bar juggling on the lawn. After filming them, I asked them for their permission to upload the video onto the web. They acquiesced warmly! I found the perfect piece of music on the Current APM music library. There is one particularly magic moment when the young man with a red shirt's movements match the music absolutely perfectly - 1:20 to 1:50 or thereabouts! At one point, a rude old lady walked right in front of my camera in spite of my signs to her asking her to walk behind me. I slightly lost my cool at that point. Don't you hate it when people do that to you?

Anyway, the old lady notwithstanding, I am quite pleased with this little video.

For best results, click on HQ as soon as the video launches, and use headphones.

Enjoy!

Torusphere I

This is my second Bryce 5 3D animation. It took a lot of work and two sleepless nights... Creating the animation to get the results I had visualized took a few hours, rendering the one-minute animation to video took my computer sixteen hours... Editing it, finding the right music, fitting the video to the music and making it (more or less) synchronized with the music, then rendering it into a format that doesn't distort it took a whole day and half the night. More than 48 hours of almost non-stop work! I really need a new computer, a supercomputer (64 bits processor is my dream) with a gigantic amount of storage space, so that I don't have to wait for sixteen hours just to render a minute's worth of simple animation - each frame took a bit less than a minute to render, but some of my pictures which I would love to animate take much longer to render, and there are 30 frames per second, so if I were to make some of the animations I have in mind, it would take my computer over a week to render them to video, if not longer... Unfortunately, even a new and ordinary computer that is more powerful than my old machine is beyond my very modest income, especially as we now are two living on it.

Ah well, I will have to continue being patient and terribly frustrated (while my computer slaves away to render my animations to video, I can't use it for anything else, so I cannot continue creating all those pictures and animations which I have in mind, nor can I connect to the web), and the limitations of my old computer allow me to make only very short and very simple animations. It is always very painful for an artist not to have access to the materials he or she needs to fully express himself or herself, to fully allow his or her talent to blossom and skills to grow. But enough of my sob-story, I hope you enjoy my little beginner's creation! :)

The music is "Relax Your Soul A Second" by Epping/Reiter, from http://www.apmmusic.com























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While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of DivX to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

My first 3D animation!

Until I watched Freetutorials' video on Bryce animation on March 28 and 29 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYg1swDORI - I had been completely intimidated by the animation functions in Bryce - and reading user's manuals makes my mind go completely blank... So, after watching that video carfully several times, I gave it a go, and here is the result. I looped it several times to make it fit the length of the music file.
Royalty-free music: "Guitar Musette" by Angelo Debarre, licenced from APM music - http://www.apmmusic.com























Requires DivX to be installed - you can get it free from here: http://tinyurl.com/2zuxrs

While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of DivX to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

Showcase of my Digital Artwork (1)

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Showcase of my Digital Artwork (2)

If your monitor's screen starts dimming and goes black all around the video - don't panic, that's normal and is a feature of my video host's website. To restore the normal screen, just move your mouse.

Dario's Musicians With Tony Manias - Soundcheck-Jamming Part One (I made this!)

Here is yet another one the very first videos I have made. I hope you like it. If you are registered with MetaCafe, and if you like this video, do click on this link: Dario's Musicians With Tony Manias - Soundcheck-Jamming Part One to give me a rating.












Dario's Musicians With Tony Manias - Soundcheck-Jamming Part One - The best video clips are right here

Dario & ses musiciens - L'Envie (I made this!)

Here is another one the very first videos I have made. I hope you like it. If you are registered with MetaCafe, and if you like this video, do click on this link: Dario & His Musicians - L'Envie to give me a rating.












Dario & His Musicians - L'Envie - The funniest videos clips are here

Dario & ses musiciens - Le Pénitencier (I made this!)

Here is another one the very first videos I have made. I hope you like it. If you are registered with MetaCafe, and if you like this video, do click on this link: Dario & His Musicians - Le Pénitencier to give me a rating.

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Dario & His Musicians - Le Penitencier - Funny home videos are a click away

Rainbow in the Jet d'Eau (I made this!)

I'm a total beginner with a video camera and with video editing, so there are naturally many flaws in my video clips. Here is one the very first ones I have made. I hope you like it. If you are registered with MetaCafe, and if you like this my first effort, do click on this link: Rainbow In The Jet D'Eau to give me a rating.

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Rainbow In The Jet D'Eau - The best video clips are here