ARK

The David Thomas Chronicles
After Quiz last week, and indeed after McDonalds, a few of us went out to visit some graveyards. Originally, we were only going to visit Spynie Churchyard, but we went on to visit Lossiemouth Graveyard and also Alves Graveyard.

From our adventure, we ended up with what probably adds up to around 40mins of video.

On Wednesday, a few of us went out to continue the chronicles. Though, this time, without David Thomas. The story went from reality to fiction in mere seconds. Though, fortunately, in my mind at least, still works.

The first Chronicle can be found here: The David Thomas Chronicles.

ARK adventures
Thursday was Allan's birthday. We went out for a meal and then headed back to his and watched Jurassic Park. While leaving, we were discussing what we'd do the next day, given that some of us were free. It was agreed that Allan, Robyn and myself would meet up for lunch.

Which we did. I walked to Robyn's and met her, then headed to Audrey's where Allan came and met us. While in Audrey's we decided to go to the beach. A bus to Hopeman and then a walk to The Cove.

After the initial shock of the ticket price. We were on our way. The day was also an excuse to test out the Kodak Playsport for the first time. One thing that really impressed me was the battery life. From what I'd read online, people had experienced it going down really quickly. However, I filmed on and off all day and was still left with time to go.

Something that I wasn't impressed with, though I'm sure it's more my computer's fault than the camera's, is that the editing software I usually use didn't seem to be able to handle the video files. Playing them out-of-sync, etc. I downloaded a video converter and switched them from .mov to .avi and it all worked. Though, by doing that, i forfeited some quality -- but then I do that by saving videos in the format I do anyway. I'm too lazy to wait for HD videos to render.

Photography
ARK -- The Cove

Made of Honour
This is quite possibly the most offensive film I've seen. It takes every stereotype for Scotland and bundles it into a pro-american love story.

Scotland, as depicted in the film: Remote, desolate, everyone lives in a castle by a loch, everyone wears Tartan (kilts, etc), plays bagpipes, eats haggis and drinks whiskey. Before the wedding, there was the 'traditional' highland games... Plus it was run through a filter making it look dull.

America, as depicted in the film: Vibrant city, skyscrapers, macbooks, starbucks, top of the line gadgets. Shiny, slick...

Essentially America's made to look awesome, where as Scotland's made to look backwards and like something out of Monty Python & The Holy Grail.

It felt like one of those Japanese Car commercials that Brad Pitt or someone does for the money, knowing that they'll never be shown outside of japan. Except, Kevin McKidd is a dumb fuck who takes the money and plays dumb scottish characters without thinking about how his home country might percieve him.

Quiz
Team Name: The Glockenspiel Hackers
Score: 45.5

Team name was courtesy of Paula's "Team Name Generator" app. Which is usually pretty useless, but the one we used got a chuckle out of us.