Vancouver On Video

This is my last day in Vancouver, so here I have a short video of my trip here. Tomorrow I leave for Alberta, where I'll meet up with my friends and have the second part of my Canadian adventure.

Vancouver Aquarium Part 4

Finally, I made a video of the cool animals I saw at the aquarium, complete with a waltzy soundtrack.

Kites In The Wind

I am at the seaside again. It's a weekend so there are a lot of people here, enjoying the view and the breeze. It's windy, and there are folks flying kites. I'm here to buy dinner at the mall nearby, but it's always nice to stop by the seaside.

Richard M. Stallman And Brian Aker At FOSS.my 2009

I had a great time at FOSS.my 2009. The speakers were great, and I learned a lot from the technical talks. RMS also came down, and here's a lively exchanged I recorded with him and Brian Aker on dual-licensing of GPL-ed software.

ASIMO

Japan has all the awesome robots. ASIMO is a walking, bipedal, humanoid robot designed by Honda as a way of showing the world just how cool they are. ASIMO is going on an international tour, and he stopped by in Penang at Queensbay Mall. I managed to catch the show on the last day (the 30th of November), and here is a video clip I mashed together of footage I took of the robot.

ASIMO himself "talks" with the human host, but it is most probably a scripted pre-recorded presentation as we can't actually talk to machines in natural language reliably yet. The kids in the audience (that includes me I suppose) were enthralled by the robot as it demonstrated walking, ball-kicking, drink-serving, painting and dancing.

Fishing: A Video Documentary

This is the first time I've tried adding video to this blog. I compiled the clip above from videos I shot with my Sony H2 while on photography expeditions. I used a Mac and iMovie for post-processing. The narrator is my friend Dr. Murray Johnston, who kindly provided his voice to give the commentary track the necessary gravitas for the documentary-type video I was attempting.