Saturday, March 26, 2011

Mom and Me…

Another Picture

Picture from the Circus

We're at the circus!

I am sitting in the arena of the Bismarck civic center waiting for the show to begin… I am sure there will be some pictures and maybe a video clip posted here in the near future… it looks like it will be a good show!
Andrew b.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Kenney Family!

Here is another video from the NDHSA Convention talent night. This is the Kenney family, whom I am proud to call my friends:



Enjoy!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Pictures of a frosty morning

Hello!
  With all of the excitement from the convention starting to wear off, I thought I would post a couple of pictures from after the convention. These pictures are of us loading up corn for sale:


 Yesterday we woke up to a beautiful frosty morning:


Had to share those cool pictures!
  Andrew B.

More videos:

Here are a couple more clips from the talent night:
 First we have our friends, Tim and Louisa S.



And here we have a short skit performed by a couple of homeschool parents. The skit is called "The Stool", but seeing as they had a chair instead of a stool, the called it "The Chair."



And here is a clip from the Homeschool Choir's first practice. I didn't get the final performance on tape, or I would share that instead. Just keep in mind that we are just practicing, we still needed a lot of work!



Thanks for watching, I hope you are enjoying all these videos!
  Andrew B.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Problem solved!

I apologize for the technical difficulties, but I believe I have the bugs worked out now. Lesson learned: Do not use SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology, a feature of PowerDirector that allows you not to have to re-render video if it isn't being changed...) when you want to upload to YouTube. Somehow it doesn't produce the correct bitstream or something... Whatever the reason, it works much better if you take the time and render the whole video, not just the parts that have changed... Anyway, enough technical mumbo-jumbo!
 I did re-upload my first videos now, so if you had linked to my old ones, you will have to reset your links... I am also uploading some more videos to YouTube right now, however I don't know when I will get around to posting them here. You can always just check out my YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ManofCourage18
 Goodnight!
  Andrew B.

Is it just me?

Dear readers,
 It appears that YouTube doesn't like the format I am uploading my videos with or something, as all of the ones I looked at have the audio screwed up, ie. not in sync, and crackling... Have you experienced this problem when watching my videos of the convention? I just want to make sure it isn't just my computer before I go and re-upload all of those videos...
 Thanks for your input!
   Andrew B.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

More convention videos

Here are a couple more clips from the NDHSA Convention. This was taken Friday morning at the start of the convention:



 And another clip from the talent night:



 Goodnight!
   Andrew B.

Monday, March 7, 2011

"After The Party"

I thought these three little ones were very cute:



 This is the Skaar family's song:



Hope you are enjoying all this!
  Andrew B.

Talent Night continued

Here is the video of the music performed by a very talented young man by the name of Paul S.

An Announcement, and more video from the convention...

Hello all,

 For those of you who don't know this already, today is my sister Cora's birthday! If you would like to send her your well wishes, you can do so over at her blog.

  As I promised, I will be posting some more videos from the convention throughout the week. Here we have the Litfin family's song:


More coming soon...
  Andrew B.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

The convention is over... :-(

Once again, the party is over... Oops, I meant to say convention -- although there isn't a whole lot of difference! :-) We had a very enjoyable time, both visiting with old friends and getting to know some new ones. One of the highlights of the convention was the resurfacing of the Talent Night, something that used to be done 15 years ago, but has not been done recently. I will be posting several video clips from the talent night here in the next couple of days, so be sure to check back soon! We will start out with my good friends the Bartlett Boys:



Hope you enjoy their music as much as I do!
  Andrew B.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

First video post with my NEW Camera

Hi all,
 I had a little extra time this afternoon and thought I'd take a short clip of me playing banjo to upload to YouTube. Check it out in HD!
 


 Andrew B.