Animated music!

Many of you have probably seen the very cool animated video going around on Youtube showing a very cool machine playing music:







I recently came across this amazing video of a REAL version of this amazing machine! Apparently the guys at Intel decided to have a go at it, and did a pretty good job!





 Enjoy!

More videos from the NDHSA Convention

I finally got around to posting a couple more videos from this years Homeschool Convention over on YouTube, so thought I would let you all know about those. You can see them all over at my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ManofCourage18

I also uploaded a video of my Mom and Sister playing one of my favorite songs as a piano duet:



Enjoy!

Andrew B.

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!

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.

"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.

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.

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.

No Longer a Teenager!

Today I turned 20! Wow, Time sure flies!
So far it has been a good day, although the party is just starting now. :-) Dad was trucking all day, and just got home a couple of minutes ago so our party had to be this evening... I did already get one of my presents from Cora, which was a music CD made by some friends of ours. (The Waddingtons) (Thanks Cora!)
It is our tradition around here to let people off of their regular chores on their birthday, so it was nice to have a little break! I did help a little with cleaning the house, so that we would have some time to play a couple of games. ;-)
Just havin' fun today!
Andrew B.

PD video clips

Here are some more clips,

First, a game that everybody likes, Tug-of-War!

Here is a clip of the Peterson family playing some music:

More to come...

A favorite song:

The weather reminds me of this song we hear on Rejoice Radio once in a while:

We are really wet here right now, as we have had about 4.5 INCHES of rain since Friday night... Needless to say, there is no way we can be out in the fields in the next couple of days...

Today we worked on cleaning up the shop, as it had become a regular pigspen! We couldn't hardly get anything inside to work on it anymore, and seeing as everything was wet outside, we decided to dig in. :-) We made a lot of progress, but there is still a long way to go... I think we will be loading up a load of scrap iron and taking it up to the junk yard in Bismarck on Wednesday, so that will help clear out some room.

Thats all for now,

Andrew B.

Dictation, and a mystery sound.

I started this post a week ago, but didn't get a chance to finish it till now... Here goes:

Happy Sabbath!

This morning after chores, while I was waiting for the shower to be available, I was playing around in my room and found a way to make this funny noise. Can you guess how I made it?



Jacob said this sound reminds him of a robot computer processing data. I think it would be a good sound effect for a SCI/FI movie...


As you may be able to tell from the title, I am once again dictating to my computer. It is actually working pretty well this time, and I am gaining more confidence in the system. In this whole paragraph, I haven't had to correct one mistake! It is definitely a lot faster than typing, at least if you're as slow at typing as I am. :-) You can even make a smiley face by simply saying "Smiley face"!

Well, I need to get going. "Talk" to you later,
Andrew B.

Music

Hi again!

Here is another video from my graduation. It is of Jacob and I playing "Blackberry Blossom" on our instruments. Enjoy!