Wednesday, September 23, 2009

StOp MoTiOn

Are you bored? Go get a camera and do some Stop Motion! If you have a free day with nothing to do, you could try out stop motion. Stop motion is about creating a video by taking pictures. It would be better to have a good camera with a lot of photo films and could take fast picture at a time, that would be faster. If you don't have that kind of camera and you have a descent kind of camera it would take longer. Stop motion takes time to make a video but it's fun. When some people make a three to five minute video it takes about nine hours for all the making, editing, and posting. The picture people have taken all together have about 50,000 photos. Making this stop motion video is interesting, entertaining, and funny to watch but it takes hard work. You just need to move about one inch per photo and you could make a post or lay on the floor to make it look like your sliding.

Again looking at random videos, then I some how found this on You Tube or saw something similar on TV. When I first saw a stop motion video it looked odd to me because it was a person sliding on the floor and another person on his back which they were doing The Human Skateboard. I was thinking of making a stop motion video and I end up making one with my brother and my friend. But we weren't all in the same picture at once in making a video, it was one set for each of us. My brother and his stop motion was fast, it was just him sliding on the floor and spinning. My friend made one with himself spinning in a circle but that one was a test to see how it looked like. He made another one of himself standing with a sword coming at towards the camera. My friend and I thought of a good stop motion of me. I was a regular person starting to transform with armor up grades which was my sparing gear I put on each piece like every 15 photos. My stop motion took about 50 minutes for a 20 second video with 327 photos. With the other stop motion and mine combined was a 32 second video with 462 photos. I wish I could post up my stop motion video on You Tube but I don't know how to edit it and post it online.

This video I like the best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY
This video must have taken forever to make http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s&feature=player_embedded

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Le Parkour/Free Running

What is Parkour and Free running? They are pretty much the same thing but they are a little different from each other. This is a popular sport mainly taken place in England,France,and the UK. There are not a lot of Free Runners in other countries and there are a few in the U.S.A. Le Parkour means "The Art Of Movement". Its not the kind of sport that's like the other sport. You could do this anywhere because its mostly doing Parkour vaults, flips, and wall running. Parkour vaults are doing tricks on rails, doing crazy stuff off of objects, and combination's. A vault is jumping or leaping, especially with the use of hands. In England there are a lot of people who do this for fun in the city.
The reason why I am writing about this because I find this interesting and tell people about it. I want to do free running too and I'm working on it. There are lots of different vaults to do and I know how to do a few of the vaults. In the future, I might plan on taking gymnastics for private lessons to learn flips. This is not for sure but if I'm good enough I would go to England or France to do Parkour with a team. I was interested in Parkour when I found some video on You tube and I started to watch them. When I was watching some videos it looked fun and made me want to do Parkour. The people who are doing Parkour are BEASTLY and they are incredible. From these videos I try to learn some of the vaults they do and tutorial videos. I want to list the things I can do Monkey Vault, Kong Vault, King Kong Vault, Lazy Vault, Turn Vault, Gate Vault, Under Bar, maybe a Bar Flip but I had attempt it on my couch and the Palm Spin, Wall Run up about 9ft-11ft high, Human Flag Pole, a Front Flip but I'm still working on the landing, oh and Dive Rolls.

Here are some videos you could check out on You Tube copy this link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcqRuFEMLs
Check out more videos if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhgIn4iVzg&feature=fvst This one is about Vaults.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXmkmtx8eI&feature=channel This video is my first front flip attempts in the summer xD. Tell me what you think about it. Comment Me!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Kung Fu and Writing

One of the the things i want to write about is Kung Fu and Vietnamese Martial Arts. I want to write about this topic because it's awsome to learn new things. I want people to know what I do or plan in the future what I'm going to do with my skills I learned. In the future i plan to take
Martial Arts for as long as I can and teach people the basic how to defend yo urself.
I hope to improve my writing by staying on topic and not get stuck on my writing asignment. In the future I plan on improving things on my writing. Spelling errors are annoying to me because when I think it's wrong I try to spell it again and it slows me down on my writing. i want to develop my paragraphs more and punctuation. I want to im prove my speed of writing so I can get done fast. When i write i keep stoping to think what to write about and keep going until I'm done.It would help me with my essays and my SAT Test.

Saturday, September 5, 2009