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Weblog of Dion Kesling. Designer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
 

Dion's Weblog 3.0

Happy New Year 31Dec07

All the best for 2008 and have a wonderful New Year’s Eve! smile Goodbye 2007, hello 2008. To ring in the new year, I have some video’s Video from the past year to share…

Disneyland Resort Paris 2007 8Dec07

Here is a quick video Video I did of our november trip to Disneyland Resort Paris. Can’t use the Brightcove video solution because they do not allow any private uploads anymore. A shame because their video customization was excellent. YouTube has added the ability to create custom players too, so I guess I’ll try those for a while. One advantage though, I can export an edited movie directly to YouTube from iMovie. Very quickly and very easy.

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Berit performing Summerland 9Jul07

Last sunday Berit took her first steps on a big stage. The dance school she takes lessons from (toddler dance class), DPFC, organized their annual showing where all classes from the school get to perform and show parents and relatives what they have learned. The show this year was called ‘Ready 4 Takeoff’.

Being the smallest age group of all performers, they where coached on stage by instructor Tamara. Of course being only 3 years old one cannot expect everything to go as synchronized as professional cheerleaders but just doing the performance is enough to get everyone on their feet to cheer on the little ones. Mom and Dad are very proud wink. Berit is the girl in the blue costume, she comes into view on the left side, a third into the video.

This was filmed with my mobile phone, we were prohibited to bring any professional photo or video equipment into the theater because there was a team of professional videographers. This was the best I could do under the circumstances getting instant footage of Berit. Hopefully the 3 minute performance on the DVD is well worth it.

Day 1, Hotel Engel in southern Germany 9Jun07

The first day is usually a travel day. We will be using our own transport (2 cars) during our vacation and made the necessary preparations. Installing 2 tv screens on the front seat headrests was a golden move.

Watching her own dvd’s, Berit was very well behaved during the whole trip. A lot of 1 euro presents, which Yvonne packed in a separate bag, helped a lot too. Favourites of course are a Cinderella doll and Barbapapa night light.

Livia was a little more difficult to handle, that was expected of course. Being constrained in a child seat for a lot of hours is never pleasant. She did manage to get some sleep over the course of the day and that made her well rested for most of the time. As her attention span isn’t as evolved as Berit, it is much more difficult to distract her with a present. Now that we are settled all toys are suddenly a lot more interesting smile.

Livia playtime video’s 23May07

I am testing publication of video content. I chose to use the Brightcove service over other video solutions mainly because of their customization options and being able to integrate the video player into an existing website design. Of course the popular YouTube, Google video and Yahoo video are popular options but they do not offer the flexibility and a nice looking player like Brightcove offers.

I am going to try to integrate the player wih ExpressionEngine so that publication of new videos is as easy as publishing a text post. Here are some video’s of Livia playing at Grandpa Leo’s attic. Click the image bellow to view the first movie or click the ‘Browse Video List’ button to view the remaining 3 video’s from this lineup.

Doe Maar, the day after 23May07

Doe Maar, the Musical is a hit in my opinion. I was not disappointed after the show was over. The 5 awards are well deserved, Pieter van de Waterbeemd did a great job mixing the story line with all of the well known Doe Maar songs.

If you know the Doe Maar songs the experience is much more enjoyable, being a fan one can get very excited hearing the up-tempo reggae songs. Of course every Doe Maar hit comes along during the show, such as Nederwiet Video Smoorverliefd Video or De Bom Video.