I’m here at the cabin, looking out the window at the last embers of a fire and listening to my daughter and her camp friend, Miranda, finish up swimming for the night. My little guy is playing with his tiny DVD player in the bedroom because he wasn’t really up for swimming in the dark. It’s bliss done modern-style for me.

When I get home, I’ll have a few fun mementos for the trip. The thing is: they are mostly digital, and I think that’s cool. Here’s what I did for this trip:

The Dad’s Eye View Project

Before taking off for vacation, I set up a Posterous account and configured it to accept posts from my iPhone. The new Voice Messages app made it really easy to record a 1 minute podcast and then sent it to Posterous. That worked well.

I used my Nikon D60 to shoot my “pro” photos, but also did lots of “in the moment” photos with my iPhone. THOSE were sent to many places using an app called PixelPipe. It lets me move photos to many places with one push.

I shot some video using my Flip camera and also my Macbook, and then I’d upload that to YouTube, and post it into the Posterous account so that it’d fit into the same project.

Family Considerations

In all cases, I make sure that I’m not distracting my family. I’m never going to make the “media making” get in the way of the “being with my family.” That’s part one.

Second, I use simple tools like the iPhone and the Flip camera more than I used the Nikon D60, because I liked that it would just slip into my pocket, was a few buttons away from ready to go, and made reasonably immediate media.

I’d do my photo editing in the evenings when the kids were asleep, so as not to take the time away from them.

The REAL Project

The real thing I was doing with my Dads Eye View series was this: think about the anxieties that come with vacations. Times are tough for lots of people. I’m a lot like you in that I worry that I don’t have enough money, and vacations just seem like this place where we shake our our wallets.

The project, for me, became a bit of an exploration into what we were doing, but what it made me feel. I don’t believe I covered that well in the later posts, but I will say that I thought about it with every post, so even though I didn’t share it with you, I learned.

Your Thoughts?

What do you think about vacations? Do you feel those anxieties? How are you capturing media? What do you do? Do you make projects with it?

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