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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Chris,
two things really stood out to me in this post.
1. The importance of family (Definitely agree)
2. The importance of Legacy (Thanks GaryVee)
and the Bonus- all this CAN be achieved through technology (which like it or not makes our lives simpler EVEN through the occasional glitch and no matter how nasty people speak about twitter)
All the best,
Justin “R” (Pirate?) French
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Chris,
two things really stood out to me in this post.
1. The importance of family (Definitely agree)
2. The importance of Legacy (Thanks GaryVee)
and the Bonus- all this CAN be achieved through technology (which like it or not makes our lives simpler EVEN through the occasional glitch and no matter how nasty people speak about twitter)
All the best,
Justin “R” (Pirate?) French
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Love the perspective. Family rocks! In my case, the media usage is kinda melded with the whole being with family thing.
My wife is a crazy picture taker. So much so that it drives me nuts and I’m the ‘media person’ in the family.
I have a Flip Ultra that I use on outings with my wife. On our trip to Hawaii a few weeks ago I took 109 clips and pulled them in to iMovie to make a memorable video to send to the whole family. My wife loved that I did that.
The flip camera became part of the vacation. We came up with a new verb. My wife would say “Are you flippin’ this?”
I did save the editing till after we get home though.
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Love the perspective. Family rocks! In my case, the media usage is kinda melded with the whole being with family thing.
My wife is a crazy picture taker. So much so that it drives me nuts and I’m the ‘media person’ in the family.
I have a Flip Ultra that I use on outings with my wife. On our trip to Hawaii a few weeks ago I took 109 clips and pulled them in to iMovie to make a memorable video to send to the whole family. My wife loved that I did that.
The flip camera became part of the vacation. We came up with a new verb. My wife would say “Are you flippin’ this?”
I did save the editing till after we get home though.
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My wife and I managed to quash a lot of our anxieties over vacations and money spending this June. We went on a three week vacation to visit family and friends with a goal of only spending our normal weekly budget each of the three weeks.
We managed to mostly succeed in our goal, we went about $300 over our normal three week budget, which was better than I think either of us truly thought we would do. The staying with family and friends definitely made this possible, there is no way we could have done this and paid for accommodation. However, this has given us confidence that when we do go on a vacation with added expenses that we will be able to limit what we spend.
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My wife and I managed to quash a lot of our anxieties over vacations and money spending this June. We went on a three week vacation to visit family and friends with a goal of only spending our normal weekly budget each of the three weeks.
We managed to mostly succeed in our goal, we went about $300 over our normal three week budget, which was better than I think either of us truly thought we would do. The staying with family and friends definitely made this possible, there is no way we could have done this and paid for accommodation. However, this has given us confidence that when we do go on a vacation with added expenses that we will be able to limit what we spend.
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who knows it might work…
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who knows it might work…
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who knows it might work…
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who knows it might work…
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who knows it might work…