Holiday Video
I've uploaded some video of my Sheffield to Shanghai trip. Don't expect mini masterpieces as it's all a bit rubbish. Keep in mind...1) I had a budget video camera.
2) I suck at filming.
3) I'm rubbish at video editing.
4) On the train, I was shooting through a dirty window.
I'll eventually publish my journal too, but it won't be any time soon. I typed it all up and there's 15,000 words, which is too much to upload and expect people to read, even the hardcore that made it all the way through this post. It needs editing and structuring, and these are both skills I don't currently posses. I do have a desire to learn though, and so have bought and read Elements of Style by William Struck.
I discovered this morning that the whole text is available online, which would have saved me a few squid. Bizarrely, I also found out that the book has been turned into an operatic cycle of nine songs, a work which was premiered a few days ago in New York. The review sounds like something from The Onion. Fair play, I say. If I came up with an idea as ridiculous and impractical as writing an opera based on an English Writing text book, I would very quickly decide not to pursue it. In fact, I often do come up with ideas as ridiculous as this, and always discount them as of little value and a waste of time. Maybe it's time to change that. Maybe it's time I started acting on some of these ideas. God help us all.
2 Comments:
Christophersson, these links seem a wee bit dead from Scotland.
Aah, yes, well spotted. I'll fix later.
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