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03.28.17
Can
you believe that we're already a quarter way through 2017? I know.
Time surely flies! And the fact that the clock jumped an
hour ahead for many of us three weeks ago, has likely added to that
fast feeling. The weather has also finally gotten a little better for
those of us in southern Ontario, but is by no means warm yet!
Anyways! Let's discuss those three places I just uploaded.
Robert
Samuel McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute. According to
word, that's 7 words and 60 characters. Wow, definitely quite a
mouthful alright! So, did you know that I sort of almost ended up not
filming this school, nor the neighbouring places I filmed around it?
Yeah! Want to know why? Because of the rain! That day, it was raining
quite a bit, but not terribly heavily. I was thinking, “Guess I
won't be going out today” Until when I looked at the hourly
forecast, I noticed that the rain was scheduled to stop in the early
afternoon. Now as we all know (or should know!) is the fact that
sometimes these weather forecasts can be so unpredictable,
but this time, this one held true to its forecast and stopped
raining. When I saw that the rain had seized and that it wasn't
scheduled to come back, I went out to visit the Stevenson &
Rossland area in
Oshawa
to film this place, and neighbouring Adelaide. “How did you like
RS?” You might ask. Well, from the commentary that I made on the
video, you can tell that I found it to be a
big, hilly place. It was also pretty cloudy, which made the video
look a little duller than
it should. This and the combination of my voice may(?) have made it
sound like I wasn't too thrilled, but I found it to be an alright
place to film. The centre hill area was pretty chill. You've seen it
in the video, so you know what's next: Adelaide! And still, I haven't
bothered researching the two yet. I know. How lazy and slack of me!
This
school! It seems to be a relatively small school, judging from the
amount of time it took to walk around it. It
could
be
one those places where it's larger than it looks on the inside.
Who knows. All I know is that it was a bit of a pain to navigate,
thanks to a fence on one of the sides. While annoying for me, it's
honestly there for the safety of the kids, because you don't want
kids falling and breaking some part of them on the concrete, so it
was necessary. Well, I guess they could have solved that steep area
by
turning
it into a slope, or even better, stairs! Why didn't they do that? I
don't know... I'm not the architecture or engineer here, but it
doesn't take the knowledge of either of those two titles to realize
that stairs would have worked out better for
that spot.
Even though it sounds like I'm making a big deal here, I honestly
don't care as much as I sound like do. The
place was somewhat small and it doesn't take long to get from one
point to another. So! What did I think of this school? I'll be
honest: not very interesting. Not horrendously boring either, but
Newcastle Public School
and Military Trail
were much more interesting than this.
Whew!
I honestly don't have much to say about this place! It was not a
terribly exciting place to walk around and discuss, and like
Adelaide, was annoying to navigate. Ouch! You're thinking that I must
have hated this place, but truth is, I don't. Why did I film it?
Because I passed it on my way when I was heading up to Stevenson and
Rossland to film RS and Adelaide McLaughlin, so I decided to come
back to it when I was finished with those two. I was honestly kind of
nervous about how my irritating, old smartphone would do something
dumb like reboot and or shutoff, and surely it did. Thankfully, it
did this before I actually started filming the school, and stopped
with the foolishness after holding down the power button and volume
rocker for 10 seconds (soft reset). After that, there were no more
troubles for the day. It helped that it wasn't terribly cold either,
because if it were, no amount of resetting would have saved it.
Anyway! While Woodcrest wasn't terribly fun, it had a nice chill
area.
Didn't
expect to come home with three outdoor videos that day, but I did and
was surprised about the results. So what's next for my channel? Like
usual, you can expect to see an outdoor video or two, next week. I'll
also get started on a commentary video this week, so I can publish it
next week along with the outdoor adventures. Gaming? So far, no
issues, but I do not plan to record a gaming session for next week.
Now about those outros and intros: if you've seen the latest videos,
you'll undeniably notice the new intros. If you
happen to be in the interesting criteria of being a viewer who has
been watching for a while, and has a longer than average attention
span, you'll notice that the outros have gone from annotated CTAs,
plain narrative Call-to-Actions, CTAs with fipple flute drones or
songs, to now synthesized keyboard instruments. Ah, quite the
metamorphosis, eh? Why am I bringing this up? Because
it has proven to be ridiculous amounts of fun! Seriously.
March 14, 2017 was the day I decided to fit some batteries into an
ancient (10-15 years old???), but functional keyboard and – boy oh
boy! The day I did that, was the day I got creative with these
variable intros and outros. The ending of the long-chat Samsung Galaxy Note 7 commentary
video, was where I first experimented with this and loved the
results! And now it is time to stop chatting here and get some other
things done!
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