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I had a grand idea about shooting a bunch of footage while on our honeymoon and putting together this awesome film and telling a story about our time in paradise as a married couple. Instead, we laid around, ate and drank all day. However, I did manage to get SOME footage though and I finally got around to slapping it all together.

I took this as a chance to mess around with color correction and came up with some pretty fun shots. So the video is pretty pointless with no story to tell, but rather a collage of the things we did while in Hawaii: Eat, Surf, Shave Ice (Anyone know why it’s not called ‘ShavED’ Ice in Hawaii?), Lounge, Cruise, Drink, Hold Hands! Siiiick!

I also added a photo of us in the end to prove that I was present during this honeymoon as well.

Song: Jack Johnson – Moonshine from “Thicker Than Water” soundtrack

We’re currently running a promotion on Facebook for the company I work for called the “Snack Bowl”. It’s a user generated promotion where fans submit their recipes. We decided to choose one of the top recipes that we liked and film someone making it. With Chrissy’s art direction we chose my lil’ sis Amanda (who is taller than me by a lot) to be the host and she was a friggin’ natural! The plan is to do more of these if not for my company, definitely for her blog which is coming soon. Chrissy and Amanda are preliminarily planning to make user submitted cooking videos and this was a great reason to test it out. Stay tuned for her blog, epicurasaurus.com to launch soon.

I was working with one Canon 60D and a wired lavalier mic but we tried our best to create the allusion that there was more than one camera present. I think it was accomplished for the most part. A lot of re-shooting the same thing and editing it together. Thanks to Chrissy because without her there, there would be a ton of inconsistencies in every shot. She’s amazing with the “details”. After all, it’s part of her real job…Ch-ch-check it out!


Make sure to change the resolution to 720p HD on the lower right of the video immediately once it starts playing that way you can watch it in full screen without it looking ugly.

On the subject of children, Chrissy and I are trying to finish up our Natural Family Planning course as part of our certification to get married in the Catholic Church. Anyone thinking of doing it better dust off your TI-83s because it’s one of the most complicated and confusing things I’ve done in a while. There are a lot of numbers and graphs involved. I feel like I’m taking a calculus class. On a completely unrelated note except for the part about children in general, here are some photos I took of Emily and Caroline over Thanksgiving weekend with all the kiddos in town together!

This last one is a little soft, but I liked her laughter here…

I just got my hands on a Canon 60D (which films full 1080p HD video) and a few new lenses! So this past weekend I had the opportunity to film Amanda making homemade pizza for Chrissy and me. This time, Chrissy agreed to help me edit and direct the video!