Spending a week at Blue Knob for PCC is always a fun time, this year was no exception. It was ridiculously hot, but being around so many awesome people doing fun things made up for it. :-)
Song credits:
Kick Drum Heart – Avett Brothers
Hold On – tobyMac
Yours To Take – Jimmy Needham
Time of Your Life – Green Day
Never Die – Christian Yoder (from the Awkward Introduction EP–check it out…for free)
Noteworthy links:
The photos for download: (please don’t crop out the watermark)
(I’ll soon upload a facebook album of all the slideshow pictures. Also, you may have noticed that the video of videos isn’t on there yet. I’ll try to get that up soon.)
July 25th, 2010 | filed under:photo | tags:pcc, slideshow |
Pennsylvania Christian Camp Senior Week 2010 has come and gone. It went by super fast. I had a super time and it was amazing to see God working in so many lives. :)
Extra Pictures on jonyoder.com! These are the pictures that I rated/tagged to maybe put in the slideshow–but they never made it.
Thanks for making it a super week. Also, thanks Justin Harris for letting me use your camera all week. Carrying around a second camera made me look a lot cooler. ;-)
This is a time of my life that I happen to have more free time than usual. One result of this abundance (an overstatement) of time is the following video slideshow. Good times, good times.
For slideshows, I usually tend to pick one of my favorite songs of the time that I’m making the slideshow, but this one is different. I do like Mae a lot, but the reason I chose Crazy 8s is for symbolism–not because it has been on my mind lately.
A long time ago, I did a very similar slideshow with a very similar song. I remember borrowing a “nice” camera from the communications department at Harding and heading off to Heber with some friends. These were the days of fearlessness, and all my friends were ready and willing to do crazy things off cliffs into water.
The time was Fall semester of my freshman year– roughly two and a half years ago. The pictures I took were some of my favorites ever. Soon after, my laptop was stolen from my dorm room, along with all the pictures that were on it. I had somehow backed up all the pictures that I took prior to this Heber trip, so those pictures were the only ones that I lost. The only thing left of the pictures was the Heber slideshow that I made back then that I put on my site. They are small facebook-quality sized pictures, but the memories are still there.
Material possessions pass, but the memories proved to be worth more. How much more, I don’t know–but the memories of friends and good times stick with you longer.
So what is the symbolism in using the same song in this Heber slideshow as the Heber slideshow two years ago? Well there isn’t really any, but I thought it would be neat to use the same song. ;) Moral of the story–try to keep your pictures backed up, watch out for sneaky pre-college kids walking through your dorm (and lock your room), don’t get too attached to what you own, don’t let anyone look down on you because you’re a freshman (just have fun with it), and be sure to do some crazy stuff sometime in your life. =)
May 2nd, 2010 | filed under:Personal, photo, video project | tags:box, slideshow |
There comes a time at the end of the spring semester when the historian of BOX has the opportunity to put a slideshow together of all the pictures taken throughout the school year. I enjoy the challenge of trying to make it awesome, and I guess it turned out pretty good this year.
Being a perfectionist makes it a ton of work to do. I didn’t freak out about it as much as I did last year (where I worked on it like 10 hours straight, if I remember right), but I still spend a decent amount of time tweaking the panning and zoom of each slide to make it’s being emphasized how I like it. Also, whenever it’s shown, I get kinda nervious, thinking about stuff like–are there enough good pictures? Gah, I put [person] in too many pictures. Is this slideshow too long? Credits were probably a bad idea. Is this too awkward to include? Etcetera.
I don’t know if it’s normal to be so picky about stuff like this. It’s just another reason that I never try to pretend or tell other people that I’m normal. :P
Anyways, enough boring sentimental hogwash. Here’s the slideshow, in as many pixels as you want. :-)
Edit: It looks like the second video was removed due to retarded record labels. I put it up on vimeo here.
Hope you enjoyed it. One person told me that it made them teary eyed / cry (is there a difference?), so my job is done. ;-) Adios!
A few weeks ago I did a slideshow of the best pictures from this year to show at the formal. I found out that I didn’t have as many group or happy pictures that I wanted (I certainly had enough pictures of sports), but everything worked out okay. I also think that I overdid the sad factor a little too much. The last slideshow that I did was for a week of senior high camp, and the idea there was to make them really happy at the beginning, then go to the sad stuff and try to make everyone cry. ;-) This concept worked well at camp, with the slideshow being the last scheduled thing before everyone goes home.
I think that the exciting-to-melencholy outline for slideshows is still good, but at the formal, I don’t think that it worked as well as at camp. After the slideshow was queen entertainment, which is supposed to be funny. Having some really sad stuff beforehand might have been weird. I’m probably overanalyzing it, but for next time I think that I’ll keep the happy-to-sad method, but make the sad part a little shorter and less intense.
