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03/06/2008: "Torchwork"

Turns out I'm more like my Dad than even I thought possible. I spent most of today playing with video editing software - such fun! My Dad, when he passed away, was midway through converting hours and hours and hours (I'm cannot exaggerate how many hours) of videotape to DVD format. Fortunately I have a lot of his work already burned onto DVDs so much of my envisioned epic is already available to me without the tedium of conversion. There are 8MM films from the late 60's, analog video from the mid-70's through the 90's, digital video taken until just a few weeks before Dad died, slides that have been converted to slide shows... a lot of memories, a lot of people now lost.

But there aren't as many pictures of my Dad as the hours of video would lead you to think there should be. He was always behind the camera, you see. So while, yes, there are short shots of him, these are disproportionately few (and there are a very high number of shots of people walking away from him. Home movies are like that. 20 years of people's asses at Disneyland...).

I feel like the torch has been passed to me now. There are a bunch of movies that Dave and I have taken over the years, and now all the video of Dessa... and I have a lot of ideas and a decent sense of music (at least I like to think so)... and in going through the past 9 months of video, there's precious little videotaped evidence that Dessa has a Mommy.

Of course, today she started saying "Mamamamama" so I think my corporeal reality is sufficiently entrenched in her itty bitty baby mind. For now, at least.

Here's a quick sample of what my nifty new software can do. I hope it's just the beginning.

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on Thursday, March 6th, Jeannie said

ooooohhhhh my God that was sooo precious!! What a beautiful girl! You're right, not enough Mommy present in that video (but I have the same problem in our pics and video). She's saying mama???? YAY!!!!! Hugs to all of you! I have to go sniffle sentimentally now. :)