My tidying continues to pay off. As I was going through the cagata in various places around the house, I unearthed a short and cheesy tripod. I don't even know where it came from, and it looked quite old with short, skinny, clangy metal legs that wouldn't stay in position.
Might've been something for a kids' telescope? Maybe?
Anyhoo, I was about to chuck it when I noticed it did have a decent mount that would work with my (okay, it's really Meego's, but he's not here!) little camcorder.
I started thinking about ways I could rig the mount for doing birds-eye-view videos like those for cooking and crafting - in my case, for drawing because no one wants to see my cooking.
Further in the decluttering haul, I procured a little swing arm desk lamp, and thought, "Ooh, that would be a nice mechanism for birds-eye-view video recording."
Screwing ensued... unscrewing too.
Ta-dah. I ended up with a new-to-me 360-degree adjustable camera mount. I hooked in my lovely SRAM / Mariposa water bottle as the perfect counterweight as shown. The lightbulb housing is still dangling there, along with the power cord. I'll discard those soon enough.
I did a quick zendoodle test, and all was fine, except the video is upside down. Not a problem, I can just rotate it. Well, I don't currently have any video editing software, so I would just rotate it in youtube.
I've since found out that youtube no longer has the capability to rotate while editing. I searched help and found, "rotate the video with video editing software before uploading to youtube".
Okay fine. Ima find me some video editing app, I suppose.
In the meantime, I did a quickie side view test, drawing at 90-degrees, which doesn't really matter with a zendoodle anyways, I suppose. Not exactly birds-eye-view, but more like vulture-sitting-over-me-waiting-for-the-right-moment-to-kill-view:
Please excuse the accompanying music. It came from youtube's free library... in keeping with the theme...
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Linking up this week with MamaKat for the prompt:
4. Write a blog post inspired by the word: free
12 comments:
Okay, now I see that you really did grow up around Italians using words like Cagata. :-)
How ingenious of you!
Can you come to my home and make something out of my crap?
The video is awesome. So you are talented and can make a swing arm desk lap for a bird's eye view.
It's funny and brilliant all at the same time Abby!
You're da bomb!!!
Abby,
Indeed clever and oh, my you're quite the artist! My art ability would show a lot of erasing and redos if I were to record myself drawing. lol Good job and keep up decluttering. I admire you for doing that awful job. I've just given up until we're ready to move. We really want to get into a bigger house this year. Keep your fingers and toes crossed, say a few prayers, too. Have a good afternoon!
Margaret, I think I was an adult before I learned that Cagata wasn't an English word :P. I'd heard it so much while growing up, but I did have my suspicions!
Cathy, we're looking to move to a smaller house - so stuff's gotta go!
Okay - was that you drawing that? You are awesome and by the smart rigging all that up.
Well aren't you tricky!?!?!? Great job re-purposing that thingy! HA!
YES! That totally works and what a fun video!
Chatty - yes, zendoodling is supposed to be meditative... or maybe it just sounds less time-wasteful than "doodling".
Ann - For once, I'm happy I didn't get rid of some "junk".
Kat - So nice when stuff actually works out the way we want it to!
That is so cool! I love how you repurposed all the things! All the lost treasures to be found!
That's fun to watch. Good for you for figuring out the repurposing. I have to go doodle some zen now.
Clever bit of repurposing there!
Love the Sharpie art in the video! And nice going on figuring out a way to use that tripod thing as a camera stand!
Oooh get you with your flash gear and videos, you'll be vlogging soon!
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