three random tidbits
1) I went to the movies today and saw Snakes on a Plane. When I bought my ticket, I had my first real conversation in Dutch with the man at the cash register. The conversation went like this:
Alissa: “Snakes on a Plane”
Man (in Dutch): “Will you pay for that in cash?”
Alissa: “Ja”
Man hands ticket to Alissa
Alissa: “Dank je.”
2) I feel really comfortable in Amsterdam. People here seem to be a lot like I am. I have had very few interactions with people, so I am not sure exactly why I feel this way. Perhaps it’s from my observations of people; how they walk, how they talk, how they carry themselves… I have a favorite bench in the city from which I often watch people. This bench is circular and is right in the center of the city where Rokin, Amstel, and six other roads all converge.
3) New project idea: animated video mosaic of Amsterdam. I will take hundreds of little videos and create a video mosaic. Then I will keyframe each tiny video to move around the screen. If I create a new keyframe every three frames, essentially I will animate the videos themselves to create one big moving image out of all the little moving images. This is how it will go:
white screen - rain falls - rain puddles at bottom of screen and forms canal - buildings grow out of canal - bicycle rides by buildings - buildings scroll left off screen - bicycle speeds up and rides off screen right - screen is white - sequence loops
Although Final Cut Pro only has 99 video tracks per sequence, you can nest sequences into other sequences. Thus it is possible to have an unlimited number of video tracks. I am not sure how many video tracks I will need yet, but its comforting to know that I will have as many as I need. I will post a link to this project once I complete it.