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I became interested in it at a very early age; possibly around 5 years old. I tried taking lessons around 8, and my instructor wanted me to play in a recital. I wasn't about to do that. I freaked. He kept pressuring me about it, so I quit. From that point on I taught myself. So, I guess I've been playing about 20 years. I'm no classical composer, though. I just play what feels right. My favorite composer right now is Ludovico Einaudi.

I eventually got into progressive rock, and that genre uses a lot of synthesizer. The band Dream Theater got me interested in getting a real synth keyboard, and I learned a lot of their stuff. I used to have several keyboards, but I ended up selling two of them, and had another one stolen. I'm down to one again. :/ I can't ever find anyone to start a music project with, so I just don't play much anymore.

I started playing the violin when I was five; I never had a problem performing because it was a good way to get people to like me. But I can definitely relate to anxiety... after-recitals were terrible because everyone wanted to talk, and I just wanted to sit down and drink punch and eat a cookie without having to deal with praise or small-talk.

I really like Dream Theater, too. The first song I heard was "Solitary Shell," and I related to it a great deal. I'm sorry to hear that your keyboard got stolen, that is pretty terrible.

Do you write any music? You said that you play what feels good.

I've written things here and there, but never recorded anything. A lot of things I've forgotten cos I get discouraged. I've been wanting to start a project for years, but people either flake on me, or I just never find anyone interested in what I want to do. I tend to make melancholic stuff, and a lot of my lyrics are the same. Well, either that, or about strange things. I look back on some of the early things I've written and think, "that makes no sense at all," but it sounds good, nonetheless. I wish I had a fully weighted 88-key piano. I had a Korg TR-88, but that's one that I sold to buy myself a new camera. Hopefully, one day I can buy new equipment again and get back into music. Right now I'm just trying to get the hell out of this state.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XviYjVdJd8[/youtube]

me ranting about a pulse oximeter rip off!

Strapples I love your speaking voice

Here's just me being daft with the movie maker effects
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686dZurxVF4[/youtube]

You don't speak for me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmsP9kAq4U[/youtube]

This is a video of me. I never plan what I'm going to say, so this is pretty much just introduction babbling. With cats and ukuleles.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Gy1sG_VLo[/youtube]

I have a vlog (link in my signature) if you're interested in watching me babble some more, too.

Alrighty, here's my long-awaited introduction.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le4xjegbhDk[/youtube]^_^
Yeah, I've just realized that it's "in the night-time", not "at night-time". Shame on me

sarbear1987 and MathGirl,

They're both nice videos.

Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong in this video, and how should I improve? I see that someone has already rated it 3 stars, but didn't leave a comment saying why they gave it that rating

^ Hey Mathgirl, I was the one rating it three stars and I did give a comment "cool!" is what I said, and my comment is there when I update it now,weird that you cant see it
I was a bit in a hurry as I wasnt supposed to have the computer on by now
I always do the "have to do stuff " before turning it on but today is one of the rare days when I did the other way round and that use to make me restless and nothing is beeing made properly

Anyway, some further comments about your video. For the first I appreciate it because it was technically well made. Very good and high quality. We can see you and your faceexpressions very crystal clear and you got the light conditions perfect. Also you are talking very clear, all words is highlightened. So five rates on just that!

You could had made it a bit shorter though, I see you had already cut it down a bit and thats good. But dont take that part so personal because I know its most about me there not having much patience on listening to someone talking a lot when nothing else is happening around. I was almost about to fast forward at some point when I loose focus, so there came two stars minus...
But I did not and watched the whole through and listened. You appear as a very nice person!

About improvement. Here is some spontanious ideas from me...
You can make your videos more dynamic only with taking more time with editing and be more creative with yourself and your environments. If I made the exact video you did. I would play around a bit with the room and the books which is the only tools you have. I would place myself in diffrent corners and angles as silent and cut into the video in seconds in between. I would make the presentations of the books more creative in more cuts of only one book, like from diffrent angles and show each of them in diffrent ways...and maybe cut in a second shorty where you is seen reading the books and such...
Then the viewer get to see more variation but you still saying the exact words you do, because you could also separate the audio and the video. For example we hear you keep talking but watching you reading a book while we hear you saying Im reading a lot of books around AS....

But I know, that takes way much more time and work with your videos which you also can see as loosing the spontanity
Because some videos is the best when not doing a lot of fuss around them, just presented as plain...its a matter of taste and seconds
Because in videomaking, time is going at least twice as fast as in real time...

Last edited by xalepax on 26 Aug 2009, 6:37 am, edited 1 time in total.

Xalepax, thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.
Unfortunately, I find it impossible to make a really short video. I babble on a lot. I tried to make it short, but then there are more and more things I decide to add when making the video, and it ends up being way longer than expected.

^ oh, and I was just about to say, forget about all about the above I said. Thats because I was watching also the videos of MONKEY and sarbear1987

And I realise I have to take back all of that videotechnical stuffie...I mean. I havent made any vlogs myself and havent seen many of them either
I usually both watch and produce completely diffrent kind of videos myself and felt it was wrong to think like that here

Because vlogs of this kind is probably supposed to be like this, people turning on the cam and start talking straight up and on directly in front of it and THATS IT!
I just realise I have some to learn out of this kind of videomaking

So, I felt I was too hard on you in rating and comments on YouTube, sorry for this!!

Hey, I hope you didnt decide to delete your video due to my comments here. My gosh, I really hope not....
I saw you have disabled comments but I would feel it be a pity if you delete it. Your video is somehow artistic and all make videos in their own way

thanks MONKEY

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYUr5UoOiw[/youtube]

more oximeter rant

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4K3ow1A10[/youtube]

USPS tech demo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te4O1hmhJKw[/youtube]

Datex Ohmeda Trusat oximeter instructional video

i did a movie maker effects daft movie..

here it is!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdakT9MY9Y[/youtube]

I was thinking of making videos to practice confidence kinda... but so shy, also, what could I talk about >.<