Something Beats Nothing

And sometimes nothing beats nothing. In other words, sometimes it's better to leave the blog alone rather than to pollute it even further than it already is by adding second tier offerings just for the sake of adding new content.

Not much new content with this one. Well, maybe a few scenes here and there. Basically, it's just another one of those low budget, low effort, low reward video submissions which is becoming somewhat the norm in recent months. (Wonder what's going on upstairs at NRP headquarters?) However, SOMEthing is always better than nothing; or at least that's the oft-repeated slogan around here. And it's certainly a catchy song rattling away in the background; which is probably the only reason we threw this video together in the first place. Just to match some pictures up with the peppy (yet melancholy) storyline.

Merry Xmas 2010

A Curious Reminder

I was surprised to discover that THIS little movie had not been uploaded to the main fort yet. Out of the 800 or so uploads already in situ on the giant NRP website, this old favorite from 1974 has managed to somehow be overlooked and forgotten and left to putrify elsewhere totally unseen. Until now of course.

As it is with all these old homemade films, it's a case of complete coincidence that it exists at all. A snowy Sunday afternoon, a couple of new rolls of super-8 film to kill, and a typical come-as-you-are attitude with my friends on the street outside. It all resulted in this 'once and it's done' wintertime recording. I can't recall if we ever engaged in such foolish, snow related, tom foolery ever again, but if we did, we certainly didn't have the cameras rolling to capture it as we did on this day.

The most surprising thing about re-watching this old footage is to stop and realize that although it's 30+ years later - and greatly diminished from his original condition he may be - the snowman we built that day, with his haircomb smile and jaunty hat, continues to stand proudly in the same spot to this day, remaining a curious reminder of our youthful time in Blazerville. A time that we can revisit in person anytime we want.

Guys Doing Stuff

An urgent message was just received here at the NRP offices in Riffletown from Blogger Central - the very nice people that allow me (and people like me) to continue with the uploading of personal blog nonsense onto the internet for friends and family to see. Apparently, I've been so busy with a retrospective video for Melissa and her family, that I failed to notice how my blog was being neglected for an unprecedented length of time.

As they explained it to me, I now have just over 24 hours remaining in the month of November to upload any videos/photos/cartoons that might have been planned for uploading, in order to keep my consecutive streak of calendar months containing content... intact. If I choose not to add anything to the pages of No Relevant Point in the next day and a half, I will forever have a flaw in my sidebar archives. A month will be missing in the otherwise perfect sequence of previous post labels.

"Well, we can't live with that" is what I finally decided, and the nearest source material (a video from 1990) was plucked from storage and investigated for any interesting tidbits to be included in a short but official NRP blog posting. These moments from a Christmas visit to Al's place in the valley is what we dug up. It's nothing special, but it's better than having an empty hole in the monthly archives.

Washing The Little Blue Car

The little blue car still looms large in the memory. An impulsive purchase I made back in my youthful money-spending days. Devotion to said little blue car was such that there didn't seem to be anything unusual to me about video-taping one of the many times it was being washed back in 1983.

And so we did. We video taped the car being washed. Like it was a news event or something important. And because of that decision (to video tape) we are now all gathered here today 26 years later watching the little blue car get washed. And yes, it's as dull as it sounds, so I've also added a few scenes of Sandy and I taking the newly washed little blue car off for a ride up Little Mountain (on a cold, dismal day) and then over to see the niece and nephew at their home in East Vancouver. The little blue car made it to both destinations without stalling or losing a door handle. As a bonus, I'll even toss in a short scene of brother-in-law Mike being interviewed on the local CBC TV channel during that same winter of 1983. And let's not forget that all of these recorded events took place only a few short months before Sandy and I jetted off to visit Jonny in England that Spring.

It may have been the least reliable of all the cars I've owned over the past 40 years (which it was) but heck; the little blue TR6 remains the fave.

Rag Tag Remnants

A hastily tossed together collection of old (and new) video clips and film segments - released at this time and place ONLY to satisfy my overdue urge to clean out a long-waiting iMovie project working area.

What we have here are many of the unused bits and pieces of earlier uploads that ended up with no real purpose or theme or reason to keep living; no reason to be hanging around as long as they have been; except perhaps to be finally jumbled into one showing and presented here and now 'as is'.

With so many 'better/more interesting' clips waiting for their turn in the sun, there's no need to hang onto THESE ragtag remnants of unfinished thoughts any longer. I'll just fling them all into this one clump and then quickly erase the lot... thereby opening up much needed memory space in my computer for all the other old video stuff soon to be coming along.

History Will Be Made

A quickly made parody of the national TV commercials that were so popular during the NHL playoffs last year, using our own senior sports enthusiast, DOUG in the lead role.

We're using a different sport for our commercial, but at least we're using the same music. It works for me. Doug should be tickled pink to learn that we managed to dig up priceless old footage from one of his all-star performances on the ballfield back in 1989 to incorporate into this piece.