Youtube Motion Malaga

So I think I'm going to get rid of my Facebook and Myspace pages and move everything over to blogger. At least I will limit my posts on Facebook and use it just for its friend network utilities. Blogger seems like a much cleaner slate by which you can post and add content. A few years ago I started adding Youtube clips, newspaper article's and whatever caught my attention to my my Facebook. I'm attempting to create a video journal, not of daily events or stories but of whatever comes to my mind whenever that is. When I look back through my Facebook posts what I find is a video record of what I was thinking and laughing about at the time.

This first video I'm posting is a link to a stop motion video I created. Laurie and I took close to 2500 digital snaps while we were visiting Malaga, Spain. This is a city my parents introduced me to 25 years ago, we ferried across from Ceuta in Morocco. I remember climbing the hill to see the Moorish castles overlooking the harbour and massive parks.

This was the perfect holiday - great seafood, rioja tinto, beaches and shopping. We rented an apartment in the old town, bought groceries from the markets and bounced from tapas bar to tapas bar. The beach is long and wide, you can walk out into the warm Mediterranean water for 50 meters, before you loose bottom. The great cathedral in the middle of the old town was of course a Mosque before the Catholics removed the Moors from power, with its giant minorette, it is still the focus of Malaga. In fact it took a 100 year siege before this, the last stronghold of the Moorish Kingdom fell to Christian forces. Christianity came to power late in the 15th century but thanks to a treaty signed after the surrender of Malaga, Moors remain in Malaga to this day and you can see their influence everywhere.

Many more, (no pun intended) left for Morocco and settled in Tangiers, Tetouan and other cities of Mediterranean Morocco. My father's people share this history and make their home in Tetouan. There you find the modern homes of all the great Andalusian orchestras among the same vibrant mix of culture that made Moorish Spain successful and colourful, for so long. Indeed, Mediterranean Morocco is what is left of Moorish Andulsia and the people who live there are Moors, a mix of Islamic, Jewish and Berber people who have lived in harmony for over 1000 years.

That is the world I imagined as we explored the city of Malaga for two weeks.

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Information about the video: Brisas de Malaga - Breeze of Malaga I edited every single picture we took in Malaga together into this short video. I recorded the music from original vinyl and added it to the visual. Camera's: Canon Powershot, Panasonic DMC - FZ7. Other Hardware: IBM Thinkpad T40 (2002), Rotel Receiver (1976), Pyramid Channel Mixer and a Micro Seiki Turntable (1977). Software: Windows Movie Maker and Mp3 my Mp3 both are free software.

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Wine Olympic French Tiger

My friend Holly has a cool blog about wine called, wine out loud. If you're like me and don't know a thing about wine but love to drink it, this is a great guide. This way you have a real wine steward to sort you out. What? You can't smell anything or at least as it relates to the wine your pouring down your throat. Holly spells it all out for you so you can just show up to your party, open your bottle and start showing off.

Please accept this as my first blog, actually second but the first doesn't really count.

There is one more week of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, I'm obsessed with it. Even though I am Canadian I think this Olympics is shit. Some kind of commercial winter country club party. It reminds me of old fashioned zoo's where the animals were locked in cages easily seen by passers by. In this case the Olympians are the animals and the wealthy crackers are the real event. Crappy venues, great party.

oops that underline sucks - can't figure out how to un-link, so it stays. check out the article though. Hey I figured it out all you have to do is highlight, press the link button and link nothing instead of your link.

Not enough French at the Olympics you say, what is this the 70's? Cut off the dead weight before we all drown. Who cares anymore? These dinosaurs are trying to get something started again, what a non issue. This is smoke and mirrors and we fall for it every time - Nations and language are a non-issue, time to grow up and face the world. Morons, French and English.

Oh boy Tiger Woods, play golf, you're human and a savage one at that. Just like the rest of us. Idiot.

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I am not a?