Its been another full month of Haiku Year 24, so I am collecting all the postings from the month of August and putting them in one place with a new recording.
I upgraded to Windows 10, and somehow someone at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to not let their users choose with which microphone their Camera App uses to take video recordings. I could choose in the settings of Windows 8’s Camera App to use my Logitech headset’s microphone, which is why I wear it in the videos. That was something I didn’t know earlier on, so one of the first videos I made for this project has the same poor quality sound recording as this one’s intros and outros. Even though I’m smarter about video recording and editing, Windows 10 is somehow not smarter about these things than Windows 8 was. I cannot comprehend it. I don’t want to have to downgrade for something so dumb. That’s more effort than I need to be spending right now. Windows Movie Maker, however, does give me the option of choosing which microphone I use. The haiku readings are done with a higher quality recording because I use the Movie Maker program to “narrate” the pictures after I upload them in order and set their duration to 15 seconds each.
Anyways. I’m really busy with school and work, so I’m just trying to get this AND week 12’s video out this extra long weekend. Week 12 traverses the border between August and September, so there will be some overlap between this monthly recitation and the weekly one.
Changes in social media visitations from End of July to End of August:
Twitter followers: from 40 to 43
YouTube Channel Views: from 168 to 226
Blog stats in August: 57 visitors, 130 views, 24 likes
I’ve now been working on this project for ten weeks! August 14-17 were pictures taken on my trip to Maine to be there for my cousin’s wedding. I couldn’t resist adding photos from the flights. The 16th was taken from my Aunt’s back porch- the same Aunt that suggested I begin adding photos to go along with these little poems. I love all my family and friends.
I’m trying to make my videos shorter and more to the point, while still providing enough information to let a viewer know what I’m doing. A week may be going by between posts for me, but for posterity, the intros and outros may become wearisome if they’re watching these back to back.
I’ve thought about the differences between recording indoors and recording outdoors. Outdoors is full of distracting noised but also captures the moment in time. Cicadas in August! I will not be doing it outdoors during the winter. I figure I’ll do what I can, when I can.
Here are seven fresh pieces, ending with August 10th and the 70th haiku!