The 2009 Danville Fair
There is an old Northeast Kingdom joke that once the Danville Fair is over it could start snowing at any time. So far so good. This early August event, its 79th year, has been a pillar of summer time in Danville, VT, and the surrounding Caledonia County communities. For most Caledonians the Danville Fair is the unofficial start to fair season, with the three big county fairs (Orleans County Fair – Aug. 19th-23rd | Caledonia County Fair – Aug. 26th-30th | Champlain Valley Fair – Aug. 29th – Sept. 7th) following behind it.
The Danville Fair, small in comparison to the big county fairs, is an intimate occasion. With a parade focused on local farmers and associations you get a great feel for the community, and a taste of their dry and sometimes sardonic humor. One parade “float” was a boy pedaling a toy tractor that pulls a sign reading “With the low price of milk and the high costs production, this is the only tractor we can afford to run!!”
You run into friends that you saw yesterday or haven’t seen since the last fair. Live music, Bingo, high calorie fair food, great weather and the usual assortment of games and rides made the 79th Danville Fair a great Kingdom summer day.
5×5 Motion from DropThePuppetHead on Vimeo.
Got a new P&S Camera that does HD video, so I decided to go back to my roots and start playing around with some video. This is a 5×5 which is five random shots, 5 seconds each. I turned the audio off, but that is not part of the rules.
Check out the Vimeo 5 Vignettes Channel to see what other people have done.
How much ?!?
This is my first test run of our new Kodak m1033…a compact point and shoot. It has face recognition, focus tracking, and also does HD videos. Not bad for an impulse buy at Walmart for $200.
Let me know what you think.
Poppies
A quick snap with a little point and shoot. Make me realize that have all the fancy digital SLR equipment isn’t always required for making good art.
Big Jack Attack!
Jack David ( J.D.) Leach was born at 1:10 PM Central European Time on Tuesday, June 10th in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. He weighed in at 3.5 kilos (7 pounds 11 oz) and was 51cm (20.1 inches) tall! Mommy and Jack are doing great and we hope they will be home from the hospital on Saturday.
Day Two – June 11th, 2008
Jiri Kylian’s Car Men
One of the major Czech TV stations, CT2, plays all kinds of interesting stuff and tonight I happened to catch Jiri Kylian’s Car Men (2006). Jiri Kylian is a Czech choreographer and this film is a collaboration with dutch filmmaker Boris Paval Conen and the Nederlands Dance Theater. The result is something between completely amazing and unnervingly trippy.
The actors/dancers are all in their 40′s and bring an eerie playfulness the art house indie film. Conen combine many interesting film techniques, including speed ups, slow mos, and rewinds, to accentuate the choreography and mess with the tempo.
It is both hard to watch and impossible to take your eyes off of.