3 posts tagged “video”

Inbetween packing and sleeping I managed to finish editing the promised Yamakasa video. Here it is, in most of its glory:

If I had encoded it at the bitrate it deserves, it never would have finished uploading, so I hope this suffices for most. By the way, here is a direct link to the video page.

I also took the time to upload my latest batches of photos. As usual, they were prepended to my Japan in Today's World photo collection. Here they are in chronological order:

• Gyouza party photos - my Japanese Speaking class got together at the end of the semester and prepared foods from our respective countries. Lacking cooking skills, I prepared spaghetti, but the other dishes were excellent!
• Yamakasa photos - of course. The video exists because these do not do the festival justice, but there are still a few gems to be found.

Cheers, for now!

I went to Yamakasa. It was fun. I feel like I'm too busy to write much, so I'll just close this with a teaser.

This Saturday I visited my host family and did lots of fun things. One of the least interesting was setting up my cell phone for watching television. They broadcast television over 1seg here, so I can watch for free. But since the feature was hidden behind 4+ "please press OK" dialogs, I wanted native speakers to do it for me to make sure that I wouldn't agree to something that would cost extra.

Anyway, it's been a mixed experience so far. I've only gotten reception of one channel from my room, and it's not a channel I'd normally watch: the current show features two women embroidering their purses and sharing them with what appear to be neighborhood friends, and the previous program was a cartoon grandmother sharing her cooking secrets.

Despite this, what I love is that there is closed captioning for all of this. It scrolls by faster than I can read all of it, but I can catch some known kanji this way, and can also quickly scan it for the sentence structure based on particles and spacing.

Just another plot to up my exposure for this last month before I go.

Edit: Here's how it works while the phone is docked, which is convenient for home use.