The HeartRippers: "Elizabeth Says"

Sometimes we play an original tune...

The HeartRippers: "Gloria"

For the morbidly curious, some video of what me and my buddies do when we have some time to kill. The video/sound is rough and unedited, but then so are we...
Probably not for the musically inclined...



Some fucking loser:

A Minute or So by the Shore

Just what the post title says...

Swingin'

At the playground. Very short clip.

Lightning

I was going through some video stuff I took last summer and found this.

Call of the Wild

While walking along the beach on the outskirts of Miyazaki recently I stumbled across what I believe to be the last member of a mysterious lost tribe. Any anthropologists out there know what to make of this?

Giraffes

Bears (2)

A minute and a half of a bear pacing around his enclosure at Hirakawa Zoo in Kagoshima.



You'll never see me marching with the PETA crowd, and I believe that zoos are generally more a good than a bad thing. Sometimes, though...

Crossing Kagoshima Harbor

On a ferry crossing Kagoshima Harbor on the way to Mt. Sakurajima.



I apologize if these little video clips I sometimes post seem a bit boring. Right now I'm more interested in the mechanics of making a video, and the process of editing and getting it online. It's actually quite a pain in the ass, and clearly I need a bit more practice. I should probably be honest and say, however, that even if I manage get a lot better at it, the most you can expect from me is a very well-done scene of a ferry crossing a harbor or of some guys jumping from an airplane. That's what interests me visually.

Jumpers

Short clip taken at the air show last weekend.

Adventures in Driving

Driving home a couple of weeks ago as a typhoon was pulling into Miyazaki (15 seconds):



I tell ya, it's non-stop action around here...

Uyoku

Uyoku (Japanese nationalist right-wing groups) drive by my place in their scary-looking noisy sound buses at least once a week (or so it seems to me). They came by the other day while I happened to be out on the balcony with my video camera. Here's a short (27 seconds) clip in case you're interested (or just curious):

Splash!

A goofy little clip I recorded at Kijima Kogen last year.



Need a towel?

Stormy Weather

Another typhoon rolled through Miyazaki today. Here's what it looked like from the various balconies of my condo: