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Cassiobury Park Firework Display 2009 [HD]

This was on the Saturday after Guy Fawkes Night at Cassiobury Park, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. I’ve had to split it into 2 videos due to YouTube’s ~10-minute video duration limit. Please excuse the couple of times when the focus was lost, which was actually when I was trying to improve the focus. I’m especially glad with how the sound came out, except at the point when my camcorder split the recording to a second file, and when 2 noisy people suddenly appeared next to my left ear (both of these things happened in the second YouTube video).

Part 1:

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Part 2:

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Village Fireworks Display 2009 (best bits)

Just parts of a little fireworks display held in a village which I live in, in Hertfordshire (UK). It’s only a small display. I had previously been recording something in standard-definition quality and forgot to set my camcorder back to HD before recording this. orz

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【MCM Expo London 24-25 oct 2009】 All Caramelldansen in Nine (HD)

Here are all the Caramelldansens which Dnstje and I recorded at MCM Expo last weekend, combined into one video! =D

Thanks very much to Dnstje for editing them all together, and even making dual-views for the parts where we were both recording at the same time!

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Eye was the strongest, who also carried around around a “soundcase” (sound suitcase) which Dnstje helped me to make. It was playing the music most of the times in this video.

【MCM Expo London 2009】 Okuu’s.. eh Aya’s Nuclear fusion gym thing..

So yeah, stuff happened. Thanks to Dnstje for recording and uploading it. Damn Kaguya for stealing my Sakuya. =P

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Abunai! 2009 AMV Competition Awards Ceremony [HD]

This was the announcing of the winners of the AMV competition on 20th September at Abunai! 2009 in Zwolle, Holland. Congratulations, everyone! Sorry about not recording it from the very beginning, but I was desperately trying to change the battery in my camcorder as fast as I could, in the dark.

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3RD PLACE

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Name: Hendrik Heekmann (Devilmastah)
Title: Emoticons
Audio: Hinoi Team - Emoticons
Video: Lucky Star

2ND PLACE

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Name: Linda Wijnen (Linnepin007)
Title: I’m Strange
Audio: Skye Sweetnam - I’m Strange And I Like It
Video: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

1ST PLACE

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Name: Wesley (Dnstje)
Title: De Wereld Draait Door
Audio: De Heideroosjes - De Wereld Draait Door [The world rushes by]
Video: Uh… it’s probably best to look at the many credits on his AMV. xD

R/C Reimu Yukkuri at Abunai! 2009 [HD]

Dnstje, a friend of mine, made this remote-controlled yukkuri Reimu head, which also has a speaker for playing sound from things such as an iPhone connected to the controller. A bunch of Touhou fans formed around us, so Dnstje played some Touhou-related remixes on the yukkuri as we all chased it around the various rooms of the Abunai convention, seeing everyone’s reactions. =D

The alarms at 03:13 and 03:31 were set off by the FM transmitter (controller). xD

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Sorry for the many fast-forwarded clips, but it was VERY hard to squeeze about 25 minutes of footage down to the length of the song. I tried to completely remove the most boring parts, and I sped up the parts where it took a while for anything different to happen.

Window Light Show - In Memory Of Cirn⑨ Day

Well, I was a ⑨ and only started making this on the 8th, so it was a big effort for me to get it done and recorded before the 9th ended.

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This is an insanely rushed video of the view from outside my bedroom window. Later I intend to upload a video showing the simfile I made (and which these lights are playing) playing on StepMania, because it looks kind of insane, perhaps along with another few views of the lights from other locations.

This video is not uploaded in HD, because too many computers struggle to play HD YouTube videos (they update the picture slowly), and that’s a very bad thing for this video. Smoothness is essential here, and the picture resolution is not. ^^

Sadly, I couldn’t get it compressed and uploaded before midnight GMT (and certainly not a proper in sync version, *cough* YouTube), but we will NEVAR FORGET our little blue idiot, so I guess it’s okay. ^^ Yep, that makes no sense whatsoever. But who cares? It’s Cirno d–! Oh wait, it’s not any more.

A Day in the Sky of England [HD]

One day in June this year, I decided to do a time-lapse recording of the sky. Little did I know that the weather would turn around a full 360° to how it was when I started it. I’m not complaining, though, since I find thunderstorms awesome. However, that’s why the view shifts around so much around the lightning part - I wanted to record the lightning/thunder at its normal speed as well as it being a part of the time-lapse video, so I repositioned the camcorder to try to get a slightly better view of things.

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Thanks to my brother (Steeeven1 on YouTube) - it was him doing his own time-lapse video a couple of days ago which made me finally be bothered to edit this video which I recorded 3 months ago.

Copyright Claim From Myself, Against Myself

EDIT: Thankfully, all is back to normal now. What you read about below is what was happening until today.

Seeing as this is taking more than a few hours to resolve, I feel I should actually make a post explaining the situation regarding this.

On Monday, someone informed me of a copy of my video and suggested that I try to get YouTube to remove it. Being no stranger to the process, I sent off an email to YouTube… but shortly after, got one back telling me that my own video at been removed, due to a copyright claim from… wait for it… myself. This is not the first time which YouTube has made the exact same mistake with the exact same video - it happened on the 10th of February this year, too.

They replied to a second email I sent them, in which I explained to them that they removed the wrong video. They told me, “There has been a mistake by our system”, and said that the problem would be resolved shortly. …That was 22 hours ago. I’m not sure what their definition of “shortly” is, but in my opinion, that’s a long time to wait for the “leader in online video” to solve a problem which they caused so quickly.

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So, that’s how things currently stand. As of now, if you try to view the video, you will get a message telling you that it’s unavailable due to a copyright claim from myself. On the plus side, I’m now actually using my blog as a blog! =D

2nd Touhou Piano Medley Attempt [HD]

Well, I tried again… and failed again. xD

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I know the piano isn’t perfectly in tune, but it was the best I had access to. Plus, if it had been really good, I might not have been allowed to have the front cover off it.

By the way, the piano happened to be in a building attached to a church, so I thought there was a nice irony to starting the medley with the theme of a vampire.