South Florida Driving 101 Dash Cam Compilation 8. It’s a short one, under three minutes. It is not short on bad driving wait until you see some of the merges and exit craziness! No signal lane changes galore! As always??!! Plenty of drivers deserving of a good middle finger or horn blast! Just my opinion. Most of the footage is in Miami courtesy of dK2.
Editing was fun trying to use the “Do Not” strike out signs. I think having them float over the car is better than x-ing out the car. Getting a little bit better at tracking with the “follow me” sign. It can be hard to track the movements with them at times. iMovie is working out well for the low budget of the project. Plus it is easy to use. The next footage is about ready to be edited There is some good stuff in them can’t wait to get started. Get ready to see more bad drivers. -13
South Florida Driving 101 Dash Cam Compilation 7. 7 is on YouTube and it’s almost ten minutes long. When I started this project I had no idea how much material would be captured by the camera. It’s been a big surprise. Takes up a lot of time but it is fun. Makes me get better at editing and picking out the bad driving.
The addition of the rear and side camera on the car I’m using it’s also getting good material. Didn’t think how useful it could be until this trip. “Scooter” and “Road Warrior” are good examples. Both captured the approach and passing which to my eyes adds so much more to the story when able to view all the footage.
“Scooter” is kind of funny to me because I’m always fascinated by how those guys keep getting away with that kind of driving without getting killed. I’ve driven motocross and street bikes and would never drive like that. Oddly my favorite part of that footage is the reflection of the bike passing by on the black car next to my car. It’s why I left it in, could have cut out for time but I liked it.
The “Road Warrior” I really don’t get. Thanks to the rear camera we can follow the progression of the truck, what it did and how long. I kept all the footage in real-time. Keep in mind I always use my signals. Always. They are so important I have a kit to repair them on the spot. Got really dangerous there as he passed me from the right lane. Huh? What a spectacular accident that would have been.
This video is from a round trip to Miami back to Fort Lauderdale. There is a few extras I thought might be worth putting in. Like, the legal way to change lanes with gold star awards. The Miami skyline footage is about a minute long and features a short section of I-95 North just where U.S. 1 dumps the traffic onto the interstate. If you’re into Britto there is a piece of art on a building visible from I-95 north or south bound. Hope you enjoy. -13
South Florida Driving 101 Dash Cam Compilation 6. Another short one. Nothing spectacular. Tried a montage of similar type events captured on the same drive. I like the way it works and will be using it in the future. It makes it easy to place the rear view footage. Sometimes it is hard to match up the timing.
The rear view camera adds so much more material I’m surprised. Takes up a lot more editing time but it looks like it will be worth it. Have to stay on top of this project I still have editing to do from March and early April! -13
South Florida Driving 101 Dash Cam Compilation 3. Finally made this one. It took a long time to get to it. I thought I had saved all the video but have been unable to locate all the footage taken a few of the days featured in Compilation 3. Looked everywhere.
Had more fun with editing and using symbols to communicate or express a point, joy, etc. Made a better watermark. Okay, it looks good to me. Not much in this one because it looks like I’ve deleted the best stuff. Laughing at myself all I can add is “beginners!” 100% amature. -13
South Florida Driving 101. Dash cam compilation 5. Trying to stay on top of all the footage from the two vehicles. It’s amazing how fast it is piling up. Picking up my speed as I learn new things. Editing this kind of footage is time-consuming at the least. Fun as can be. Was able to figure out how to add a watermark across the footage to prevent piracy. Can’t believe I’ve done it but it must be so. It is a lot of work creating just one video.
This footage is good with chaos and maybe an aircraft engine or wing on fire landing at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport. Of course all the no indicator signals you need. Footage is from dK2 filmed in Fort Lauderdale and Miami on March 28, 2017. Enjoy. -13
South Florida Driving 101 time again. The next video is live on YouTube. Driving lesson 4 from Fort Lauderdale to Homestead and back again footage courtesy of dK2. This is just one day of driving experience in South Florida. Too many titles to mention. There seems to be a theme in this one of no turn signals. The people turning in the construction zone reached a new level of dumb. Look close, they’re working below grade in a manhole. Not sure why the police officer parked in front of that work crew wasn’t issuing tickets or at least warnings for crap like that.
“Merging Lane Hog” was a particularly interesting piece of lane hoarding. Not sure what that person was trying to do. Driving didn’t seem to be one of them. “Confused ?” reminds me of one thing, the night my friend and I caught a guy robbing a store. Something about the way the car stops, jumps forward, then moves again. Exactly the way it began in the highway median that night.
More editing fun with the cloud thought bubbles in “Signal? It’s just an afterthought”. That was really fun and challenging to make. And, totally low-budget in every way. Just the way I like it. During editing I’ve been noticing a few things in the back ground that went unnoticed at first and unfortunately I’ve deleted them already, videos documenting interesting art, architecture, major highway construction, city skyline kind of things. Things that are part of a changing history.
It has inspired me to make sure to keep that material and make future videos for everyone to see what things looked like at that particular time. There is a new title “Building Art”, it features slowed down footage of art visible on buildings or structures. As always this video is family friendly. -13
South Florida Driving 101 Compilation 2. Here is video two of your south Florida driving education. This lesson features “waste not, want not, a stich in time”, “trading places”, “no time for signaling”, “ambulance cut-off”, “special technique parking”, and “yellow-line drifter”.
This video like all the others offered an opportunity to learn something new when editing in iMovie. I’ve wondered how to highlight a particular moving object or item. After watching a couple of YouTube videos I was able to add an arrow to follow and highlight two moving cars. I’m not very good at it, it’s totally amateur and low-budget. Perfect for this project. Watch my edits and you’ll see. I like to use all the editing tools but still keep that 70’s B movie low budget feeling.
Ride along for more south Florida now you know why the insurance rates are so high driving. Please remember, buckle up and watch for motorcycles, ’cause we’re not driving bumper-cars at the county fair. -13
Grainger.com price jumps after registering online. How does that work? I’m confused. I’ve been ordering online and from Grainger for many years now and I can never remember the price getting higher after I registered at any website. Not once. Until now.
I casually clicked over to Grainger.com. Typed “garden hose fittings” into the search box. Found what I was looking for placed it in the cart. I thought I was ready to check out so the site wanted me to register to continue. Thought I had done this but may not have because I’m tired of having to log onto sites, keep track of passwords/login and would rather not use the website to store any information. I certainly won’t leave cashless type card information on file anywhere. It’s safer to have to enter it each time.
Enough of security measures ramble. Registering raised the price $2.41 per part. At first I thought I had remembered the price wrong. I had switched to another tab to follow the register procedure so I could place the order. For a moment I forgot about the other tab that was open with the original search because I went on a search tangent from the second tab looking at all the stuff Grainger is known for.
When I realized what I was doing I stopped the tangent. Started to check out and was looking at the price of the items and thought something didn’t look right. I thought for a moment then remembered the other tab with the price difference. I was surprised to see that they were different in price, much different to my eye.
For now I made this blog and a video to document the experience and will search for other sources for heavy duty garden hose parts. I do not mind paying a higher price for quality parts that will last. A quick look at any of my gear or equipment will prove it. I do have a problem paying more after registering at the online site.
I could call or contact the company but have such a distrust of corporate representatives that I believe about 95% of what they say is complete crap or should I be more clear, lies. That is based on the many years of hearing it over and over. I do like Grainger, they have so many products it’s hard to wrap around the scale of it. They have an excellent reputation on all the farms and ranches I’ve ever been to.
However we end up back at the corporate group think and how it will always be to cover their asses. I’m curious to know what other’s experiences have been. And where can one find heavy duty, I mean fit for using around large animals, tractors or at a fire station, hose end parts that will fit heavy duty 3/4″ garden hose lines.
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Great title and funny text for my new and sure to continue video project. Why didn’t I think of this before now? To think of all I’ve deleted of such good footage of horrible driving is disappointing. The close calls, the laughs, the anger, the mayhem.
No more. I’m going to starting running several cameras while I’m on the road and outfit my friend’s car since she drives everywhere down here and always has great stories. We’re going to capture them on video if we can then add them to the project.
The idea came to me once again while I was listening to the jingles on iMovie and YouTube audio libraries. It seem to me there were a lot of good jingles under 2 minutes that would be perfect for featuring the madness we all see when driving. I feel the time is perfect for making these videos because most things only last seconds and 2 minutes is not too long to watch. Also many videos need to be repeated and slowed down so we can see the action. It all seems like a perfect fit.
This video is my first one of the project. I had a lot of fun editing this one with the many transitions, slow motions, text, all of it. The beginning is my favorite with the animated map and water splash type opening. I think it’s really cool what can be done with iMovie, a dash cam and some old iPhones. Welcome aboard, hope you enjoy the ride! -13
Anyone looking for an aspirator that will function in austere conditions may find the Rico RS-6 will work for them. I’ve used these before for military and civilian applications and have never had problems. What I like most about this suction unit is how it is made to be portable or stationary and can be powered by engine, electric or hand. It doesn’t get much better when looking for something for austere conditions in my mind. This one was an eBay item that I was lucky enough to get for $43.00. A really great price.
Although it is portable it is not ideal to be hauling around by hand and would be better suited for mounted applications that required the occasional use away from your transportation/station whatever/wherever it may be. The way I have this unit set up is a connection in my POV since it’s the designated medical/emergency response vehicle for our homestead.
The other way this set up works good for us is a backup in an aid-station or in camp to the electric/battery operated aspirator that usually uses disposable collection basins. Or this could be connected as the collection basin for the electric portable aspirator in place of the disposable ones. Although I would not want to use this without the disposable liners it can be and is designed to if necessary. The other surprising item that works well with a little modification to power the Rico RS-6 is the little FoodSaver handheld like the one below. It works so well that it is part of our emergency aspirator kit. I’ll have a video/blog on that as soon as I put the footage together.
Here is a video that’s just under ten minutes that shows all the items that originally came with the Rico RS-6. I’ve cut most of the ramble out to save you some time. Another item of interest for those who may need the information is the scanned PDF of combined printed material that was with the original packaging. That link is just above the video. -13
This goofy video was totally inspired by the Jingle track playing with the video. When I was making a longer version of a video with the same topic I was searching through iMovie’s sound library for a little intro sound. As I was listening to the tune this video idea popped into my head. I thought it would be cool to try to communicate similar information in the 36 seconds it takes the tune to play without a voice speaking over the track.
I went back to my improvised shop set up in the living room and recorded this in about 15 minutes and spent about an hour editing. It’s kind of silly and dumb and totally low-budget but I actually like it and it was fun from beginning to end to make. Have fun hope you enjoy it. -13
Several years ago I packaged an emergency kit in vacuum sealer packaging. Tested it, and was completely shocked to discover how tough the packaging is and how difficult it can be to open without using some other instrument or object. Attempting to open one of them by hand-only proved impossible to do without assistance. It also made me realize how important and useful the tear-notch on freeze dried meals made for backpacking could be.
An individual, with an injured hand and/or dentures/front dental work would be at risk for not being able to open the package without assistance from an object or the tear-notch. With a tear-notch it may be possible place part of the package underfoot and tear with the uninjured hand. I know this for sure, I cannot do it without the tear-notch.
The first experiments with nothing more than a simple straight cut with the scissors worked fairly well. I noticed though when I decided to cut a “V” shape into the margin on the packaging that it was easier to open and the tear didn’t seen to veer off like the single cut did. Sometimes when I was testing the single cut way the tear would not always follow into and open the package, it would follow the margin and made it just as difficult to open.
I like the V cut over the single cut because it is more visible and easier to use. There are a few things I don’t like about the V cut. First it takes two cuts to make, that is a lot of cutting when making multiple packages and more than one tear-notch for each package. The cut must be more accurate to ensure that the two cuts meet at the V point, if they don’t it may create another more difficult package to open. It works great but it’s much more time consuming and requires a certain degree of accuracy unlike the single cut.
Not happy with either of those things I searched for another more efficient way to make those notches. I was trying to think of what to search for online when I remembered something I had seen in a sewing supply catalog I had but couldn’t remember what it was. Lucky me I had kept the catalog and found it. The item is a pattern notcher.
A, Style-45N, 1/16″ x 1/4″ Pattern Notcher. Turns out it works perfectly for this purpose. It cuts the perfect notch for getting the package open plus all one needs to do is put the margin edge of the packaging into the notcher until it stops then close the notcher with your hand and done! Wow what a really fantastic solution! I can quickly and accurately place the notch and make the cut in seconds then move onto the next pressing homesteading project.
I made a short video about my experience and demonstrate the way that “Works for me”. Hope you find this information useful. -13
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