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Here’s my video footage, complete with commentary, on the first annual Dragon*Con parade. Enjoy.

dc2002parade_divx.avi (DiVX format, 28.5MB)
dc2002parade.rm (RealVideo 9 format, 12.8MB)

Note: I deleted the MPEG file and replaced it with some smaller options. I hope these work for everybody.

You may need one or more of the following tools to properly view Video Fu (don’t worry, they’re all free): DiVX 4.12 Video Codec | MP3 Audio Codec | RealOne Player for RealVideo 9

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A story of five people, standing on top of a parking deck, peering into the lives of anonymous people in the back of a long car … and mocking them.

What’s Going On In This Limo? (16.8MB DiVX, 2:46)

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So I’m in vacation in Baltimore on July 4th with Suzan (wife), Andy, Heather and Jenn when we meet this guy. He juggles a chainsaw, he plays with fire, he tells bad jokes.

4 minutes and 51 seconds with Sean in Baltimore (DiVX, 33.7 MB)

It’s moments like this I’m glad I own a video camera. It’s worth the download.

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Three words you never expected to see on my website. This the essence of video fu, a morph of some daily event into a completely different experience. Enjoy my treatment of the birds and the bees … courtesy of a few birds I randomly videotaped in Washington, DC.

Note: the file link has been removed for this entry. There are a lot of people downloading this video, too many really. Based on the fact that these downloads mostly come from video search engines, I assume people aren’t getting the joke and are really looking for animal pr0n. To ease the pain on my server the file is now gone. It was just two birds having sex to 70’s pr0n music … not a big deal.

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Since I have wandered into the realm of video creation, perhaps I should expand on the philosophy of “video fu”.

First, the origins of ‘fu’ … most people equate this with ‘kung fu’, which is a phrase equated with Chinese martial arts. In reality, ‘kung fu’ describes the concept of being adept at something. It doesn’t just apply to martial arts. So there can be a ‘kung fu’ of gardening, driving, grilling shrimp and damn near anything else.

Next, why append ‘fu’ to other words … most computer people are used to the term foo. Although is is derived from the military acronym ‘FUBAR’, this is the general history surrounding it’s use by computer programmers …

Very probably, hackish ‘foo’ had no single origin and derives through all these channels from Yiddish ‘feh’ and/or English ‘fooey’.

So it’s generally accepted to for hackers to use the term ‘foo’ in conjunction with other words, but nobody quite knows why. So why “video fu”? Good question. While I compose an answer, please enjoy the randomness of my video collection.

You may need one or more of the following tools to properly view Video Fu (don’t worry, they’re all free):
DiVX Video Codec
RealOne Player

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While I’m in the process of updating my travel journal from Japan, take a look at the video carnage from my previous trip to the land of the rising sun.