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Nicholas Kurtz


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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 29
Sign: Sagittarius

City: Tokyo
State: Tokyo
Country: JP
Signup Date: 1/9/2005

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Friday, June 06, 2008 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Travel and Places

A Day Downtown from Nick Kurtz on Vimeo.

My first attempt at a video blog/travel piece. A Day Downtown is about me, my wife and baby son taking a trip to the heart of Tokyo, Japan for a little shopping, sight seeing and "fine" dining. All video was shot with my Canon HF 100 HD Camcorder, then edited in Vegas 8.0, with a little help from Photoshop CS3. Hope you have as much fun watching as I did making it!

Music, in order:
Something Special, by Death By Chocolate
Jack Ain't Back, by The Jackais
Confianzas, by Gotan Project
Drop Your Weapon, by Crazy Penis
The Spirit of Summer (Dave Warren Remix), by Gazzara
El Capitalismo Foraneo, by Gotan Project
Rude Boy Rock, by Lionrock
Pussycat, by Minus 8
T-Cam

 
Very nice and now I miss Japan even more thanks a friggin lot :P

How do you like your Canon?

I miss Akai- They have areasin Seoul that are similar but for electronics most Koreans and Americans go to E-Mart which is like Akiharbara if they put it inside one store. It is HUGE!

Tell Marisha and Kristoff I said hello
 
Posted by T-Cam on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 11:20 PM
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Bigdaddy Nick
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Sorry I made ya miss Japan, hahaha.

The Canon is great, I got it for free when I won the Thomas Jefferson award for broadcaster of the year! It takes some awesome video, and it uses an SDHC flash card. No tapes, no disks, no hard drives. No moving parts! I have a feeling it'll last a looooong time, as long as I treat it right. The only thing I don't like about it is the manual focus is pretty much worhtless. If this camera had a focus ring, it would be perfect. But for a consumer camcorder, it kicks some serious ass.

It was a fun trip, I can't believe it took me almost 3 years to go to Akihabara. If I would have just gone online, I could have found all the accessories I went down there for and probably saved a couple hundred dollars, but we had a really good time down there.

We're getting ready to PCS in a few weeks, I'm going to be in that Syracuse University program for a year. Well, take it easy, enjoy the rest of your time in Korea!
 
Posted by Bigdaddy Nick on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 12:19 AM
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