Sunday, May 29, 2005

Mom in the news

Did you know that Mom was in the newspaper? Yep, well, she's probably been written up many times for plays, etc. Remember that dance number our whole family did, "Stretch marks", for her senior thesis at the University of Michgan? Well, I was googling recently and found it. Have a look-see:


http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/nov/11-23-98/arts/arts5.html

Sunday, January 9, 2005

Listen to mission music and farewell


How about some more mission multimedia?



On P-Days, Elder Rose liked to play his Gee-tar. Shortly before the incredible Draper Zone was broken up by certain people going home, we recorded some music as a zone. Elder Rose wrote some wonderful music - "Shiloh" is particularly nostalgic, because it expresses his testimony of the Savior, and we performed it in a special missionary fireside of our own organizing. I'm proud of our rendition of "If You Could Hie to Kolob" - For the first verse, I am playing the accompaniment and singing all four parts.




All of this audio was ripped from CDs. I ripped the mission farewell in iTunes into MPEG-4 audio format (m4a). I ripped Elder Rose's music in Windows Media Player into Windows Media Audio (wma). Those formats aren't the most portable and preservable, however; so I re-encoded them into the standard and well-supported MPEG-3 audio format (mp3) using Xilisoft WMA MP3 Converter (shareware).

Monday, January 3, 2005

Dancing Ryan Montage(s)


I found some Old Timey movies of Ryan dancing. You really should watch them - Ryan has some sweet dance moves! He'll be a star at the single's dances.






To view the movies, you may need to right-click on the movie and save it first. You may also need to install a QuickTime movie viewer in order to view these movies.




The thumbnail images were captured in the QuickTime movie viewer, copy-n-pasted into Word, and then exported from Word as a web page.




P.S. StrongBad also likes to dance.

Saturday, January 1, 2005

Kristen Mission Photos


New photos of Kristen's mission, and also a chronological look at her early life...






If you'd like to print any of these pictures, contact us. We have higher resolution images stashed away.




The pictures were organized in Picasa on Windows (you can download it for free), and then exported to HTML.