Today Felt Fast Forward & I Filmed

Dec 10 2013

Up early pounding the keyboard, cleared next week’s column (About hiring a car during the holidays), and made a collage for this week’s (The 6 levels of Features).

Then I filmed a video, “A Quick Tour of my Car”… but with a cameraman (my editing guy).

I have cameraman anxiety, like, sure I have 300+ videos online… that I filmed all alone.

Having other people around throws me off my system, I tanked it a couple times over the fall with Motoring TV.

So to ease into it, I made the video topic something I’ve done hundreds of times.. get in my Jetta and drive to Cherry Beach.

Same old car, same old route I’ve taken to make 15+ videos there.

Yup I know, jogging pants and ponytail, but, deadlines trump hair & makeup.

Then off the footage went, and next time I see it, it will have taken the shape of a rough edit, without me ever opening Final Cut. I guess the happy feeling that creates, is the trade off for the cameraman anxiety.

Today flew by fast eh. Then I cooked dinner, but forgot to take photo proof (macaroni & cheese).

And donated to Wikipedia. Never been a fan of free #KeepItFree

Tomorrow, I have a lot of auto writing due, plus a meeting that’ll eat the afternoon, and it’s Car Swap Day (Ford Fiesta), and taxes UGH (I don’t mind paying the taxes, it’s the doing them I don’t like, so boring).

See you online.

Where Did This Week Go

Jun 6 2013

If it’s like this now, omg to when I’m 80 <blink> there goes a year.

Made a video in Cherry Beach.

I’ve probably filmed 25 videos there, and I still get distracted by the planes.

I finally, genuinely like FinalCut X.

Latest OCD song.

It was interesting to watch this song… it was leaked :| via the above, well-filmed video, and pretty good audio for a concert eh, the cheering timing… a concert where cameras are banned, by someone who was able to scrub images off the internet, and this video belongs to the simplest YouTube channel too…

Who cares though, this song is like, the Ferrari of beats and hooks; the one at 2:56, oh girl.

lilac picking

Lilac season!

Top 3 favourite smells of all time.

Had to get a new lamp.

I turned it on and it fried the lightbulb black, right before my eyes. I was going to put another bulb in and film it to make an animated gif, but then was like, watch that be the time fire comes out, and why don’t I own a fire extinguisher?

Go-karting with Kart Start last weekend, have another post for that.

I dominated the weekly auto section of the paper last week look, of the 5 articles 4 were written by me ha.

I’m behind on lots of posts, and blogging my ‘Keri on Driving’ columns, and a F150 off-roading video, and…wait, I’m going to make a list of “posts coming soon”, this is more for me than you….

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COMING SOON BLOG POSTS

– F150 Raptor off-roading video

– ‘Keri on Driving’ column x 2

– I <3 drones

– Car Reviews: Infiniti M37xS / Hyundai Accent / Acura MDX in Oregon / Chevy Spark / Santa Fe XL / Pathfinder / Dodge Dart / Acura RL

– dinosaurs

– switched to TELUS finally

– snorkelling

– BB Q10

– how to back up

– Kart Start

– editing style

– Swarovski

– cycling team 6 years president

– Autonet update

– it’s a good idea to monitor your connections

– Yada cam becomes spy cam

– CAA at the TSO

– plus single pic posts

aaaaand……

– about the QNX OS (_yes_ I cracked it)

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This is me last week, basking in my genius of when I cracked it – a stock market mystery had been puzzling me for years.

It’ll get it’s own post, but I’m going to keep that post more professional, so here sits the gloating photo.

Next week’s column is about daydreaming behind the wheel, I managed to get myself sick because I am a dumdum, nah I’ll just blame this garbage summer we’re having, have to return the Infiniti tomorrow boo, and I forget what else for now.

Hope it was a good Thursday, best night of the week,

xo Keri

Cherry Beach is Changing Ugh

Jul 17 2012

It’s in my ‘Top 3 Favourite Places in Toronto’.

It’s all over all my blogs. I used to drive it 5 times a week for years. I fit a profile one time.

Look up. Dramatically.

It’s Toronto’s old power plant.

1 – 2nd tallest structure in Toronto
2 – Toronto’s old power plant, abandoned for years, recently purchased by… a movie studio
3 – There’s a falcon couple nested there, one of Canada’s most protected species ($millions). Until the falcons raise their babies and leave, the studio cannot start construction.

I explorered it years ago, here’s a look inside.

I used to photograph “Car of the Week” here all the time, until it started to feel lazy, even though look, so beautiful.

A couple summers ago, my thing was running in the bushes along the water. So fun, because you never knew what you’d find around each corner. A big wink that goes with that last line ;)

It’s on one of my business cards.

If I was handed a bunch of money with which to buy real estate,

I’d buy it in Cherry Beach.

Construction and change has started here, and I think the city is creeping into Cherry Beach, taking away it’s secret-ness. I’ll miss you Cherry Beach.

Love,
Keri

Sorry For the Un-Updated Yesterday

Jun 7 2012

Been crushing my keyboard, just not with public stuff.

It’s a challenge juggling blog jobs… keep it afloat with content, keep it afloat with logistics, planning and executing, travel, maintaining a steady internet connection, physical maintenance of my tools , this thing is supposed to make money how, and that’s not even the tip of the iceberg.

I love it.