Tinny Sound in CAIRN video

Sorry folk,
I made three or four other web versions of the CAIRN video but all of them sound equally 'tinny'.
That overall sound that is behind the whole video is the sound of the small waves bringing in the tide (you can see them in scene two). Works fine in higher resolution, but obviously not suitable for websites.

Ah well!

Meantime, I am beginning preparations for my partial CAMINO WALK. I will be meeting Joey my son in Leon, and walking the last 282km with him to Santiago de Compostella. (He did the other 431km last year)

I've started walking, and today I think I've developed a welt on the ball of my left foot, despite wearing socks that are guaranteed to prevent blisters forming!
I've also started thinking about what I am going to bring with me, and how I'm going to carry it.

More later

The CAIRN re-done movie

Well, here is the finished piece, but I don't know what's happened to the sound. It's supposed to be the gentle lapping, shushing of the waves, not the whining of some kind of machine.



Maybe later I'll get a chance to re do the conversion of it to a web movie. (at 600+ Mb, it would be far too big to play online.

CAIRN Revisited 2008

Some of you may remember one of the pieces I did to celebrate my 70th birthday. I never felt I did it justice, so I am now working on it with software which wasn't available to me at the time.

This is the story in seven steps: (plan to put up the video when I get it finished.)

• I made this video as part of my 70th birthday celebrations in 2007
• On Dollymount beach I built a CAIRN with 70 large stones from our garden in Tallaght,
• Each stone had one of the years written on it in chalk
• As I carried each stone towards the CAIRN, I thought of some person, or group of people who had once been significant in my life.
• Inside the CAIRN, I put a plastic box containing the names of these people, and my own contact details.
• When I returned to the site of the CAIRN eight days later, the tide had knocked down the CAIRN, and the box was gone.
• Only a few of the stones remained, half buried in sand in a pool of sea-water.