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The idea is simple. Time tested. Tried and true.<\/p>\n
Gather together in one place all the best content you’ve produced for the entire year and present it in a way that’s engaging, informative, entertaining.<\/p>\n
I’ve been doing it for decades at various newspapers.<\/p>\n
So last year, my first year completely away from daily newspaper journalism, I put a video up on the net<\/a> that showed the best photo work that I did during the year.<\/p>\n But this time instead of train wrecks floods and fires it was personal projects.<\/p>\n As of today, the last day of 2012, that video got a whopping 45 views.<\/p>\n The only plan this year is to beat 45 views in 12 months time.<\/p>\n So I tagged all the best stuff I shot all year in Lightroom, brought it all into FinalCutProX and started looking for what amounts to the soundtrack of our year.<\/p>\n I considered Bettie Serveert<\/a>, The Airborne Toxic Event<\/a>, The Pineapple Thief<\/a>\u00a0and Portishead<\/a>\u00a0all of which had some influence on me this year.<\/p>\n What I settled on was this old Harry Nilsson song from his 1972 album Son of Schmilsson<\/a>.<\/p>\n This hauntingly beautiful song became my favorite last Christmas and again this year.<\/p>\n And although it’s kind of slow and syrupy, it just seemed to fit what our year was like.<\/p>\n If you followed the link I posted on Facebook last week, I’m sorry to make you listen to it again.<\/p>\n Personally, I could listen to it over and over, and I did for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n But while I was editing the video, most of the images from 2012 just didn’t work with this music. So this represents a small part of what would have been the best images of the year.<\/p>\n Not a good way to try to break my record of 2011, but I’m going to let Harry carry it.<\/p>\n So, it’s the last day of the year and this piece is all of 5 minutes. Same length as last year.<\/p>\n If you’ve gotten this far, then you probably have 5 more minutes.<\/p>\n Why “Walkin the Dawg?” It’s a song by Rufus Thomas <\/a>and released on his 1963 album of the same name. It’s been covered by a ton of people including The Stones, The Grateful Dead and Green Day but my favorite cover is by Aerosmith<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oh, and Wendy, at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [iframe http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/56536171?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 601 338] The idea is simple. Time tested. Tried and true. Gather together in one place all the best content you’ve produced for the entire year and present it in a way that’s engaging, informative, entertaining. I’ve been … Continue reading