Edward Piercy

Klavier

Wednesday, 24. June 2009, 16:55:11

I was watching this video on youTube this morning when
something came up that I had to quickly attend to. So I
stopped the player and did the task and came back to
the computer. When I did I noticed that the frame on
the video was (to me at least) very cool. So I did a
screen shot and took it into Photoshop and made the
above image out of it.

Meanwhile, today's formerly-scheduled and oh-so-serious
post has been postponed until I damn well feel like it.
Or perhaps I should say until I'm more in the mood for it.

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Comments

PainterWoman # 24. June 2009, 16:57

That's kinda cool Ed. It looks like an abstract painting. I've never been able to get a screen shot from YT. Tried a couple different ways and it never worked.

edwardpiercy # 24. June 2009, 17:00

Thanks, Pam.

Getting the screen shot is easy. Getting a good one nigh near impossible.

PS. I think it looks like a watercolor. Except monochrome.

PainterWoman # 24. June 2009, 17:08

I'm assuming when you say a screen shot, you pause the video and actually take a photo with your digital?

Yeah it does look like a watercolor.

edwardpiercy # 24. June 2009, 17:26

No, I do an ALT + PRTSCRN on the keyboard.

That puts it on the clipboard and I open it up in MS Paint, save it as a JPG, then open it up in Photoshop. Kind of a pain, but a challenge too.

I've tried doing the screen shot stopping the video and then doing the shot, or doing the shot as the video is rolling. Sometimes it's better one way and sometimes the other, there's really no telling as far as I've been able to determine except that for motion I think it's better to let it run and take it. Makes it harder to capture it at the exact moment, of course. In this one the vid was already stopped of course, I had stopped it when I was called away, and as I was afraid that if I backed the vid up and let it roll that I would't get that exact image I just ran with it as-is. So I did it backwards this time.

The images that I use for my youTube links, I pretty much do all of them that way.

gdare # 24. June 2009, 20:30

I just press PrtScr key, open Photoshop, go to File, New and then press Ok to a New picture dialog box and then paste (Ctrl+V). Image is in clipboard so it could be pasted even in MS Word, if you want.

edwardpiercy # 24. June 2009, 21:54

Thanks Darko. I'll try it. Sounds like I could skip one step.

Incidentally I just got back from the doctor and the guy that runs the Guidant pacemaker interface thingie is from Serbia. His name is Zoran.

Stardancer # 24. June 2009, 22:15

Hope all went well with the exams.

edwardpiercy # 24. June 2009, 22:55

Star they had me in and out of there this time like an automated car wash. Which is okay by me considering how long it usually takes.

Everything seems to be "normal."

I guess that's good. I really don't know. ;p

And thank you so much for the concern and/or asking.

Stardancer # 24. June 2009, 23:25

Always, Edward.

gdare # 25. June 2009, 05:06

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

Incidentally I just got back from the doctor and the guy that runs the Guidant pacemaker interface thingie is from Serbia. His name is Zoran.

You may surprise him with some Serbian words next time you see him.
hvala - thank you
dobar dan - good afternoon
u redu - all right

If you want something to say to him I will be happy to translate

edwardpiercy # 25. June 2009, 05:51

Well assuming that I can pronounce them right I will give them a try.

The only other thing I could think of to say to him would be "Please don't transpose a 60 into an 06 and cause my heart to stop.".

Aqualion # 25. June 2009, 07:19

My dad just got himself a pacemaker. Now he's jumping around like he was 60 again (he is 89). A couple of years back he had ventricular surgery, because the ticker is worn out from a long life with hard labour. It's sort of like an old car. The older it gets the more often you have to take it to the shop. Actually the surgeon who did the ventricular work on my dad looked and talked exactly like a auto mechanic. I almost expected him to suggest he'd just as well check the tyre pressure while at it.

Live long(er) and (more) prosperous, Ed!

edwardpiercy # 25. June 2009, 10:41

Thank you so much Martin.

That's great about your dad. They certainly are nifty little devices. Not only that but I get bragging rights as to who has the coolest electronic stuff amongst my friends -- hard for them to top a $165,000 wi-fi pacemaker.

Does your dad have one of those communicator things too?

Aqualion # 25. June 2009, 20:21

I'm afraid I wouldn't know. He had this monitor on for a week or so to measure his puls, and they discovered it was down with 28 bpm when he was resting. It was also quite unstable. So they put him on top of the list and three days later he was called in. It took two hours and he was out again next day.

He is an extremely tuff guy, always was. Smart as well. He plays cards, mostly Bridge, with some of his old friends each thursday, and it keeps his wits up. And he still drives. Not far and fast, but he gets around. His heart condition is his only problem.

Apart from the being deff but denying it part, which of course is mandatory for men of his age.

edwardpiercy # 25. June 2009, 20:27

LOL -- I know about the deaf denial thing.

You could tell him he could carry around a small book and have people write in it, like Beethoven did.

Or maybe just a hearing device.

Or, probably, he would not want anything.

Aqualion # 25. June 2009, 20:51

Actually he has an extremely cool state of the art hearing device. I discovered this last year when I was spending a couple of days at his house. We were having coffee in the sitting room, when suddenly there was this beeping noice coming from the kitchen. I looked at him, but he didn't hear a thing, which was no suprise, so I got up and went to the kitchen. The sound was coming from a drawer which I opened to find this cool gadget beeping along (in a-flat as far as I remember). I just turned it off and returned to the sitting room, not bothering to ask.

I'm only his youngest son. What do I know?

edwardpiercy # 25. June 2009, 20:59

In a-flat.