This past Spring my best friend and I went to Argentina to celebrate my 30th birthday. From the Iguazu Falls to the foothills of the Andes in Bariloche, we explored some of the most amazing places. Things that I will never forget. You’d think that I would of taken 100’s of pictures; especially since we both had our nice Nikon and Canon digital cameras. I think we took 30 between the both of us. Instead we captured the whole experience on my FlipHD video camera. With it being the size of an iPod and holding 60 minutes of footage before offloading by USB straight to my computer—it was a no brainer. We uploaded videos each day to our Facebook pages allowing our friends to really share in the experience with us at a whole other level. I would constantly hear things like “I feel like we are there with you.” Which is not something you often hear about a photograph. Video breaks through that wall and I think it will be hard to go back. Since we were gone for a little more than three weeks we couldn’t really just “walk away” from our lives at home. But video helped us with that too. My friend would communicate daily with his girlfriend using video chat/ Skype and I was using it to give my editor notes on a project we were finishing. Now I know we could of used other methods to communicate but I think my buddy’s girlfriend thought the “I love yous,” were more impactful as she watched him say it (even if she had to deal with seeing me in the background as I sat on the couch drinking beers).
Check out the amazing Iguazu Falls:
Now I rarely leave my house without my flip. But even if I don’t have it, most of the accessories I carry with me daily (phone, iPod) capture video. And I also find myself communicating more and more using video chat because hearing someone’s voice or typing just isn’t enough.
While writing this blog I realized it’s my first ever “written” blog entry ever. No wonder it took me so long. I should of just pulled out my flip.
