Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The videos I planned to do of myself making dummies may take a bit longer than I expected since the ipad I had the ebook on got stolen on Friday the 13th. Somebody broke into my house while I was at school. I'm now down to 12 computers (instead of 14), the 3DS was also taken along with the original DS, my ps3 is gone and they also took the power cable to my xbox 360. They also took my wallet. So if anyone bought a compaq laptop in the last four days with a scratched webcam or a dell laptop with the screen almost torn off and the letters a,s,d,f,j,k,l not working than they're possibly mine. And if you just met somebody with the name Simon Morris in or near St. Catharines, Ontario that doesn't look like me than you should probably report them.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

My brother got married yesterday

If you live in St. Catharines, Ontario you might of noticed my brother was in the paper yesterday. He got married yesterday. I was my brother's best man. He wanted it to be on a day that had something to do with Titanic and yesterday was 100 years since it set sail.Hopefully his married life won't be a disaster like Titanic. I haven't been making videos for a while because I started taking a new class a while ago that is about video editing. This is my third time taking it. I'm redoing it again because instead of learning Windows Movie Maker this time they're doing Premiere Elements instead. I already know how to use it, I'm just seeing if I learn anything different than what I already know. I took it last year and taught myself how to use it because I didn't want to use Windows Movie Maker because I already knew how to use it from the first time I took the class and I don't have Windows Movie Maker on my new computer. Last year I made this movie with what I learned in Premiere. Right now I don't know when I'll be able to get back to making ventriloquism videos.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

dummy making videos

If you watched my latest video you might have noticed when I show Sam the kobo app he says the title of the book I'm reading is Ventriloquism for Fun & Profit. That is the name of the book that taught Terry Fator what he does in Las Vegas every night. I actually did download that book. It was made by one of my favourite ventriloquists Paul Winchell. I downloaded because it tells me two ways to make ventriloquist dummies. The ebook I got off ebay only told me to how to make the head so I've been looking through a few books lately and trying to figure out the best way to make a dummy. Some people think the best way is with a 3D printer or make them out of fiberglass. I can't afford those things and this book gives me an easier way to do it. If I ever get around to buying all the stuff I need to do it I might make a few videos showing how to make one using the techniques from this book that was made in 1928. And also I found out a while ago that the dummytalkers youtube channel that I made fun of in my third video was deleted. Apparently the channel was about to be banned so someone known as fuzzypickle122 deleted it and than said "ventriloquism is a retarded and kiddish talent so stop complaining and grow up". I disagree with that. Just because you decided to quit ventriloquism, fuzzypickle122 doesn't mean you get to decide to shut down the group for everybody else.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

I now have the iPad

A few days ago I got my uncle to buy me the ipad. I got the 16gb wifi one. I didn't want to pay for it monthly so I didn't get the 3G one. Unfortunately I found out later that most people reccomend you get the 32gb or 64gb iPad because the 16gb runs out of memory fast. One of the apps I downloaded is the blogger app so I can update this blog from it. I'm using it right now to type this. In my latest video you can see me showing the iPad to Sam. Incase you can't tell, I didn't really break my iPad in it. It's actually a 3D animation of it being thrown.

Sam Episode 8

Thursday, February 23, 2012

If you've been watching my videos, you've probably noticed I haven't made a new one in almost a month. That's because at the start of February I started helping out a Digital Gadgets class. I helped out the class two years ago and than they got a different teacher for it. The original teacher came back and she asked me to help again so I said that I would. I've also been taking stuff out of my grandfather's house that we just sold and I'm trying to find the tools and other stuff I need to make my own dummy. I got an ebook a while ago that told me a pretty easy way to make my own dummy but it was written in 1928 so I can't find some of the stuff I need. And I also started filming a new video for Red Skeleton Films.

Monday, February 6, 2012

LLC video is down

If you tried to watch the video of me and Steve at Lifetime Learning Centre today you won't be able to. I had to delete it off youtube because I didn't have permission from any of the students to put it on youtube so the school asked me to take it down.