Frédéric, Misun, and the boys are moving to France to explore a new business venture. To say goodbye to everyone, they rented out a karaoke bar and had a party. The night was a cacophony of sound, for the kids were given free reign of the dance floor and ran around in circles, while the adults took turns singing and eating.
This is my first “5x5”; a video of five vignettes at five seconds each. It’s a helpful guideline for putting together footage that doesn’t necessarily have a consistent theme. It’s also very restrictive, as five seconds is barely enough to see what’s going on in a particular clip, and that means you really have to find the essence of action. I generally don’t make 5x5s because I always have a story to tell, but in this case, it’s fun just to see how people sing. This is very different from the Chinese karaoke parties I was witness to as a kid, where the adults take their singing very seriously, so everyone is very quiet, attentive, and quite rehearsed.
The one who stole the show was Akio, who had heard Frédéric, Misun starting a duet of Ne Me Quitte Pas, took the microphone from Misun, and started repeating the line he had just learned.
I told Frédéric, “It’s amazing that you’re not nervous up there”, and he told me, “I just said to myself that I want to have fun, and it wouldn’t be fun if I didn’t sing, so I wasn’t nervous.” I wish I could do that.
The last three Vimeo posts you made haven’t worked for me — the bar loads, but the screen is black, no sound. Do you suppose that’s my company’s doing? or has anyone else got this problem?
Here is my non very techy tech support. Sometimes, when that happens to me, I Just click on the play button a couple of times, and then eventually it will play. It’s worth a try (if you haven’t already done that anyway).
It may be that you don’t have the latest version of Macromedia Flash player installed.
I take it you don’t come here unless you’re at work, otherwise you could troubleshoot the problem from two locations.
I’m usually racing about on the weekend and don’t check anyone’s blogs in the evening or weekends. I’ll just keep up with the twitterfeed now : )