Archive for September, 2008

September 25th 2008
Swami Gone Bananas plays Douglasville GA concert

Posted under Music Concerts

On Saturday, September 20th, 2008, the Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County, in their "Concerts on the Plaza" series presented Tommy Dean and Swami Gone Bananas in concert at O’Neal Plaza. For almost two and a half hours, SGB played a great psychedelic concert of music from the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The band describes its music as "retro-hip psychedelic rock influenced by an encyclopedic esoteric assortment of musicians." There are many highlights but the music and the band speak for themselves. I have broken the concert up into flash video segments, some with more than one song. You will need a fast connection to the Internet for certain, and hopefully you will find the quality much better than YouTube. Unfortunately we don’t have time or skills to edit the raw video, and we don’t own a fluid head video tripod yet . . . More songs will be processed and uploaded as time and permissions allow.

Turn up the volume and Enjoy!

Song 1: Going To California

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September 9th 2008
Fireworks In Douglasville, Georgia - July 4th, 2008

Posted under Douglasville Celebrations

Every year Douglasville has an outstanding fireworks display to celebrate Independence Day. In 2007 the event was delayed until Labor Day due to the devastating drought in this region. This spring and summer we have had much more precipitation. We photgraphed the fireworks from the front west parkinglot at Arbor Place Mall looking towards Hunter Park.

This 16 minute video was created with our Panasonic HDC-SD1 AVCHD high definition video camera with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. The software used in converting the movie for the web is Moyea Flash Video MX Standard.  The Moyea software created a Flash video (.FLV) file for the web which was 27 times smaller than the original .AVI file. In turn, the .AVI file was converted from the 1.6 gigabyte AVCHD format file created by the camera using Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate video editing software.

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