Standing In Her Chinos Shirt Pulled Off Clean

The speedy version of our trip to California. Which may be the only version if I don't figure out FCP soon...

Know Who You Are At Every Age

Dad of the year candidate...
bridge from mesmith on Vimeo.

I'm glad you are a girl
I'm pleased to know you
I like you for you
I'm happy you're growing up

Reach and you won't lose me
Destroy the objective, but still survive
You are angry and that's okay

I am not afraid of your anger
What do you need? What do you want?
I love you and I know that you can figure it out

pur (Cocteau Twins)

Some Kind Of Living

Classic Video

Now with Improved Quality... Summer-Fall, 2008

The Great Escape

More from Effie's vault... and words I never thought I'd string together: Eyeshadow Makeup Slideshow (running at a painless 7.5 secs):

The leave Metchosin visa finally came through so off to town we went. Woo-hoo!
Ella and I played ponies. I won.

And... unexpectedly ran into Amy at Uptown:

Found Video

Eff enlists brother to film juggling progress - becomes increasingly exasperated while jerky camera operator's distractions get the better of him.

As expected then...


Juggling in Three Takes from mesmith on Vimeo.

Prototypical Christmas

Family Portrait Timer Fail

Conventional gifts...

Traditional ornaments:

Crêpey breakfast:

Tears of pride well up in our eyes when Ferg creates anything remotely non-phalic in design...

Ye olde spag n' meatball xmas dinner:

Merry Christmas!

Cork Pop Fail from mesmith on Vimeo.

Length Walk in One Go

Eff walks length of property on her 4,826th day of living - trips once and bores to tears any dedicated youtube surfers googling Einsauszwei/ Cat Power's Metal Heart...

Teenager of the Year

Happy Birthday Effie-Lou!

 
ELBM 13 from mesmith on Vimeo.

I'm 9 Today

I'm 9 Today from mesmith on Vimeo.

Effie Movie

The video dump continues... here's a portion of our 2005 family movie - back when Morrissey was our photographer! It features "all the way" by New Order. The music seemed to fit the posing Eff was doing around all the places she hung out that year and now the words seem to be fitting more and more too.