#27, Power Chords

Swarovski Window, Waikiki, Hawaii, October ‘07, artistic view.

I am trying to use several guitar power chords in my music composition I am trying to write for the next video. Things sound quite good, there is something in those power chords, so few notes, but they can really get you! An acoustic guitar handles those chords, but later many other instruments repeat versions of those chords.
I am probably going to shoot some scenes with moving subjects for the next video. As you know, getting good quality video with moving scenes is not the simplest thing to do. You always end up with some residual "jerkiness" that can be difficult to watch. So you either use a 60p professional video gear ($), or try to figure out how to minimize this unwanted effect. Need to refresh my memory on that subject. A good book, with all basic video related subjects, is the Digital Video Handbook. I keep it in my car all the time, and if I need to find something, this is where I can go. There are much heavier, thicker and more advanced video books around. I am going to talk about those at some other time.
Three new subscription magazines arrived: Outdoor Photography, Popular Photography, and Keeplinger’s Personal Finance. Now I need to sit down and spend some time reading them. In the photo magazines, I usually go the last pages where ads with new equipment are, to check if prices are any lower than say several months ago. On video cameras, that usually is true, buying always the latest model as soon as it is released is not always the best thing to do. There are always some bugs in both hardware and software, as well, and it is better to leave those to others to debug. As an example, on my last Canon camera I purchased from a large electronics store, a display problem appeared only after few hours of use, the day after I started to use it. The display would go blank, and nothing could be done about it. Had to exchange quickly, since then there were no issues.

Books: Arlen Roth, Complete Acoustic Guitar, Schirmer Trade Books, ISBN 0-8256-7271-6.
Rikky Rooksby, Chord Master, How to choose and play the right guitar chords, http://www.backbeatbooks.com, ISBN 0-87930-766-8.
Tom Ang, Digital Video Handbook, Equipment, techniques, projects, editing, http://www.dk.com, ISBN 0-7566-0942-9.