Here's some more footage from Saturday's "canal" hockey game. You won't see me in this footage because I'm the one behind the camera this time. More details here from John Keeley.
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
January 6th, 2010
Team USA Gold Medal Winning Chant
Thanks to hockeycardshow for digging up this clip of Team USA celebrating in the locker room after their 6-5 OT victory over Team Canada at the 2010 World Junior Championships:
It's fun to be a teenager -- and a world champion. Congrats again.
September 13th, 2009
The Serena Williams Meltdown
Life can't be terribly easy when anything and everything you do and say could possibly end up on worldwide television. Everyone ought to be entitled to get angry once in a while, but when you're a celebrity, losing your cool comes with a cost. Just ask Dennis Green. Or Jim Mora. Or Tommy Lasorda. The fact is, if you lose your cool, the moment may very well follow you around for the rest of your life.
Well, one of my favorite athletes, Serena Williams, now has her very own moment of shame. If you haven't heard it yet, Williams was assessed a penalty point on match point in her semifinal showdown with Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open. The problems began with Williams serving to Clijsters at 15-30, trailing by a set and down 5-6 in the second. It was then that the linesman called back-to-back foot faults on Williams, sending her to the brink at 15-40, and apparently over the edge:
That's right, Williams essentially screamed her way out of the U.S. Open.
As you can see from the video, the officials weren't terribly happy with Williams abusing an official, especially after she had already smashed her racket after dropping set point in the first set. If you listen closely, even John McEnroe, the king of the on-court tirade, couldn't find it in himself to defend her.
Apparently not satisfied with the damage she had done to her reputation on the court, Williams decided to keep digging with a supremely smug performance in the post-match press conference:
Excuse me, but what planet is this young lady living on? Take another look at the video, where Williams tells the linesman that she's going to "shove this ball down her f****** throat." I don't care how angry you might have been. I don't care even if the linesman was wrong on the call, which was apparently the case. You don't physically threaten an official in any sport. Ever. One wonders whether or not this message will ever be received on Planet Serena.
August 22nd, 2007
The Off Wing Video File
Over the course of just a few months, I've managed to compile a nice archive of video clips. Click here for my archive at Dailymotion and here for the clips I put together for FanHouse TV over at AOL Video.
I guess the most fun I had all Summer had to be wandering around RFK Stadium before David Beckham's MLS debut here in Washington a few weeks back. One clip I haven't had much of a chance to share was the footage I shot of his postmatch press conference. As it turned out, I started out trying to shoot from a podium in the back of the room, a distance my lens really couldn't handle. So in between interviews, I was able to make my way to the front of the room and grab a seat in the second row in an area reserved for photographers.
Normally I wouldn't have sat there, but there was somebody else in the first row with a camcorder, so I figured why not? I set up my tripod and waited for Beckham. Here's one of the clips I captured where Beckham tries to finesse his criticism of FieldTurf while admitting that he had purchased three separate pitches of it for his American Soccer academies:
For the curious, I've been using a nice digital camera I picked up in the Spring to shoot these. It's a Casio exlim 8.1 megapixel camera, and the video quality has been more than good enough to get me to hold off on buying a stand alone video camera. I generally edit the clips in Windows Movie Maker, though I've also played with a few using iMovie. As for the future, it looks like a class in Final Cut Express might be in order.
It's not uncommon for me to get some curious looks when I set up. As I mentioned, the exlim is just a regular digital camera you could probably carry in your pocket. So when I show up for a press conference with one mounted on a tripod it can't help but draw some doubletakes.
