Server Farm

I’ve been hard at work at trying to do real work, but after a while, I need a creative outlet. There are even times when I need a break from my usual creative outlets of designing various things for various organizations on campus - including my thesis project, which is actually a pet project that I’ve worked to be relevant to my second field of study: Psychology.

One of those times happened to be this past Saturday night/early Sunday morning, when I sat at my computer and chopped up a bunch of the video I had taken on my iPhone of the Grand Marshal/President of the Union election results. A couple of long hours later, my toiling in Sony Vegas paid off with the final render of the video. Below is the result of that work.

This isn’t the best video quality in the world, but it’ll have to do, since my phone doesn’t natively support video, though there are hints that the next iteration of the iPhone may have it.

In any case, I’ve been uploading a bunch of my work onto Vimeo, most of it in HD. While YouTube does offer HD video without the same limitations as Vimeo (500MB and 1HD video per week) and even supports a slew of additional free features (annotations, etc.), there’s a strange allure to Vimeo. I’m not sure if it’s the beauty of the embedded video player with respect to YouTube’s or the amazing contrast between the interface of Vimeo’s web site with respect to YouTube’s. Vimeo even offers day-by-day tracking of video statistics, so you get a better idea of how popular your video actually is, rather than the flat view count YouTube provides. There’s also the fact that YouTube simply feels banal, despite all its merits. That doesn’t stop me from uploading my videos to it, though.

In any case, I’ve included a couple of my most recent Vimeo uploads. The first is my final project from Advanced Typography. The second is a glorified slide show I did back in senior year of high school, waaaay the hell back in 2004. Enjoy.