Today is my fifth anniversary of videoblogging on swordfight.org.

The original video page still exists at https://swordfight.org/video although it looks like it’s getting ready to sink into a ruin of disabled comments and broken links.

The first video I ever posted featured the timeless cliche of a plastic bag blowing around in the wind, with a musical soundtrack from the first A/V disc. Back then I had the boss’s snazzy video camera and a high-speed Internet connection. Whereas I finished off 2006 with a cheesy cellphone camera and dialup Internet. Hooray for progress!

Videoblogging stands accused of being an inherently narcissistic hobby. It’s probably true. So for my fifth anniversary I’ve decided to post a video self-portrait. This is a timelapse that was recorded the other night from the swordfight webcam.

The music is something I whipped up today in GarageBand. Plug in your subwoofer, those dinky little laptop speakers aren’t going to cut it.

sword-timelapseportrait.mov [1.8MB QuickTime]

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