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At this point, I’m thinking, “What is Jun about to do, and why are those boards being held more than 7 feet off the ground?” With no trampoline, or running start, Jun begins his flat-footed jump.
Pretty cool, eh? A vertical leap of 5 feet or so. But that wasn’t the end of the story…
Wow!
Each year, near the end of the international show, the students do an international fashion show. My-Linh, above, is from Vietnam.
Not all of the students represent their home country though. Ashley, on the right, was representing Thailand even though she is from Oregon.
Erina is Japanese, but she was part of the Mexico group.
The hosts of the fashion show portion were from France and Japan. That’s another student, Yuki, from Waseda University.
Earlier in the evening, many of the Japanese students (and some non-Japanese students) performed a medley of Japanese Anime songs including Miyazaki classics like Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ).
The Easter Bunny that visited my house either knows that my kids are now tall enough to search for their goodies in trees, or he (she? it?) thinks that such placements will be beneficial to capturing more yellow jackets.
The Southern Oregon University International Show turned into an event where I came to understand my new camera’s limitations.
The autofocus (AF) on the Nikon D7000 in video mode has two major problems for which there is no fix. First, it isn’t smooth or quick as you’ll see in the video below. The second problem is the audible noise it makes. The video quality can be outstanding at times, but unless your target is not moving you will have problems with the autofocus. Actually, I took the camera out for more video tests today and found that even with a non-moving target the camera would sometimes try to refocus causing temporary blurs and the noise once again. Basically you can only use the autofocus if you are going to edit out all of the portions of your video when the camera is focusing. For future video on the D7000 I will have to only use manual focus, which means the quality probably won’t be outstanding. I’m very disappointed in this aspect of the camera.
The following video is of the Indian stick dance (Dandiya Raas). Many of the participants were not from India, but they looked great anyway.
Before they finished I was so frustrated with the autofocus problems in video mode that I just started taking still photos instead.
Sachta Bakshi and DaeWook Kim were the hosts of SOU’s International Show 2011.
One of my accounting students from Korea, Jun Byung Joon, put on an amazing display of Taekwondo.
Sohana and Sachta Bakshi
Many of the SOU International Show participants at the end of the performance
Takumi the samurai
Tonight was SOU’s annual International Show put on by the Southern Oregon University International Student Association. I’ll have some more photos (and videos) in the coming days.
I took a little trip up north on Tuesday to see a Swedish band I had previously seen in Sweden in 2008. If you are interested (I know most of you probably are not) then check out the photos and video I will post here.
The venue was the Wonder Ballroom, located right in the middle of a residential neighborhood–very strange. The building was cool, though, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
This past weekend featured a slumber party of 11 girls at our house. (Two hadn’t arrived yet when I took this picture.)
Last year’s party took place at a park (Yoyogi Koen) in Tokyo, as it would have been quite impossible to have 11 girls sleep in our 700 sq. ft. apartment then.
This was the view from the place we stayed in Brookings of the northern spit of Crissey Field State Park.