I had posted a flipbook in April of the photobook that I had made for my father, but the version that was put online only showed the left-hand pages (so not so very useful).
So I have looked around online and found a better, more magazine-like format! The more useful photobook as a flipbook can be found here:
Sam
Showing posts with label Photobook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photobook. Show all posts
23 December 2015
01 June 2015
Peter Whipp: this is your life photobook video
We felt that such an important event should not go unheralded, so we threw a party, and took lots of photos. I was at that time deep in finalising my Master's thesis, so was going to compile a photobook when I got time.
We had the photos, I was just lacking some space to devote to the task. My teaching load suddenly went ballistic as one management lecturer left one week out from the start of Semester two, 2014. I had the capacity to devote more hours to teaching as my study load had dropped, so added two more papers, and arranged to teach summer school.
As a result, there as not much headspace available for creativity, so this project slowed to an almost stop... but there was slow progress.
In May 2015, I at last finished the album. I made a video of the album, which can be viewed here:
My father was delighted to receive a hardback book for his birthday, as was our once-estranged cousin Kim. My next little project is to make a better flipbook than the momento one that I posted on 30 April (as it only shows the left-hand pages!) of the great 80th birthday, hoping that this too will not take another year to finalise.
This is still in progress, and I will post an update as soon as it is complete!
Sam
30 April 2015
This is your life...
I have been putting together a photobook for my Father's 80th birthday last year, as a present for this year's birthday. Take a look:
http://www.momento.co.nz/index/preview/id/2187122/auth/55419555dabf09.44898167?iframe=true&width=1200&height=800
Sam
13 March 2014
News from Nelson - March 2014
Hi all,
We have both been head down & bum up for ages - with no sign of let up until after MIke's wedding, so this is likely to be a fast & furious catch up.
My folks have been going through loads of family photos from my Aunt, looking for pictures of the family. They have been discussing who is in what images, and will take a laptop with the spreadsheet and all the scans back to her to confirm the info. So many of these images I have never seen before. I am very glad they both have put aside the time to do this, because neither Jan nor I have any time at present.
Jan is flat out with work and the NSO, and I am flat out with teaching, career stuff and Masters.
We are both hoping for a break: Jan once he steps of the NSO Committee at the end of the month; me when I get my draft in at the beginning of April.
So more then.
Jan & Sam
We have both been head down & bum up for ages - with no sign of let up until after MIke's wedding, so this is likely to be a fast & furious catch up.
My folks have been going through loads of family photos from my Aunt, looking for pictures of the family. They have been discussing who is in what images, and will take a laptop with the spreadsheet and all the scans back to her to confirm the info. So many of these images I have never seen before. I am very glad they both have put aside the time to do this, because neither Jan nor I have any time at present.
Jan is flat out with work and the NSO, and I am flat out with teaching, career stuff and Masters.
We are both hoping for a break: Jan once he steps of the NSO Committee at the end of the month; me when I get my draft in at the beginning of April.
So more then.
Jan & Sam
30 May 2013
News from Nelson - May 2 2013
Hi everyone,
Wow - I cannot believe where the year has vanished to so quickly.
It has been a while since I updated everyone on what we have been doing: that is partly to do with the fact that we were away for a fortnight on the North Island tour, and then came home with colds. I am now finally getting over it, over a month later. However I will do a condensed version!
North Island tour was great - lovely weather, and the stand outs for me were Cape Reinga and Waitangi, once more. Even Jan said he would like to spend a few hours at the Cape, just soaking up the atmosphere. It really feels like a special place.
I have just finished putting together the photobook - which you can view at http://momento.co.nz/gallery?cpid=10281&auth=51a346aa4bccd3.10433652. Ana, another exchange student from Brazil, who lives about an hour away from Camila, came to stay last weekend and helped me finish it. The book will hopefully be printed and will get to all the Northern Hemisphere students in time for them winging their way home at the end of June or beginning of July. Karin, who spent lots of time here with Camila, is going home to Sweden, as is Kazu - to Japan. I think they both have had a very full year!
We won't be taking the tour next year: we will need our holidays for my brother's & Donna's wedding in Rarotonga, and for going to Brazil. That will keep us busy. Then the year after is Oma Friedel's 100th birthday in Germany - in the midst of the German winter. That will probably be a holiday where we don't have a free suitcase to bring chocolate back in!
Last weekend, as well as Ana, we had my folks, Mike, Donna and some of their friends - eighteen of us in total - here to help celebrate my Father's birthday. We had a BBQ with loads of food. I also had a wine for you, John! We had a lovely afternoon, and Graeme & Julie offered to housesit for us, if we end up needing someone - and if Amy isn't available, of course!
Speaking of Amy, she is now working at NMIT and studying online. I think she is really enjoying being back in Nelson too. Jan & I will hopefully catch up with Frits & Kathleen as well, the weekend after next.
Jenny came to stay a couple of weeks ago, which was great. I picked her up from the airport & we went home, drank wine, ate crisps and talked. Jan had orchestra practice so had to catch up later. We dropped her back out to Bunty & Donald's house - and stayed for hours, catching up with the whole family's news.
Last weekend I was doing some washing, only to have the machine shudder to a halt. Wouldn't go, ended up with an error message. Jan thought that perhaps there might be something stopping the pump draining, so opened the hatch to manually drain the pump... to find that the pump drain wouldn't open. So he juggled it around and managed to unstick it. To find the following cache of extras! And the really amazing thing is that we don't own any hairclips!
This coming weekend we have the Founders Book Fair. I am organising volunteers from our Rotary club: we have traditionally handled the security on the first Saturday. It runs for a week here in Nelson, one of the largest second hand book sales in the country. We will get the chance in our breaks to stroll about & buy. Last year I picked up some antique management books; the year before a Bill Bryson hardback (the ‘Short History’ one). Jan got a matched set of Neville Schutes, and some old engineering “how to” books which are hilarious. Surprises every year. I have just started slumming on Vernon Coleman – totally escapist lite ‘mystery’ rubbish – but hopefully someone will have de-dunged their bookshelf and I will benefit from their purge.
I still love my iPod! I have just been reading - listening to - 1421 and 1434 by Gavin Menzies, about the Chinese exploration of the world. They are both very interesting books, and followed well on me re-listening to Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China, biography about Joseph Needham who created, wrote, researched and project managed the Science and Civilisation in China volumes (which runs to something like twenty seven thumping great tomes).
Jan might be going to the US to a conference in November, and I might be going to Queenstown for one - in the same week, if you can believe it!
Dogs are in general OK, though Flissy is getting very frail, and wobbly in her back legs. We have bought little boots for her to help keep her more stable on the polished floors.
Right, that will do for now. More later.
Jan & Sam
Wow - I cannot believe where the year has vanished to so quickly.
It has been a while since I updated everyone on what we have been doing: that is partly to do with the fact that we were away for a fortnight on the North Island tour, and then came home with colds. I am now finally getting over it, over a month later. However I will do a condensed version!
North Island tour was great - lovely weather, and the stand outs for me were Cape Reinga and Waitangi, once more. Even Jan said he would like to spend a few hours at the Cape, just soaking up the atmosphere. It really feels like a special place.
I have just finished putting together the photobook - which you can view at http://momento.co.nz/gallery?cpid=10281&auth=51a346aa4bccd3.10433652. Ana, another exchange student from Brazil, who lives about an hour away from Camila, came to stay last weekend and helped me finish it. The book will hopefully be printed and will get to all the Northern Hemisphere students in time for them winging their way home at the end of June or beginning of July. Karin, who spent lots of time here with Camila, is going home to Sweden, as is Kazu - to Japan. I think they both have had a very full year!
We won't be taking the tour next year: we will need our holidays for my brother's & Donna's wedding in Rarotonga, and for going to Brazil. That will keep us busy. Then the year after is Oma Friedel's 100th birthday in Germany - in the midst of the German winter. That will probably be a holiday where we don't have a free suitcase to bring chocolate back in!
Last weekend, as well as Ana, we had my folks, Mike, Donna and some of their friends - eighteen of us in total - here to help celebrate my Father's birthday. We had a BBQ with loads of food. I also had a wine for you, John! We had a lovely afternoon, and Graeme & Julie offered to housesit for us, if we end up needing someone - and if Amy isn't available, of course!
Speaking of Amy, she is now working at NMIT and studying online. I think she is really enjoying being back in Nelson too. Jan & I will hopefully catch up with Frits & Kathleen as well, the weekend after next.
Jenny came to stay a couple of weeks ago, which was great. I picked her up from the airport & we went home, drank wine, ate crisps and talked. Jan had orchestra practice so had to catch up later. We dropped her back out to Bunty & Donald's house - and stayed for hours, catching up with the whole family's news.
Last weekend I was doing some washing, only to have the machine shudder to a halt. Wouldn't go, ended up with an error message. Jan thought that perhaps there might be something stopping the pump draining, so opened the hatch to manually drain the pump... to find that the pump drain wouldn't open. So he juggled it around and managed to unstick it. To find the following cache of extras! And the really amazing thing is that we don't own any hairclips!
This coming weekend we have the Founders Book Fair. I am organising volunteers from our Rotary club: we have traditionally handled the security on the first Saturday. It runs for a week here in Nelson, one of the largest second hand book sales in the country. We will get the chance in our breaks to stroll about & buy. Last year I picked up some antique management books; the year before a Bill Bryson hardback (the ‘Short History’ one). Jan got a matched set of Neville Schutes, and some old engineering “how to” books which are hilarious. Surprises every year. I have just started slumming on Vernon Coleman – totally escapist lite ‘mystery’ rubbish – but hopefully someone will have de-dunged their bookshelf and I will benefit from their purge.
I still love my iPod! I have just been reading - listening to - 1421 and 1434 by Gavin Menzies, about the Chinese exploration of the world. They are both very interesting books, and followed well on me re-listening to Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China, biography about Joseph Needham who created, wrote, researched and project managed the Science and Civilisation in China volumes (which runs to something like twenty seven thumping great tomes).
Jan might be going to the US to a conference in November, and I might be going to Queenstown for one - in the same week, if you can believe it!
Dogs are in general OK, though Flissy is getting very frail, and wobbly in her back legs. We have bought little boots for her to help keep her more stable on the polished floors.
Right, that will do for now. More later.
Jan & Sam
15 August 2012
News from Nelson – August 2012
Hi all,
Latest news – we have a new addition in the family: a pool table. I have had a search on TradeMe for a couple of years, looking for an old pub pool table, and we hit pay-dirt last weekend. We went to Blenheim to pick it up, avoiding the rain, and installed it in our lounge on Sunday.
We played about thirty games and we were both RUBBISH, but I was by far the MOST rubbish. No down-trous (Kiwi rule: if you don’t sink any of your balls, you have to take your trousers down), but close at times. It was fun. I see budgie-smuggler free pool parties at our house coming up (translation: budgie-smugglers are Ozzie for tight fitting swimming trunks that look like shiny undies).
“Deutschlandreise 2012” has arrived from the printers, so I am now waiting for Jan to write a couple of letters before the copies will wing their way to Jan’s grandmothers.
NMIT & AUT teaching is going well; I have sorted out all my courses and my semester's teaching is going smoothly. My study is going slowly, and I am constantly getting lost down side-alleys in UA’s LOVELY library where I have access to journals for Africa! Ooo Grommet!
My brother’s 40th birthday was last weekend. My family came together for a party, which was great. My sister is off to the US in a couple of weeks for a holiday, and to meet some friends whom she has met online (in Washington DC and Pennsylvania).
Dogs are all well, if put out by the rain. They keep going to doors and expecting me to open them onto sunshine, I think. However, they certainly don’t mind splashing through puddles, if it is a walk. It is only toilet stops that are infra dig in the rain. Photo of a weird sunrise attached, and a night shot from Princes Drive.
Only a couple of months until Camila comes to us for the last three months of her Rotary exchange year. I suspect that we won’t see too much of her during the weekends though as she has lots of places to stay in town. However, she does enjoy pool, so perhaps the pool table will provide a key attraction!
We are going to Lake Rotoiti this weekend to present “what happened on the North Island Tour” to the next intake of exchange students. That should be fun.
Andreas, Katrin & Christian will be in New Zealand this coming Christmas and New Year, and it looks like either Christmas in Nelson, or Christmas in Wellington at this stage – but we haven’t heard back on a final decision from Eppingen yet. Hopefully this will spur a response!
The weekend after next I am in Wellington for a CDANZ meeting. I am up in Auckland on 19th Sept for some Masters stuff, to joint-present a lecture at AUT’s Manukau Campus and to have dinner with Tessa.
Happy birthdays to Neil L, Gary B, Uta S-K, Oma Lieselotte, Hui-Ping, Raeywn TeH, Otto, Bob, Warren, Doug, Helen, Andreas, Leigh, Max, Karen and DJ!
Right – I am sure that I have forgotten lots, but this will do for now. All the best to everyone :-)
Jan Kuwilsky & Sam Young
24 May 2012
Flipbooks
Hi all,
There are two links on the right-hand side of this post - one is the Rotary NI Trip Flipbook, the other is the story of bulding our house. Please try using them and let me know what you think!
Sam
There are two links on the right-hand side of this post - one is the Rotary NI Trip Flipbook, the other is the story of bulding our house. Please try using them and let me know what you think!
Sam
23 April 2012
News from Nelson - April 2012
Hi all,
Jan & I have spent the last two weeks touring the top half of the North Island with eleven Rotary International Youth Exchange students from - closest to Kiwiland - Chile (Rosario), Argentina (Magui), Brazil (Camila), France (Margot & Camille), Belguim (Caro), Germany (Anna & Jenni), Austria (Ela), Sweden (Tove) and Chikara (Japan).
We had a great time, and are even mad enough to think about doing it again.
Some photos of the trip (more to come):
I will put together a book of the trip once I have all the photos back from the girls :-)
Jan & Sam
Jan & I have spent the last two weeks touring the top half of the North Island with eleven Rotary International Youth Exchange students from - closest to Kiwiland - Chile (Rosario), Argentina (Magui), Brazil (Camila), France (Margot & Camille), Belguim (Caro), Germany (Anna & Jenni), Austria (Ela), Sweden (Tove) and Chikara (Japan).
We had a great time, and are even mad enough to think about doing it again.
Some photos of the trip (more to come):
I will put together a book of the trip once I have all the photos back from the girls :-)
Jan & Sam
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