A. Aronsson's WeBOLLog

One and a half months ago a friend brought me out for rock climbing with her friend which is a climbing instructor. I have never climbed before and I was told about it the previous evening, so I had no time to prepare myself mentally, and really had no idea how it was going to be like either. Yet I managed to bring cameras along to document the whole spectacle and I have put together a small video of my two first climbs EVER!

The video has a weird aspect ratio as I have put two VGA videos next to each other, but it does fit into the 720p frame, neat! When thinking about it, you could fit 2x VGA and 4x QVGA videos, or 12x QVGA videos! The video is embedded below and available directly at Youtube.

On the ground I had my pocket camera in time-lapse mode, and on my head a helmet to which I had strapped a camera I bought for recording this years skiing trip (which I still have to finish editing).

This is a weird tradition of the local Lions Club to generate charity funds. I have never watched it before, only heard of it, but I took my time to accompany a few friends there to see the spectacle and of course snap a few pictures.

As the title says, it is a race between rubber ducks, 2000 rubber ducks to be precise. Duck certificates which grants you the prize if your numbered duck finishes amongst the seven first were 50 SEK each. I bought one but did not win, no surprise there! Prizes were as follows:

• 1st prize: Travel checks for 20k SEK
• 2nd prize: Travel checks for 10k SEK
• 3rd – 7th prize: Travel or food checks for 2k SEK

Below is a selection of photos from the event:

And a video! At the event there was a human gyro which I just had to try. I have dreamed about riding one since reading about the hardware in some magazine, ages ago. I just had not gotten around to it, or bumped into one for that matter, but there it was! And I sure enjoyed it :)

This happened at the beginning of August last year, 2008, at the end of my vacation. We were a couple of friends who had talked about visiting Liseberg, a funfair located in Gothenburg, and some of us actually ended up going there, even if many others were busy.

I had not visited Liseberg in a decade, for real! So quite a few rides were new for me, even old ones which I had never gotten to try before. Below are some… quite random photos.

One of the rides I had looked forward to greatly was Balder. It is not what you get when you ride it, but a wooden roller coaster. It sure presented some excitement, from the start of the queue to the end of the ride, and I was happily surprised by sudden dips and turns! Sadly, the second and third time was (naturally) not quite as fun as the first ride, apparently the surprises a first time ride gives is what works the best for me! Which might explain why I rode as many rides as I could muster :) Of course… I have a video of my first ride.

The day after we went to Universeum also in Gothenburg. It is a building filled with animals and… stuff. As animals are… well, pretty much covered on the Internet I feel I can leave those pictures unposted!

I have been putting off posting this for… well, a year! I had planned to get this posted before this years skiing trip, but I ran out of time. I had to cut down the video from 30 minutes too, which is something I thought I had done, but apparently not! Which explains why I had not posted it.

Last year I bought my Ixus 75 camera right before leaving, so it was brand new when I brought it out into the wild. After the trip I decided I would put up this blog because I had snapped a bunch of pictures and recorded some video I wanted to share. Actually the very first post on this blog was from that trip, with a video of when I smashed my face! I never got around to posting the pictures, as I focused on just getting to know the software and tweak it till I was happy.

I had bought a really cheap video capable digital camera specifically for this trip so I could record clips in the slopes. Luckily the case that was included in the package was easily modifiable to be mountable on my body via a cargo strap!

The positions of the camera are: on my helmet, low on my ankle, high on my ankle, around my middle and backwards on my ankle.

I will try to get pictures and video up a bit sooner from this years trip!

This morning was my third time going to the Blood Centre to open up one of my veins, and my third time posting about it too. I know a few of my local friends find this thing with needles very terrible and scary, which probably is why I keep posting about it! I am so considerate, am I not? This time there is even a video, enjoy!