Yesterday morning at about 10 I arrived at Hans Groenendijk's house. He had consented to to the camera work, and he had mostly everything already set up. He has an amazing lighting setup as a result of some photography work he's done in the past. Hans takes these things seriously and has all kinds of umbrellas and filters and everything related to flooding everything with light.

We set up the camera, and I unpacked my powerbook with all its wires and things. I had my iRiver MP3 device with me to record the audio in higher quality, and we used my new Panasonic LX1 digital camera as video camera. The only limitation is that we had to offload the contents of the memory card every twelmve minutes of film. Not a big problem.

The other guys arrived. Wil Verbeek, Coert van Gemeren and Wouter Beek. They were to be the guys to ask me all the questions so that the stuff I tell makes some sense to the intended audience, students of the DECOI Summer School. Wil is helping Martijn Schut set up and run the summer school. Coert and Wouter are from a student Artificial Intelligence magazine called De Connectie.

We had a good time shooting the camrea full of film segments of me answering all sorts of questions and then went next door for some lunch and a beer at about 2pm. Afterwards we continued until about 5pm. It was a really nice day, actually, because of all the intriguing discussions about evolution and other things that went on throughout the day. Every once in a while we paused and chatted a bit more.

First thing I did when I got home was make a backup of everything onto DVDs. I definitiely didn't want to lose any of it by a stupid accident.

Then today I went through all the footage cutting and pasting with Quicktime Pro until I had 70 video segments, some bigger some smaller, but there is enough there to build a nice movie. I'll be interspersing some texts, some images, and some Fluidiom animations as I put it all together using iMovie. The hardest part will probably be to coordinate the MP3 audio with the video. I've got a lot of editing ahead of me.

I think we put together a nice collection of media, and I'll edit it into a good film for the summer school grad students. An added advantage of doing this movie is that I will be able to post it to this site afterwards! Stay tuned.