Merry Christmas

Santa getting his hair done. This was as far as I got this morning before the slide show hung. Photo(s) by Chris Ramirez.

Well, we're off now for a couple of days. I wish everyone the best—those for whom these are high holy days as well as those who celebrate various alternate revelries more or less in keeping with the season. We'll return on the 26th with more about this wonderful hobby, shared by so many disparate people who otherwise hold every sort of belief under the sun.

I was going to leave you with a link to Chris Ramirez's magnificent photo essay A Real Santa. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the link to work for the past 24 hours—it keeps hanging up, sometimes on the initial title slide. Chris probably just spread the link too far and wide and it's getting too much traffic (and no wonder). Even the first time I saw it, when it worked, it took quite a while to load (probably not something you should attempt on dialup). If you have to wait until next week to actually see it, my apologies. But if you can get to it, it's a delightful show and very apropos. Good luck!

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Mike

Featured Comment by Jan Luursema: "The .mov is 153MB; that might explain why it takes a long time to load. You could just use 'save target as' on this link: http://www.ramirezpix.com/Santa_1/Santa.mov . That shouldn't time out and you can keep track of the progress. I wonder why it's so big (huge) though...a photo essay can't be more than 10 MB in the proper format."

Comments

[Jan Luursema]

The .mov is 153MB, that might explain why it takes a long time to load..

You could just use 'save target as' on this link: http://www.ramirezpix.com/Santa_1/Santa.mov

That shouldn't time out and you can keep track of the progress.

I wonder why it's so big (huge) though.. A photo essay can't be more than 10 MB in the proper format.

[_#_]

Merry effing Christmas, dude!

Hope to see more critical insights and useful reviews on this site in '08.

Keep up the good work!

[Barbu]

No wonder it goes so slow... It's over 150MB. Maybe if you can try w/ another browser, eh? (Opera user here)

And that pic is just after the beginning; there are some series like in the stop-motion movies, and quite nice at that.

[erlik]

As delightful Mr. Ramirez's series is, I'm afraid his web skills are not up to it.

A 150 megabyte QuickTime file! And it took more than a hundred downloaded megabytes for the slideshow to start playing. Even on my 2 Mbit link it took almost ten minutes. Ewwww. You just don't do it like that.

Me feeling cranky on Christmas morning? Naaah...

[Bas Scheffers]

If you want to see it, try right clicking and saving the actual .mov file. Then you can just wait until it's all there and watch it in one go without stuttering:

http://www.ramirezpix.com/Santa_1/Santa.mov

[Ted Byrne]

Thanks for all of your work... it's a wonderful resource. Happy & Merry...

Ted

[Ctein]

Minor puzzlement. I downloaded and viewed this very charming little piece, no problem.

But the file size I have for santa.mov is just under 56 MB.

What's going on with the additional 100 MB that people are reporting???

jest curious.

pax / Ctein

[nicholas Von Staden]

No mention on the program this is done on? Soundslides....a very easy program to learn and use for everyone .... at a very reasonable cost...Photojournalist Joe Weiss is the inventor/programer check out his site...http://www.soundslides.com/