Snow shoveling time lapse

02.15.10 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Media, Video by Jordan

About 11 inches of snow at our house in Roanoke, Virginia for our second big snowstorm in 2010. My time lapse didn’t quite work out when I shoveled the first time Friday night, so this is from the second go-around of shoveling Saturday. Three things I learned: – Should’ve made the interval between shots less [...]


Photos/video from Thanksgiving

12.06.09 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Video by Jordan

In trying to shoot our annual family photo, we got a little restless and decided to have some fun. More photos that didn’t make it in the video can be found at thanksgivingphotos.jordanfifer.net.


A follow-up on the “Balloon Boy” news – SNL does balloon spoof

10.19.09 Posted in Blog, In the News, Just for Fun, Media, Video by Jordan

Saturday Night Live had this funny bit during Weekend Update: See my last post: CNN should be more cautious in breaking “news”


Alltel commerical a blatant copy of old Chris Farley SNL sketch

05.01.09 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Video by Jordan

I wish I had found an online clip of the actual Alltel commercial I’m speaking of. It’s the recent one where the chubby guy with curly hair portraying Verizon (his name is actually Michael Busch) goes on about why people aren’t buying cell service from him.  He uses air quotes as he comes up with [...]


Simpsons episode features YouTube a capella

05.01.09 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Video by Jordan

Unfortunately I only just got around to watching last weekend’s Simpsons on Tivo, but I caught this. The episode featured the audio and video of that clip as the closing credits music. The performance is by a group called Canvas.