This was put together by my wife Lydia using a bunch of footage I shot out in the streets around Seminyak, where we were staying in Bali in late June 2008. Originally I was just going to edit the footage together with a bunch of crazy edits, but since Lydia had already used a bunch of these clips in her last video, I decided to talk her into using the rest.

As an incentive to give her something to work with, I wrote her some poetry for it, based on what I'd shot in the footage and my experience walking around the streets of Bali that afternoon. Of course since I know nothing about poetry, she changed most of what I wrote! But the essence is still there.

After that Lydia wrote the music and put it all together in Acid, rendered off a rough wav of it and edited the video to that in Vegas. It was then time for her to record the vocals in my studio with the home made fold out vocal booth that hangs off the wall here.

Then it was back to me. I mixed her music, but had trouble due to a few layered drums on top of the main drum part. So I scrapped those! Kind of like payback for her altering my poetry ;-) I time corrected some of her vocals, and then mastered the track a number of times before I was happy with how it was sounding. I'm still not 100% sure if it's ok?

Lastly, I messed around with the colours and levels of the video, and then rendered out the final copy you see here. Well, not quite.. This was the third render. The first I got wrong apparently because the vocal harmony was louder than the main vocal.. then the 2nd time the music was playing from the wrong spot. Simple mistakes!

Lowsize: 8.17MBwxh: 336x189 Mdsize: 14.98MBwxh: 640x360 HDsize: 25.94MBwxh: 1280x720