30 – A Day in the Life Film Festival

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the world's first ...

Uncle Hud Saudi Arabian Film Festival!

 

All films shown in this festival were written and directed by Uncle Hud!  He is also the Executive Producer for each film, and also plays every lead role in his own humble way!

 

A quick explanation is in order.  In the spirit of showing you what I do, it occurred to me to take a few videos with the phone-cam.  They've been sorted, but not edited -- because I don't want to waste my time learning how to edit digital video.  Thomas can do that if that skill is necessary; he did a marvelous job of filmmaking with his gripping documentary of urban rappelling!

[Editor's note:  Apparently Blogger places a 100KB limit on video file size.  If anyone can tell me how to load my videos that are larger/longer, please insert it in the comments.  Thanks!]
 

Coast Guard guy with real-life stockless AK-47.  Don't know
why the Coasties have decided to hang around all of a sudden.

  

And now to raise the curtain on our renowned "Day in the Life" series, a tour de force of documentary filmmaking, and a testament to the artistic genius of our film festival's namesake!

 

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 8:50 am, headed to the office:

 

 

8:55 am, the first of three roundabouts:

 

 

10:47 am, desert:

 

 

10:48 am pulling into the office:

 

 

2:20 pm, fights with the Contractor:
 (file size too large, but getting it reduced)


 

2:30 pm, back to the apartment to meet workers for wired internet hookup:

 

 

 

2:08 pm, removing a shackle (out of sequence but too hard to correct):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 4:15 pm, back to the port: 

 

 

 

 

4:17 pm, Arabic commercial:

 

 

 

 

4:24 pm, job opportunity for Mick:
(file size too large, but getting it reduced)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:25 pm: A 30-second glimpse of commute.  Construction of residential areas.

 

 

 

 

5:14 pm, NOT Arabic rock and roll:

 

 

 

 

5:17 pm, RTGs:

  

 

6:20 pm, almost done for today:

 

 

 

 

7:22 pm, headed home:

 

 

 

 

7:26 pm, it's dark out there:

 

 

 

 

earlier in the day, but a nice closing thought:

 

 

 

 Love you all, and thanks for watching!