YouTube Honours

Yesterday I released a video that I put together recently. The video shows a number of clips that were filmed this past summer in my tree planting camp. I do this every year, and my planters look forward to it with a lot of anticipation.

In the past five or six years, I've always used songs by Mike Allison as the backing music for the planting videos. This year, for the first time, I used a song that I wrote myself, although Mike helped me record it. He did the lead vocals, backup vocals, acoustic guitar, and bass, while I played the keyboards, electric guitar, drums, and shaker. Shawn Cole of FaderMaster Studios helped with the recording and mastering (incidentally, Shawn once worked in my camp as a tree planter). The song, called, "When I Grow Old," is going to be officially released on January 5th, 2008, and will be available as a free download at that time. However, since it is pretty hard to rip an MP3 out of a YouTube video, I was able to post the planting video yesterday, before the song is officially released.


Anyway, you can view the video directly from within my blog or by clicking here to go directly to the YouTube page. The neat thing about it is that it received an honours from YouTube today as being the top watched video in the "People and Blogs" category on YouTube Canada. That's a pretty good start!

Edit on January 13th: I re-encoded the video the other day and reposted it on YouTube with better quality settings, but unfortunately, it wiped out the old video and reset the view counter. The content of the video was not changed, I only edited the video encoding settings.