Leslie Herger

I’ve come up with a series of philosophies about art making and being in an art space, I call them my studio philosophies. I’m making fun little videos about them for Youtube and then I’ll go into each one more indepth in Vlogs. Fun!

Technology updates pretty frequently. And so does the equipment that people use over time. But when equipment isn’t maintained, it breaks down. Sometimes it get’s dangerous to even use. I pulled a set of nice studio lights, the kind used for high end photography, from the trash. On the surface they looked okay, but once … Read more

In the past my laptop had a port for SD and miniSD cards. It worked well. Now my laptop doesn’t have that so I bought a dongle to do the job. Not a big deal When I use my laptop to load videos to drive it works okay, but then to use them on my … Read more

So it turns out that if I transfer images and video to my phone via my dongle that it adds extra folders to the card. Which then causes the camera to not be able to record on that card. It will tell me it is recording but it does not. I recorded a good vlog … Read more

I did a bit of searching and found out that there are a number of video editing softwares, including Rush! (IT was not available when  I first checked.) That I could download and install on the pizza box if I deleted or moved a bunch of stuff off the computer. I do not expect either … Read more

I have tried with little success to get my butt out of the house to record a vlog about why I’m returning to Youtube and why I left in the first place. I finally was able to get my butt in gear this morning and got it recorded. I had ordered a SD card reader … Read more

I scuff up and decorate another chapstick tube with an eggplant drawing.

I shot a video over the weekend using burst mode on my camera. burst mode is not intended for film but I thought it might be cool to play with. It turns out it’s really bad for films unless you are looking for weird trippy time lapse style shots. I dig it, kind of. Feels … Read more

Make Stuff my new youtube video series is starting. I’m trying to turn the camera on when I make stuff. In this video I take apart a tripod and use the legs to make a selfie stick and a couple of mono pods. I may make a few other things, we’ll see. (I think I … Read more