+Cryptik Souls Crew Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I've done a quick capture, its in widescreen so might look silly on a normal monitor but I don't have time to redo it right now. I may do a normal version and a low res version for dial up users later if there is enough demand. Enjoy! Simply Paul's video diary 14.2mb (right click and choose save as... to download to your pc) Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Just watched Countryfile having videoed it due to being out and about. A brilliantly put together piece . Well done Paul. Mr Stead I can lend you the video if you would like to watch it. Link to comment
+Jan and the Percey Boys Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Wonder what colours he recommends for ammo cans Nick Gold I reckon (if he's got a gilt complex for bad videoing Bob Link to comment
+Donnacha Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I've already had someone contact me through our site asking how they could get started on geocaching. Fair play. Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Good stuff Paul - nice little segment. The rest of the program seemed like an extrended guide to our caches with at least 4 of them shown. Does this count as advertising Link to comment
+harrogate hunters Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I have also had an email enquiry from a new cacher......Boxhopper... Welcome to the addiction ! We are meeting up on Thursday/Friday to show him their first geo-cache ! PAUL.... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE !!!! Well done, we might even have some new caches to go too soon ! Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Nice one Paul - all gravy! and cheers CSC for the video upload.... Couldnt hear it at the meet - too much talking lol. Pid Link to comment
+lordelph Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Thanks for the video capture, nice work. I've made up some button badges - the perfect cache prize Link to comment
+John Stead Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Oh B***** - I thought it started at 12.30. Now I'll have to wait for it on the big screen! Wouldn't mind so much but I set the recorder up last week when I was away, but today I was home! Isn't this forum and the geocachers on it brilliant - I moan at my failure to watch and within a few minutes have two offers of copies and can watch an video file. Many thanks to all three of you and congratulations to Paul for a good job, well done! Now I'd better get out and find all the caches on my list before the ground gets too muddy with all the new geocachers rushing to find them! Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Thanks for the video capture, nice work. I've made up some button badges - the perfect cache prize HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Truly brilliant Lordelph! Link to comment
+Papakas Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Great effort Paul, well done! Link to comment
+third-degree-witch Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 great video diary !,only drawback being that there wasnt enough of it hehe,i was gettin into it and it was over what was the cache that involved the tunnel under the grand union canal ? wouldnt mind doing that one. a big well done to paul bright blessings third-degree-witch Link to comment
+Kelsborrow Wayfinders Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Just watched it thanks to the link at the top of the page from the Cryptik Souls Crew. Congratulations, it was very good indeed. You even came across as a normal human being Link to comment
+Maingray Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Excellent, thanks for the link! Link to comment
+stu_and_sarah Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 What a fantastic spokesman for out sport! Nice one, Paul. "It's a jumper.... not an anorak" Priceless! Stu + Sarah Link to comment
+G Force Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 (edited) OOPS! Greg isn't going to be too pleased when i tell him I forgot to video the progrmme! Mrs G Force Edited February 13, 2005 by G Force Link to comment
+yorkstan Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Forgot all about this, so many thanks for the video capture, Cryptic Souls Crew. Great diary. Well done! Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Great. But as we all believe it should have been more. I suppose now I will have to get rid of my Anorak and get a tatty jumper. The time was 4min 19 seconds. The nearest was..... Dave. Mancunian Pyrocacher. with 4min 13secs Link to comment
+Longfram Kev Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Congrats from me as well, great bit of PR for our past time / sport / hobby / addiction / whatever you like to call it, won't tell you how my wife refers to it....... again well done Paul. Kev Link to comment
+The Wombles Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 That's 5 mails to GAGB so far - since that's a small subset of the likely hits on GC.com, it's a good number of people interested. Link to comment
+Cryptik Souls Crew Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 The time was 4min 19 seconds.The nearest was..... Dave. Mancunian Pyrocacher. with 4min 13secs I make it 3 min, 47 seconds and 12 frames (well, Adobe Premiere does). Thats including John Craven and a little bit of run on where I didn't stop it in time Link to comment
+The Wombles Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Just noticed that GAGB has 22 new members today, and the most people ever online in the GAGB forums hit a new high at 12.10pm today with 30 people. Link to comment
+Bekandian Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Well done Paul! Very positive representation of the obsession/sport/passtime... You made a great ambassador Also thanks to CSC for the wmv as although we saw it round at Paul's we missed some of the finer points, as there was large audience participation Link to comment
+Ashaaria Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I can't agree with John Cravens comments that caching doesn't involve climbing trees - i distinctly remember having to climb a tree to find one of Simply Pauls own caches! Link to comment
+Marvo434 Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 NICE ONE, WELL DONE. Link to comment
+The Klever Boys Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 The time was 4min 19 seconds.The nearest was..... Dave. Mancunian Pyrocacher. with 4min 13secs I make it 3 min, 47 seconds and 12 frames (well, Adobe Premiere does). Thats including John Craven and a little bit of run on where I didn't stop it in time Yep, as posted earlier, that's pretty much what we make it - 3:48 with John Craven, 3:30 without. I feel it's time for a speech from the celebrity himself..... What did you think of it SP?...or are you glad it's all over? Link to comment
+DomHeknows Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 thanks for the video link - just watched it and am very impressed. The only complaint I have is that the whole thing is a fake as SP does not have ANY mud on his trousers Link to comment
+Inukshuk and Arwen Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Great Job Paul! best wishes Inuk Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I won't argue over a few seconds. I recorded it on my DVD recorder that shows the time that I used from start to the end with only Pauls bit. Link to comment
Jumbo Village Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 He's probably getting pissed at HIS EVENT !! But I did enjoy it very much. And then Michaela doing some Kayaking wasn't bad either! Well done Paul. Take a bow! Link to comment
+milvus-milvus Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 So will it be cuts to make it look like it only takes a few seconds to find or are they going to speed it up like Benny Hill? (Mental image of SP scuttling around on fast forward?) Great prediction there from kbootb! I definitely saw some scuttling... We got home to watch the video this afternoon - and instantly recognised the cache we'd done only yesterday (Dell Boy) - some of these caches are going to get very famous now they've been on telly! Nice one SP! Link to comment
+wildlifewriter Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Good job, PS. Just the right tone, overall. (I still can't believe Michaela Strachan said that thing, and they didn't edit it out. ) Link to comment
+Cryptik Souls Crew Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 OK, now my little girl's birthday party is out of the way I've had time to redo my capture. Its now no longer widescreeen, has been trimmed and is in available in two versions: Click here for high res version - 14.1mb Click here for low res version - 1.71mb Link to comment
+GAZ Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Don't have a video at the moment.....in between selling/buying a new gaff....got the mother in law to tape last flippin week.....forgot this week...doh!...thanks to the Cryptic Souls Crew, me gets to see it!! Well done Paul, a good, all round representation of our hobby, maybe John Craven will take it up? Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Thanks to Cryptik Souls for the vidcap. What a great article but was surprised that SP walks like Benny Hill!!! Link to comment
+jochta Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Nice job Simply Paul with the disappearing beard! BTW what are feet John Link to comment
+Alibags Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 some of these caches are going to get very famous now they've been on telly! hope not, as some spoilers were in there! Link to comment
westonwanderers Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Any chance of the original .VOB/mpeg file? I know it will be big, but it would be good to view it on the telli, instead of through Windows Media player (For us Mac users ) Cheers, Tony. Link to comment
+stu_and_sarah Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I've just had my first query from someone at work who saw Simply Paul's famous telly spot and then saw some 'Stu + Sarah' caches in the listing near his postcode. He put 2 and 2 together having seen me with my GPS. Looks like a possible new recruit... and he's got scuba gear too... 5/5, anyone? Cheers, Stu Link to comment
interpleb Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I just want to congratulate Paul on a great article that has got me into Geocaching. I have had a GPS for years and had vaguely heard of Geocaching but never realised exactly what it was until yesterday. Today I have found two caches, couldn't find a third, and had some nice walks in the process, thanks Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 I'm sorry, Paul is much too show-biz to post to these forums himself now so I, his tour manager, am typing this on his behalf. No flash photography please. He'd like to thank everyone for their kind words. LordElph* 'just for being there' and The Cryptik Soul Crew for all their online video work. Late happy birthday to Michael's little girl too. Third-degree-witch, the cache under the canal was Cattle Creep, Paul now admits to scuttling and he'd like to know what Michaela said as he missed that bit! He's also had a few emails from newbies (welcome newbies!) and an old mate he'd lost touch with, so that's nice. It seems most people think it was a fair introduction to the art of Geocaching and while a lot of what Paul recorded was cut out (obviously!) he was pleased with the end result too. Oh I can't keep the pretence up - It *is* me! Apologies to anyone effected by a spoiler (naming no names so as to not draw attention to his, her or their caches) but I was careful never to show the genuine final hiding place of a cache, or to name a cache I was doing. If anything, if someone realises they're doing one I filmed, it'll add an extra thrill (even if it is made easier in the process) surely? For anyone who'd like it, I have a 4-and-a-bit minute video of my ALL ROUND TO MY PLACE cache event (it lived up to its name! 18 of us squeezed into my lounge) It's a 14.1Mb .wmv file and I'll email you it if you ask me nicely via a mail to simplypaulgc@aol.com. Cool! SP *Profits of Simply Paul merchandise to the Tsunami Appeal please, if it's ok to say that here... Link to comment
+Beds Clangers Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Thanks to CSC have now seen the correct video not that one about some daft bloke, with long hair, talking about paint and colours or was that the correct video Really nice piece of work SP, even recognised a couple of the caches Have to download the "All Round Your Place" video just for a laugh. Regards Nick Link to comment
+Nellies Knackers Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Is that to go with your 'changing rooms' video Nick? Link to comment
+lordelph Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Simply Paul Merchandise has made a grand total of $3 for the, erm, "chosen charity". I'll give it a few days and top it up to the nearest fiver. Might get a few badges myself too! Link to comment
+Nellies Knackers Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 As it's for 'The charity that must not be spoken about' it'd be rude not to have some badges. Link to comment
Documentally Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Well thanks to Paul and the countryfile programme here i am... Having travelled for ten years only using a gps recently to find my way back to my thai jungle retreat after too many beers, a whole new world has opened up. I saw the programme, logged on and got so excited i clicked purchase on a brand new top spec colour garmin (only to find out my Geko 101 will do just fine) Still, you can't beat getting a new toy... So i have been down Tesco, bought a load of Tupperware and started filling them with pencils, old Iraqi money, plectrums from famous bands, gem stones, kinder toys etc etc... Then i read the rules there's alot arn't there... i had these grand ideas of taking caches on my occational trips.. (i have not long been in Sudan and hope to be in Jordan soon) but the rules say i have to maintain my caches... Are the rules written by Americans in fear of litigious land owners? Or are they gospel the world over and anyone who bends them, and for instance buys geostash.org with the intention of going it alone, is banned, stoned and given his own man sized cache container, stuffed in it and tucked away in the forest of dean where geocachers can occationally pop by to give it a kick? Are there any underground geocach sites that live on the edge...? That said... i can't wait to put my first out there... even if it will be only me that checks it out once in a while P.S. Hi everyone that has been doing this forever and can teach a newbie like me the ropes. Link to comment
+Beds Clangers Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hi 3rdeye, Where was you going to hide a cache in Jordan Can think of two large mountains that may do but I bet Peter Andre would be FTF!!!!! Sorry Nick Link to comment
+Skate and Jane Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hi 3rdeye, welcome to the addiction. The only bit of advice I want to give you is to find several caches before setting any of your own. This isn't a rule and most newbies can't wait to set a cache but you will gain a much better idea of what it's all about. Be warned though, 10 caches and you are hooked Good hunting Link to comment
sir-percivale Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I'm another newbie brought to geocaching by the Countryfile film. 1 cache found, lots more to do soon & thinking about creating some caches myself. Thanks for opening up a whole new (strange) world for me Link to comment
Helix_v3 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hi there. Another Newbie here. I have to admit that I had never heard of Goecaching before. I dont really ever watch Countryfile either. But I just happened to turn on the TV on Sunday and caught Pauls Video Diary, which is why I am here This looks to me like the sort of activity that I would love to get involved in. All I need to do now is to go and get myself a GPS unit, then try and work out what to do. Its a bit confusing at the minute, but I'm sure that I will get the hang of it. Has anybody got any hints/tips for a first timer, and can anybody recomend a suitable gps unit for a novice. Thanks Marty. Link to comment
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