We've been bad about posting to our 'blog. We apologize. We've just been too busy with other projects to have time to edit and post video. Oh, but we are still taking video—about one hour-long tape per week or so! In fact, our video camera and digital camera both broke last weekend!

The video camera broke because some wires that go to the LCD screen and playback controls let loose, so while we can still technically record, we can't see what we are recording and we can't playback or rewind the tape, etc. There is nothing left to break, so Sean is going to take the screen apart and see if he can work some magic (he recently fixed some unfixable toys for Sebastian, so you never know).

The digital camera was simply worn out. We took 17,480 photos with it, so it's had a good life. (We got this number by putting all the photos we have taken with the camera into a folder and letting the computer count the files. Actually, we didn't save nearly all the photos taken, so you can probably add another 1,000 or more to that!) We have already ordered a replacement digital camera, the Kodak Z950. Sean never would have considered a Kodak digital camera before, but this one seems special, and it was on sale online for $50 off in-store prices. That gave us plenty of room for necessary accessories (extra battery, SD card, and home/travel chargers). It does have HD video mode but that doesn't replace a real camcorder, and Sean's computer is much too old to process HD video, and his software while expensive doesn't render in HD anyway.

Despite all this, we have a video update of some of Sebastian's latest tricks for you today. How did we get a video if everything is broken? Well, we got the broken digital camera to take a series of short videos in video mode by some chance of miracle. The video below has no special effects added—it's simply a broken camera, even though it looks kinda cool.

Not all of Seb's tricks are capture here, though, since he stops what he is doing once the camera starts rolling. For example, when we ask him where his nose is, he sticks his finger into his nostril about 2 inches and keeps it there and smiles, which he won't do on tape (probably too embarrassing for him), but at least you get the idea, as well as some other tricks, below: