for small youtubers

Heini started a little project called ‘x am/pm’, which is an amazing idea and she does it so well:

Emily showed us how her July was entirely without words (so many good ideas :3):

And Michelle talked about which fictional characters she resembles the most and I loved every bit of it:

In case you missed these videos, go check them out!

Ana posted an update-y video about her last few months and it was super cute:

Caroline made an open letter to her friend and I’m truly hoping it’ll become a series:

Sandra was SUPER busy making videos this month, and among others she made a little series called ‘message in a bottle’, in which she documented her trip in such a gorgeous way:

Paula shot this incredibly beautiful and personal video:

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summer idleness

Hellooooo i’m super late with this one, but it kinda fits the theme :3

You’ve voted and this theme won! (By one vote, but still)

This theme is all about summer, you could tell us what you love about this particular season, or what memories it brings or your summer reads or just the feeling you always get this time of year, or anything you find fitting to this theme really!

Some guidelines:

Once you’ve uploaded your video to youtube, we’d love it, if you could post your video on this blog as well, or reblog it from your personal blog with the hashtags: #’yourname’ #august16

It would also be nice, if you could link to the other participants’ videos in your video description, at the end of the month you’ll definitely know who has participated, so you can update it then!

This theme runs until the 31st of August, we won’t be mad, though, if you upload later :3

If you run into any problems, difficulties, puppies, don’t hesitate to ask for help (cuddling the puppies)

If you have any suggestions for future themes, please feel free to share them with me, cause this way it’s less like a dictatorship and more like a democracy hehe :3

Looking forward to your contributions,

Hey guys,

Heyo so funnily enough I made a video a week ago about my favourite things/feelings because I wanted to share a little bit of positivity with the world. So many negative things float around the internet all the time and a lot of very horrible things have been happening lately. In order to make myself and everyone else remember that THERE ARE nice things out there and to appreciate the small things in life I made this little video. With a perfect timing this is now also our topic here on cameraobscuras for July! Sooo I’m happy to share my first entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxiY6I4UA_I Also feel free to comment (either here or under my video) what your favourite things/feelings are! 

Hope you have a lovely day,

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a few of my favourite things

Hey there everyone! (I’m so sorry this is a lot to read)

For the past couple of weeks the world hasn’t been such a kind place, so we decided a happier subject would be fitting to this situation!

We’re so excited to announce our first monthly theme: “a few of my favourite things”!

You can take this any way you like, literally, figuratively, comically... We’d love to see what you make of it!

We’re not going into much detail on this theme, since we don’t want to influence you in any way, but if you have difficulties finding a way to interpret it, talk to us, or to any of our other members, maybe you might even find something to collaborate on!

Some guidelines:

If you think you’ll be able to participate in this one, just add your name to the list below! (That doesn’t mean you have to participate, just that there’s interest!)

Once you’ve uploaded your video to youtube, we’d love it, if you could post your video on this blog as well, or reblog it from your personal blog with the hashtags: #’yourname’ #july16

It would also be nice, if you could link to the other participants’ videos in your video description, at the end of the month you’ll definitely know who has participated, so you can update it then!

This theme runs until the 31st of July, we won’t be mad, though, if you upload later :3

If you run into any problems, difficulties, puppies, don’t hesitate to ask for help (cuddling the puppies)

This time we’ve decided on a theme between the both of us, BUT if you have any suggestions for future themes, send them to us and we’ll vote on them in the coming months!

Hope you have fun with this one, duckies!

Ana & Jill

I (think I) will participate:

1. Name (and/or nickname), age & birthday, country?

Michelle (Mishy), 20 (almost 21, like next July 14th), The Netherlands

2. Favourite movie, tv show, book?

Show: Shadowhunters 

Movie: Lord of the Rings extended edition (I’ve seen these so many times)

Book: Uhm. This is difficult. My all-time favourite. . . probably the Shades of Magic books by V.E. Schwab 3. Average hours of sleep?

Usually about 6 hours 4. One place that makes you happy and why?

My room, because its just my space. I have my bookshelves, my laptop, my TV

5. Favourite beverage? Favourite food?

a cold coca cola and I think popcorn (how healthy of me)

6. Summer and/or winter? Day and/or night? Dogs and/or cats?

winter (is coming), night, DOGS (sorry Ana, don’t kill me)

7. Three things you couldn’t live without?

1. my best friends   2. books 3. laptop (yes it’s sad)

8. A song recommendation:

pff. uhm, The Scorch by Shelby Merry  

9. Favourite colour?

Probably green, a dark foresty green

10. An ability you want to acquire, a country you want to visit, your favourite joke and/or a piece of advice you can share with us?