You could use a chuckle today. Sometimes even a simple fishing trip can end unexpectedly.
A Short Film About Ice Fishing from Jason Shahinfar on Vimeo.
Our thanks to film maker Jason Shahinfar for lightening the day. Excellent work.
Oh, the places you’ll go, when you go to the Black Rock Desert
This is epic. You may have already seen it, but I just have to curate it here. Nicely done.
The Black Rock Desert playa is almost directly east of Redding. Scroll west and you wind up in Lake Shasta.
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Powerful Google video recaps the year
A Christmas Party for kids put on by the local REALTORS
Here’s a video I did of this year’s Christmas Party for special needs kids put on by the Shasta Association of Realtors along with the support of the community and local businesses. We hold it at the Elks Club in Redding. 2011 marks the 39th annual party. As usual, a great time was had by all. Watching the video is a nice way to get some holiday cheer today. Our great thanks go out everyone involved. Merry Christmas!
Shasta REALTORS Christmas party for kids 2011 from Skip Murphy on Vimeo.
Tough sledding? Who needs snow when you have slush.
The local snow season so far has been disappointing. Check out this really artistic video about an urban skier who doesn’t let less-than-ideal conditions slow him down. And cheer up.
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
We keep a link to the Webcams at the Mt Shasta Ski Park at the Local News tab at the top. Hang in there, local skiers and boarders. Or do a snow dance.
We send our Curiosity to Mars
Our Mars mission that took off yesterday is nothing if not ambitious. If you haven’t seen it, check out this inspiring HD video from JPL that describes how Curiosity will land. It will be amazing if it goes as hoped. Best wishes from Redding to the Red Planet!
Our thanks to NASA and JPL for the images. I suppose spacecraft and lasers have make sounds ever since Star Wars. Funny, I expected the video to be more Stanley Kubrick than George Lucas, but there it is.
Short video condenses 50 miles of the John Muir Trail
This lovely short video reminds me of my backpacker days. And will probably do the same for you if you’ve ever chugged up into the high granite country yourself. It also reminds me how much work it is to do good time lapse photography. Thanks for this, and a tip of the blogger hat to Tom Stienstra for bringing it to my attention. Expand to full screen and enjoy.
Wandering & Wondering from James Temple on Vimeo.
We ride Segways on Redding’s River Trail -short video
Strapped my video camera to a Segway and rolled down the River Trail to the Sundial Bridge, and around Turtle Bay Museum. It was my first time on a Segway. They are as fun as they look, and remarkably easy to learn and ride. If you haven’t tried this yet, you owe yourself a treat. It’s hi-def sci-fi life in ReallyRedding.
Nature by Numbers beautiful short movie
I’ve been a little surprised by just how many people recognize the mathematical illustration we used in our logo for our new venture, The Address Realty. I thought it a somewhat obscure figure of beauty in numbers. But a quick search of Fibonacci Sequence in Google or YouTube turns up a lot of hits. Definitely not obscure. Check out this beautiful visual work by Spanish artist and tutorialist Cristóbal Vila, set to Often a Bird by Wim Mertens.
Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
Contemplative music video for a morning meditation
Ran across this on You Tube. A prolific poster going by 10zen10 has created a music video with pretty bird images taken by photographer Daniel O’Byrne. It’s set to the music I helped create along with Craig Padilla and Zero Ohms a few years back, a piece called Realm of the Spirit, from the CD Beyond the Portal, released on the Lotuspike label. A nice meditation moment to begin the day today.
Interesting, how these video pieces using our music that turn up, unannounced. Released into the wild, the music finds it’s own path.