Quite some time ago, Carrie and I visited Costa Rica on a lark, over the weekend. Of course, I brought the Vidster and captured bits and pieces of the visit.
Every summer, the M/V Tustumena runs from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor every two weeks. The trip takes about three days. This is my diary of the voyage. The coda is Dutch Harbor and Unalaska.
On a lovely Sunday morning, we drove up the along the Sound to Hoodsport. Someone had planted wildflowers in the medium all along the Evergreen Parkway, and the blooms almost glowed in the sun. Carrie suggested we make a movie. The Vidster turned the petals into daubs of paint. An inadvertant homage to Bruce Baillie.
Several years ago, Keith Sanborn & Peggy Ahwesh asked a slew of people to write a short essay about a mystery frame from Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera. Here, I read my contribution. It isn't what I'd write today. But the sentiments stand.
The Aleutian Islands are notorious for the williwaw, a violent wind whipping down sheer cliffs to the sea at over a hundred miles an hour. In the meantime, the islands abide.
Dog mushing is Alaska's iconic sport. And in mid-March, most of Fairbanks gathers downtown on Second Street for the starts of the Open North American. I heard the dogs yelping from my office. They make a din like gulls at sunset, straining at their traces, eager to run toward supper.
I shot this video at midnight from a ridge in the White Mountains just before the solstice. The peculiar qualities of the Vidster emphasize the contrast between the almost-setting sun and the alpenglow bathing the hillside.
A girl's toy magic mirror recased in a camembert box. I used a 2M pot and a 1M resistor, and added body contacts. The led flashes brighter when the speaker is turned off.
Just outside of Florence, Oregon is a cavern at the bottom of a cliff on the shore where sea lions congregate in breeding season, or whenever they care to visit. It's a domestic setting, so listen, without getting too close.
