Ryanne's Video Blog

Thanksgiving 2010: Woodstove

2010-11-25T21:41:00.007-05:00

One year ago, we bought our house. We finished the second building (office, guest house, etc) and are living in that while we re-do the main house. Today we installed our woodstove in the main house. First steps were building the hearth from slate we found in the yard, and constructing an air tight metal face also from found aluminum sheeting. The stove is the same model we had in our other house. We loved it so much, the moment we saw it on craigslist, we grabbed it.

for the video geeks- this was made on a Panasonic GH-1 with a 20mm pancake lens. i am still learning how to use it and i didn't have my external mic on, so you hear the auto focus a bunch. next time it won't happen, i swear.

Videoblogging Week 2010: Thursday

2010-04-15T22:21:00.003-04:00

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everyone in europe who couldn't get on a plane today because of Icelandic volcanic ash should be jealous.

Videoblogging Week 2010: Wednesday

2010-04-14T21:48:00.005-04:00

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checked out the house today. plumber is coming back next week. main house floor is opened up. madness.

Videoblogging Week 2010: Tuesday

2010-04-13T21:31:00.002-04:00

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when you live in a rural place, you drive a lot. it's 7 miles to the nearest town. but it's totally beautiful, so that's ok. the purple flowers on all the trees are my favorite.

Videoblogging Week 2010: Monday

2010-04-12T22:11:00.002-04:00

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did some work at the house today. went to a thrift store. typical day. we do a lot of things in one day. i only notice how many when i video and then share.

Videoblogging Week 2010: Sunday

2010-04-11T21:43:00.004-04:00

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today was a glorious sunday. we are packing up to move to our new house (this is our old place). lots of work got done, but in such beautiful weather, it doesn't really feel like work. VB week 2010. can't believe it.

House Tour

2009-12-05T08:47:00.003-05:00

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Jay and I bought a house. Now the real work begins.

Kangaroos

2009-05-19T20:31:00.004-04:00

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adrian miles and seth keen took us for a walk. we saw a "mob" of kangaroos. it was fascinating! they are like deer but they will totally kick your ass if you get too close. i could not stop staring, they are the coolest animals i've ever seen.

Rural Broadband

2009-04-12T10:33:00.004-04:00

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this is my rural broadband story. things i talk about in this video include page county virginia, hughesnet (check out their service plans and bandwidth limits - top tier service which allows a whole 500mb a day for $350 a month, no joke), highspeedLINK (our new local provider who gives us unlimited bandwidth hurray!). if you or someone you know does not have access to broadband, check out WeNeedBroadband.com and sign their list.

if you would like to share this video, here is some embed code, just copy and paste:

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Hypocrisy

2009-04-08T23:13:00.003-04:00

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gotta love those chevron ads. they're so funny they make me laugh.

Breakfast

2009-04-07T22:47:00.004-04:00

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breakfast with my sister at the flame restaurant in hells kitchen.

Francis Scott Key Bridge

2009-04-06T23:59:00.003-04:00

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jay takes photos on the francis scott key bridge in DC.

Hair Cut

2009-04-05T22:51:00.000-04:00

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my sister came to visit while we were in nyc the other week. i made her cut my hair. much better now.

Walnuts

2009-03-07T19:53:00.000-05:00

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it's been a while since i've posted. been busy on a bunch of work. including learning how to grow and gather food, as you can see...

Oh Yes We Did

2008-11-07T08:32:00.000-05:00

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what an amazing and emotional day november 4th was. i was up at 3:30 am to be a poll worker and went to bed at about 1 am. it was a long day. i wasn't sure i was allowed to record in the polling place, so i didn't get as much footage as i wanted, but hey, we won!

Page County: Yes We Can

2008-11-03T20:55:00.000-05:00

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one day to go. this is our little (but kick ass) obama office. yes, yes we can.

I Voted

2008-11-02T21:28:00.000-05:00

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this happened a few days ago but still, i am excited! VA for Obama, he's going to take it!

Cow Petting

2008-11-01T22:20:00.000-04:00

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My sister and I were visiting my grandma in Florida. She has a bunch of cows on her land. They act like big kitties, it was really cute. Ash made a video about this too. VloMo08! FTW! It has begun! Only 29 more days...

Swing States: Let's Get Obama Elected

2008-10-10T20:25:00.000-04:00

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it was august 29th, the day after an inspiring speech by barack obama at the DNC. mccain announces palin as his running mate. as the hype for palin started reaching a fever pitch, i started feeling, pretty much what the repubs wanted me to feel- apathetic, hopeless and helpless. this is what i decided to do...

i have been inspired by the following independent media (too much to list but...):
Michael Verdi: Obama Landslide
Tanya Tarr: Not My Gal Blog and Thank You Sarah Palin
Kent Bye: Rhetorical Visualization of Palin's Supreme Court Non-Answer

Beijing, China: August 2008

2008-09-18T21:29:00.000-04:00

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Jay and I spent the better part of August in Beijing during the Olympics to help document protests happening there. We blogged more in depth about it on RyanIsHungry. Here is the momentshowing version of the trip. As you can see the Olympics were everywhere. Shopping centers, cafes, buses, subway cars and stations. You could not escape the games. It was fascinating. Enjoy.

P.S. A majority of this video was recorded with the Flip Video Mino. I thought it did pretty well for an inexpensive pocket cam. Though the zoom is digital and kinda crappy and you can't go macro. The rest was captured with the Xacti E1.

The Grand Tour

2008-07-31T17:28:00.000-04:00

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I've been meaning to make this video for weeks. Check out our place and our gardens! If you can't see the QuickTime video, click here for the Flash version. We're gardening using the Grow Biointensive methods we learned in Willits, CA from John Jeavons and Carol Cox. All hand tilled baby. Everything is growing wonderfully.

Xacti HD1000 Green MP4 Fix

2008-07-23T16:38:00.000-04:00

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Do you use a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 camera? Have you seen the green mp4 of death? Not sure why? Well, my friend Mary Matthews of Videopancakes.com also had this problem recently and she pointed me to this Apple discussion thread to help her decipher the solution. Seems that the QuickTime H264 component that came with your Xacti software worked great with your camera, but then again QuickTime gets updated by Apple every few months and that little bit of software that makes your HD files actually work gets replaced. Huge bummer if you want to, oh um, use your footage. I sat down with Mary and helped her reinstate this little component and I thought I'd make a screencast walking through it so others could fix their systems too. There are some other solutions on that Apple thread if this doesn't work, but I hope it does. Good Luck!

p.s. if you right click and save this video... you can watch it at 640x480, a bit easier to see.

Virginia: First Month

2008-06-14T11:52:00.001-04:00

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it's been about a month since we arrived in virginia. been having trouble picking up my camera as much or editing my own videos. we're offline a lot, so that might have something to do with it... i feel i'm on a roll here though so there is more to come!

Dora and Freddie take me for a walk

2008-04-22T21:00:00.000-04:00

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we stopped in virginia before we headed up to new england for a couple weeks. i took jay's dad's dogs for a little walk, or rather they took me...

Northern Vermont: Nelson's House

2008-04-21T21:31:00.001-04:00

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we made it to nelson's house.

Going Through Things: Reading, Erasing

2008-04-20T22:55:00.001-04:00

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as we finish moving cross country, i am starting to go through my stuff at my mom's house which she is also moving out of. all this moving... it's really strange reading old journals and seeing old photos and videos. keep some, throw most away.

p.s. don't my mom's cats look like some alternate reality version of battle cat and white baby?

p.p.s it's videobloggging week 2008. go get 'em!

San Antonio: Verdi's House

2008-04-19T18:56:00.001-04:00

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i was laughing my ass off when verdi and jay picked up the wii. i've never actually seen anyone use this, oddly, and i thought it was so funny. also this is one of the only clips i recorded during our trip on my xacti. i just never picked it up. jay took lots of photos though. have a lot of stuff for ryanishungry on tapes though! i think that was enough for me. videoblogging week 2008 starts tomorrow. time to video things for real!

On Our Way: Goodbye California

2008-04-13T21:35:00.001-04:00

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we left california 14 days ago. can't believe it's been 2 weeks already. and we're only half way across the US in missouri at richard and maureen's house. we've been taking our time and staying with people for a few days at a time. have not actually been taping a lot, except for a few ryanishungry shoots (soon to come).

Caltrain-Bart: SF Last Days

2008-04-09T13:21:00.001-04:00

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our last week in SF, we took the train to and from the city to work on a video shoot. SF is a beautiful place to ride the train for sure.

We Were Here: SF Last Days

2008-03-31T18:14:00.001-04:00

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as we prepared to leave SF, we decided to do some things like go to the beach. what there is a beach 10 miles away? i like that people before us made a little see-saw bridge and wrote in the sand.

Can Masdeu: Squat-Community Barcelona

2008-03-29T15:27:00.000-04:00

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we visited this radical squat-community called can masdeu in barcelona. they have these amazing gardens on this beautiful land over looking barcelona and out to the sea. their story is really interesting- they took over the abandoned building in 2001 by just staging a sit in (ok it was a little more dramatic than that). this footage is sound-less again.

Europe Last Days: Barcelona

2008-03-17T22:30:00.001-04:00

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Warning: This video has no sound! our camera was totally broken by the end of the trip. well at least it took images! barcelona was awesome. i'll have a wee bit more footage of this farm/squat/coop we visited too. ah europe, good times!!

The Eiffel Tower

2008-03-04T13:42:00.000-05:00

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the eiffel tower made my hands sweat. i'm not good with heights, esp open air heights. yikes! but it was definitely worth it.

Paris is Epic

2008-02-24T16:17:00.000-05:00

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Paris

2008-02-17T17:18:00.000-05:00

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good god, paris is beautiful. the only thing keeping me from wanting to move there is that i can't speak a lick of french. daniel liss was recently there as was raymond. check out their amazing videos too. our xacti broke right before we hit paris, so we were shooting blind, no LCD screen to guide us. hence some crookedness. i think we did pretty well considering!

people you might know in this video: loiez, jefferey, raymond.

Bruges, Belgium

2008-02-07T20:18:00.000-05:00

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bruges is an insanely old city in belgium. therefore lots of tourists, including us, go there. it was really beautiful, but also depressingly lonely. this side trip really made me realize that traveling to any city is really only cool if you know people and are doing cool things. i'm a terrible tourist, all i want to do is either sleep or work. see old buildings and museums? nah!

Amsterdam: Stuff We Saw

2008-01-30T16:28:00.001-05:00

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ahhhhhh. i love this city. i do, i do.

Amsterdam: People, Presentations

2008-01-28T10:33:00.000-05:00

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more amsterdam. jay and i taught a few workshops at video vortex and transmission vx meeting. jay also spoke in the big room at video vortex. it's been very exciting to be able to show off a bunch of projects including showinabox.tv. people have been pretty excited about the possiblities of wordpress for video. (ok people you might recognize in this video- zenuno, daniel salber, macdocman and bicycle mark.) hurray amsterdam!

Amsterdam at Michael Schaap's House

2008-01-26T14:27:00.000-05:00

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i love amsterdam. i love the people we know in amsterdam. i didn't want to leave. more to come. (oh yeah, people in this video you might know- michael schaap aka macdocman, bicycle mark)

Edinburgh: Days 6-8, Castles and Pounds

2008-01-21T09:19:00.000-05:00

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i always think the artwork on money is beautiful. European money tends to be a bit more colorful than US money. a friend of mine from the netherlands showed me dutch bills before they became the euro and they had mother goose flying by a windmill. how cool is that? the old school wood engraving look just kills me, i love it.

Brighton: Days 4 and 5, NaVloPoMo Screening

2008-01-14T17:27:00.000-05:00

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we trotted down south of london to brighton, where beth tilston (and rupert and robert croma) had put together a screening of a whole bunch of NaVloPoMo videos. it was so much fun! can you play spot the vlogger in this video? croma tries to hide, phil campbell makes a cameo...exciting UK stuff here!

London: Day 1, Welcome Pie

2008-01-10T19:20:00.000-05:00

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Ryanne's Video Blog

Thanksgiving 2010: Woodstove

Videoblogging Week 2010: Thursday

Videoblogging Week 2010: Wednesday

Videoblogging Week 2010: Tuesday

Videoblogging Week 2010: Monday

Videoblogging Week 2010: Sunday

House Tour

Kangaroos

Rural Broadband

Hypocrisy

Breakfast

Francis Scott Key Bridge

Hair Cut

Walnuts

Oh Yes We Did

Page County: Yes We Can

I Voted

Cow Petting

Swing States: Let's Get Obama Elected

Beijing, China: August 2008

The Grand Tour

Xacti HD1000 Green MP4 Fix

Virginia: First Month

Dora and Freddie take me for a walk

Northern Vermont: Nelson's House

Going Through Things: Reading, Erasing

San Antonio: Verdi's House

On Our Way: Goodbye California

Caltrain-Bart: SF Last Days

We Were Here: SF Last Days

Can Masdeu: Squat-Community Barcelona

Europe Last Days: Barcelona

The Eiffel Tower

Paris is Epic

Paris

Bruges, Belgium

Amsterdam: Stuff We Saw

Amsterdam: People, Presentations

Amsterdam at Michael Schaap's House

Edinburgh: Days 6-8, Castles and Pounds

Brighton: Days 4 and 5, NaVloPoMo Screening

London: Day 1, Welcome Pie

Semanal: Can We Do It?

cold, cold, hot

You Are The Winner

3 Years Ago Today

Lumiere 6: Apple Juice

Laptop Shot

Richmond

Cheap and Green Insulation: Recycled Paper Cellulose

Sleeping

Sun Beams

Thanksgiving

Screaming Silently: The Ranch

No You Didn't

Virgin America: Airline Geekery

Winnies DIY Trophies

Tile Is Done

Show In A Box Hackathon

Oh My God...Editing

Day 14

Every Day I Think...

Hydrogen is Hype

First Tile EVER!

Soundproofing

San Mateo Moments

Lumiere 5: Garden, South Central, Los Angeles

Lumiere 4: Titanic Cafe, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

BUNNIES!!!!

Writers Guild On Strike

Retro Desk Re-do

Process: The Bathroom

Ashley's Tattoo: November 19th, 2005

Rice Mill in Thailand

Ash and I at Amy and Dave's Wedding

Burning Man: Day 1

Thailand: Week 1

Cambodia to Vietnam

Cambodian Light Orphanage