Thanksgiving 2010: Woodstove

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Kangaroos

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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

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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:

<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/g5Ne+dx3AA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="390"></embed>

Hypocrisy

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

Breakfast

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

Francis Scott Key Bridge

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

Hair Cut

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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

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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

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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

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

I Voted

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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

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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

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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

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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.