consideration

I will probably be ending this blog. It was fun and I thought I'd do more. But I've been very busy writing and doing other things (learning to kayak, dragon boats, walking, did a half marathon - and more). Oh, and working.

So I'm letting it sit a little while.

But I will probably be taking this one down. It's getting stale. I'll leave it for now and see how things go.

(And I do have a different car, now. I still have my dashboard buddha; but it sits in a cup holder while I try to figure out how - or if I want to - affix it to the dash. It's completely different and may be in the way. But my dashboard buddha still rides in the car with me!)

hello? hello-oh!

No new films. Well, there are films on my computer. And probably a couple on the camera. But no time to download and look through and then post. Soon. More will come soon.

on the move #8: cascade lakes relay

I made this video of leg 33 of the Cascade Lakes Relay two weeks prior to the event. I went over to central Oregon to scope out part of the route in addition to doing the 10k of the Smith Rock Sunrise Classic. This was the leg I specifically trained for. I made this video so that I would know what the -1372 elevation change over 6 miles pretty constantly downhill really looked like.

Imagine this same stretch of the road with no cloud cover. The temperature was 20 degrees higher, the sun beating down on walkers and runners alike, while the baked pavement radiated the heat back up through shoes. And no rain.



Looking at the video now, it seems way different than how it was on August 1st. The road was much wider when I was a walker on the edge. The turns seemed bigger and more intense. Interesting to have the whole scope change with the change in, literally, vehicle: inside a car versus in shoes on the side. And the rain would have been welcome! It did cloud over the last couple miles of the relay, but the base temperature was still mid-90s.

The relay was an amazing experience and I can't wait to do it again next year. We're already planning.

The music is from Passages, by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar.

(This post first appeared on The Writing Vein, August 10, 2009.)

on the move #7: Sailing over the Willamette

Crossing the Willamette River via the Marquam Bridge with Lucia Micarelli.

(music from Lucia Micarelli, master violinist who has played with Jethro Tull, Josh Groban, and more in her move to cross musical borders, from her first solo album, "Music from a Farther Room.")

on the move #6: radio loser

Talk show about being a loser on the radio.

on the move #5: writing's on the wall

Music snippet from Stevie Wonder's, Superstition.

on the move #4: still searching

coming soon

More short films are on the way!

I may have lost a couple recent ones, unedited as of yet, due to a recent kayak trip. Am hoping the camera was left in someone else's car and is not floating down the creek with my trapped kayak!

on the move #3 with special guest

Mr. Yellowsmiley insists on making an appearance.

(Music snippet from
"Losing Grip"
by Avril Lavigne
on her album,
Let Go.)

on the move #2

...it's 10:30 AM on a spring day, do you know where your buddha is?...

(Music snippet from
"Barrels of Oil"
by Gloria Deluxe, on their album
MUST DON'T WHIP 'UM .)