Maybe Not

I've always liked this song by Cat Power, "Maybe Not."  I first heard it when I got it from the Protest Records website 7 years ago. It seems appropriate to blog about it today, especially because it popped up on my ipod shuffle while running this morning, and i had just been listening to a bunch of Cat Power yesterday.  The song has many interpretations, and many video adaptations by fans, of varying quality, in addition to live renditions, covers, and a really mediocre "official" version. This is my favorite:

The lyrics are worth reading and thinking about:

There’s a dream that I see, I pray it can be Read more>>>

I Accepted My Mortality and All I Got Was a Stupid T-shirt.

"trashing the neighborhood"? - 3

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"trashing the neighborhood"? - 3

the only bad thing about this is now the Journey song is stuck in my head.

Glitch Experiment 1

the other day via blog.nula.cc I discovered a Ruby software library called aviglitch.
(see ucnv.github.com/aviglitch/ )
I've been playing around with it for only a few hours but it's pretty promising. here's what the results of these initial experiments look like.

Cast: steev hise

homebrew batch #2 - 1

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homebrew batch #2 - 1

our mexican ale "Cerveza Tucson" in the secondary fermenter, kept at a stable temp by a cooler.

One Day On Earth raw footage selects (2 of 2 parts) from the u.s./mexico borderlands

near Sasabe, Arizona, an interview with and demonstration by Glenn Weyant, a musician and sound artist who plays the u.s./mexico border wall as a musical instrument.

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Cast: steev hise and Glenn Weyant

One Day On Earth raw footage selects (1 of 2 parts) from the u.s./mexico borderlands

this is 1 of 2 clips of footage selections from my 10.10.10 shooting day for the One Day On Earth project. This first one concentrates on nature footage, mostly in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Sasabe, Arizona.

note: this is just a selects/demo reel. My raw footage contains longer takes of each of the shots in this reel and is available for use in the One Day On Earth film.

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the waste of sports - 6

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the waste of sports - 6

the trash left behind on U of Arizona campus next morning after a football game. of course the workers had already bagged everything by the time i got there and were making it disappear.

contested bandwidth.

Day 2 of No Borders Camp - 18
i wish there was a way to just limit freeloaders of wifi to low-bandwidth
use and just stop them from watching videos and doing big
downloads/uploads and other high-bandwidth stuff, because in principle
i'm for open networks. it'd be great if anyone could freely use our
wireless to get email or whatever low-impact stuff they wanted.  it's
just that when the freeloading makes it impossible for us to do what we
need to do, there have to be limits.  so we've finally Read more>>>

The Bats of Ruby

The colony of bats leaving the old mine in Ruby, Arizona, as they do every sunset during the summer. This was shot in May 2010.

Shot on a Canon SD780 and then motion-stabilized in post with Apple Motion. I played around with time rate a little too at the end.

Cast: steev hise

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