Trail Trekkers 2008-04-05

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Trail Trekkers hikes exploring our forests. Here is a report for this month. I'm one of the leaders. Please comment.

Wrinkle in Time 10th Anniversary Tribute

The World Wide Panorama is sponsoring panoramas by producers around the world in the Winkle in Time 10th Anniversary Tribute. See my entry at http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp108/html/CarolingGeary.html

I give my interpretation of this randomly generated color healing on the web page. I'd like to hear your response. Please comment here as there is no way to do it on the site.

Deer Moss Diaries or Deer Lichen Blog

On 2007-10-6 at the St. Joseph Bay Buffer and Aquatic Preserve Center, Florida, Rosalyn Kilcollins said that what we used to commonly call "deer moss" is now called "powder puff lichen". We saw none on the walk near the Preserves Center. On the same day at the St. Joseph Bay Preserve Deal Tract, Seth Blitch told me that the yellow forms of deer lichen are new growth of the powder puff lichen. Along the trail to the water, there are rich patches of the lichens. I saw the largest yellowish patch ever, a rectangle about 1.5' x 2.5'. The mosquitos and rain prevented me taking a photo. To see Google maps of these locations, see Preserves Center or Deal Tract. See also a recent photo and page of yellow forms of deer lichen.

2007-01-11

To blog or not to blog?

Is that the question? If the answer is to blog, then should I keep up this one? Or go for the Google-account, pyra-owned, new blogger? Or make my own? Of course I should make my own, since pyra can change the terms of the account at any time including dropping it or charging money for usage. However, I don't yet do database publishing so I don't have archiving or comments. So the question becomes ....

To database or not to archive? Answer is clear; archiving must happen but hasn't happened yet.

Until then, see the ongoing Wholeo Online news and history (WONH). The wonh is simplistic but reliable. It tells what is new at wholeo.net each week. To provide an outlet for my dated comments, I'll start a fake blog.

2006-12-21

December 21 is the start of the Wholeo Online new year. This solstice is the 10-year anniversary of the Wholeo Online website. See What's New. And Happy Holidays!

2006-11-23

Movies, videos, movings, videoings, are becoming Wholeoing. This week I'm working on videos of my experiences at the Back to Nature festival that took place Oct. 20 -22, sponsored by the South Walton Community Council, located in the Emerald Coast Biogem, NW Florida, USA. Since it isn't done, I output a few teaser photos, stills, if you will. Meet the fox.

Entered ifp video - Revver Short Film Contest at http://market.ifp.org/video/index.cfm. Title: Wholeo Dome - Color and Light. See also Beyond Mountains by my astounding son-in-law.

Entered videos on Google, MySpace, Video the Vote, YouTube, and Weather Underground. Have not settled on the best format to get the highest quality output.

2006-11-16

Significant developments:

• Video the Vote turned me into producer of a documentary,
• a mysterious slow down in web delivery of large files caused me to turn to Google Video, YouTube, MySpace and even the Weather Underground,
• with nothing to publish one week, out came a lone photo of a dead duck.
• In honor of the publication of the Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, which I'm in, I updated the Wholeo Dome and Phyllis Birkby page.

I was late for Video the Vote. I did the work on election day, November 7, but didn't submit the video to videothevote.org until today. First I worried about a hum that I could not affect with any filter. That took a couple of days until I realized the hum was not significant on most computer speakers. Coincidently I converted to widescreen format (16:9 proportion) which required some study for processing and presentation.

Coming from a fine art perspective, I have forgotten earlier journalistic discipline and wanted to make the movie as tight and telling as possible. My newbie editing skills in Final Cut Pro did not make this quick. Finally a test file would not download from my server at any reasonable speed. That caused days' of delay. Today the speeds seem back to normal. I can't get a clear answer or picture of what went wrong. So there's no guarantee of speedy downloads. I did a page of text and graphics with the main points made in the movie.

However, the experience of being involved in a developing story on election day and communicating that story in video is great. I tend to dwell in such generalized, abstract, and unseen worlds that are so far from this down-to-earth reality. It was good for me, a refreshing breather.

The intro page is here.