Ryanne's Video Blog

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.

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.

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!

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...

we made it to nelson's house.

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!

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!

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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!

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

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!

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)

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.

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!

we made it to london! we're staying with rupert and kate! they made us a beautiful welcome dinner! we rode a double decker bus! we saw big ben! it rained! we drank tea!

rupert, the originator of NaVloPoMo, challenges us again with Semanal- post 1 video a week for 2008. 52 videos is not that many! we can do it! and it will get us all videoblogging again...join the ning group so we can all encourage one another!

i finally did turn the heat on. even i couldn't stand it.

the winnies was really fun! Irina, Lan, Vu and Bonny threw a great party! and that now concludes NaVloPoMo07. i now dub december NaVloPoMoWaMo National Videoblog Posting Month Watching Month. because i know we all have to go back and watch everything that everyone made.

i can't believe it's been 3 years. amazing. as always, i'm inspired by you all. music: Reverse Rose by skoria via ccmixter.org

it's been tough keeping up with navlopomo. being in rural virginia and trying to find wifi and keep my camera charged and then getting a head cold has not been good for posting video. i have been taping every day, so i'm going to back date some...i write my own rules here. drink plenty of apple juice when you get sick. i ordered this and the waitress said do you have a cold? yes, yes i do.

my sister was hanging out in california at the end of sustainable route. this was what it was like to hang out with us. two laptops, two pairs of headphones...did you say something? dorks.

i went to richmond virginia to visit my friend jason. and this is all i recorded that day. i got a cold that morning, so i felt a little uninspired, as you can tell.

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg share http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close i taped this while working in the country on jay's dad's building and decided to turn it into a RyanIsHungry post as well. double post action!