Sunday, May 29, 2005

Simple Rule

This is a simple rule to live by when out in the woods or in life in general. This video was recorded beside the Horse Pasture River in North Carolina (more video of the area will be comming soon).
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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Something Fishy

The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education located just outside of Brevard North Carolina is a great place to learn about wildlife, forests and their interdependence on eachother. Centers like this serve to educate the genreal public and organized groups including school children.
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Music by Swampman Jams under a Creative Commons License

Photo of the Week; Highway Beautification Act of 1965


Flowers in the median.
Originally uploaded by dougb61.
The next time you are traveling down a highway and see wildflowers in the median or right-of-way thank Lady Bird Johnson, wife of president Lyndon Johnson. As First Lady, Mrs. Johnson was a strong advocate for environmental landscaping and beautification, and successfully lobbied for the 1965 Highway Beautification Act, whose effect is seen across the country. She was also the founder of the National Wildflower Research Center.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

New Neighbor

I've met (kinda) my newest neighbor. He introduced himself at around 1:00am last night.
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Music By Victor Stone (fourstones.net) under a Creative Commons license.

Friday, May 20, 2005

Mulberry Tree

Just off our back deck lives our closest neighbor.
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Thursday, May 19, 2005

George Galloway: My New Hero!

Everyone in America needs to see this clip. This is George Galloway of the British Parliament sitting before a Senate Sub-Committee on "Oil for Food" allegations. He thoroughly rips senator Norm Coleman a new asshole and puts it all out there for the world to see. Why can't we find politicians here with balls this big?

George Galloway tells it like it is.

LVM Announces their "Clip of the week" feature.

Lunch Video Magazine (LVM) is well known in the whitewater kayaking world for their outrageous and extreme whitewater kayaking trips. The boys at LVM are "Creekers" meaning they run steep creeks and wild rivers. It's common for these guys to run 40 and 50 foot waterfalls. I've seen clips of guys running waterfalls over 100 feet!
Creeking is the most dangerous type of kayaking. Every year there's always a list of kayakers that have lost their lives creeking. The places they go are usually remote and medical help is always hours away.
These guys kayak all over the world. They finance their trips and make their living by selling videos of their adventures. They have what may be the first "Video Magazine". You subscribe to the magazine and four times a year they send you their most recent DVD, professionally packaged. It's a cool idea. In addition the the video magazine they also have several individual kayaking movies on the market. Watching an LVM feature is an experience in itself. You won't believe the places these guys go and paddle.They have also picked up several corporate sponsers along the way.
L.V.M has just announced their RSS feed so people can subscribe to their new Clip of the Week feature. The link to their RSS feed is: http://www.lvmvideo.com/cotw_feed.xml Check it out!

They also have several blogs that are loaded with pictures and VIDEO! Check them out here!

Monday, May 16, 2005

Pre-op Post-op

I had shoulder surgery last Friday. Everything went well and I'm on the road to recovery. I want to thank everyone that took time out to comment on my last vlog and wish me well. Thanks everyone!
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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Friday the 13th

I'm going under the knife tomorrow. This is a long anticipated shoulder surgery to repair my torn rotator cuff and shoulder impingement. This puts me out of kayaking for the rest of the summer. I guess I'll have to spend my time videoblogging instead.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Recycle This Too

How many old phones do you have lying around? I had two.
Another way to help the environment by recycling. If you can't find a recycle box like this one, here are a few sites that collect old phones for recycling.
Charitable Recycling
Wireless Recycling
Collective Good
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Saturday, May 07, 2005

Jacks River (Hi-Res)

This is the high resolution version of the previous post, my trip into the Choutta Wilderness to Jacks River Falls. This video features the song "Music Across The Miles" performed by Phil Hamilton and Josh Leo in a long distance collaborative effort posted on their blogs. The download is huge but worth it. A special thanks goes out the Phil and Josh for allowing me to use their song in this video. Thanks Guys!
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Friday, May 06, 2005

Cohutta Wilderness (Jacks River Falls)

As planned Luke and I went to the Cohutta Wilderness hoping to catch a black bear on video along the way. We got to the trailhead and I was suprised to see three vehicles already there. I knew the chances of seeing any bear would be slim. We didn't find the bears but we did have a great hike to Jack's River and the waterfall there.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

The Plan

I'm going on a trip to the mountains tomorrow. I'll be hiking deep into the Cohutta Wilderness in North Georgia. My dog Luke and I will be hoping for some sort of encounter with a Black Bear. What ever the result I'll bring back some video of the adventure. Tomorrow look for a special edition of The Southern Video Blog with the option to download higher resolution video from the trip.
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Monday, May 02, 2005

The Spring Visitors

They didn't even call to tell us they were coming. They just showed up on our front porch one day and will stay the summer. We're glad they're here.
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