Slow Television
Feb. 7th, 2020 09:21 amWhat with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scrottie's sailing obsession, he and I have been watching several different sailing-related series. One of our favorites is Keep Turning Left, created by a British sailor who decided to embark on the project of sailing around the UK. By now he's had to bring the project to a close, but is still generously sharing videos of his expeditions with all of us.
We've made it as far as Season 8, where he's been exploring Orkney. I keep on being just astounded by the landscape there! Flat plains plus steep mountains, no trees anywhere, everything green and still chilly even in the summertime. Also, I'm totally fixated on the beautiful stone houses. Somehow it all helps me keep some sense of aesthetic perspective on my own life and situation.
An e-mail from someone yesterday reminded me of two lingering video projects of my own that I would like to work on, at some point. The first is footage from the year I rowed the Petaluma marathon in the 1x. I was inspired to re-watch the first of the 12, 10-minute segments. I'm still not entirely sure about what I want to do with them. I'm reaching the conclusion that I might just leave them as they are, rather than trying to splice segments together to create some sort of timelapse, because part of the point of the thing _is_ the experience of time.
The second is of my bike commute to work, to provide a picture of what it looks like to bike commute to work in this area. I put the camera on the handlebars and have done some processing to de-shake, but that one would really benefit from time-lapse so viewers aren't stuck watching so many minutes of being stuck in traffic or whatever.
But then, where to host the videos, should I decide to go that route?
scrottie's sailing obsession, he and I have been watching several different sailing-related series. One of our favorites is Keep Turning Left, created by a British sailor who decided to embark on the project of sailing around the UK. By now he's had to bring the project to a close, but is still generously sharing videos of his expeditions with all of us.We've made it as far as Season 8, where he's been exploring Orkney. I keep on being just astounded by the landscape there! Flat plains plus steep mountains, no trees anywhere, everything green and still chilly even in the summertime. Also, I'm totally fixated on the beautiful stone houses. Somehow it all helps me keep some sense of aesthetic perspective on my own life and situation.
An e-mail from someone yesterday reminded me of two lingering video projects of my own that I would like to work on, at some point. The first is footage from the year I rowed the Petaluma marathon in the 1x. I was inspired to re-watch the first of the 12, 10-minute segments. I'm still not entirely sure about what I want to do with them. I'm reaching the conclusion that I might just leave them as they are, rather than trying to splice segments together to create some sort of timelapse, because part of the point of the thing _is_ the experience of time.
The second is of my bike commute to work, to provide a picture of what it looks like to bike commute to work in this area. I put the camera on the handlebars and have done some processing to de-shake, but that one would really benefit from time-lapse so viewers aren't stuck watching so many minutes of being stuck in traffic or whatever.
But then, where to host the videos, should I decide to go that route?
