Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
Here, there and everywhere.
Managed to drive Campbell River to Nanaimo last night in under two hours to be the last car on the 7 pm ferry back to Vancouver. With an almost-empty tank. Let me tell you, life doesn’t get more edgy than that 😉
The real point is, I made it home safe and sound from my Victoria & Campbell River speaking gigs and fortunately today’s talkathon is right around the corner from my work. Next week it’s Courtenay and Vancouver, the week after that I’m back in Victoria for two days of meetings and then speaking again in Vancouver the week following. Bargaining team members are like union rock starts, donchaknowit – well, except we don’t have groupies, the members are often upset with us, and we don’t get paid the big bucks (or anything really)… Okay, fine, we are nothing like rockstars except on the road a lot.
Whatever. Believe it or not, one of my favourite parts about being a union rep has always been traveling around the province and meeting union members in the communities where they live and work. We’re a pretty diverse and interesting workforce and have people in pretty much every small town between the 49th parallel and the DEW line. Despite having to rush about a bit, I do enjoy the part that gets me out of Vancouver.
All that driving time though, that’s a lot of thinking space, and now I’ve got some new project ideas that involve recording interviews and doing online photoslideshows – multimedia blogging really. I’ve already story-boarded one of them in my head. That’s just because I don’t have enough to do already – you know – and I’m also incredibly compulsive when it comes to wanting to do stories in different ways. Unfortunately, this will mean the purchase of a minidisk in my future because audio recording quality into the ibook is just not that good.
It’s an experiment, really, to see if I can take music and photos and interviews and build stories – but also I’ve got a lot of smart, interesting and funny people in my life who I would like to record and share with the world (yes, that means you friends). I suspect for the initial piece I am going to explore exactly where this compulsion to share our stories comes from in the first place. Anyhow, just be a good sport when I pester you to talk to me okay?
I should get back to work. I’m here after all.
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on the point of slideshows with soundtracks kellan and lattice had this kick ass thing they cooked for a yahoo hack event that made these flickr slideshows that you could record narration for and save for folks to watch and listen to. they might be able to set you up with something like this if you were looking to integrate with flickr — just a random thought