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Download five things: thing 4My husband and I bought a home together a few years back. The couple that lived here before us were retiring to a cabin in the woods. They had been trapping and neutering feral cats, then releasing them and providing food for ...

Download five things: thing 5I’m supposed to tag five more people with the five things meme, but I’m going to hold off on that until tomorrow. Right now, time to post my last Thing. I used to work at the Arizona Historical Society Museum ...

Download mayonnaiseThis vlog shows you my first attempt at making my own mayo, and gives you the recipe in case you would like to try it yourself. Almost every mayonnaise on the market is encased in plastic, and I’m sick of it. My husband is the ...

Download goodbye trees 01In an effort to make substance out of pine dust, I recorded a time-lapse video of the removal of the first humongous pine tree from my front yard. This is sad. A few years ago we bought a house, and were initially delighted that ...

Download goodbye trees 02The of five pine trees vanishes in time lapse photography. This is a really big file, so unless you have high speed internet access you may want to skip it. The video represents seven hours of recording, and I couldn’t ...

Download goodbye trees 03This is the third in a series of time lapse videos documenting the removal of five huge pine trees from my front yard. Today things look a little different, and I kept the file much shorter. I bought a ten foot firewire cable and ...

Download video review of MicroMemoI pre-ordered the MicroMemo by XtremeMac back in June 2006, got it in August, and made a video the day I took it out of the box. But then Vloggercon came, and then my trip to New Zealand, and then the whole fall ...

Download spinnything (a momentshowing)This is a momentshowing from this summer. Riki from New Zealand is demonstrating a delightful … um … er … I don’t know what the Maori word for it is so I call it a spinnything. Did you ever ...

Download PopoOn this day in 1980, I lost my grandfather to heart disease. This is a short video tribute to him, made from old family photos. He was a good man and a quiet man. He wore brown, smoked a pipe, and smelled like warm and safe. He loved his ...

Download goodbye trees 04This time lapse video shows the removal of branches hanging over the roof of my home. There is a small tree between the camera and the tree being cut down - watch for the moment it gets hit by a falling branch. To the ...

Download goodbye trees 05The last time lapse video of tree removal at my home. Next, stump grinding! Oh boy. I’ll get back to more interesting topics soon. I just really want to document this. You might like this one because there is some pretty ...

Download goodbye stumpsA short time-lapse video of the stump grinder in action. It ate three sprinkler heads, so it looks like I am out a lawn for awhile. It’s useless to replant in the spring, as summer comes along and roasts young plants. But ...

Yeah, so I bought a stupid vanity plate. I included a tool tip for geek girls, too. This is really a NODE101 Phoenix thing, but I included it hear because it’s my life. Click to Play

Download scary elevatorToday over at Phoenix College, I took the elevator up from the bookstore to minimize my time in the cold. I don’t think I’ll do that again. The noise it made must be heard to be believed. I guess it’s a wonder it ...

Download Introducing: What We FoundThis video introduces a new videoblog, “What We Found,” over at whatwefound.blogspot.com. It’s a video journal documenting my experiences in a Phoenix College course called “Urban Field Studies: ...

Download Of the EarthI’m so excited! I sent two short films I made in 1998 in Super 8mm format to Lost in Light, and they transferred them to digital video format free of charge. All I had to do was pay for shipping and a miniDV tape. My film and ...

Download Alley ForagingThis video is from What We Found. It’s just me, looking for free stuff to use to make art. I’m in an alley in my neighborhood, because my instructor said to start by looking close to home.

Download As-Is Yard and Joe Willie's Home StudioThis is Episode 3 of What We Found, where I fall in love with Joe Willie’s “doorbell,” actually a crank music box screwed onto the door. I’ve got one at home awaiting a ...

Download San the ManI’m catching up from a horrible video backlog. I’ve been busy as hell. February 14-16 I participated in a 48 hour film challenge with the Almost Famous Film Festival here in Phoenix. My team beat out over half the entries ...