Manyunk Videos

QuickTimeFlash Dog Walk is my contribution to NaVloPoMo The idea is to do a video that was inspired by the previous days video. I followed Cheryl Colan and was inspired by her use of windows, leaves and a morning face. This inspired me to imagine waking up to the big trees outside my bay windows and [...]

QuickTimeFlash What better way to celebrate a 50th birthday than to visit Hawaii (for a 5th time) and visit some relatives and do some sailing and windsurfing. Hawaii became a State on August 21, 1959. Of course I was born August 30th so nice treat USA. J Cap n Hell TV

QuickTimeFlash The second Pirates and Wenches Weekend arrived to big crowds and a bit warmer weather but that didn t slow any of the activities. This specific event was the dinghy beach plunder and reenactment of The Legend of Graybeard - PART II - The Abduction of Pearl. The nights previous event, Pirate s Sea Shanty Sing-A-Long was [...]

QuickTimeFlash For the last several years or so a Eastern State Penitentiary had played host to Philadelphia s celebration of Bastille Day. The prison which served from 1829 to 1971 is now a National Historic Monument. Marie Antionette can be heard yelling let them eat Tastykake a Philadelphia pasty tradition since 1914. Jimmy CraicHead

QuickTimeFlash I finally finished up one of the first videos I ever shot with the 2 piece RCA VCR and camera I bought in 1983. It was quite cumbersome by today s standards and the battery life was quite short. My good friend Chris Theo Theodore led the interviews with some of Philly s most colorful characters. The [...]

QuickTimeFlash Every time I travel to a place that has big water, I just love to find me a sailboat that takes people out for a good sailing trip. In Aruba my favorite sail is Mi Dushi Crew!, which I ve done a number of times. This voyage is from Sail Freedom an incredible sail from a [...]

QuickTimeFlash Demanda Diamond and I flew down to Tampa to visit some of her family over the Easter break and decided to make the 4 hour drive to St Augustine . I d never been to St Augustine but knew how historical a city it was, dating back to the 1500 s. It s a small town and most [...]

QuickTimeFlash My brother Andrew and I visit our dad s grave who passed on tax day April 15th 2004. Nothing real heavy here, just a few minutes to pay tribute to Coffey loved ones. I m guessing dad is rolling over in his grave upon hearing that neither Andrew or I knew the name of the cemetery [...]

QuickTime Flash My good friend Dave now lives up in New Hope Pennsylvania so I took the opportunity to get out of West Philly and journey to the country on a sunny winter day. He had been telling me about a couple of pigs that he had saved from the bacon factory and the also [...]

QuickTime Flash This marks the start of my fourth year of video blogging and I decided to take a small break from shooting any of the Mummers Festivities for this year. I did go down to do Washington Ave for some site inspections and caught up with Jonny Goldstein and his lovely wife Mattie but [...]

QuickTime Flash Well it s taken 20 years but I finally started to edit the videos I shot at our summer shore house in Sea Isle City from the summer of 1988. There wasn t much of a market for editing VHS movies for the regular consumer but thankfully, my tapes have held up for over 20 [...]

QuickTime Flash Philly was going through a bizzare weather weekend. The Saturday Phillies game the night before was rain delayed to a 10PM start that didn t end till 1:45 AM. A front brought a really nice brisk fall day to the area on Sunday with SSW winds from 6-8 knots. I took advantage of [...]

QuickTime Flash What a great weekend to take down a couple new folks to the boat for some great day sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. Beautiful fall weather with an easy 5-8 knot NE wind. After a great day of sail we see Mystic Whaler on the way back to my mooring. We do a [...]

QuickTime Flash Hurricane/Tropical storm Hannah arrived to the Delaware Valley just as Red Bull Soapbox was about to launch on the fabled Wall of Manayunk Philadelphia. The rain held off till about a half an hour before the first run, but I did get enough footage of many of the contestants in the pit row. [...]

QuickTime Flash share by: vPIP Embed (copy paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode93", false); Pillaged and plundered Rock Hall for the first ever Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend. The weather was fantastic and so was the large crowd. Many thanks to Cuban stowaway Jorge Muniz for singing and guitar, and Blue Crab Charters for making [...]

QuickTime Flash share by: vPIP Embed (copy paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode92", false); I ve stopped by this the Butterfly Farm the last 2 times I vacationed in Aruba. It is a quick little tour and Demanda, a high school biology teacher, does a great job at filling in some very important butterfly [...]

QuickTime Flash share by: vPIP Embed (copy paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode91", false); Demanda insisted we try something new in Arbua and many of the people at our time share Paradise Beach Villas suggested we try Madame Janette for some excellent sea food. Being one that eats to live, I ll let Demanda do the [...]

QuickTime Flash A tradition in South Philadelphia since 1975, Odunde played out to a sweltering heat wave that hit the east coast. I got the opportunity to chat to Daily News reporter Damon Williams a longtime Philly resident and Odunde attendee and neighbor of the event. Kick back and enjoy the Procession to [...]

QuickTime Flash It was a great day to head down to Rock Hall Maryland with Cap n Tony for some relaxing and to get the sails on my sailboat. I had the pleasure of turning the good Capt n onto some Hop Wallop a winter seasonal that we found lingering in the fridge of a beer store. [...]

QuickTime Flash This was a real quick play with my brother Andrew as we took a walk to a local pub for some spirits and conversation. I live in the University City section of West Philadelphia which is a melting pot of Ivy League academics, anarchists, hippies and a growing community of Africans (Ghana, Ethiopia, [...]