A KING-TV colleague of mine, Tonya, launched her new website at the first of the year. It is called "New Naturalista".
I highly recommend checking it out. It is a website dedicated to learning and developing healthier living. The site is aimed primarily at minority women, but is completely relevant to all. I love how it targets healthy eating, exercise and family.
I thought this article was great - who knew??
To learn about the "why" behind the website, please click here.
Hope you all check out this new website - it gives some great advice on living your life in a new way!!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A look back
The other day I happened to watch one of the stories I worked on last year at Channel 2. It made me think to post my favorites here just as a nice look back.
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The Unalakleet Ski Races. I shot this while waiting for the mushers to pull into Unalakleet during the Iditarod. It was a fun little piece I decided to do to keep myself busy on the trail.
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Mt. Marathon Death. This story is memorable for me because of the lengths of which Jason Moore and I went to shoot it. Climbing Mt. Marathon with fifty pounds of camera gear in the rain is not easy. Nor was the timeline. We spent about four hours in the car driving to/from Seward, and the story was edited in about twenty minutes in order to air at the top of the six o'clock show. Not the prettiest story I've ever worked on, but a memorable challenge.
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Shrooms. This is one of the last stories that Leyla and I worked on together. That in itself is why I like this story, but also because it is a light story.
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The Secret Spot. A nice story that Megan Baldino and I worked on. It was part of the "Day Trippin" series that Channel 2 runs. The story is about a simple and quiet task that many Alaskans do for subsistence and/or for fun.
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Just Throw the Line Out There. A fishing report I worked on with Kevin Wells. I like this story because Kevin is a really good writer, and because there are a couple of shots that I was happy I got, and also small moment. It's all about the moments, big or small.
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Anchorage's Flower Picture. One of a couple of natpacks I shot last year. Not a particularly strong story on my part, but it was nice to put together.
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The Whole Store is Dad. Another natpack from 2009. This is a story that Maria Downey thought would be good for the Valentine's Day holiday. The woman in the story was a wonderful interview and fun to be around! I was happy with the sequencing I was able to put together...it's the little victories, right?
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Facial Follicle Frenzy. The World Beard and Mustache Championship. What an amazing time!! Jason Lamb was A LOT of fun to work with on this story. He is another really good writer with a strong career ahead of him.
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The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Jason Moore is a superb storyteller, and it's too bad he's not telling stories anymore. This is a really good story, but with two hangups. They are mistakes of my own, and ones that I've learned from for future projects.
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Shrooms. This is one of the last stories that Leyla and I worked on together. That in itself is why I like this story, but also because it is a light story.
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The Secret Spot. A nice story that Megan Baldino and I worked on. It was part of the "Day Trippin" series that Channel 2 runs. The story is about a simple and quiet task that many Alaskans do for subsistence and/or for fun.
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Just Throw the Line Out There. A fishing report I worked on with Kevin Wells. I like this story because Kevin is a really good writer, and because there are a couple of shots that I was happy I got, and also small moment. It's all about the moments, big or small.
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Anchorage's Flower Picture. One of a couple of natpacks I shot last year. Not a particularly strong story on my part, but it was nice to put together.
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The Whole Store is Dad. Another natpack from 2009. This is a story that Maria Downey thought would be good for the Valentine's Day holiday. The woman in the story was a wonderful interview and fun to be around! I was happy with the sequencing I was able to put together...it's the little victories, right?
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Facial Follicle Frenzy. The World Beard and Mustache Championship. What an amazing time!! Jason Lamb was A LOT of fun to work with on this story. He is another really good writer with a strong career ahead of him.
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The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Jason Moore is a superb storyteller, and it's too bad he's not telling stories anymore. This is a really good story, but with two hangups. They are mistakes of my own, and ones that I've learned from for future projects.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
"BT - dub"
((...as Leyla would say...))
Daniel Hernandez, a friend of ours from Anchorage, recently directed/produced/shot/edited a music video.
Take a look:
Daniel Hernandez, a friend of ours from Anchorage, recently directed/produced/shot/edited a music video.
Take a look:
Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas 2009 and oddities
Merry Christmas!! To help pass my time on Christmas while Scott is at work, I thought it would be good for me to update my blog again. I'm really trying to be more consistent.
Well, last Sunday we finally got around to purchasing a Christmas tree. It's a very cute tree... Just took these pictures today, so there are no more presents under the tree. Speaking of presents, thank you to my family, and to Scott's family for so many nice, nice gifts. They were all very thoughtful, which made for a very nice Christmas morning. Thank you! :)
I'm missing being with my family during the holidays for the second straight year. Kind of a bummah. I'll be chatting with them in a little bit, to see how their day is going.
This is Scott's Christmas gift to me:
It is a map of the village of Whitman in 1903. When we were visiting Massachusetts in October, we went to Plymouth and were in an antique store looking at all of the wares. We came across all of these old, old maps of towns on the South Shore. Unfortunately, there was no Whitman. However, Scott (unbeknown to me) took the business card of the woman who sells the maps. So for my Christmas gift, Scott contacted the woman for a map of Whitman, who shipped it here and then Scott had it professionally framed. It is an AMAZING map - SO COOL!! Suzy's house is on the map, and the Schofield's house is on the map, and Spivak's, but not my parents...because their house wasn't built until 1912. The houses on the map are all labeled by their street number, and the lots of land are labeled the owner name of that time. It also has an index. It is such a fascinating map!! We are going to hang it tonight.
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Here are a couple of pictures of our new home. We are still missing pieces of furniture, and our artwork isn't hanging yet, as a result.
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And now back to our roadtrip. We took just a small number of pictures, having the video camera and all, but here are a couple that I just came across.
And now back to our roadtrip. We took just a small number of pictures, having the video camera and all, but here are a couple that I just came across.
I believe those pictures were from our second full day of the trip(??). Somewhere in the northern part of Canada's Yukon Territory.
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More videos: I'm behind on getting these up - it's pretty time consuming to get them uploaded. Nothing too special in this batch, but the last one is pretty interesting.
The Northern Lights. Not visible with this camera (I believe you must have a film camera in order to capture them), but you can hear Scott and I talking about them. This was shot around 4am-ish on the second full day of our trip.---
A Yukon Territory morning, on our way to Whitehorse.
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Elk, I believe, in the Yukon Territory
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The scenery after leaving Whitehorse, YT.
(I shot a little bit of footage while we were in Whitehorse, but it appears that the files are corrupt and not viewable.)
---The beautiful scenery on our way to Watson Lake.
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The Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake
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Scott heads North tomorrow to see his daughter. He is really excited to be with her again, and I'm very happy for him :) Not too much new here outside of our acclimation to the new environment. I'll write more about life in Seattle once I catch up with all of the videos from the roadtrip. Maybe by then I'll have something thoughtful to write down that will better reflect and fairly represent life here. My current stream of consciousness won't do, I don't think.
Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and soon to have a safe and happy New Year!!
Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and soon to have a safe and happy New Year!!
Friday, December 11, 2009
It begins...
The beginnings of five long days...
We decided to drive to Seattle from Anchorage. We had a couple of garage/moving sales, Scott sold his truck, we packed up our things on a barge, prepared the Volvo for all "worst case scenarios" and off we went.
Louie was pretty darn well behaved. I was impressed! Although I think he was dissatisfied with me by the end...his home was the car for about a week because once we got to Seattle, we had to look for an apartment, and we weren't about to have Louie running around wreaking havoc at Scott's Dad's home, where we stayed upon first arrival.
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2360.48 miles.
The Al-Can Highway.
Views, snow, darkness, a hellava lot of time together in a car.
We had a successful trip, with the biggest issues being the odometer/tripometer stopped working and the trunk froze shut one night (we were able to pry it open). Scott and I got along great, we had a lot of fun together! We are hoping to do the drive again some time - but in the summer, so we can enjoy the scenery a bit more.
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The Hub of Alaska - our first stop of the first full day of driving.
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The drive to Tok
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Too soupy for scenery
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Scott tells a short story about his experience near the Chistochina River
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First wildlife encounter
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"Sun Dogs"
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Scott calls his Mom from Destruction Bay, YT
We decided to drive to Seattle from Anchorage. We had a couple of garage/moving sales, Scott sold his truck, we packed up our things on a barge, prepared the Volvo for all "worst case scenarios" and off we went.
Louie was pretty darn well behaved. I was impressed! Although I think he was dissatisfied with me by the end...his home was the car for about a week because once we got to Seattle, we had to look for an apartment, and we weren't about to have Louie running around wreaking havoc at Scott's Dad's home, where we stayed upon first arrival.
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2360.48 miles.
The Al-Can Highway.
Views, snow, darkness, a hellava lot of time together in a car.
We had a successful trip, with the biggest issues being the odometer/tripometer stopped working and the trunk froze shut one night (we were able to pry it open). Scott and I got along great, we had a lot of fun together! We are hoping to do the drive again some time - but in the summer, so we can enjoy the scenery a bit more.
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We left Anchorage on the night of Friday, November 13th. We made it as far as Glenallen, where we stayed at a motel and then took off early the next morning with the hopes of making it as far as Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We didn't quite make it that far so we stayed the night in Destruction Bay.
This group of videos are mostly from the first full day of driving. Peruse as you like. And let me preface this by saying that the audio is not spectacular -- over-modulated in fact. So please bear with on the consumer quality of these videos... These videos have no bearing whatsoever on our professional abilities.
---This group of videos are mostly from the first full day of driving. Peruse as you like. And let me preface this by saying that the audio is not spectacular -- over-modulated in fact. So please bear with on the consumer quality of these videos... These videos have no bearing whatsoever on our professional abilities.
The Hub of Alaska - our first stop of the first full day of driving.
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The drive to Tok
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Too soupy for scenery
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Scott tells a short story about his experience near the Chistochina River
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First wildlife encounter
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The sun makes an appearance
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Evidence of a forest fire - 70 miles to the Canadian border
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"Sun Dogs"
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"Sun Dogs" 2
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Goodbye Alaska, crossing the Canadian border
Goodbye Alaska, crossing the Canadian border
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Second wildlife encounter - first encounter in Canada
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Scott calls his Mom from Destruction Bay, YT
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Ted and Jason's Knob Creek puts us to bed in Destruction Bay, YT.
So ends our first full day on the road....
Ted and Jason's Knob Creek puts us to bed in Destruction Bay, YT.
So ends our first full day on the road....
Thursday, December 10, 2009
A New "Home"
It's been several weeks now since we've arrived at our new "home". Still adjusting on my part - believe I've had culture shock...and continue to have it.
The Emerald State is nice. That's about all I can say about it right now. I haven't experienced enough good things to go on a rave, and I'm not about to talk about how I don't like it, because we haven't been here long enough for me to give it a fair chance.
I'm going to post some videos of our road trip here. There's a lot of them and they are, in a way, meaningless. I've titled them so you can decide if they might be worth your time to watch.
I don't expect everyone to know about our move, so here is a little synopsis:
Scott got a job at KING-TV in Seattle, so we moved.
More to come later - mostly videos I think. I don't really feel like writing. It's probably going to take quite awhile for me to get them all up here, so as always, please be patient - heck it's only been three months since my last post...
The Emerald State is nice. That's about all I can say about it right now. I haven't experienced enough good things to go on a rave, and I'm not about to talk about how I don't like it, because we haven't been here long enough for me to give it a fair chance.
I'm going to post some videos of our road trip here. There's a lot of them and they are, in a way, meaningless. I've titled them so you can decide if they might be worth your time to watch.
I don't expect everyone to know about our move, so here is a little synopsis:
Scott got a job at KING-TV in Seattle, so we moved.
More to come later - mostly videos I think. I don't really feel like writing. It's probably going to take quite awhile for me to get them all up here, so as always, please be patient - heck it's only been three months since my last post...
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