http://www.hummingcrow.com cheryl colan's mixed media podcast - vlogging and sharing audio for fun and non-profit. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:38:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download iPod (320 x 240)Download iPhone (480 x 320)Download iPod (640 x 480)I just can't keep up with my own stuff. http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/07/15/my-struggle/ Download iPod & iPhone (365 x 205 playback, 480 x 270 download size)Download AppleTV (960 x 540)More little things for Ru and all my pals who find the Arizona monsoon / oven season exotic. Yesterday was a beautiful day! Aside: Before you think we're heathens, we're draining our pool because ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/07/12/small-summer-moments/ I'm on the team of iBoughtAMac authors, and I finally submitted my first article. Like a few of my in-the-know friends, I managed to download and install the iPhone 2.0 software a day early. I took fourteen of the new applications for a spin to bring you the lowdown. I ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/07/11/iphone-20-apps-reviewed/ Download Everyday ArizonaLast year around this time, I made a video showing rain evaporating off the sidewalk. Ru liked it and reminded me of it recently. So when I found myself on the same porch stoop with some light rain falling, I made another video. Just for you, Ru. http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/07/05/everyday-arizona/ Download Monsoon ArrivesA little video moment recorded with my iPhone. Horrible audio - you probably want to turn the volume down. If you can't understand me, I'm basically saying that the arrival yesterday of our first monsoon storm of the year began with a lightning strike that ignited a brush ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/06/26/monsoon-arrives/ Download Bug Claims UmbrellaShot this video just for Jay Dedman, who likes bugs. While I was at the Transmission Asia-Pacific conference in Indonesia, this big beetle decided he wanted his own umbrella after a brief bout of rain (it's supposed to be the dry season after all). Excuse the quality ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/06/09/this-my-umbrella/ Apple store Biltmore goes black Originally uploaded by hummingcrow OK. I stopped by the Biltmore Apple Store to replace my headphones on the way to the airport. This was an essential purchase because I'm on a 14.5 hour international flight. When I saw the blacked out windows I literally gasped. Then I ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/05/16/apple-store-biltmore-goes-black/ Download Podcast VideoDownload Bigger (640x480)Inspired by Bekah Havens' highly personal, tortured-teen-girl and, well, plaid diary readings, but with no diary of my own at hand, I present you this week ... in 1955. As written by my grandmother, Olive Jane Poe Whitmore. I identify with Bekah's journal entries. They could almost be mine. ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/04/23/1955/ Download iPod version (365 x 205)Download Bigger version (640 x 360)Random musical moments from Sunday night's dinner. Good stuff! http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/04/22/musical-mayhem/ Download iPod version (365 x 205)Download Bigger version (640 x 360)Back during NaVloPoMo, I made several posts about Kanohi ki te Kanohi (Face to Face), the Maori performing arts group I spent time with in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Well guess what?! They're here! Right here in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. They ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/04/21/a-feast-and-a-song/ Download iPod version (320x240)Download Bigger: 640x480My mom bought me a Kit-Cat clock. On the one hand, it's silly. But on the other hand, it's a memento of my dear departed friend Merrill, the polydactyl tuxedo cat who loved to play fetch: When I was a kid I was fascinated by moving ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/04/20/kit-cat-clock/ Download iPod (320x240)Download QuickTime (640x480)Awhile back we had one of those days so rare in the Sonoran desert, the kind where it rains lightly all day long. Those are the days when it seems like father sky is at his most tender, lingering for long slow kisses with mother earth. ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/03/29/rain-in-the-desert/ Download Podcast VideoDownload QuickTime (640x480)I made this for MissBHavens, because she made one for me. The music is pure Chris Chandler, troubadour, and my hero. In fact, I'm only posting this to my web site because it might encourage someone who doesn't know of him yet to go buy one ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/02/19/evil-is-boring/ Download Podcast VideoDownload QuickTime (640x480)My sometime driving companion. More fun than a dashboard compass, but a much worse navigator. http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/02/17/weeble-wobble/ Download iPod (320x240)Today I got this message on my Grand Central phone number. It's obviously not for me. I felt sad that there was no way to answer this nice sounding fellow who wanted to go get something to eat with a friend. But I had some orphan footage ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/02/11/hello-there-mister/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)This is a remix of my vlog from inside the voting booth, done by one of my students as an experiment for learning iMovie. I've been wanting to post it, and today is definitely the day. Get out there and vote in your Super Tuesday primaries, ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/02/05/vote-remix/ Download Podcast VideoDownload Podcast VideoDownload AppleTV (960x540)I had a nice moment to myself before going into the classroom. http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/01/24/what-the-wind-blew/ Posted: hummingcrow.com and in the Videoblogging group Mailed: info@videoblogging.info I hereby formally and publicly request that links to my Lumiere videos be removed from videoblogging.info/lumiere/, where they are listed as videos by hummingcrow. I do so for the following reasons: I disagree with the Lumiere Manifesto published by Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen & Brittany Shoot ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/01/17/a-public-request/ Come one, come all, to the first PHXedit! Get the details at node101phoenix.org. http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/01/12/phxedit-in-xacti-promo/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)My family - at least my dad and grandma (his mom) - were superstitious. They always made me eat at least one spoonful of black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. For luck. They're gone now, and nobody can make me eat black-eyed peas anymore. But what ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2008/01/01/hopping-john/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)My last video of 2007. I've done it. I've posted a video every day since the start of NaVloPoMo! Two whole months! Ok, I've got nothing on Rox, this is true. But I exceeded what I thought were my limits. Makes me wonder what else I ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/12/31/resolution/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)I learned more than this. But these were the highlights I thought of while reflecting today. You'll notice cuts, but all I cut out were the many long ums and uhs. I want to thank my NaVloPoMo pals for being my teachers during the month of November. ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/12/30/what-i-learned-in-2007/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)For awhile, I fed two neighborhood cats. "White Kitty," the one appearing second in this video, and "Silver," a kitten I caught and had neutered, then re-released. Silver was carried away by a bird of prey, probably a hawk. A few new cats have turned up ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/12/29/queue/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)Download Bonus MP3Here's a little more of Australia in 2004. Something I tried to do every day. We'd be tired and cold, and just want one more hour to sleep, but the birds would start singing loudly just before dawn. Some of the people around me ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/12/28/bird-dreaming/ Download iPod (320x240)Download Bigger (640x480)Another moment from my past, specifically, a trip to Australia in June 2004 - when it's winter down under. I was staying with a travel group at the Korrawinga Community Center on Aboriginal lands. We are in the tiny kitchen of a pre-school day care ... http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/12/27/coffee-at-korrawinga/