Ryanne's Video Blog

Kangaroos

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:36:03 PDT

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adrian miles and seth keen took us for a walk. we saw a "mob" of kangaroos. it was fascinating! they are like deer but they will totally kick your ass if you get too close. i could not stop staring, they are the coolest animals i've ever seen.

Rural Broadband

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:04:51 PDT

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this is my rural broadband story. things i talk about in this video include page county virginia, hughesnet (check out their service plans and bandwidth limits - top tier service which allows a whole 500mb a day for $350 a month, no joke), highspeedLINK (our new local provider who gives us unlimited bandwidth hurray!). if you or someone you know does not have access to broadband, check out WeNeedBroadband.com and sign their list.

if you would like to share this video, here is some embed code, just copy and paste:

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Hypocrisy

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:19:32 PDT

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gotta love those chevron ads. they're so funny they make me laugh.

Breakfast

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:00:23 PDT

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breakfast with my sister at the flame restaurant in hells kitchen.

Francis Scott Key Bridge

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:03:06 PDT

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jay takes photos on the francis scott key bridge in DC.

Hair Cut

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:56:12 PDT

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my sister came to visit while we were in nyc the other week. i made her cut my hair. much better now.

Walnuts

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:02:21 PST

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it's been a while since i've posted. been busy on a bunch of work. including learning how to grow and gather food, as you can see...

Oh Yes We Did

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:50:41 PST

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what an amazing and emotional day november 4th was. i was up at 3:30 am to be a poll worker and went to bed at about 1 am. it was a long day. i wasn't sure i was allowed to record in the polling place, so i didn't get as much footage as i wanted, but hey, we won!

Page County: Yes We Can

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:10:44 PST

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one day to go. this is our little (but kick ass) obama office. yes, yes we can.

I Voted

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:51:02 PST

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this happened a few days ago but still, i am excited! VA for Obama, he's going to take it!

Cow Petting

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:28:01 PDT

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My sister and I were visiting my grandma in Florida. She has a bunch of cows on her land. They act like big kitties, it was really cute. Ash made a video about this too. VloMo08! FTW! It has begun! Only 29 more days...

Swing States: Let's Get Obama Elected

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:39:47 PDT

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it was august 29th, the day after an inspiring speech by barack obama at the DNC. mccain announces palin as his running mate. as the hype for palin started reaching a fever pitch, i started feeling, pretty much what the repubs wanted me to feel- apathetic, hopeless and helpless. this is what i decided to do...

i have been inspired by the following independent media (too much to list but...):
Michael Verdi: Obama Landslide
Tanya Tarr: Not My Gal Blog and Thank You Sarah Palin
Kent Bye: Rhetorical Visualization of Palin's Supreme Court Non-Answer

Beijing, China: August 2008

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:41:28 PDT

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Jay and I spent the better part of August in Beijing during the Olympics to help document protests happening there. We blogged more in depth about it on RyanIsHungry. Here is the momentshowing version of the trip. As you can see the Olympics were everywhere. Shopping centers, cafes, buses, subway cars and stations. You could not escape the games. It was fascinating. Enjoy.

P.S. A majority of this video was recorded with the Flip Video Mino. I thought it did pretty well for an inexpensive pocket cam. Though the zoom is digital and kinda crappy and you can't go macro. The rest was captured with the Xacti E1.

The Grand Tour

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:42 PST

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I've been meaning to make this video for weeks. Check out our place and our gardens! If you can't see the QuickTime video, click here for the Flash version. We're gardening using the Grow Biointensive methods we learned in Willits, CA from John Jeavons and Carol Cox. All hand tilled baby. Everything is growing wonderfully.

Xacti HD1000 Green MP4 Fix

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:42 PST

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Do you use a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 camera? Have you seen the green mp4 of death? Not sure why? Well, my friend Mary Matthews of Videopancakes.com also had this problem recently and she pointed me to this Apple discussion thread to help her decipher the solution. Seems that the QuickTime H264 component that came with your Xacti software worked great with your camera, but then again QuickTime gets updated by Apple every few months and that little bit of software that makes your HD files actually work gets replaced. Huge bummer if you want to, oh um, use your footage. I sat down with Mary and helped her reinstate this little component and I thought I'd make a screencast walking through it so others could fix their systems too. There are some other solutions on that Apple thread if this doesn't work, but I hope it does. Good Luck!

p.s. if you right click and save this video... you can watch it at 640x480, a bit easier to see.

Virginia: First Month

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:42 PST

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it's been about a month since we arrived in virginia. been having trouble picking up my camera as much or editing my own videos. we're offline a lot, so that might have something to do with it... i feel i'm on a roll here though so there is more to come!

Dora and Freddie take me for a walk

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:42 PST

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we stopped in virginia before we headed up to new england for a couple weeks. i took jay's dad's dogs for a little walk, or rather they took me...

Northern Vermont: Nelson's House

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:43 PST

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we made it to nelson's house.

Going Through Things: Reading, Erasing

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:43 PST

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as we finish moving cross country, i am starting to go through my stuff at my mom's house which she is also moving out of. all this moving... it's really strange reading old journals and seeing old photos and videos. keep some, throw most away.

p.s. don't my mom's cats look like some alternate reality version of battle cat and white baby?

p.p.s it's videobloggging week 2008. go get 'em!

San Antonio: Verdi's House

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:43 PST

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i was laughing my ass off when verdi and jay picked up the wii. i've never actually seen anyone use this, oddly, and i thought it was so funny. also this is one of the only clips i recorded during our trip on my xacti. i just never picked it up. jay took lots of photos though. have a lot of stuff for ryanishungry on tapes though! i think that was enough for me. videoblogging week 2008 starts tomorrow. time to video things for real!

On Our Way: Goodbye California

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:44 PST

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we left california 14 days ago. can't believe it's been 2 weeks already. and we're only half way across the US in missouri at richard and maureen's house. we've been taking our time and staying with people for a few days at a time. have not actually been taping a lot, except for a few ryanishungry shoots (soon to come).

Caltrain-Bart: SF Last Days

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:44 PST

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our last week in SF, we took the train to and from the city to work on a video shoot. SF is a beautiful place to ride the train for sure.

We Were Here: SF Last Days

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:44 PST

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as we prepared to leave SF, we decided to do some things like go to the beach. what there is a beach 10 miles away? i like that people before us made a little see-saw bridge and wrote in the sand.

Can Masdeu: Squat-Community Barcelona

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:45 PST

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we visited this radical squat-community called can masdeu in barcelona. they have these amazing gardens on this beautiful land over looking barcelona and out to the sea. their story is really interesting- they took over the abandoned building in 2001 by just staging a sit in (ok it was a little more dramatic than that). this footage is sound-less again.

Europe Last Days: Barcelona

ryanne.hodson@gmail.com (Ryanne Hodson) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:55:45 PST

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Warning: This video has no sound! our camera was totally broken by the end of the trip. well at least it took images! barcelona was awesome. i'll have a wee bit more footage of this farm/squat/coop we visited too. ah europe, good times!!