I've got a ton of video from my two week biz dev trip to Asia. Here is the first of many as I rolled through Singapore, Tokyo, and Seoul.
One common thread among all three cities on this trip: humidity!
I’ve had the good fortune to have experienced the 90’s dotcom wave first hand, and I know that without tenacity, (what a friend in Japan calls Ketsudan), the moment can be fleeting for a start-up. My head has been down in my work for 10 months now, taking a very deep dive with virtual worlds and social media. Lately, as I prepare for an Asian 3-country tour, I have been averaging 35-40 hours a sleep a week - there’s just too much to cover, and the business is still moving forward extraordinarily fast.
Running every other day has helped me try to stay in tune with the world around me, even as my brain becomes possessed with the virtual. I have been sensing the changing of the season on my sunset runs. Summer has begun to wane ever so slightly. The air smells different. The afternoon light is also changing accompanied with the slightest hints from the foliage.
As the Earth slides across the path of a comet’s tail in the late days of summer, we have the chance to experience the world before media. The Perseid Meteor Shower has been known to humanity for a few thousand years.
When I stepped out tonight and looked up to the sky, a few stars became a dozen, then tens of stars, hundreds, then thousands. Being in the city, the glare knocked out the deepest sky, but I could still appreciate the evening.
There on my back, looking up into the heavens, a few flashes of light raced south across the sky.
In homage to the Lumiere Brothers who were some of the earliest filmmakers, Andreas from solitude.dk made a call for submissions to the videoblogging community to replicate the conditions in which they filmed. Notably: less than one minute (most were about 45 seconds long); fixed camera; no zoom; no sound; no editing; and no effects.
Here a my Lumiere video, recorded in Chicago July 29, 2007
Northeast of Redding, California in the Cascade Range you will find this hidden gem. McArthur-Burney Falls moves a prodigious 100 million gallons of water a day - every day! The water is a cool 45-49 degrees.
Before we arrived here at the falls, we spent the night in McCloud at a quaint Victorian B&B called Stoney Brook. You can see additional pictures on flickr
We did not stay at the campground, but last month they just opened 12 small one room cabins that can be reserved for $65/night. Apparently reservations are sold out for 6-7 months in advance.Â
