carlgnash 3Speak Podcast: Recent Episodes
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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/ptkuunvz
I have not personally been locked down because of COVID-19's rapid spread throughout the United States. I live in Utah County, Utah, which has only advised people to stay at home. Schools were closed, but most businesses are still open and I don't honestly see that much of a decrease in people out and about. I am sure it is coming.
My parents on the other hand both went through a 14 day self-quarantine at home in Haines, Alaska. My folks had spent a week in Hawaii before traveling to New Zealand to spend time with my oldest sister, and flew back through Seattle right when it was becoming clear that the outbreak was on for real in the states. My parents took this seriously, my dad is 77 with some underlying conditions and my mom is 70. There is no hospital or intensive care facility in Haines, and depending on the weather there is not even a way to transport someone out of town often for many days at a time. Usually there is a ferry system that connects the towns of Southeast Alaska, but years of under-funding has culminated in the remaining few ferries all requiring dry dock repairs at the same time this winter and there is no ferry service.
Knowing they might well have been exposed during travels, and knowing how devastating COVID-19 could be to their circle of elderly friends in small town Alaska, my parents didn't leave the house for 14 days. My brother and another sister live in the same town, and left them groceries on the porch. My niece Delilah is three years old and did not understand why she had to talk to grandma and grandpa through the window.
My parents are super cute so of course they devised fun ways to pass the time... like recording this video :) They wrote lyrics appropriate to their situation, set to the classic song "Our House" by Crosby, Stills & Nash.
I love the video, my dad carefully walking down the old creaking wooden stairs while my mom plays the baby grand piano and sings. I still think of that house as my house, I grew up there. I hope this song gives everyone else the same warm feels I got :)
Stay safe and use this opportunity to be creative if you can. Send fun videos to family and loved ones. Sing songs, make art.
I understand not everyone is so lucky to have food and shelter covered. I hope you all make it through this.
Love - Carl
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/vwqarjpu
I have not personally been locked down because of COVID-19's rapid spread throughout the United States. I live in Utah County, Utah, which has only advised people to stay at home. Schools were closed, but most businesses are still open and I don't honestly see that much of a decrease in people out and about. I am sure it is coming.
My parents on the other hand both went through a 14 day self-quarantine at home in Haines, Alaska. My folks had spent a week in Hawaii before traveling to New Zealand to spend time with my oldest sister, and flew back through Seattle right when it was becoming clear that the outbreak was on for real in the states. My parents took this seriously, my dad is 77 with some underlying conditions and my mom is 70. There is no hospital or intensive care facility in Haines, and depending on the weather there is not even a way to transport someone out of town often for many days at a time. Usually there is a ferry system that connects the towns of Southeast Alaska, but years of under-funding has culminated in the remaining few ferries all requiring dry dock repairs at the same time this winter and there is no ferry service.
Knowing they might well have been exposed during travels, and knowing how devastating COVID-19 could be to their circle of elderly friends in small town Alaska, my parents didn't leave the house for 14 days. My brother and another sister live in the same town, and left them groceries on the porch. My niece Delilah is three years old and did not understand why she had to talk to grandma and grandpa through the window.
My parents are super cute so of course they devised fun ways to pass the time... like recording this video :) They wrote lyrics appropriate to their situation, set to the classic song "Our House" by Crosby, Stills & Nash.
I love the video, my dad carefully walking down the old creaking wooden stairs while my mom plays the baby grand piano and sings. I still think of that house as my house, I grew up there. I hope this song gives everyone else the same warm feels I got :)
Stay safe and use this opportunity to be creative if you can. Send fun videos to family and loved ones. Sing songs, make art.
I understand not everyone is so lucky to have food and shelter covered. I hope you all make it through this.
Love - Carl
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/ramqxvlx
We took my new Christmas toy (action camera) out sledding with us yesterday. @yeti-the-dog is pretty sure she has figured out what the goal of sledding is - careen wildly down the slope after the sledders and try to dash super close right across their path without getting hit. What a fun game! I brought my gorilla pod and attached the camera in a few different places around the small sledding hill and tested out the wireless function that allows remote control from my phone. Sledding is so much fun! The music is my own original instrumental song called "Midnight Snack".
The camera is capable of native 4k filming but the high speed memory card I ordered hasn't shown up yet so I was shooting in 2k. I was also playing around with panning in my video edit, the original shots were all stationary and I did some zooming and panning in the edit. Much more to come from this camera I am sure, starting next weekend when we will test out the underwater function :)
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/tfmyttbp
I time traveled to next week and said week 16 in the intro. This is mostly improv but I had been singing variations of this for the last fifteen minutes probably. My kids wouldn't let me stop singing this song - they say it is their favorite song yet!
I was actually trying to put my guitar down but @thingone ran up and put these sunglasses on me and said I had to sing it again. So I pulled out my phone and cooked up this #SGL entry for y'all.
This all started when @thingone and @thingtwo were pretending to be vampires in some large cardboard box coffins and one of them farted :)
Lyrics Root-a-toot-toot-toot (Fa fa fa fa fart) x2
It was a fart, that broke my heart x3
I swear it hurt, when it broke my heart
It was a fart, that broke my heart
Root-a-toot-toot-toot (Fa fa fa fa fart) x3
Well you farted in your casket, he was a vampire
Well he farted in his coffin, and he shut the lid
then I opened it up and smelled the fart
and it knocked me over, and it made me a lover
of all kinds of stinky things, like blue cheese
It was a fart, that unlocked my heart
to the stinkier things, gave me stinky wings
It was a fart (That broke my heart)
It was a fart (Fa fa fa fa fart)
Root-a-toot-toot-toot (Root-a-toot-toot-toot)
Root-a-toot-toot-toot (Fa fa fa fa fart)
It was a fart, that broke my heart
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/hopazanx
We took advantage of the lack of snow at the valley floor this weekend to hike around on the side of Buckley Mountain between Provo and Springville. I made a short cinematic video of death, decay and youth for your amusement :)
A Common Sight Deer or (in this case) elk skulls, sawed open to remove the trophy antlers and then discarded at a pullout on the side of the mountain.
The first time we ran into a deer skull that had been sawed open we thought maybe it was some kind of dark magic cult ritual activity.
You can get a good sense for the size of this skull with my boot in the picture:
A Common Sight part 2 The remnants of mining operations large and small litter the sides of the Wasatch Front. Cable sticking out of rubble is a dead giveaway. Most of the mine openings themselves were sealed with rubble by the National Guard years ago, although there are still a few you can access. I am not sure what this operation was that we stumbled across while going off trail up a slope.
There were dozens of these metal containers scatter out in various states of disintegration into rust.
There were all sorts of interesting chunks of metal. I really do find rust beautiful in a sad way.
Music in the video is free use "Grilled Cheese" from the Google Photos movie assistant.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/mljhnrwc
We spent a good chunk of our Thanksgiving holidays playing in the snow in the pasture behind our house. We built a spiral-track sledding "hill" in the middle of the pasture that works great for the circular sleds, and @yeti-the-dog has been pulling @thingone and @thingtwo around the pasture in a normal sled. The look of joy and near terror on the face of those boys when she starts picking up speed... priceless :)
This neighbor horse has been very interested in our activities. @yeti-the-dog has been trying to make friends with this horse through the fence for a while, but I think seeing Yeti pulling the kids on the sled might finally have won the horse over. The horse played with Yeti a bit after I shot this video.
My Google assistant tried to make a panorama out of some of the shots I took, and ended up making this frankenhorse! Thanks, Google :)
Mawr Horse Because, white horse in white snowy field. You know?
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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/akzzsvun
I shot this footage from a single propeller bush plane flying from Juneau to Haines, Alaska. Music is my own original song "Break It Down". This is a Steem / 3speak exclusive.
Break It Down lyrics Break It Down
One foot and then another
We've got some ground to cover
Before we stop tonight
Oh baby don't you know
You shouldn't let it hurt you
You've got to let it go
One battle then another
You never will recover
If you fight them all
No you must be like water
And always find your level
Or your water fall
Oh baby don't you know
You shouldn't let them hurt you
You've got to let it go
You gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
Sometimes you may discover
There is no other action
But to break on down...
when you can't even utter
a syllable or mutter
something to your self...
You gotta break it down
You gotta break it down
You gotta break it down
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/rewaobnn
There is a sleeping nook with a mattress and curtain in the corner, which is being swallowed by the encroaching stuff
Mid-process in some kind of electronics repair
Collection of hand planers
Honest-to-goodness floppy disks. You know, for computers :) Modeled by @dillemma
Sewing machine graveyard / parts library
Although this is the second time I have posted this music video for my song "Dig Down" to the Steem blockchain, it might as well be the first... because I originally uploaded the video to DTube and of course it has long since been deleted from the DTube servers, leaving me with an empty shell of a post. So in the spirit of @nonameslefttouse's thingy, this is a Sunday showcase of probably my favorite Steem exclusive music video I have uploaded. This video is not published anywhere else online and the pictures I added have never been published previously. Lyrics at the bottom of the post.
I wrote and recorded this song in my parents' basement on the first night of my summer 2018 vacation back to my hometown of Haines, Alaska. Despite traveling literally all day to get there, and with two young children to boot, I was full of energy and wide awake the first night of our stay. After everyone else fell asleep I took a long walk in the late Alaskan twilight down on the beach that I used to play on as a child. When I got back to my parents' house I picked up my old guitar (my first guitar, which now lives in my parents' basement) and wrote this tune.
I helped dig that basement by hand, with pick and shovel, filling up 5 gallon buckets of dirt to send up a make-shift conveyor belt to my dad's old dump truck. Of course my parents finished the basement the year that I left for college, so I never really reaped the fruits of my labor.
Now, the basement is jam packed full of the collections of objects needed to be a fix-it guy who can fix anything. That is my dad. He can fix almost any kind of mechanical or electrical device you can think of, and he has probably saved all the parts needed and knows just where they are in the chaos. The basement is also where all of my old stuff and the accumulated stuff of my siblings ended up. Old school folders, coin and rock collections, toys, baseball cards... all crammed into shelves and stacked in alcoves and teetering in piles.
Dig Down - lyrics I want to dig down, down to the bedrock
I want to dig down, down to the bottom
I want to take shovels and picks to the rocks and the dirt
I want to fill buckets and buckets and truckloads of earth
I want to go down, down to the basement
I want to go back, back where it started
I need to remind my brain - because these cells aren't the same
I want to drink straight from the tap of the unfiltered batch
I want to do gown, down to the water
I want to do down, down to the beach
Sometimes it's just out of reach
It's on the tip of the tongue
It's a sound in the dark
and the memories spark
I want to slow down, and savor this moment
I wand to slow down, pause and rewind it
But the hours must pass, neither slower nor fast
and regrets of the future must echo in the past
But the hours must pass, neither slower nor fast
and regrets of the future must echo in the past
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/dgtneiya
This video accompanies my recent post about hiking up Little Diamond Trail. As the video pans you see a view of Wanrhodes Canyon first, with Red Mountain the clearly visible red ridge on the far side of the canyon, then as the camera pans to the south you are looking over Diamond Fork Canyon proper, and then Little Diamond Fork Canyon before panning back up the mountain I am standing on (as far as I can tell this mountain is not named, or at least a name doesn't appear on either Google Maps or the US Forest Service map of the area). I have posted about Red Ledges Picnic Area before, which is a pretty amazing "mini-Moab" red canyon - that is on the other side of the Red Mountain ridgeline you can see in this video. Little Diamond Fork Canyon (at :30 the canyon that is coming out from behind the ridge line I am panning up) is where we have been camping quite a few times recently, as posted about here.
Apologies for the heavy breathing! I had just literally run up the side of the mountain from the pullout area on the switchback below where you can see my wife and kids. That is a couple hundred feet of elevation gain up about as steep of an incline as it is possible to run up without using hands, at nearly 8000' elevation - I was sucking wind when I reached the top as you can hear! BTW the high pitched screech that sounds a little like a hawk or eagle is @thingone practicing his hawk call :)
This video was filmed at lat/long coordinates 40.1011123N,-111.4498985E.
Here are a couple views from Google satellite of where I was standing when I took this to better put the landscape into perspective:
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=carlgnash/qeuxkzjr
We have been running around on deer trails and scrambling up canyons on Grindstone Ridge almost every evening. @thingone and @thingtwo are turning into quite the trail runners and rock climbers. Join us on an evening adventure before sunset.
I was inspired to make this video by @buttcoins and the @ddaily #thefivereelgood adventure vlog contest. Can you smell what the butt is cooking? What the butt.
Music by moi, I released this track as CC0 free use along with the individual instrument parts so if you want to use it just follow this link:
https://steempeak.com/dsound/@carlgnash/20180521t213138018z-free-range-cryptofunk-noodle-number-twoodle
I am taking 3Speak on a test drive with this post, the subscription fee seems a little steep but hey maybe it will push me to make more video content this month. I have to say the upload and post creation process is much smoother on 3speak than I have come to expect from Steem DApps