Sloan Creative

I created this video for the Trust for Working Landscapes and made it available on-line.

It was surprisingly easy to do with software that comes free on most computers. I used Microsoft Movie Maker, but there are a number of great options out there.

Download the film

It’s a large (28 Meg) Windows media file.

I could have posted it to YouTube, but that would reduce the quality so I chose to have it streamed by Yahoo.

An amazing new tool for bloggers and photographers.

A flash video generator that puts your photos to any music you choose and allows tremendous customtization.

See the product here: www.showitfast.com

Here’s a demo example I created in just a few minutes with no prior experience.

Here’s a pieced together panorama of the front of the house, taken from down the near pond.

More on this house here

I’ve just created a new blog focussed on the many benefits of using blogs as the basis for an organization’s web site.

I called it The Sloan Blog About Blogs

It’s based on my years of web development and consulting experience, as well as my more recent experience with blog software. In fact, this entire site is built within a blog.

If I can help in any way, let me know.

Here’s a site full of interesting ideas.

www.lifehacker.com

here’s a guy who’s pushing the envelope in terms of using technology to live an interesting, productive life.

www.fourhourworkweek.com

I find his blog the most interesting part of all this. To get a sense of how and who he is, watch his chat with Google staff in London.

Hi everyone, I guess I was wrong. Jott (John) has a world press(?) rank (Wordpress link), so that I can call from my cell phone and have ended(?) (it end) up directly on my blog format it (formatted) correctly. This is my first test. See you soon, Steven (Stephen). listen

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PS. Well, it’s not perfect, but it’s interesting

My neighbors, Jeff and Russ, have started raising chickens… nice, pasture-fed birds.

A lot of folks have read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, these guys actually started a business out of it.

I had a chance to shoot some pictures of their first big processing day and they even shot some video of the Mother Plucker in action.

Here’s to local produce and local protein!

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PS. I tried to send directly to the blog, rather than cutting and pasting the text into another email to the blog, but Jott adds too much blog-confusing code to the email to get it displayed correctly. Ah, well. It’s probably best to have one quick editorial step between my brain and cyberspace.