America Meditation: Eastern Colorado w/ Ashram Chant (Video)

by JHF on July 7, 2009 · 3 comments

in Video

Another little experiment… I also wanted to try editing some audio that I recorded a few years ago at the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram here in Taos, so I could use it for the background music on a short 30-second video of Highway 71 in eastern Colorado. Just an experiment, mind you, and mostly sky, but it gets me thinking.

As short as this is, it touches something in me that’s important. Hope it does something for you, too.

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Number 6 July 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm

very nice.
my only other comment from watching this and your other “road” videos: you really need to get some kind of steadicam mount or some such to reduce the “jiggle factor”. you’re camera probably has some kind of internal electronic/software “image stabilization” function, but nothing works right like a real, external shock mount.

2 JHF July 7, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Not in the cards. The Kodak Zi6 has no image stabilization. iMovie stabilizes clips well but does it by zooming — on the video above, the road disappeared when I tried that! The truth is, American highways are very bumpy. I doubt even a steadicam mount would work on Colorado Hwy. 71. BTW, do you know what those things cost?

However — of course, your point is a good one. All the road videos I’ve posted so far were taken on one long trip, and I used the same method of holding the camera, which sucked. Just duct-taping it to my forehead would be better, probably. I’ll see what I can do.

3 Marco Polo November 1, 2009 at 2:58 am

Reminds me of a trip nearly 30 years ago when I stayed overnight at a friend’s place, and he drove us to work the next morning right after sunrise, and he played Gregorian chant as we watched the pink clouds and the glory of a new day being born. Unforgettable.

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