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201 Long Exposure Landscapes From The Northern Great Basin – Video Editing In Final Cut
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201 Long Exposure Landscapes From The Northern Great Basin – Video Editing In Final Cut
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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.
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I wanted to talk to you today about a video that I’m trying to edit together, I’m stuck in Final Cut right now I’m trying to put the pieces together. I’m working on a bunch of clips from the alvord Desert that we shot really almost like a year ago when we are traveling through the alvord Desert. And that Southern, I guess south eastern stretch of Oregon out of Idaho is really beautiful, really interesting kind of high desert terrain out there. And then you travel through the LA he River Canyon for miles and miles along that stretch. And there’s a lot of beautiful country out there really a lot of stuff that I could probably endlessly explore here, there’s a lot of cool stuff out there like I guess great elk hunting is sort of the territory that it’s known as. But outside of that, there’s probably plenty of things you could do for seasons when we were there for was just camping and checking out the desert playa when we got a little closer to the alvord Desert. But we have a handful of videos from that what I’m trying to do right now is work with the the Instagram TV format, and something that it’s been around just for a couple of weeks now, but it’s a vertical video only, I guess it’s kind of cheated a little bit, but it’s just people uploading horizontal videos to it, I think so it kind of works. But I think it’s kind of built to be vertical video native. And so I’m trying to go through and take some videos. And then I’m setting up a Final Cut project where I flip, it’s sort of awkward, but like I flipped the the aspect ratio so that it shows me attain AVP window frame, but it shows me that vertically and then when I apply my videos to it, then I have to kind of transform them to it and then it renders out it’s kind of funky, it’s not really shot for it because I’ve never shot anything in a vertical format. So especially if I’m kind of retrofitting a video that was shot a year ago in horizontal aspect ratio, that’s never really going to come out quite right in the vertical aspect ratio. So it seems like to really do it you got to shoot native in vertical format. But I don’t know that’s asking a little too much for mobility. So today, I guess as it is I’m just going to be making some Instagram TV posts in some other hour, whatever it is 720 or something like that. But I’m going to be pulling the videos in and putting them in that custom Final Cut layout. And then trying to clip those together to make like a four minute maybe last video that kind of renders out or run through some of the stuff of hanging out in the alvord over in Eastern Oregon. It was a cool trip. I love doing that stuff. So hope you guys get to see it soon. You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look up Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping and cool stuff over there. I wanted to talk about the trip that I did out to Eastern Oregon here just a little while back in the end of October and it was kind of cool getting out to camp kind of late in October It was nice I guess this year with without having a lot of wet weather days over in Eastern Oregon so we’ve had like a lot of clear weather I think it’s been clear and then also pretty cold here for like the last like week or two but it had been above freezing for a while and October this year I remember us passed it would be like below freezing at least by like the 10th of october i mean even by like the fifth or so I remember sometimes being below freezing temperatures especially over in Eastern Oregon up in the mountains and stuff for they’re even in the you know the plateau areas of the Great Basin. I remember some areas out there being like below freezing by quite a bit but this year it was it was still pretty nice. pretty far in October. I was kind of impressed but by the time I was out there for this trip it was freezing. I’m pretty sure so I was I think I went out went out over to Eastern Oregon and I was out kind of in like that like the high desert Lakes area. So there’s like there’s there’s a few lakes that are all kind of like gathered together over there. I think it’s like silver like summer Lake, a Bear Lake. Summer or summer like I talked about there’s goose Lake that’s further south there’s like Crump like there’s
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I think there’s a few others but they also have kind of like try it out now too but that whole area there as a kind of stretches over toward like highway 395 further Eastern there has a bunch of features in terrain that I don’t really think I’ve explored too much of why I’ve exposed like a bit of it before but, but there’s a bunch of stuff out there that that’d be kind of cool to check out this hardly got any of it really I think there’s like really big areas that that stretch out for a long amount of distance that are probably pretty hard to well alright, I don’t know, they’re, I think they’re all like pretty big stretches of public land, that’s what’s really cool about that area is it’s really big, like vast expanses of BLM land through a lot of that desert land. But it’s also kind of difficult to reverse as well as gonna say that the roads there aren’t really very well maintained and there really aren’t that many roads so it’s cool you can get out and if you have if you have the time, you can hike those roads or you can hike off anywhere you want, like off those roads and just kind of like check out the, the area of the land or at it and it’s it’s definitely like a really interesting kind of, kind of landscape out there. But that’s what I’ve always liked about the, the high desert Lakes area out there. So the kind of like landscape and the trees and the rim rock. And the way that that looks at that was that was pretty cool. So I took off over there, especially this time of year in October, it’s really fun. I think a lot of the areas that I were in was really just like the the juniper trees and sagebrush and stuff but, but the way the cloud textures are overused and organized, pretty cool, this time of year in like kind of late, late mid October. But it’s also really cool what you can come up upon. Some aspen trees, like the aspen trees over there this time of year, are really cool, because they kind of turn from that green leafed tree with the white bark. And they have these really red or orange kind of fiery leaves. And they look really cool and kind of dramatic. And they have like a cool contrast and the landscape over there in Eastern Oregon. So it’s cool, you can kind of come up on a grove of those, they seem to sort of grow in a cluster together over there in certain places when you get to certain elevations when they’re in good spots to grow up in those. The mountain passes. There are I think like some of those mountain rims, in in Eastern Oregon have some clusters of them. And it’s really cool that you can get to come up on them, I think up in the like the Fremont would NEMA National Forest as you’re coming up to the rim over summer Lake, I think I saw like a bunch of them over there. And I remember driving up through a number of those. And it was really cool. There’s just big groves. And all the leaves kind of turn like really red, orange, bright colors as they’re starting to drop. And this was really cool, especially in years like this, where it hasn’t really had a ton of rain or a ton of I guess even like early snow or just big storms that come through and kind of knock those leaves out prematurely. So a lot of them seem like they’ve been holding up pretty well and it’s got kind of a bright, kind of crisp look to it this October. Given that there hasn’t been much rain and it’s been pretty clear and it’s just been, you know, a little bit of wind and now that it’s frozen, I think the leaves are gonna start dropping pretty quick. And now that the rains probably going to come through or a couple sets of storms are gonna come through. So out there in Eastern Oregon, I came up on a spot to camp that I thought was pretty cool. And I was driving around through, what I did is I took off from the main highway, I took this mountain road that cuts off in a BLM rent land. And it’s real Rocky, real bumpy almost doesn’t look like a road at some time. So threw it into like four wheel drive low for a lot of it to just kind of like crawl over a bunch of the rocks or just kind of take it real slow and kind of take my time getting over stuff. And I took a couple miles back into this road and then I would kind of stop along the way and then take out some hikes like out to the left or the right of the truck. And then kind of make like a little bit of a loop and then come back around to the truck and just sort of check out the area and see what was going on out there. And I had my camera with me so I got to like walk around and take pictures and stuff. And then I’ve also on this trip and trying to take a bunch of video clips like where I’d like to take my tripod out with me on that little little bit of a hike or something that I do a little walk around that I do. And then yeah, stop, set up the tripod, take a longer clip of video or a pan of video so that I have that my collection also and then take a couple sets of photos. But it was cool. And I like this area and this time of year too. You know it’s tough in the summer time out there in Eastern Oregon. And also I think sometimes in the wintertime too when it’s sunny. But, but when it gets like real sunny and it’s real clear out. You get this kind of like haziness to the sky a little bit and everything just sort of looks a little bit more blown out with the sun and the way that the shadows look on the ground, especially through like the mid day so real early in the morning. It can look really cool. The lights kind of coming up over the horizon real late in the afternoon as it’s kind of get new the horizon again, over in the West, that can look pretty cool. But when it’s real clear, it looks, it looks really kind of blown out and washed out harsh during the day. And it definitely looks like that a lot during the summer is the sun’s real high up above. But now as it gets kind of in the fall here, what’s cool is you have like a bunch of these kind of textured clouds moving across the sky as part of the weather pattern. And so you get sort of a more textured landscape. And you also get a lot of shade cast with the highlights of sensors are still coming through it on days that I totally overcast. So that was what was fortunate for me that’s sort of part of what you get is the weather. And some of the circumstances the weather that you get during this, this period of time from from like kind of mid October into November before before it gets kind of real wintery and stormy out there as you get into later November. But this time of year is really cool. So I really like that part of it a lot where you can kind of go out and you see like a lot of texture in the skies, that kind of goes up in elevation up into the sky, but you still see, you know, some sunny sky You see kind of colored to that light that’s sort of cast to the clouds. And, and you also see color in the clouds and texture in the clouds. And it just seems like you get like a little bit more, a little bit more to photograph. And I was like that when the skies get some texture in it. So that’s kind of cool with some of the landscape work that I was trying to do out there in Eastern Oregon. And I thought it was pretty fun going out there. But it was cool to see the spot that they came up to camp at, which was sort of like by the end of the day was this pretty small, I guess it would have been a pond. Or it would have been like a real small lake, probably like a five acre lake bed. But now it’s dried out. There’s no water up there at all. But for maybe what kind of gathers there incidentally through the year, as it sort of collects across the landscape like it would have naturally but it’s really nowhere near as much as it would have been before. But it’s cool, it’s up along this, this piece of rim rock this sort of stretches along and then kind of connects into the hillside. But below that there’s like this big lake area. And you can kind of see how flat The landscape is there as it sort of had been settled with the lake bed over time. And then as it kind of lifts up on the under the bank. So that is the rocks that have reappeared and they kind of turn up in a room rock. But it was cool. I got to drive my truck just got like right out onto the lake bed, which is really just like, like a grown up Meadow now. And then there’s two track truck tracks that kind of cut and criss cross through the lake, but they’re back and forth. But
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But yeah, like pulled off. And it’s just sort of like listed as a road, pulled off into this little lake and crossed over to the other side toward the rim rock and then got to hang out and set up a camp over there. And it looked like people had already been in there was like a fire ring set up. And it was kind of a cleared out area with sort of like a sandy bottom sort of like grit dirt base beneath me. And then these reeds of grass that were sort of growing up out into the distance a couple feet. That was really cool, I really kind of appreciate getting to go out there.
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Also, what I thought was pretty cool at this spot that I was camping out was trying to set up the tripod to take long exposure photos at night there.
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So when it got dark, the sky was really cool. And there was also still a little bit of those clouds that were sort of drifting in and out at different times, which kind of added like some cool texture to other kind of lower cumulus clouds that are moving pretty quickly across the landscape. So if you had a longer exposure of 20 seconds or somewhere around 30 seconds or so you could lead in a lot of light which would be cool for the photos of the stars. But you could also get a little bit of a drag effect to the view of the clouds as cumulus clouds as they move so quickly at low elevations across the skyline there and so you could kind of over 30 seconds kind of get this sweep look as a as these clouds kind of swept across sort of I think they’re moving kind of like a well I guess would be sort of like a west to I guess generally East motion. I think it was sort of like a Northwest. Yeah, northwest to like south east direction, more or less. But it was cool. Yeah, kind of watching this concert sit by and then I was looking at but like I think it was Jupiter and Saturn. That was sort of up against this rim rock area that I was looking at. And I think it was part of the constellation of Sagittarius and then Scorpio was sort of down by that time, but it was cool looking at that. And then a little bit further over to the east was where a really bright view of Mars was as a kind of bright or sort of coppery color to it. It looks really The beautiful right now it’s cool this time of year, I think it’s near opposition to a, so it kind of rises up around the same time as the sun is setting. It’s a little bit off from that, but it looks really large in the sky right now. And it’s a really beautiful and like bright view of Mars is it sort of coming up over into the eastern sky as it as it starts to get dark in the evening, but it was cool, like looking at looking at Mars, and then looking at Saturn, and Jupiter over in the Sagittarius area. So that was kind of cool. And then try to take photos, photographs of that, along with some of what you can kind of see within the Milky Way was pretty cool, too. So I was trying to set that up and get some long exposure, night photography of that. And yeah, I kind of really liked the way that the the sweeped look of the clouds look is it kind of kind of crosses the sky, that’s something I was kind of trying to do a bit with some of the photography I was doing out there was trying to get a long exposure sweet look to the the photos of the clouds in the sky. It’s cool, I’ve got I got one of these tools helps me do that in the daytime, too. So I was saying like I was out there in the daytime, I can take my tripod, and then sit at this, this big stopper which is really just like a, it looks like black smoke glass, but it’s got like a 10 stop ND filter on it, that fits into a pocket that goes over your lens. And so you can set your lens to something that would be 10 stops of a slower exposure to gather more light. And then that kind of gives you an effect. So you can kind of change the amount of time that you have your exposure set for if you want to kind of make some different effects, which is really cool. If you want to try and shoot like moving water during daytime light, you can kind of change that effect a lot. I’ve done a lot of cool stuff at rivers with it. But this was really cool to just go into a landscape where like you’re trying to take a picture of a landscape but there’s clouds in the sky, Those clouds will move over a period of 30 seconds and so you can set it up with this big stopper, take a photograph of that landscape, you can expose correctly for the landscape but with the big stopper you get the effect of the time passage and then that means that you can kind of see the sweep of the clouds in the sky as as time passed and the class kind of moved west to east so it’s pretty cool getting to getting to try that out and I think some of the results are pretty cool and some of the long exposure results near near dusk or near the blue hour were pretty cool too. So I was happy to kind of get to try that out and get to work on that a bit and then it was also talking about like video clips to how is as trying to get some video clips of different pieces that’s been working out I think pretty well. I mean trying different spots like different spots at the coast. There were spots on this mountain drive I was on in the new different spots over in Eastern Oregon out in the high desert and I’m kind of trying to get like an addition of you know just kind of okay or cool or you know sort of steady
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like full HD video clips at different locations there’s a lot of stuff where I’ve like had my phone and I’m just gonna like held it and record a lot and even still I’m trying to do that with the camera to get sort of some casual video recording clips more times through through little trips and travel pieces that I’m doing just so it seems like I have video content as well as as photo content that I captured on on some of these outings that I do but but as I’m going around to try and capture some cool video pieces Chinese the tripod for it and try and get some sort of steady shots that that are like a little bit more cleaned up and then just some of the walk around stuff that I’ve done with my phone or with other means in the past so that’s been kind of cool, but still out of the primary stuff is his photo for sure I’ve had the film camera out of bed. I was setting that up on a tripod trying to get a couple photographs with it as I kind of go around to different spots and I thought that was pretty cool. But But yeah, I was dealing with that rocky road out there so I camped out by that that lake bed near the rim rock looking at the stars and stuff that was really cool. I’ve got that portable like propane heater with me and that’s really been saving me from the real cold weather and I think kind of like I was talking about on that last podcast how i or i think a couple podcasts back how some of the layering I’ve tried to do is like like a wool layer as a base layer and then down insulation layer and then a gore tex rain shell over that. And so I was fortunate I didn’t have to deal with any like wet weather. rains for that GoreTex show over the down and wool really holds in like a lot of the heat, too. So that was helped me a ton out there. While I was getting pretty cool and I think like you know, like this time of year, October. It was like it was it was Before is before the time changes now but but at that time it was like six o’clock I was getting tired now it’s five o’clock and it’s dark out and it’s cold too you know it’s like clear and you know late October and then it just gets real cold and those kind of higher elevation kind of Mountain Lake areas out there in Eastern Oregon so it seemed like it was getting kind of near freezing here there you know there pretty soon it was it seemed like it was in the 30s at least like pretty soon after dark so it was definitely trying to like add up some layers and turn that propane heater on and try and stay pretty warm so I wasn’t in the tent I was just in the canopy in my truck and I was able to stay pretty insulated through the night so it wasn’t really like a big deal and it was okay you know, like I think I’ve talked about this before to my sleeping bag I think is is rated at like a 15 degree sleeping bag. And so this time I doubled it up with like a second sleeping bag that was like a 15 degree sleeping bag and I went that worked pretty well but I really was still like asking man, I need like a blanket but I think I need to go like for like a thicker zero degree bag or something like that maybe I can I can use that and
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or maybe even double that up with this one too. But yeah, like that deal with the cold out there. As it as it drops down to freezing is I think kind of difficult I don’t really ever seem to enjoy it, you know, like people kind of seem to get through some of those cold nights and some of those like higher elevation or harsh environments. I mean, Oregon is really like a pretty temperate climate, in a lot of ways. I can’t imagine like being out in Arizona, where it’s, you know, seven degrees or something like that. And some of those mountain spots that I’ve heard over are certainly like out in anywhere like those northern areas or like the boreal forests as it gets into the winter time, you have to deal with like a lot of snow, you know, this is just kind of like a nice sort of dry climate, where it’s maybe dipping into the freezing temperatures. But even still, yeah, I’ve just never really enjoyed like, just kind of hanging out in the dark was really not a ton of stuff to do kind of, I guess kind of maybe taking pictures and sort of standby, a little little space heater. But yeah, it was pretty fun. That was cool. Okay, hanging out and sort of putting up with the cold and stuff and hanging out by camp. And taking some pictures of the sky at night set that was pretty cool. But But yeah, the next day got up and I think he tried to put together a little bit of food and stuff that I had which is kind of fun when you’re out doing the camp and stuff. But I got in the truck gotten the four wheel drive going again and then kind of carried on that that bumpy mountain road for a while and took a couple forks of the road off to another sort of small four or five acre pond bed or lake bed that used to be out there and then now it’s gone and and sort of rest against it kind of eroded against rim rock against the side and then just sort of some rolling hills sort of carry on past it but it’s these kind of like little dips that kind of come up maybe 100 feet or so then down at and then sort of come up and down a little bit sort of rolls along about the landscape out there. And from Google Earth it looks like it’s just a real air is sort of flat you know, no vegetation kind of landscape but when you get out there you notice that a lot of it is the sort of it’s kind of a sparsely populated area of juniper trees but when you sort of look across, it really fills the space pretty well whereas you look across you see just like a good amount of of trees and vegetation and it’s all these you know these kind of smaller but kind of wide in the shape that they are these like juniper trees are just sort of smaller, like evergreen trees out there and and it mix with the sagebrush and stuff and it kind of looks cool with with the table landscape as it is look back. I think as I was looking toward the south as the mountains gonna pick up a little bit more, it kind of just sounds like a cool look to us. You see like the sagebrush, the juniper trees, and then it kind of sweeps up as you can pick up toward the rim rock as you get nearer to I think summer lake and you get a view toward the the uplift as it moves into the Fremont with NEMA National Forest. But it was cool Yeah, being out there driving around for wheeling around out there it was pretty cool. And I think I went about as far as I could on that road before it really just sort of like washed out and just kind of turned into death and after a while so I bet somebody could take it a little bit further than I did but I think it runs into some private property at the end of it so I decided to kind of wrap up there and then spin around and then a cruise back to the little town that was out there and stopped in and got coffee, which is always like kind of a necessity. I think I have like my mix with me I have like my Jetboil and coffee mix with me but I stopped in and sat a little coffee shop place which I was going to try and do at some of these little towns I get it over the coast a couple weeks ago to not the coast but I was some like little logging town next next to it, you know. But out here Yeah, and Eastern Oregon picked up some coffee. And it took off to another set of these like small little rolling hills that were out there. So the bigger rim rock section, I went over, I think from I guess it’d be like the south side. And then I crossed town and then went north of town to
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like the other side of like the, I don’t know, the top of this Lake area that it would be and then there’s this set of like little rolling hills that kind of carry on for maybe 10 acres or so. And I guess that was like a pretty anthropologically active area back in the past which is really cool that these different tribes that moved into the area, and then use the land to camp at or to set up and then go out and do like hunting trips from around the area. And it’s really cool to kind of think about the land that you can walk around as, as different places that people that camped sort of nomadically through different seasons over 1000s of years out there, you know, I think it’s like it’s like 12,000 year old artifacts dating back to that area around like fort rock. And I think over by some other Paisley ice caves, like some other I get like that. And then there’s other information about you know, like, more recent stuff too from from history, just that you know, a couple 100 years ago. So really cool to kind of be out in that area and get to check it out and walk around and stuff. But yeah, this area has a bunch of small roads through it, they kind of got a roll over the hills and stuff and I was able to have like a pretty good map of what was there and I’ve been to that area a couple of times before but I didn’t really know where the roads went. So I didn’t I didn’t really get to explore around as effectively as it was this time but it was pretty cool getting to cut through a couple different pieces and get to stop and get out get to take like kind of short walks out and get to go up to different lookout points and take pictures and stuff of the the landscape and stuff out there of these little kind of rolling rock formations that sort of carry along these hills for a few acres. So that was pretty fun get to go out there and kind of made like a big loop with the truck and four wheel drive. And so they came up this like draw along like a creek and then came up the hill. And so it was like a four wheel you know, like a real four wheel and experience where you just kind of like you know, pull it up this big kind of Rocky thing up to the top of a mountain and then you kind of take off down the backside of it and then kind of intersect back down with the main road. But But yeah, I did that for a good part of the day and kind of took some photos and videos of some of the stuff out there. And then took off and I took like a gravel road that that sort of cut between that small town that it was at to another town for the north of there. And there’s like a highway infrastructure that sort of connects the two but that sort of I guess would make like a V shape between it and this gravel road sort of cuts the long stretch along the top of the V and so I was able to take that and and take that road back up to this small town before I was able to head out but it was cool going over through that area. And I think that was starting to become evening and stuff and there’s a bunch of little spots where I could pull out along the side of it, set up my tripod and take some pictures of stuff that evening was cool with the clouds and stuff same as I was doing the night before in that area but the rim rock was I was able to kind of get out the check this time out like a little bit more open view where it was just sort of like a bigger, wider open landscape with the cloud formations and then the sky stuff above that. And I was able to stop for a few of those and take some cool long exposure photos of the the night sky and the sweeping clouds and stuff of the area up there. But it’s cool Yeah, I loved getting out there and going around through some stuff on the high desert area especially out there in October I think it’s like my favorite time of year to be out behind desert and to get to go camping and up in the area up there.
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I’ve been trying to do so it’s a few different things that I’ve been trying to detect, check out a lot of it around. Some of the stuff I was just talking about around the ipfs, interplanetary file system stuff that I’ve been thinking is pretty fun, it’s kind of cool. checking out some of these different systems that people are creating like D tube that I’ve talked about a few times d sounds dot audio is another one that I’ve been trying to publish to, which sort of has its ups and downs in some way. But then really on the other side of it, is some of the stuff that you can do just with the browser’s system, or I think right now I’m using se darious. And then there’s also the ability to, I guess, set it up from the command line or something like that. But say diria is the Orion side by siderius, I think it’s a Ryan by siderius z seemingly to be the easiest way to get an ipfs node started on your computer, Windows, Mac, or Linux, which is pretty cool. So I have mine going on a Windows 10 computer over here, I have it going on to Macintosh computers. And I’m still trying to figure out sort of how it works, I think a lot of stuff that you’re putting up is going on to your local node, and it’s being served out from there. But I was just sent out the other day just with Marina. And we like uploaded a small picture and got the hash link for it, and then opened it in the browser on her computer, and it pulled up the image file and it pulled up like an E book thing that I put up there too. So it’s pretty cool that you can find it that you can, I guess even have that built out. But really interesting out works. So I’m trying to, I guess use that a little bit more and put up a bunch of the videos and stuff that I have up there in a way where I can use it in the long term or, you know, my understanding of it is that it’s sort of persistent on the internet. And then it’ll be there distributed for a long time. If it if it gets distributed properly before, I think if it gets off my note or something like that, but I’m not even sure that really breaks it or not, I’m not sure yet, but I’m trying to figure it out. Pretty exciting stuff though, figuring out the distributed web. The other part of it I’m trying to figure out is how to do website publishing onto the distributed web. And I think there’s a few tools that are going to be in development probably right now they’re supposed to be released, maybe closer toward the end of 2019. But one that I’m checking out, well, there’s two of them. There’s the Pico CMS, which has been used, I think, on Linux for a long time to make standalone HTML, sort of CMS based bersih. html, css websites through a CMS. Well, that’s a lot of letters. There’s this other one, though, that is the one that I’m going to talk about, which is called publie. That I think is still in beta. Right now. It’s a piece of software that runs again, on Mac, Linux and Windows, I have it on my, I think on two Macs right now that I’ve been trying it out on. But there’s a few different themes. It’s a standalone program that runs on the computer, and then you can select a theme. And then you can go through and make modifications to that theme and add your content into it like pictures and whatever your posts are that you want to have add to it. And then you can preview it. And it’s just a standalone file architecture that is building like on the computer where it’s writing out the code in the CSS file is supposed to reference to so it’s working pretty well, it’s kind of cool, I’m trying to check it out a little bit and sort of see what kind of little say I could build with it. But the reason that I say all that is because standalone websites as opposed to the things that are sort of set up more like a database like WordPress that I’ve got going on, I think that maybe you could do it with WordPress, too. I’m not really totally sure about it. But from what I understand that the standalone just sort of flat HTML website is pretty easy to put up onto this distributed web that I keep talking about. So you can take that standalone file that contains the text and photos and code and stuff for your website, put it up onto your distributed web ipfs node, and then take that hash link, and then open that in any browser. And then that’ll open up whatever website content you have there. And it will show it in the browser, it’s kind of a cool idea. There’s a couple limitations to it, I guess on like updating the website, and how that works with the hash, I guess the hash remains static, related to exactly the information that was that was in the file when the hash was made. And if any data in that file has changed, a new hash would be created. And so each hash that exists
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would be specific to a certain time that that that site was uploaded and published, I guess. So there’s some way to get around that I guess by using another string of numbers or letters, the IP n s, which is supposed to kind of correct some of the the network stuff around using the file system that we’ve been talking about a little bit. But it’s kind of cool. It’s just sort of some of the development tools stuff that I’ve been thinking about. But what I’m gonna try and do is put together sort of a run through a bunch of photos We’d like a little basic portfolio thing that I could try and put together. Also, similarly, it’s ready to go site. So if it works well enough, I might try and append it to the site that I’m working on, you know, like my WordPress site. And sort of a piece that I sort of do maybe some kind of side project with maybe it’ll be like a subdomain that I set up under something something billion even photo calm as the subheading. So I can set up you know, some side project, I’ve seen people put like their photo portfolios up like that, which I could do something like that. Or I could do,
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I don’t know, just some other kind of inflammation project altogether, maybe that’d be kind of cool to do. I’m sure WordPress that everything I have kind of go in there is more than adequate to put together whatever tools I need to display on my website. But I’m trying to think of something, something kind of cool to do with this CMS program that I’ve been checking out. So it’s kinda interesting stuff I like, like getting into the habit of adding a different, like a few different things to my website to the billion human photo comm website where I haven’t really paid as much attention in the past to SEO and the schemes around SEO that you’re supposed to try and fill in when you’re putting up content on the site. So there’s like meta tags, descriptions, and all tags, title tags, I guess a lot of those focus keywords or focus key phrases, I’ve never really put much of that stuff in in the past. So I’m trying to go back through a lot of those photos and a lot of the different pages and content and add in the like links that I’ll be looking for like sitemap links, or the different pieces, sort of on the website that would help me kind of link around and make it sort of a more a more full functioning, interconnected website. That’s something I’m kind of trying to go for it. And really, I want to try and put up a lot more onto that website in a way that is more functional and sort of more fun. For me. Speaking of fun, here’s another warm pad to throw in there. But I’m trying to make my website a little bit more fun to use, and a little bit more fun for like people to go see and check out. So it’s kind of like a limited amount of content that’s out there right now. And me playing piano, I should learn some chords or something, if I’m going to do that, but but as it goes on the website, there’s like a few of the photos that I have there that are displayed well enough that I really want to up that so that the photo display is really in its most interesting and like highest level that I could probably get it to. And I think I can we can get pretty close to getting like a handful of different portfolios, this sort of Earth a couple different selections and kind of showing stuff a little better than it shows right now. And I also want to try and put up some more like business stuff, too, like shops and products that are for sale and different links out to content locations where things are a little bit more thoroughly put together. That’s sort of something I’m trying out for. But that’s all separate from the distributed web stuff that’s kind of more for fun, where it seems like only like a couple 1000 people there are using and publishing stuff to the distributed web sites right now. Like I’ve been in the tube a bunch of the day. And I’ve just been trying to like upload a bunch of the videos that I’ve had over on YouTube. So I’m just trying to cross post a bunch of those to D tube and see how it’s working. And it’s interesting to try out I really can’t tell if anybody’s seeing it because I don’t think there’s a view counter really, it showing information like someone’s viewing it or maybe sometimes it gets a comment or some some interactivity set. That’s probably some proof but just as like a regular view goes I don’t really see any information about it there. But I’m trying to look at like all the videos that are being uploaded, you can just go to a feed and it says new you know, it’s all the videos have been uploaded in the last three hours and you can just see a list of them so like on YouTube, it just be like a ridiculous flatter stuff coming in. I think like every minute they get more videos than you can watch in a year. Yeah, there’s just some ludicrous stat like that. On this one, you just see like, oh, the last hour, there’s been like four of my videos and three videos from somebody else and a few videos from some other people. So it’s still like real bare bones kind of early days, it seems like but it’s kind of fun trying to put up some videos and and try and just check out the service. Yeah, what works and also try to figure out a little bit more like how, how well it’s different than that. I just don’t understand it very well. I don’t understand how like D tube works as a decentralized location, it seems like you log in, but you log in with, like this cryptographic key that they don’t have, again, a centralized location. And I just don’t understand that like what like, it’s just, it’s just weird. How does that work? How does it like not on a server somewhere all these videos, so I put up probably like 30 videos or something on this, this D two page for my account Billy Newman. And yeah, it’s gone. Interestingly, so far, but I’m gonna try and get a bunch of those collected so that I can go around and put a put a bunch of links out in some places to maybe maybe on my website or online and some social places or something like that, too. So I can get the word out about it. But that’s also that’s what that’s the triggering of the two is that there’s really no search engine for the distributed web or there’s no directory system in within it within the distributed web to sort of see what’s interesting there. So or maybe There is an I haven’t found it yet. But it really seems that you have to go to somewhere like Reddit or some forum that’s talking about it somewhere just on the regular internet where someone’s already published, I said links to take you over to these distributed web locations. So it’s kind of interesting. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman
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Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts like this a blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode. And the
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