First SeattleIAM.com Videos

My first two SeattleIAM.com videos are up today. Here and here (or you can just watch them below). I'm not that happy with the Streets For People one, besides the fact that I hate hearing my own voice... it just feels like it's missing something. It needs a stronger central character, or something, I don't know what exactly. The other one (David Montgomery) is much simpler and I think came out much better, although it's probably less interesting to most people.

Seen in Spain

For those of you that don't want to sift through all of my pictures that I posted on Flikr, of my trip to Spain,  here's some highlights of what you're missing.

Dumb Shirt

You can take the monorail to the Kentucky Governors Cup?  -- Seen in a Barcelona clothes store.

Cadaques

Cadaques - a perfect little coastal town.  And yes, I was standing on the water to take this picture.

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia - crazy looking gothic cathedral that's been under construction since the early 1900s.

Carrer de la Portaferrissa

A street with no cars?! that's crazy talk.

La Rambla

La Rambla - more like a highway with no cars.

poop

There was lots of poop on the sidewalks, and it smelled like it a little too often for my taste.

Tapas!

La Rambla-ized Pike Street

My post over at CHS has really taken off!  Lots of comments, and other feedback via email and at my.greatcity.org, and they just posted it on the Seattle Great City Initiative homepage.  This was my first post as an "independent journalist" for CHS, so it was a good start!  You can expect me to be posting more frequently over there from now on.  Been really busy with work at Morgan Howard Productions and working on some videos for SeattleIAM, so I haven't had time to start a new CHS-V, but hopefully will do that soon.  In the meantime I'm just really excited to be officially writing and producing for CHS.  Story ideas anyone?

Kung Fu Joe Poster

This is a movie I co-edited (along with director Glen Berry) and AC'd on (assistant camera).  We shot last summer in Bellingham and it's almost finished.  WEBSITE

Hola From Espana

OK Well I guess I lied about the updates... I haven't been twittering or facebooking hardly at all, and now I'm updating my blog, oh well.

Cadaques, Catalunia, Spain

We're back in Barcelona now after a short road trip up north to Figueres, Cadaques, Perpignan, Girona, and Tossa De Mar. The best city we've stopped at so far is definitely Cadaques (see pic). It was exactly the kind of small coastal town I was hoping we'd see. It seemed like it was pretty much the same as it would've been a couple hundred years ago, no modern hotels or anything. The next day we tried to go into France (Perpignan), but once we got there we realized that a) it didn't seem much different then Spain, and b) we don't speak French at all. We ate some crepes and quiche at a nice little bakery, where the rude cashier/ server lady made us realize how little French we actually knew, so we decided that was enough of a France experience for us and we went back into Spain. We ended up in Girona, where we drove around for at least 2 hours trying to find our hostel. Girona is a really old medieval city, with lots of really narrow and confusing streets, so by the time we had found our hostel I pulled an Austin Powers style U turn in a pedestrian filled walk-way that I'm still not sure if cars are supposed to be on, we drove through a medieval passageway that was probably a foot wider than our car, and I'm sure we irritated a lot of locals.  We made it eventually, but ended up in a really nice family-owned hotel that was built in the 14th century and was about 50 yards away from the Catedral de Girona, instead of the cheap hostel we were looking for, which turned out to be closed. That was the day before yesterday, and now we're back in Barcelona with 5 more days to go. We're having a great time, taking lots of pictures and video, but due to technical difficulties they probably wont be online until we get back home (that picture of Cadaques is one I found online). Adios!