Meanwhile, Sloshing Somewhere Nearby...
Like June, August has been quite dry and dusty. So it was odd to look up from the garden as the sun rose yesterday morning (planting the fall tomatoes) and notice the foamy and beligerent river rising up.
When I was through planting, I wandered down to see what was up. It was the Brazos, of course, and it was 10 feet higher than the evening before.
Today, it had risen nearly 22 feet in less than 48 hours, obliterating the sandy beach we’d begun to take for granted, covering willows closest to the water, and sending big tree chunks downriver.
I watched a great blue heron float by on a log, enjoying the rare opportunity to take in a show without flapping.
A check with the U.S. Weather Service showed Waco, a few hundred miles away, had experienced a major storm and flooding bad enough that someone died in the mess. The Brazos went up and over its banks at some of the towns up that way, and the rainstorm run-off made its way down here in two days. Predictions are that the river will be up, swirling and dangerous to be around for two days more.
→ B.Dunn, Aug 14, 2005, 12 27 pm
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Los Brazos de Dios: Remix
Update: While it's still bad, I did a remix, and applied a black matte to most of the frames, with about the same effect as applying lipstick to a pig. Still, it's an improvement.This little 2:20 video experiment was as much an exercise in frustration as anything.
The intent was to apply video transitions and overlapping audio tracks in a way that caused the viewer to try to assemble a single story line from the jumble of parts.
The problems began when the levels on one or the other of the audio tracks were set too high, causing speaker crackle. I think I resolved that issue, however, each time I went back to re-do the audio, I couldn't stop myself from fiddling with video transitions, or tweaking this or that clip. I finally managed to put so many transitions over other transitions that the video output now includes vertical black bands at most of the transition points.
There may be a way to edit them out but, as is probably obvious, I am not adept in the ways of Adobe Premier. It's not my favorite program, either.
After fiddling with this thing for hours, I'm tossing it out there as a flawed experiment that still, I think, manages to hold some potential viewer interest.
You decide.
The footage is confined to 100 yards or so of the Brazos River running behind our house. The musical track was written and produced by the multi-talented Steve Scallion, an artist, cartoonist and musician who churns out his creations from an amazing digital studio deep in the Arkansas backwoods.
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