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Trail Trekkers 2008-04-05

Wholeo Blog — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:19:00 +0000

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Trail Trekkers hikes exploring our forests. Here is a report for this month. I'm one of the leaders. Please comment.

Wrinkle in Time 10th Anniversary Tribute

Wholeo Blog — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:57:00 +0000

The World Wide Panorama is sponsoring panoramas by producers around the world in the Winkle in Time 10th Anniversary Tribute. See my entry at http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp108/html/CarolingGeary.html

I give my interpretation of this randomly generated color healing on the web page. I'd like to hear your response. Please comment here as there is no way to do it on the site.

Deer Moss Diaries or Deer Lichen Blog

Wholeo Blog — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:17:00 +0000

On 2007-10-6 at the St. Joseph Bay Buffer and Aquatic Preserve Center, Florida, Rosalyn Kilcollins said that what we used to commonly call "deer moss" is now called "powder puff lichen". We saw none on the walk near the Preserves Center. On the same day at the St. Joseph Bay Preserve Deal Tract, Seth Blitch told me that the yellow forms of deer lichen are new growth of the powder puff lichen. Along the trail to the water, there are rich patches of the lichens. I saw the largest yellowish patch ever, a rectangle about 1.5' x 2.5'. The mosquitos and rain prevented me taking a photo. To see Google maps of these locations, see Preserves Center or Deal Tract. See also a recent photo and page of yellow forms of deer lichen.

2007-01-11

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:43:00 +0000

To blog or not to blog?

Is that the question? If the answer is to blog, then should I keep up this one? Or go for the Google-account, pyra-owned, new blogger? Or make my own? Of course I should make my own, since pyra can change the terms of the account at any time including dropping it or charging money for usage. However, I don't yet do database publishing so I don't have archiving or comments. So the question becomes ....

To database or not to archive? Answer is clear; archiving must happen but hasn't happened yet.

Until then, see the ongoing Wholeo Online news and history (WONH). The wonh is simplistic but reliable. It tells what is new at wholeo.net each week. To provide an outlet for my dated comments, I'll start a fake blog.

2006-12-21

Wholeo Blog — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:14:00 +0000

December 21 is the start of the Wholeo Online new year. This solstice is the 10-year anniversary of the Wholeo Online website. See What's New. And Happy Holidays!

2006-11-23

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:53:00 +0000

Movies, videos, movings, videoings, are becoming Wholeoing. This week I'm working on videos of my experiences at the Back to Nature festival that took place Oct. 20 -22, sponsored by the South Walton Community Council, located in the Emerald Coast Biogem, NW Florida, USA. Since it isn't done, I output a few teaser photos, stills, if you will. Meet the fox.

Entered ifp video - Revver Short Film Contest at http://market.ifp.org/video/index.cfm. Title: Wholeo Dome - Color and Light. See also Beyond Mountains by my astounding son-in-law.

Entered videos on Google, MySpace, Video the Vote, YouTube, and Weather Underground. Have not settled on the best format to get the highest quality output.

2006-11-16

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:01:00 +0000

Significant developments:

Video the Vote turned me into producer of a documentary,
a mysterious slow down in web delivery of large files caused me to turn to Google Video, YouTube, MySpace and even the Weather Underground,
with nothing to publish one week, out came a lone photo of a dead duck.
In honor of the publication of the Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, which I'm in, I updated the Wholeo Dome and Phyllis Birkby page.

I was late for Video the Vote. I did the work on election day, November 7, but didn't submit the video to videothevote.org until today. First I worried about a hum that I could not affect with any filter. That took a couple of days until I realized the hum was not significant on most computer speakers. Coincidently I converted to widescreen format (16:9 proportion) which required some study for processing and presentation.

Coming from a fine art perspective, I have forgotten earlier journalistic discipline and wanted to make the movie as tight and telling as possible. My newbie editing skills in Final Cut Pro did not make this quick. Finally a test file would not download from my server at any reasonable speed. That caused days' of delay. Today the speeds seem back to normal. I can't get a clear answer or picture of what went wrong. So there's no guarantee of speedy downloads. I did a page of text and graphics with the main points made in the movie.

However, the experience of being involved in a developing story on election day and communicating that story in video is great. I tend to dwell in such generalized, abstract, and unseen worlds that are so far from this down-to-earth reality. It was good for me, a refreshing breather.

The intro page is here.

2006-10-26

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:26:00 +0000

Phase 3 of the Color Healing Generator has two new nodes and an EIE layout, called EIE Circular. It was inspired by visions that came while honoring the Arcturus UV event on October 17-18.

In my Art section, I've published some art by old friends. I especially like to do this if I see they don't have much of a web presence. A year ago I received email about a painting by Carol Hoorn Fraser. The owner told the story of the purchase in 1956. Via email, I helped the owner get a decent picture of the painting that I could prepare for web publication. Finally on October 19 I made "Spring Girl" public. It was previously unknown to the CHF estate, so I provided images to John Fraser.

See also images and a slide show of close-up photos of flowers and a tour leader at the Sixth Annual Florida Panhandle Birding & Wildflower Festival, October 8th, 2006, St. Joseph Bay Preserves Center, Port St. Joe, Florida.

2006-10-05

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:00:00 +0000

World Wide Panorama (WWP) September equinox 2006

Manifest Evolution movie

Software problems

Net Neutrality

The latest WWP, theme: Transportation, opens October 9. My entry, "Rubber Hits the Wood", with supporting related material is up on wholeo.net. The photo to the right shows a reanactment of the story I imagined, inspiring my panorama.

Finished the movie, "Manifest Evolution". All that's left to do is the description of what the visions mean to me. You are welcome to your own interpretation.

Up to version 5.1.1, I had been creating movies in Final Cut Studio Pro. Upgrading to version 5.1.2 stopped that short. At least it won't work with my current movies. It might be fine for new work. That's why I finished Manifest Evolution in Adobe Flash. There are no QuickTime versions.

The Daily Show with Jon Stuart did a fine piece on Net Neutrality with the PC guy. See it on YouTube. Besides being funny, it presents the issue simply, cutting through the hype that coorporations have used all too effectively to cloud lawmakers' minds.

QuickTime 7.1.3 breaks Flash tracks

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:22:00 +0000

QuickTime 7.1.3 disables embedded QT Flash tracks by default. Previous versions enabled QT Flash tracks by default. You need to "Enable Flash" in QuickTime settings to see and hear some of my movies correctly.

I am putting warnings on the affected pages. Until that process is complete, you have no way to know. Please read the announcement and decide what to do.

2006-08-24

Wholeo Blog — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:29:00 +0000

Have you ever noticed the control you have over movies leads to deeper involvement and appreciation of the images? I enjoy stopping the movie and going back and forth through time with the arrows on my keyboard. A screen shot captures a frame. I like movies that have many such moments. Sometimes you can't see the best frame, hidden in fast movement. One such moment is in "Manifest Evolution" between the river and the bottle in the glass. The screen shot epitomizes the water into bottle on grass story. Here's another such image: at Manifest Evolution.

2006-08-17

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:25:00 +0000

Wholeo's Virtual Residency migration project, Manifest Evolution is taking forever to complete. The vision acts happened during three days in mid-2006, from July 9-11. There are notes, sketches, photos, and memories from that time. I quickly published the storyboard. Since then I've been working on the movie of the event for entry to an art show. I know there are many downsides to presenting a work-in-progress. But I feel that each week I bring the record to a state that is worth seeing, so I publish it on wholeo.net.

As a technical writer I would often send out manuals in various stages of completion. I wanted feedback. But it was hard for some people to deal with the rough material. They couldn't imagine the completion. If you are one of those who need smooth finished products, skip all these entries until I'm done.

Mastering new resources takes time too. A new Apple Cinema HD display let's me see lots more stuff on the computer screens, the better to synergize. New wireless Internet connections let me wander around with my iBook, untethered. New Final Cut Studio software provides tools to make movies, motion, soundtracks, and DVDs, not to mention the seven heavy how-to-do-it books to read. I'm trying new ways to present movies including Adobe Macromedia Flash 8, iPod, and h.264. There are so many choices, all affecting quality. So much to learn, explore, and do leaves no time for polishing or finishing. This is a time of rough cuts.

So if you are in for a Wholeo wilderness trip, follow weekly installations of Manifest Evolution.

2006-07-27

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:05:00 +0000

The Heart Fountain animation is a vision that is part of the Virtual Residency project (an online entry to an art show). See it as-is or as a design for a working fountain in colored glass and pumped water.

After an extended visit of four months, visionary work resumes. During the break, several old art works appeared at wholeo.net, as well as Little Green Corner, the June solstice entry to the World Wide Panorama. See the Wholeo Online, news and history 10 page.

2006-06-10

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:47:00 +0000

This is an issue close to my heart. Actually, it is the most important issue. If we can't communicate freely, how can we save the world? Allen Boyd represents me in the US House of Representatives. his website addresses these current issues: Memorial Day, Protect Our Coasts, Veterans, Healthcare, Offshore Drilling, and Rural America. The menu has these topics: Agriculture, Armed Forces, Budget, Education, Election Reform, homeland Security, Iraq, Medicare, and Veterans. I see no mention of Net Neutrality, the Internet, or Telecommunications. When I called his office on June 8, I was told that he hasn't announced a position on the COPE telecommunications law and is still taking public input. We urge a NO vote if it doesn't include Rep. Ed Markey's Net Neutrality Amendment. Later I learn he has voted YES along with other house members. I'm enraged at his position. Now our only hope is that Senators understand the importance of stopping this legislation.

For weeks now, I've been mostly offline, publishing old artworks. Same for today, a drawing pastel and ink, done in Monte Rio, California in 1979, called Parmenides Atomic Radiation Yoga. here's a detail from the center of the drawing.

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Save the Internet

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 12 May 2006 09:06:00 +0000

Follow these links for information on helping to save the Internet. Click the image above to see a Flash video. Click the image to the right to go to the site, savetheinternet.com, where you can get involved. Personally, for the Wholeo site to continue as it has for nine years, I need a free internet. Please do what you can to voice your support.

A good article on network neutrality is at http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/JCnetneutrality.html.

2006-03-30

Wholeo Blog — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:49:00 +0000

Added a small watercolor painting called "SoulScape of Caroling", by Melva Blick, 1981. The text explains the deep intention of the psychic artwork, which is upon contemplation to illuminate my life path.

Caroling is busy with family, so there might be breaks in publishing for the next few months.

The World Wide Panorama March 2006 event is open on April 1, with entries from around the world. See Caroling's entry here, then spin around over 200 others linked from there.

2006-March-23

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:15:00 +0000

The exact time of the March equinox is marked in vision and photograph with an interactive QuickTime VR movie called Between sundial and Xtals: intent. For photos and links, see the introduction, where you can choose a movie. There are three choices: 5MB, 2MB, and 500KB, that is, large, medium, and small. The medium movie enters a twilight zone of color.

If you have broadband Internet, fine. If you are on a slow connection, all the movies are large, so download them while you take a break of five minutes or more. There is a Macromedia Flash animation superimposed on the 360-degree panoramic photograph of a sundial in Natchez Park, Seaside, Florida. If you can't see the movies, click the link for screen shots, for some views of the content. It is about a time, place, theme, and visions, including dreamwork. The theme is "Borders" because this is an entry to the World Wide Panorama event for March, 2006, which opens on April 1. See links to all Wholeo Online entries to the WWP in the introduction. The Xtals in the visions are not mineral crystals, they are etherial psychic additions to aura.

2006-March-16

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:55:00 +0000

Seeing President Bush offer business deals in nuclear arms to India confirmed that "the American people" he befriends are his business associates. I support Senator Russ Feingold and Rep. John Conyers, Jr. as leaders to help us avoid becoming like this week's Wholeo Online offering, a photo of road kill, the pelican returning to dust.

2006-March-09

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:00:00 +0000

Simply some waves at Deer Lake State Park, Florida, USA.

2006-March-02

Wholeo Blog — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:43:00 +0000

For the date title/heading, will put the month in as a word instead of a number, for clarity. Some people have trouble following the ISO standard date format (YYYY-MM-DD, 2006-03-02).

Created Lights of Mind, Blessings, a Flash movie composite of early works, with a new sound track featuring the voices of possibility.

2006-02-23

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:27:00 +0000

Created Elobeing Traces to EIE all, including all the previous four clips in the series, updated plus credits, shown here.

The words possibility, perception, language, action, and consciousness are the keys to the evolutionary aspects of Traces, expressed in voice, feelie sensors, background graphics, elemental traces, and EIE. I say the Elobeing is evolving from Gaia beings, to include human and all other beings.

Added a photo report of a Move On candlelight meeting" under the title "Consitutional Vigil: Witness to Lawbreaking", protesting illegal wiretapping and unchecked presidential power.

Last week added A Healing Dream dreamwork, which was first published in WomanSpirit magazine, Summer Solstice, 1978.

2006-02-09

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:05:00 +0000

Opened a page for my impressions of Seaside, Florida, starting with stalking the Seaside sundial.

Wholeo Online is now using the ISO standard format for dates: YYYY-MM-DD. See the announcement.

2 February 2006

Wholeo Blog — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:40:00 +0000

Activist by necessity, for the Internet, a lake, and vestiges of visions.
Keep our super-highway open and free, just like our bridges, streets, and sidewalks. A good place to start is with this article on the Center for Digital Democracy site, http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/JCnetneutrality.html. Then click the link to "Free Press: Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now", which has a secure connection to submit a letter to congresspeople expressing your concerns. Our concerns. I believe this concerns all of us.

Another topic closer to my home is work to preserve a rare coastal dune lake. I'm helping the Eastern Lake Neighborhood Association with a web presence. I'll have links when we get it together.

The vision continues the series of movies, Macromedia Flash 8 animations really, about Elobeing elements as traces. In this third offering, traces begin forming banners. The post on 19 January 2006 introduces the series.

Contining the mission to help people upgrade to Flash 8 and be able to see the wonders of its movies, I added a screening screen to the beginning of the movie. It doesn't blindly detect. It asks if you can see triangles, which are only visible with the 8 plug-in. If not, I suggest that you upgrade.

26 January 2006

Wholeo Blog — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:45:00 +0000

Back up. Stop. Reconsider. I needed a new strategy to help people see Macromedia Flash 8+ movies. My new movies use beautiful drawing features of Flash version 8. Older Flash plug-ins play the movies without the new colors and shapes, so they look like ghostly caricatures of themselves. But the user doesn't know. Flash detection is to write the page code to try to trap non-8 users. Flash detection fails if it doesn't cover all possibilities and will fail over time as it becomes outdated. The only sure way is for you, the user to compare content. I ask if the movie contains colors and shapes like a sample. I put this page up front, here, as an introduction to the series of Elobeing element traces. I plan to embed this test within the movies themselves.

It is sad that some people can't get the plug-in, although it is free and easy to install. For example, my public library. It doesn't enable librarians to do this simple task. It hires an outside consultant, who apparently does not respond to user requests and doesn't see the value inherent in upgrading software that comes installed on the new computer. My choice is for the long run. In a few years, this content will be fully supported, and even ancient history.

The Visions poster is for a class held almost 30 years ago. "Come, have, and record visions", was the call. They came and did -- here are eight student works. I was amazed, delighted, inspired, and deeply encouraged that given a focused context, the intention to envision is so fruitful.

19 January 2006

Wholeo Blog — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:38:00 +0000

Sound is coming with the Elobeing traces. First they were musing, now coming in. Last week musing increased. This week's coming is a continuation of the series, moving into lighter lyric color and elementing space. Whatever elementing means, you can see it with more traces in more spaces. The sound is all voice (with bells on), inspired by the movie, giving audible sense of imaginary events.