Park Views: Piney Branch Parkway
If you drive through Northwest Washington, DC, chances are you may have found yourself on Piney Branch Parkway, an offshoot of the more well-known Beach Drive. It’s a nice drive, but how does it measure up on foot? We’re taking a closer look in today’s Park Views.
Continue reading “Park Views: Piney Branch Parkway”Park Views: A Walk To Boulder Bridge
I walked to Boulder Bridge along Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park today. It’s one of my favorite areas of the park and gave me a great chance to mess around with my new GoPro.
Continue reading “Park Views: A Walk To Boulder Bridge”Slow TV: After-Work Music on Kennedy Street
Some slow TV this evening. A trombone player practices outdoors in the alley between Kennedy Street and Longfellow Street in Northwest Washington, DC in the late afternoon of April 22, 2021.
Nothing groundbreaking here. Just appreciating a rare moment of peaceful music in an alley more often filled with the sounds of dump trucks backing up.
There’s more where that came from. Have a relaxing night.
-Nick
A Walk at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Just a few blocks from a freeway and five miles from the U.S. Capitol sits Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens. This small, often-ignored park is one of the most unique in the DC area, and is a great choice for an afternoon of easily accessible outdoor exploring.
Continue reading “A Walk at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens”Beach Walks and Slow TV
Beach Walk Vol. 1 – Sanibel Island, Florida, April 6th, 2021.
This is a mid-morning walk down the Sanibel beach, starting in the Middle Gulf Drive area.
I think I first heard of the idea of Slow TV at a party at the apartment of my friends Kyle McKernan and Michelle Kennedy in Princeton, New Jersey, probably in 2018 or 2019. So I should thank them for putting on one of those videos of the trains traveling through Norway.
Recently, I came across Night Walk, a supremely relaxing piece of overnight filler television that kept insomniac Canadians company for seven years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is exactly what the name would imply – a first-person style camera walking or driving through the late-night streets of 1986 Toronto. The same three episodes aired every night for years, and in reality, the whole thing was designed as some sort of complicated royalties scam. But 35 years later, it still holds up. You try staying awake watching this.
With the realization that I should get a camera to document this trip, I recently purchased a GoPro Hero8 Black. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the video quality, stability, and versatility so far. I shot this with the camera mounted on my chest using this chest harness.
I find these videos very relaxing, and I hope you do too. There’s more to come – hopefully without my hands bumping into the shot so much.
Good morning.
Starting something new.