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.
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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.
Welcome to The Road Goes On Forever
Getting started can be the hardest part of doing anything. After that initial push, inertia can take over and you can truck along on a little energy and a lot of momentum. Right now, I’m still on the initial push, in more ways than one.
In less than five months, if all goes according to plan, my girlfriend Morgan and I will set out on an RV trip through all 48 contiguous US states. Conservatively, this will take 18 months, but two years seems like a more likely timeframe. After all, there’s still so much we don’t know that we don’t even know we don’t know. But after five months of working in earnest on an idea we decided on less than a year ago, there’s at least a sense that it’s a thing that can be done.
For the past few months, I’ve been writing in a way I haven’t in years, or really since I was in college. It’s been a nice feeling realizing I can still put together words in a way people enjoy, and in a way that can make me enough money to keep a roof over my head. It’s also made me realize that, for once, I’ll soon be doing things people might actually be interested in seeing and knowing about. I’ll be posting some of that here, along with videos, pictures, travel updates and content, and more.
I can’t say there’s a real plan for what this site will be. Check back now and then and we’ll figure it out together.
Nick Pisano
Good morning.
Starting something new.