http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org Films of Milt Lee Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:10:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the last piece on our first summer of blueberry farming.  With the help of Rick Baird, Jamie's brother, we got our rabbit fence up - literally minutes before we left to come back home for the winter.  It was a sad time, but it was also joyous to ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/08/blueberry-chronicles-rabbit-proof-fence/ Just before we left, I asked Jamie to do a little piece on her favorite blueberry patch.  Now as you may know, blueberry patches are very, very secret, and to let you in on where her's is - is really an amazing act of trust.  But just to make sure ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/08/blue-berry-baby/ Part of homesteading has to be water management. I mean - you can't take a bath in the lake every single day, and the truth is - building fences, remodeling houses and gathering wood can really be a "strong" experience - if you catch my whiff. So it ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/08/homesteading-the-shower-house/ After we got the logs, we had to get them on the land. So here it is. And some more information about what kind of logs we are using. I have several more pieces ready to go too - one on our outdoor shower, one more tour of the land ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/07/homesteading-in-minnesota-unloading-the-logs/ We bought our logs the other day.  I was truly amazed at what Ken Gerke could do with a front end loader.  Now we are still playing with the design but at least we have the logs for us to use. http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/07/homesteading-getting-the-logs/ This is for my buddy Dana, who built his own place in Show Low AZ.  Jamie and I are a few years behind, but hopefully we can learn from his successes.  So this piece is really just for Dana, but you can watch it if you want. http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/07/tour-de-land/ It's been a while since I posted the Blueberry chronicles.  Actually, the plants are all in and really doing fine, but here's the second part of the saga of getting the patch ready, and the plants in the ground.  It was a real family affair with Jamie's brother's and nephews ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/07/blueberry-chronicles-part-deux/ Hey, this summer nights downtown is getting to be so much fun.  Last Thursday, we went down and were dancing.  Everybody loved it, and really, we did to.  So as we were walking back to our car, we ran into these folks.  They were totally into their drumming, and so ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/jamie-dancing/ Last week, I was lucky to be able to attend SilverDOCS film festival and conference in Silver Spring, MD.  Jamie and I spent the week in Silver Spring, where there were over 100 documentary films, and a five day conference on documentary film making.  One of the events that I ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/silverdocs-national-minority-consortia/ Folks, you may or not know about our international peace project - The Bead People. Jamie started by making a few bead people - then she realized that there was a story there - so she wrote - The Wind of a Thousand Years. Over the last ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/spanish-bead-people/ In Rapid City South Dakota, we are trying to get folks to spend more time downtown - a familiar issue for lots of small towns.  The other night we went to event and ran into an old friend, Fred Thurston, an architect that loves to work on restoring old buildings.  ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/summer-nights-rapid/ After spending our first night on the land, we had to wait a day until the blueberry plants showed up, but when they did, we needed to decide on a place to put them.  Originally we thought about an old garden plot that Jamie's grandmother had, but after reading about ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/blueberry-chronicles-the-plot/ We've begun a long awaited adventure.  We are creating a homestead in Northern Minnesota, Cass Lake Minnesota, to be exact.  This is the first of many posts that I'll be doing as we move along.  Since we shot this, we actually got our first batch of blueberry plants planted.  Jamie ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/06/the-blueberry-chronicles/ Folks,  here's a piece that introduces you to Show in A Box.  What is Show in A Box?  It's a bunch of plug-ins for Wordpress that makes your video look great on the web.  Originally designed as a monolithic plug-in that you down load and install, it has evolved over ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/05/show-in-a-box/ We went to a wonderful workshop last week with Dr. Ed Zlotkowski from Bentley College in Boston. Ed is the senior faculty fellow at Campus Compact, an organization that promotes Service Learning. This piece is a short clip of Ed talking about "Kolb's learning cycle" and why ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/05/neurogenocide/ I used to be a stage manager, and that meant that I was also a stage hand. I don't do it much anymore, but it's fun to keep you hand in. A week ago or so, I did the "in and the out" for Chicago when it came ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/05/chicago-to-rapid/ I've been doing Jin Shin Jyutsu for the last 10 years, and I can honestly say that it has been the one thing that has kept me healthy.  It's really amazingly simple to do, but when you study it, you realize that it is the study of a life time.  ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/05/main-central/ About a month ago, my son, Murray, asked me to shot some stuff of him getting back to his mountain bike. We did some really fun things - but mostly it was his bike riding - along with his wife, Linda, that really make this piece. I had ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/05/fat-tire-fat/ So Wednesday night we had a really nice spring thunder storm.  But then on Friday morning, it started again, and by the end of the day, there was 15 inches of snow in th middle of the state.  Jamie was speaking  at the South Dakota History conference - doing a ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/04/crazy-spring-weather/ Last week I attended the Rapid City School Board meeting. They were planning on cutting many of the academic programs designed to help people with reading, math, gifted and talented. And of course their big mistake was they included grade school band and orchestra. Amazing how short ... http://hollowbonefilms.manykites.org/2008/04/school-bored-oh-yeah/