cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Jim recently lamented the loss of media from blip.tv citing maybe the most insanely great presentation ever done in Second Life with flamethrowers and zombies– a presentation Jim , Tom Woodward, and Brian Lamb crafted for the 2008 NMC Virtual Symposia on Rock […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine After not traveling at all from mid June to late September, I went on a spree, traveling from October 6 to November 8 and then tacking on another 5 days of visitor from the UK. This included stops in Fairbanks Alaska, Eldersburg MD, […]
It’s time to swan dive back into ds106, I seem to have lost by absence note for the last six weeks. But here, at the tail end of video week comes something more massive than a MOOC, a ship that sails like no other, and for which no iceberg will generate a plot: This is […]
Tomorrow marks 6 weeks since I have had my feet up on the rail at home; and finally perched again, it might was well have been 6 months. Unlike previous travels, I made little time for blogging (the photos were regular), I sloughed off on doing Headless ds106 work, and now I am bewildered by […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I am so excited to open the package from Andy Mckiel. I had seen his photos of arbutus trees, and commented about the similarity of the arbutus I had seen in BC cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine with the manzanita […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3gFPbUCDE UPDATE: Nov 5, 2013 It took ’em less than a week to say “Sorry Charlie” (I got my short “thanks for all the fish” message)– I am not surprised, as I did not feel this idea was really that big or even coherent. What might be a better backdrop for a shaky hand held […]
Without a doubt, the Mozilla Festival held last week in London was the most atypical conference I have ever attended. It was sensory overload, frenetic, lot of caffeine and rah rah, and more. See if you can find me, Waldo… cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Mozilla in Europe But mostly, it […]
Our Four teams of #headless #ds106 participants have really earned their crowns, as we saw heard Tuesday night when we premiered live on ds106 radio the productions of The Merry Hacksters, The 3Ts, the JunioRS, and the Dusky Path of a Dream Team. You can catch another premiere, the UK version hosted by John Johnston […]
Two summers ago I posted audio of my cousin Lorrie’s telling of her family story growing up a part of a carnival act. Her Dad, Billy Outten, was famous for his high dives, and the whole family (Lorries parents and her sister) performed as well. Outten’s big act was a “double fire dive” where he lit his pants on fire at 110 feet and dove through a lit hoop below into a 6 foot tank.
I’d heard these stories before and was glad to have Lorrie allow me to record them in audio. The pictures on that blog post where shots I made at her house in Wyoming of some of the articles about her Dad.
The story gets really interesting when they found out that a MovieTone clip of her Dad was used in the movie The Right Stuff (where they sought out the characteristics of dare devils).
After that July 2011 post I did get an appreciative email from a man who said he remembered seeing the act and that his father was a photographer at one of the parks where Lorrie’s family performed. Just last week, Ed posted an exciting comment to the blog post:
A couple years ago I emailed you about my father being the photographer for West View Park, when Billy Outten and family performed there. All his photographs were assumed lost, when he passed. However, my nephew found a bunch of photographs that my sister (now deceased) placed in storage, and he scanned them and posted them on a web page. (Private).
I downloaded about 8 photographs that were taken at West View Park (outside of Pittsburgh, Pa), that had to be from the late 40″²s or early 50″²s. If you want copies of these, let me know and I’ll be glad to send them to you.
Needless to see, my cousing was excited when she saw these photos. Below are the ones Ed sent. I’m eager to hear Lorrie tell me what she remembers or identifies in them, but just for now, the serendipity just makes me giddy.
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine During my weeklong visit to Fairbanks Alaska I was fortunate to have met and been asked for a podcast interview with Chris Malmberg, who does this “Digital Beards” series for the University of Alaska Fairbanks eLearning and Distance Education group. Here I am […]
