Posted By zenlogic on June 23, 2009

http://zenlogic.blip.tv/

For a while now I have been doing some small vids for You Tube, a few knife and gear reviews and such, but have been really unhappy with the time limit it imposes, 10 minutes is not enough to do a decent job of it. So, I have been looking for a new place to post my vids at, checked out several places, but none of them really worked, vimeo, myspacetv, a few others, but today I think I found the place, Blip.tv.

It will take movies over the ten minute mark and it is free, It lets people comment and lets me do just about anything I want to do.

It has a fair terms of use and copyright policy and tries to keep it clean, from what I can see. It uses the creative commons license and seems like it will work just fine.

However, they use advertising to fund themselves, you can chose not to have ad’s on your channel, but what that does to your vid and ratings, I don’t know. I did chose to show Ad’s at the end of my vid. But I have not seen one yet. We will see. They do a profit sharing thing with the ad’s, just go to the site and read about if you want to know more. I am just using it because they let me have longer then ten minutes. If I make something off it, cool, if it becomes a problem, I can just turn it off. Done.

I did Google blip.tv, and saw no negative reviews on the first page, I used the term, blip.tv reviews. Which bodes well.

An other thing however, is the videos on blip look way more professorial then mine, I will have to work on that, I can see. Probably do a intro and outro and keep in the format of a tv variety/adventure/documentary show-type thing. Well it at least gives me more to do.

So without further ado, here is the link to my first upload at Blip.tv.

http://zenlogic.blip.tv/

Here is the description I tacked on to the vid.

This is a short vid showing all that is publicly accessible of the old faribault state hospital tunnel system. I have been told about a other tunnel further up the trail, however it is bricked in, apparently because it leads back under the now new state prison. This is what I have heard, the old state hospital had a extensive tunnel system for patient movement in inclement weather and moving goods and supplies around, also, I understand, the hospital was connected to the school for the deaf and other places, IE; doctors houses and warehouses, hospitals and maybe the college. All these tunnels are gone now or backfilled or bricked in, some are still there and accessible under the old buildings, but those are under the control of the state prison system, which took over the site a few years after it closed, of which commonsense tells me to stay well away from. Oh-well, Maybe someday.

So a new start on a new vid site, I would like to cover blacksmithing, bush crafting, life, edc gear and knife reviews, books, just about anything, life in general.

Well we will see how this works, as usual I have great goals, but come up short on delivery, sorry guys, Later zenlogic.

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Posted By zenlogic on April 13, 2009

I have some new vids up, over on my You Tube Channel;

http://www.youtube.com/edwyrd

have a look and have a great day.

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Posted By zenlogic on April 8, 2009

I found some time to get out to my blacksmith shop today; we had organized and set it up about three weeks ago on that really nice 68 degree day, (Minnesota) remember that?

Any how, I have this freestanding portable forge, but the dam think weighs like 90 pounds, lifting it was always fun. Picking it up, carrying it out the door to the forge area, setting it down, forging, waiting for it to cool off and then doing it all over again when I was done. I really wanted to put wheels on it or something to make it even more portable.

Well; I have had this old Weber gas grill that was rusted out in the fire pot, all that was left was the frame, still in great shape, the powder coat holding up nicely, two wheels on the front, nice inch and quarter square metal tubing.

It should work just fine. I disassembled the forge and set the forge pot on the frame, yup, as I thought, works just fine, nice and sturdy and doesn’t wiggle a bit when I crank the fan. So I wired it on (wired it because I did not want this permanent), and put some shelves on (these will get a covering of some cheap tin, in a few days, as soon as I get some.) and there you go. The Weber Forge.

Now it really is portable, just lift the one end and push it around. All I need to do now is figure a way to put wheels on the anvil and I am all set.

However, I can see I will have to get two new lawn mower wheels and work up a straight through axle for it, the way it is set now, those plastic Weber wheels will not last.

So; here are a couple of pictures and I put a short vid up on my “You Tube” channel?

http://www.youtube.com/edwyrd

Well thanks for the look-see and have a great day, later – Zenlogic.

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