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One Day in the Desert: Special Director’s Cut

Remember last year when I went on a 24-hour fast with my church’s youth group and made a video of it? And remember earlier this year when I said that I would re-release it? Well, One Day in the Desert is back with a lot of new commentary and over 12 seconds of deleted footage. That’s right! 12.66 seconds, to be exact!

I shot the commentary scenes and put the whole thing together back in February, but it sat on the shelf because I couldn’t come up with a snappy new audio/visual logo for The World of Stuff. Stupid reason, huh? But the other day, when I was bored, I threw some old video, images, and sounds together to create a nice visual identity that’s independent of the site’s design. But who cares about that? Let’s talk about the video.

I knew I couldn’t host it on my site, because that’s crazy. For the original version of the video, that’s what I had to do, but since then, Google Video and YouTube have become popular. I considered uploading the video to YouTube, but I decided to go with my original choice of Google Video. Why? It’s simple. YouTube has size and length restrictions, and Google Video doesn’t. At over 10 minutes (11:16, to be exact), the video would have been too long to upload to YouTube from a free account.

Anyway, I don’t have much more to say than that. I will mention that going for over 24 hours without eating was quite an interesting experience, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. (That is, I didn’t become rabid or pass out or anything, like I thought I would.) But you can see how the whole thing turned out by turning up your sound and watching One Day in the Desert: Special Director’s Cut!

If the new video goes over well, maybe I’ll go into future video endeavors. After all, now I have Google Video and a cool TWoS logo.

The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, held in 1968-1969, was the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world yacht race, and it makes for a fascinating tale. One entrant had no sailing experience, one tried to cheat, one committed suicide, and one circumnavigated the globe (and then some) without accepting the prize. Ultimately, there was one winner.

How do you wrap your mind around the idea that there are 10 dimensions when most of us have a hard time grasping that there are at least four (length, width, depth, and time). Check out Imagining the Tenth Dimension to get an idea of how it all works out. Truly interesting.

One year ago: “It’s nice to know that I still get noticed.”
Two years ago: “It’s pretty creepy sitting on the quiet edge of two worlds.”