Showing posts with label Burro Mesa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burro Mesa. Show all posts

A Batch of US-Mexico Border Mini Travel Clips

Just posted a batch of what I call "mini travel clips," that is, super brief videos, nothing fancy (taken with my iPhone), but edited and with audio—in these, by that jaw-droppingly prolific clangy-bangy soundmaestro of Bridport, U.K., Ergo Phizmiz.


FAR WEST TEXAS MINI CLIPS


Casa Piedra Road, Far West Texas 

(with a view of a fire in Mexico)
(1:06)




> Listen in anytime to my podcast. "A Visit to Swan House." Swan House, a unique adobe teaching house inspired by the legacy of Egypt's greatest architect, Hassan Fathy, is on Casa Piedra Road.


> Read my article in Cenizo Journal, "A Visit to Swan House."



Over Burro Mesa and Into Apache Canyon 

(Big Bend National Park)
(1:06)



> Listen in anytime to my "Marfa Mondays" podcast, "Over Burro Mesa / The Kickapoo Ambassadors"


> Read the essay, "Over Burro Mesa."



Pecos River Crossing (Highway 90, near the US-Mexico border)

(:41)
West of the Pecos is Far West Texas. The end of the video is a gaze south into Mexico.






And I did some slight edits on a video I had posted a few weeks ago, Descent into Eagle Canyon (:53), near Langrty, Texas Eagle Canyon flows into the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border.





> Listen in anytime to "Gifts of the Ancient Ones: Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands."



AND AWAYS YONDER WEST


Finally, almost the border (well, a two hour drive) is Joshua Tree National Park in California (2:24). Herewith my mini travel clip of that:





> More mini travel clips here and

> Mini clips of Far West Texas (apropos of my book-in-progress) here.

> Watch Ergo Phizmiz starring in "I Am the Music Man," a video by Martha Moopette.





>Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

Marfa Mondays #14: Over Burro Mesa / The Kickapoo Ambassadors

Just posted #14 of a projected 24 podcasts for the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project, Exploring Marfa, TX & the Big Bend: "Over Burro Mesa / The Kickapoo Ambassadors." 

Listen in any time.




This podcast mentions Wilhelm Knechtel's book, Memorias del Jardinero de Maximiliano, translated by Susanne Igler. There's more about that on my other blog, the research blog on Mexico's French Intervention / Second Empire, "Maximilian-Carlota."

The next podcasts will be:
#15 an interview with rock art expert Greg Williams; and 
#16 an interview with photographer Paul Chaplo about his new book, Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country. 

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P. S. Check out Chaplo's show at the Museum of the Big Bend until January 18, 2015.

COMMENTS always welcome.

















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