Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life

Last week end I had a chance to make a presentation at BarCamp Brisbane. BarCamp is basically a geekfest, where pasty technophiles talk about stuff like code optimisation etc. Things that I know nothing of but since starting down this path of learning about the interwebs and how it works to produce content I’ve realised that I need to mix with those that know a lot more than me. For that reason I’ve taken a keen interest in twitter in particular as it is my conduit to all things informative and changing in this world that I’m learning.

Because of twitter friends and being involved in putting together a couple of twitter meetups I was invited to attend so I chose to speak.

My presentation was basically about what I’m doing here and how challenging the technology is and to thank all the geeks out there for producing the things that enable me to do this. Most of all I wanted to encourage them to continue to progress the tools to make it easier to produce what we’re really here for, Content!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve given any form of presentation and I enjoyed weaving a story of the struggles of this technology and how with perseverance it’s possible to overcome the issues but most of all it was good for me to tell what I’m doing and to sound out if there is an interest in Your Story

I would not be here doing this if it wasn’t for all those super bright geeks working late into the night living on pizza & coke getting off on what I’d be brain dead attempting. So I’d just like to say thank you to all of you for helping to give the rest of the world these amazing tools that enable us to generate things like Your Story.

You’ve given me more than you will ever appreciate.

Thanks

 

 Your Story Ep 17 [22:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode 17 of Your Story.

Today we talk with Craig Longhurst who I met recently in a short discussion one night with friends over a beer.

Craig showed intense passion for racing Sidecars of which I know nothing about but I found out that he is also into building Cafe Racers along with his work as a fitter repairing large turbines used in power generation throughout Australia.

Craig giving us a small insight into the world of heavy engineering and the passion that some have for building things that they can use to move them in some of the most exciting ways. These are the mechanical trades.

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 Your Story Addendum Ep 4 [4:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode 4 of Your Story Addendum.

Well the trip and testing of my method is over and I’m on my way home to Brisbane.
What I’ve learnt is that I can do this and that I have a lot of support from people as I travel to help me. I’m a little surprised that when I mention the idea that I’m collecting stories everyone seems to think it’s a great idea, which is heartening as I think it’s a good idea as well but I’m being utterly self indulgent with this show so I don’t necessarily think others will rock with the idea. Surprisingly they often do.

I need to continue to get faster at the post production of the episodes as I’ve found that I can spend a huge amount of time on the tiding up of the audio and I still don’t have it any where the standard that I want to eventually get to. I’d like if possible to be able to spend no more than twice the audio recording time in post production if I can. At the moment I’m probably spending about four times as long in post. Hopefully I’ll just get faster.

As I’ve mentioned before I don’t have much experience at travelling and this trip was to get me familiar with it again. That has worked brilliantly and it was a good idea to do it in a local but unfamiliar city rather than waiting until I get to Berlin and have the additional issues of culture and language.

So Melbourne went well. I’m a bit behind in getting the episodes out so I’ll attempt to get them out in the next week. Then I need to get the last of the things organised for the Eurodessy which is only five weeks away.

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On my way from The Victoria Markets where I got a few things for the trip like European power adapters and a light weight tripod I was walking past The Workshop, a very cool bar built above an old Mechanics workshop and decided to drop in for a quick drink.

On the spare of the moment I decided to make this seesmic video.

I’m now off to the state library to see Ned Kelly’s armour.…

End of the Melbourne Trip 

 

 Your Story Ep 16 [58:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode Sixteen of Your Story.

In 1979 I was training to become a Parachuting and Skydiving Instructor under the guidance of Claude Gillard. At the time Claude was president of the Australian Parachute Federation with already 20 years experence in the sport going back to it’s very beginning in Australia in 1959. Claude has seen the sport develop from an intentional form of aircraft bale out, to the development of the extreme activities with tandems, wing suits and high speed canopies that we have today.

Being involved in both the training, commercialisation, and administration of individual clubs and the development of the Australian Parachute Federation, Claude has seen parachuting from the very beginning as President of the APF for over 30 years.

Within all human activities there is are few rare people who see this activity from inception to maturity. Claude within parachuting and skydiving is one of these fortunate and rare individuals and within his experiences are the timeline of the development of Skydiving.

There are some specific people I know that I look forward to bringing to you on Your Story, Claude is up there as one of the most important to reflect on his life that I know.

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