Here is a 12 second clip of a magnificent bolt of lightning I happened to catch yesterday while out doing some filming.
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Posted 12 July 2008
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Here goes a cool series of photos taken last evening on a Quake Lake boating excursion. The disturbances in the water’s surface are action shots of rising trout, like a fisherman’s dream.
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Posted 09 July 2008
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Well, we’ve arrived at episode #20, the grand finale goal for Goatsilk’s Daily Treasure’s project. 20 days of treasure hunting, 20 rapid-fire videos with accompanying e-bay auctions. We’ve been heartened (and surprised!) at how many of Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures have sold on e-bay.
We found this severed deer leg and challenged ourselves to make it [...]
In Charles Bukowski’s word’s - one out of every hundred broken shoe laces puts someone in the nut house. Lighting matches in the outdoors is no different. Out on the hunt for Goatsilk’s daily treasure earlier today we found a matchbook stripped clean, tucked under a campfire rock and oddly preserved in an old zip-loc. Turns out to have been at one time redeemable for a collectible edition Tonga Banana stamp, and also carries on it a bizarre piece of scrawl telling someone they were “going to be dealt with.” But instead it was nature that did the dealing with.
Here is an astonishing clip I shot a few days ago while driving along quake lake in light snow flurries. It’ s a group of big horn rams involved in some strange dynamic: they appear to be hostile but also trying to hump each other. Clip starts in black and white and switches to some color footage shot through the windshield of my truck. Classic Silkblog wildness!
Exquisite new footage of bluebird chicks only hours after hatching. These little guys hatched from the beautiful eggs shown last week in THIS post) Amazing to watch their almost featherless bodies squirm in contest for the warmth of the middle. This is a picture of life, raw and tender enough to break your heart.
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Posted 08 June 2008
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We took a jaunt up to Bozeman today to pick up my brother at the airport. It was stormy on the way back down 191 but there was crazy wildlife. The spring season is indeed the ripest, the rivers full, animals are out in droves, everything fresh, raw, biting. We stopped a couple times to take pics. This moose walking along the Gallatin river is majestic, but watch to the end of the clip to see a trio of Big Horn Rams stand stoic then make a hillside dash through the trees. Strong gothic beasts! The footage of the rams was taken almost at night with the aperture and shutter way open, thus the grain/ blur. Still pretty cool.
For the next 2 months, keep an eye out for “Daily Treasures” posts. These are part of a project that we’re kicking off today where we put up for auction (on ebay) various found objects we discover on the land surrounding the cabin we’re currently staying in. We want to see if we can reinvigorate these forgotten items with some meaning, enough perhaps to make someone bid on, buy, and care for them again. Also we find this endeavor ripe for the type of humor we like. Have a look at our first episode, then click HERE to view the ebay auction for this antique excavated pepsi bottle. Happy bidding!
These are perfect eggs. Perfect color, perfect layout, perfect shape. They were laid by God.