Testing Camera Gear on Peters Creek Trail

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[0:00] hello humans I finally shaved and cut my
[0:03] hair I'm so
[0:04] happy um it is Saturday it's 1: in the
[0:07] afternoon it is 87° out already it's
[0:10] going to be '90s in the '90s all week
[0:12] long I probably should have put reflects
[0:15] up on my windows before I left but I
[0:16] didn't I did kind of set it up though to
[0:18] where I think we might be okay it got
[0:20] very hot yesterday though it was like 85
[0:22] in there in the late
[0:23] afternoon anyways we're going to go for
[0:25] a hike um somewhere we've been before I
[0:27] forget the exact name but it's like
[0:29] Peters Creek tra I think um where the
[0:31] school bus is at I found out that there
[0:33] used to be a bridge that crossed the
[0:34] river and that's probably how the bus
[0:36] got there it's been there since the 60s
[0:38] the bridge
[0:39] collapsed um it's kind of hearsay though
[0:42] I could tell this person wasn't 100%
[0:44] sure but that's what they thought about
[0:47] it um we're going to test out some new
[0:49] gear I finally got a new backpack I am
[0:53] kind of Jerry rigging a way of putting
[0:57] my GoPro on the strap so we're going to
[1:00] try that I might have to experiment with
[1:02] that a little uh I was using it
[1:04] yesterday with oh I also do have um a
[1:07] had head Mount that I can put on if I
[1:09] need
[1:10] to um but I want to try to get it onto
[1:13] my backpack uh because I also have a
[1:17] portable battery that I'm plugging it
[1:19] into yesterday it kept um shutting off
[1:23] uh I think it might be related to heat
[1:25] and batteries generate heat so if you
[1:27] use an external Source it might help
[1:29] also I was using 60 frames per second as
[1:32] one of the settings and I guess that can
[1:35] be a factor so we're going to put that
[1:37] down to 30 and see how it looks it's not
[1:39] my best camera I do have um I think it's
[1:42] called a Panasonic Lumia or Lumix I
[1:45] can't remember which and we're going to
[1:47] experiment with that I did talk with AI
[1:49] about that
[1:51] yesterday it does have like like
[1:53] settings for basic users who are getting
[1:56] used to this stuff and then you can kind
[1:58] of ramp up your skills over time I
[1:59] didn't it today but we're going to see
[2:01] if I can figure out a way of putting
[2:03] that into my new backpack so that it's
[2:05] secure and I can just use it when I want
[2:07] to we're experimenting until um we come
[2:10] up with a system that works so let's
[2:19] [Music]
[2:21] go well it's in 4k 60fps right now and
[2:26] it's not pointing
[2:28] directly want to put it on my
[2:30] strap we going experiment with that one
[2:33] the Trail's right up
[2:35] here let's try something
[2:49] here I think I
[2:51] have
[2:54] another um Vice that's
[2:56] smaller I couldn't find it
[3:00] I think this will be better
[3:02] though like
[3:04] that and we're experimenting because we
[3:06] have to find out if um it will shut
[3:09] down um randomly
[3:13] and how shaky it is if you can hear me
[3:16] breathing
[3:17] hard all that kind of
[3:20] stuff so we are
[3:23] off today is just an experiment we're
[3:25] going to go check out the bus down
[3:28] there and then and I want to get some
[3:31] new footage of that for my Alien X
[3:35] Channel I already featured it on there
[3:37] once but when I took video of it back
[3:40] then I didn't know what I
[3:43] was you know I didn't even have that
[3:45] channel yet so I didn't I wasn't
[3:48] thinking like a cinematographer I guess
[3:50] you could
[3:51] say
[3:53] videographer kind of think that way a
[3:55] little bit now I do take video of things
[3:58] and think about how I might use
[4:02] them it's been fun I enjoy that it's a
[4:05] new hobby I
[4:10] guess do wish the weather was not so hot
[4:13] like I'm definitely not coming back here
[4:15] next summer I want to be in cooler
[4:18] weather wherever I
[4:21] am can control the GoPro from my phone
[4:24] which is pretty cool using
[4:26] Bluetooth and it shows it's recording
[4:31] no preview though I thought it had a
[4:33] preview
[4:40] feature okay I don't think
[4:47] so it's showing me that I have 18 hours
[4:50] of space on the
[4:52] disc 89% battery but we're not actually
[4:55] using that we're using a portable
[4:57] battery
[5:02] and it's working so it's this way short
[5:05] Trail
[5:07] okay um there's a trail nearby it's not
[5:10] at the state park but nearby we're going
[5:11] to go to I think it
[5:14] was um 6 miles one
[5:17] way I think I might be wrong about that
[5:20] maybe it was 4 miles I think it was 4
[5:22] miles one way and it's on the lake so
[5:25] you got to take it back to like 8
[5:27] Miles um AI told me about another Trail
[5:31] well it's not really a trail um there's
[5:33] this road that takes that the locals
[5:35] know about it takes to a couple of um
[5:38] miles down a a road a Quarry Road and it
[5:40] ends in a limestone Quarry abandoned one
[5:44] we're going to look at
[5:46] that and there are some other trails
[5:49] around the
[5:50] lake all at different spots around the
[5:53] lake so we're going to hike all of those
[5:55] on one of these days maybe
[5:57] tomorrow and you know I'll turn that
[6:00] into a video of just hiking around Baron
[6:03] River Lake for a day and checking out a
[6:06] Corey brought plenty of water if I need
[6:08] it but I'm drinking Pepsi
[6:15] today I didn't eat today I went down to
[6:18] the lodge before I came here hoping to
[6:22] get an omelet but they said they don't
[6:24] make them and it was too late for
[6:26] breakfast so oh well I guess
[6:31] maybe I'll go back there afterwards and
[6:32] get a burger there was an event going on
[6:34] there so it's pretty
[6:37] busy so far so
[6:41] good if it randomly shuts off I don't
[6:43] know if it beeps or not so we got to
[6:45] find
[6:51] out well I had that problem all day
[6:53] yesterday I was trying to um I was
[6:55] washing my Jeep and I was had the head
[6:58] mount on and it kept turning off you'll
[7:00] see that footage at some
[7:02] point um I also used it driving into
[7:05] bling green and was up too high on my
[7:08] head so you couldn't see the road you
[7:09] were just seeing
[7:11] like the sky in the top of my Jeep it
[7:13] didn't look so good so it experiments I
[7:17] looked at some old footage on this thing
[7:20] where I had a mount on my Jeep for it
[7:22] and it was too
[7:24] shaky so and I didn't know that so we're
[7:27] going to have to figure out a different
[7:28] way
[7:30] of mounting it probably up on the
[7:35] glass AI said that 30 frame per second
[7:38] can actually be better for nature
[7:39] because of the longer exposure time when
[7:43] you're out and you've got like a shaded
[7:46] stuff
[7:47] here um it can actually be
[7:50] better so we do need to change that I
[7:52] guess on the way back I will that way I
[7:54] can compare
[7:56] them just to get a sense of
[8:00] I things look what different
[8:09] settings yeah I'm pretty confident
[8:11] everybody out with the spider webs today
[8:13] that's
[8:14] always the worst part about hiking
[8:16] trails in my opinion cuz I don't want to
[8:19] sit there with a walking stick or
[8:22] something you also have to be
[8:24] exceptionally observant to notice all of
[8:27] them they just feel weird on your skin
[8:30] you know they kind
[8:32] of they're a little bit
[8:34] distressing I really should have my
[8:36] other camera out
[8:38] too I can take pictures of the trees up
[8:40] there and stuff and
[8:41] [Music]
[8:43] somehow um you know edit and compile it
[8:46] all
[8:47] together but I was thinking I would use
[8:50] my phone camera to talk to you guys so
[8:54] my GoPro is the first person to view and
[8:56] then I can talk to you guys when I'm got
[8:59] something important to say
[9:01] and um I did learn how to I learned this
[9:04] from my Alien X Channel how
[9:07] to in Bad video inside of a video it's
[9:10] very
[9:11] cool so I I know how to do that
[9:15] um and then I would use my
[9:19] Lumix AI says that it will take video
[9:23] that looks like what I see with my eyes
[9:26] if you get all the settings right and
[9:30] so we're going to learn that thing we're
[9:32] going to experiment with it it could
[9:34] take a long time it could take months I
[9:35] don't know cuz it's a whole new thing
[9:38] I've never
[9:40] done so the road or the trail branches
[9:43] off here oh that reminds me the big
[9:48] video that I'm
[9:49] making uh the very important one that
[9:52] describes my channel we're going to have
[9:55] different nature shots um before each
[9:57] setting
[9:59] and one of
[10:00] them I wanted to be a branching Trail in
[10:03] order to describe my di lectic
[10:07] thinking cuz that's basically what this
[10:09] is a metaphor
[10:15] for so maybe I look down One
[10:19] path and then I look down the other path
[10:29] that might represent linear
[10:32] thinking and
[10:36] then you have a branching
[10:43] Trail it's very important to me to get
[10:46] that video right I haven't started it
[10:48] yet I'm just working on a draft right
[10:51] now
[10:52] and because I do make video stream of
[10:56] Consciousness I don't have any like
[10:58] experience reading from a script
[11:00] well there's teleprompter software you
[11:03] can put on the
[11:05] phone and I can record it in segments
[11:08] and I want to record it at different
[11:11] places um I want it to be engaging I
[11:14] want it
[11:16] to
[11:18] um I'm hoping
[11:21] that it will help people to truly
[11:24] understand me and then maybe they'll be
[11:27] able to look at my channel
[11:30] differ they might
[11:32] even go back and look at my older
[11:35] content and see it from a completely new
[11:37] perspective because it's clear to me
[11:40] that I need a video like this in order
[11:43] to help guide people cuz they're looking
[11:46] at it from a perspective that isn't
[11:49] there they're looking at from
[11:51] theirs their cognitive style
[11:55] and you know it's difficult because we
[11:57] are different
[12:00] and we
[12:03] need it's a it's a
[12:06] hard it's a hard it's hard
[12:09] to I don't know how what I'm saying here
[12:11] I'm trying to say bridge that Gap I
[12:13] think it's hard to bridge that
[12:17] Gap we can do it intellectually but not
[12:22] experientially
[12:24] um you know and I've tried I've talked
[12:26] about different facets of my style like
[12:29] my Integrated Systems
[12:31] thinking my
[12:33] non-dualistic um cognitive
[12:37] synthesis um but I've never talked about
[12:40] dialectic
[12:41] reasoning that's something I recently
[12:44] learned and I think that's actually a
[12:48] much bigger part of me than the other
[12:51] parts
[12:52] so it's important to explain what that
[12:56] is and how it applies to my life
[13:00] and my content so that's what we're
[13:02] going to
[13:03] do I'm really excited for this
[13:06] video and I want to do it right so I'm
[13:08] going to take my time with
[13:10] it I'm going to think through every
[13:13] section where to record each section
[13:17] like everything I'm really excited about
[13:20] it I think it could be a game changer I
[13:23] hope I hope that it
[13:27] is so my shins were hurting when I first
[13:29] started but not
[13:32] anymore um I didn't really want to note
[13:34] it because it's like
[13:36] man you know I'm not even doing anything
[13:39] yet
[13:43] so hey I said I should
[13:47] embrace
[13:50] um it was looking at some of my videos
[13:53] as I talked to it yesterday about this
[13:55] video I'm trying to create and it was
[13:57] like you should really lean
[14:00] into the fact that you're getting older
[14:02] and you're still trying to be active and
[14:05] improve your Fitness and all of that
[14:08] just lean into that at
[14:10] s um it's a difficult topic for me I
[14:14] feel like I'm very accepting of my age
[14:19] because that's just part of who I am I I
[14:23] I don't fight
[14:26] reality um at the same time
[14:30] you
[14:32] know I can tell I'm getting
[14:35] older and that's a struggle
[14:38] that's uh it's a struggle to to accept
[14:42] that I
[14:43] guess um I want to be very
[14:51] active um you know I did I've done a lot
[14:54] of things that harmed my
[14:56] health I like smoking for 30 years years
[14:59] drinking Mountain Dew for probably
[15:02] longer and
[15:05] just you know not taking care of myself
[15:08] never doing the nutrition thing well
[15:13] and but I am pretty healthy I think it's
[15:17] just I can imagine that had I taken
[15:21] better care of
[15:22] myself I'd be even way healthier than I
[15:25] am
[15:27] now but I don't
[15:30] think you know you can acknowledge
[15:33] that while still appreciating where you
[15:37] are in life
[15:39] and not letting it stop you you know
[15:42] don't let it stop
[15:45] you
[15:47] just keep pushing
[15:50] yourself you know you'll my body's
[15:53] getting tone it's getting
[15:55] fit it really is I've lost weight
[16:04] um just got to keep doing
[16:07] it um we're all different
[16:11] like you know you're you could be in a
[16:13] very different place than
[16:15] me but that doesn't mean you can't do
[16:22] something you know we have a lot of
[16:24] self-limiting talk
[16:30] and I see it in some of the comments I
[16:32] get like when someone's like I couldn't
[16:35] do what you're
[16:36] doing well maybe maybe
[16:41] not this isn't easy for
[16:44] me um it's getting easier because I've
[16:46] been doing it for a couple of months now
[16:49] you just have to
[16:51] start and keep pushing yourself and
[16:54] discover what your true limits
[16:57] are in fact let me tell you something
[16:59] I'm going to put this one on my other
[17:05] camera so I went to the Natural Bridge
[17:09] and it was an all day hike that was
[17:12] maybe a mile or
[17:15] two
[17:18] um I had like a mile or two left on the
[17:21] sand Gap trail before I got off the you
[17:23] know the very long
[17:24] trail and I knew once I did I probably
[17:28] had like a while
[17:29] too and I just pushed
[17:33] myself and
[17:35] then right near the end of my video we
[17:37] get onto another trail that I think
[17:39] takes me back to the lodge to my Jeep
[17:42] but it
[17:43] doesn't I'm 2 three miles in I can't
[17:46] record anything because my phone battery
[17:48] is like 2% everything is
[17:52] wet um it wouldn't you I couldn't charge
[17:55] my phone because there was a problem
[17:58] okay so that that just shut off we'll
[18:00] fix that in a
[18:02] minute
[18:05] um I'm glad there's at least
[18:07] notification so anyways I'm 2 miles in
[18:11] on this
[18:12] Trail I'm I'm way exhausted cuz I have
[18:15] already hiked up to the Natural Bridge
[18:17] taken the sand Gap trail you know I've
[18:20] been at it all
[18:22] day and
[18:25] so I really had to push myself and that
[18:28] was it was one of the hardest things
[18:30] I've done in a very long time because
[18:32] that trail did not take me back to the
[18:34] lodge it took me back up to the Natural
[18:37] Bridge I literally had to hike back up
[18:40] the
[18:41] mountain and then down it to the
[18:45] lodge I was so sore and exhausted after
[18:48] that hike it took mental
[18:52] resilience I had to push
[18:55] myself and then I got back to the cabin
[18:57] and I crashed for couple of hours just
[18:59] went to
[19:01] sleep I was so proud of myself though
[19:04] because I didn't give up I can even
[19:07] remember being on the trail thinking I
[19:09] don't want to be one of those people who
[19:11] push themselves so far that they don't
[19:13] think they can do it and then they call
[19:15] for help and somebody has to come rescue
[19:17] them and you're on the news like that's
[19:19] not going to be
[19:20] me so I kept pushing myself and I had to
[19:23] stop and take breaks a lot on on the way
[19:26] back
[19:29] um it was hard it was really
[19:32] hard but pushing yourself like
[19:37] that does it shows you what you're
[19:40] capable of and it allows you to go
[19:44] further like that was good for my body
[19:46] in the
[19:48] end because
[19:52] now I know I could do it if I keep just
[19:55] if I keep active at
[19:57] this you
[20:01] know all the trails that I plan to hike
[20:03] while I'm here on that Lake I think I
[20:06] was working on the plan with AI I think
[20:08] it was
[20:10] like I don't remember maybe 18 20 miles
[20:14] total and I know because of the Natural
[20:17] Bridge that I can do
[20:19] that and so we're going
[20:22] to I'm embracing
[20:25] this and I want to encourage you to do
[20:28] the same whatever that means for you it
[20:30] doesn't have to be
[20:31] hiking maybe you like jogging maybe you
[20:34] just want to jog around your your
[20:36] neighborhood or just take a walk around
[20:38] the
[20:39] block
[20:41] maybe it's been so long that that feels
[20:44] impossible then just
[20:46] walk you know to the end of your
[20:47] driveway in back do
[20:51] something believe me you can and if you
[20:54] keep doing it if you keep pushing
[20:56] yourself
[21:00] you won't regret
[21:01] it I'm living proof of that okay that is
[21:05] a big point to me sharing all this with
[21:08] you never give up on yourself if if you
[21:13] sat down one day and you didn't get back
[21:15] up that's okay I've done that too you
[21:18] know I did that for a long time before I
[21:20] got this
[21:21] RV and then I was like okay it's time to
[21:26] get back up now
[21:28] those years were important because they
[21:31] helped they helped
[21:35] me I was actually talking with AI about
[21:38] this um it's very good at reframing
[21:41] things so that you don't have this
[21:42] negative mindset about stuff I can't
[21:44] remember exactly what it said but the
[21:46] gist
[21:48] was during that time I
[21:51] probably and I was I I
[21:54] was how do I put this into
[21:57] words I was veloping a lot of my
[21:59] theories about Society cuz I was still
[22:01] observing it um I
[22:05] was I was integrating my cognitive style
[22:08] even though I didn't know what it was
[22:10] you know it was all
[22:13] intuitive it was an integration
[22:16] process where I guess you could call it
[22:19] a very long Lial
[22:20] State and sometimes we need
[22:24] those but you got to get back
[22:27] up don't sit there forever
[22:31] okay
[22:38] okay okay we're recording
[22:41] again um not sure why it shuts down but
[22:44] at
[22:45] least well you know I think it might be
[22:48] the 60 frame per second we're going to
[22:51] switch that over once I start heading
[22:54] back and see if that changes anything
[22:58] I like this first person view I think
[23:01] it's pretty cool and you know it's not
[23:05] obtrusive like it's just sitting on my
[23:07] the strap of my backpack and I can't
[23:10] even control it from my phone which is
[23:11] pretty
[23:13] neat I really wanted like when I was
[23:16] making my plans to move into an RV while
[23:19] I was still in my house I bought all
[23:22] this equipment you know I I was making
[23:25] plans and now I'm falling through it
[23:27] might have taken 6 months I'm doing it I
[23:30] had a lot to learn about my RV life you
[23:35] know I could only tackle so
[23:38] much we're very close to the lake you
[23:41] can't see it yet but it's over
[23:43] here and that's why there in case you
[23:45] hear some noise from boats or people I
[23:47] heard some people talking a little while
[23:49] ago they probably just in a little boat
[23:51] near the coast or
[23:56] something I'm really hoping that
[23:59] I can grow my channel and actually make
[24:01] some income from it because I am really
[24:04] getting
[24:06] desperate and I don't know how to solve
[24:08] that problem and it's been 6 months and
[24:10] I guess I really had pinned my hopes on
[24:14] it I didn't
[24:17] anticipate the challenges I would have
[24:19] connecting with other people lots of
[24:22] people have seen my channel are not
[24:23] subscribed and you know they only
[24:25] watched a little bit and it's probably
[24:29] because they're just not used to my
[24:31] cognitive style you know and
[24:35] so they need this video I'm talking
[24:39] about I think it can make a difference
[24:42] it's very heavy it's a going to be
[24:46] long and it covers some pretty heavy
[24:48] topics
[24:50] but I'm going to try to you know I'll
[24:53] break it down into chapters and sections
[24:56] and there will be elements on screen and
[24:59] it's going to be my best video in my
[25:02] opinion I'm really I'm really looking
[25:04] forward to doing
[25:06] it um I'm currently in the process
[25:11] of
[25:14] just
[25:15] um thinking through um it's not really
[25:19] the right word I can't trying to think
[25:21] how to best to say this it's a Lial
[25:24] state in itself but you know I don't
[25:26] want to overuse words it's
[25:29] I'm in the process
[25:32] of
[25:34] um it's cooking in my head you know this
[25:38] video um it's you know it's not my
[25:41] primary focus it's in my head and I'm
[25:44] thinking about it and my unconscious is
[25:46] thinking about it
[25:48] and um I'm working to it's a creative
[25:53] process I
[25:55] guess I'm definitely going to have to
[25:57] get better at describing
[26:00] things this is
[26:02] interesting known for being great ground
[26:07] cover I don't remember these things last
[26:09] time we were
[26:11] here I guess they could have been there
[26:13] but I don't remember
[26:23] them yeah I'm going to have to
[26:29] work on a system for myself like I don't
[26:32] want to be holding all this stuff
[26:34] because
[26:35] it's making it so I don't want to like
[26:37] pull my phone out and take pictures of
[26:39] the Treet Toops the tree
[26:42] canopy I
[26:44] need need to work on my
[26:47] process I quit smoking but I am still
[26:50] vaping finally got some
[26:54] Chargers um for these I had a whole
[26:56] bunch of these but no way to use
[27:00] them so that saved me some
[27:08] money wow that's
[27:11] new I literally just asked him about the
[27:13] bus we're not allowed to go see the
[27:19] bus that's sad
[27:30] it's not a bad like Trail like it takes
[27:32] you down to the water why would they
[27:33] have a problem with that I understand
[27:38] that
[27:39] but I actually was thinking I wouldn't
[27:41] go down there today cuz it is so hot and
[27:44] probably need to deal with some stuff
[27:45] with the
[27:46] RV I don't want Bailey being too hot
[27:51] and this was really
[27:53] just um meant to get me outside outdoors
[27:56] and um get some exercising and testing
[28:00] my new backpack and my
[28:03] equipment um and then I'll have all day
[28:05] to kind of work on the editing software
[28:08] I can compile the stuff from yesterday
[28:10] and
[28:12] today I'm still thinking
[28:15] through how I want
[28:19] to
[28:22] um what I want to post to YouTube and
[28:25] what I want to post to patreon cuz I I
[28:27] need to provide value to both I will
[28:29] never get monetized on YouTube if I
[28:32] don't do something
[28:34] there and I need to a good reason for
[28:37] people to you know pay five bucks a
[28:41] month cuz you know if enough people did
[28:43] that it would help a
[28:48] lot so I'm still thinking through all
[28:51] this
[28:53] but um I
[28:56] think I don't think I should give up on
[28:59] this I really
[29:02] don't I think that there is a value in
[29:05] what I'm
[29:07] doing I think
[29:09] that there's value in sharing my journey
[29:12] especially with my unique cognitive
[29:14] Style with
[29:16] others so I want
[29:20] to just the process of figuring out
[29:25] how to do that authentically while also
[29:28] being engaging enough that people want
[29:30] to
[29:35] watch well that's too bad we didn't get
[29:38] to go see the bus
[29:41] huh so yeah those that sign is
[29:44] new so those little signs on the trees
[29:46] and the plants those are probably new
[29:48] too seems like they came out here and
[29:50] did some
[29:56] stuff it's a nice little tra
[29:59] rail it's too bad we couldn't go down to
[30:01] the water
[30:14] though at least we did get to see the
[30:17] bus last time we were here I did I did
[30:19] get video of
[30:24] that I wanted to go down there though
[30:26] and see where this bridge might have
[30:29] been like if there's any signs of it
[30:33] like if there was a bridge and there was
[30:35] a
[30:37] road ground
[30:40] seeder 3 to 8 in those are pretty cool I
[30:44] wonder who did that okay it sh down
[30:47] again I think it's a heat
[30:49] issue I didn't set to 30 frames per
[30:52] second cuz I'd have to unclamp it and
[30:55] mess with the settings on it
[30:58] but we'll try that next
[31:00] time it's really hot it's it's in the
[31:03] 90s so I'm definitely feeling
[31:07] it but it worked generally
[31:11] well I could probably turn it right back
[31:14] on but we're basically done now
[31:17] so just going to leave it there
1:12
Cleaning Luna's Cage After Diarrhea Episode
Aug 13, 2024
6:45
Documenting the Donkey as Proof of Cosmic Solitude
Aug 14, 2024
4:48
Organizing the RV Interior Before Departure
Aug 14, 2024
8:16
Naming Chapter Four The Embrace
Aug 14, 2024
8:55
Morning Animal Care, Roof Task, and Tire Constraints
Aug 15, 2024
8:57
Pivoting the Day Around Luna's Recovery
Aug 15, 2024
10:44
Laundry Day, Jeep Wash, and Cat Check
Aug 15, 2024
8:07
Reorganizing RV Storage and Tracking Luna's Sibling
Aug 15, 2024
10:51
Announcing Platform Shift From YouTube to Patreon
Aug 17, 2024
9:07
Surrendering Luna to County Shelter on Travel Day
Aug 21, 2024
26:02
Departing Smith Ridge After 90 Days
Aug 22, 2024
9:02
Explaining Integrated Processing Through the Luna Decision
Aug 23, 2024
Photos · Aug 24, 2024
Aug 24, 2024
Photos · Aug 24, 2024
Aug 24, 2024
31:20
Testing Camera Gear on Peters Creek Trail
Aug 25, 2024
8:56
Explaining Integrated Processing Through Luna Decision
Aug 25, 2024
58:03
Scouting Kentucky Campgrounds and Testing GoPro Mounts
Aug 26, 2024
19:06
Diagnosing Chassis Battery Drain and RV Maintenance Backlog
Aug 26, 2024
2:19
Sitting at Green River Overlook
Aug 26, 2024
4:37
Addressing Audience Misalignment and Ending the Bridge Attempt
Aug 27, 2024
47:39
Hiking Mammoth Cave and Scheduling RV Repairs
Aug 27, 2024
34:37
Deciding on Park Service Work at Mammoth Cave
Aug 28, 2024
12:41
Sharing Trail Space With Deer for an Hour
Aug 28, 2024
12:32
Driving to Dental Appointment, Reconnecting With Mother
Aug 29, 2024
34:33
Preparing RV Systems Ahead of Labor Day Crowd
Aug 29, 2024
11:40
Announcing Channel Rename Toward Nomadic Thinker Direction
Aug 30, 2024
6:06
Walking to the Campground Shower in Pajamas
Aug 30, 2024
10:31
Clarifying Reflection Without Self-Judgment
Aug 30, 2024
22:10
Piercing Ears in Bowling Green on Labor Day Weekend
Aug 31, 2024
50:40
Aftercare, Mammoth Cave Trails, and Boundary Statements
Aug 31, 2024
1:00
Documenting Cartilage Piercing Aftercare
Sep 1, 2024
13:24
Removing Window Reflectors, Deploying Duckies Across Campground
Sep 1, 2024
3:18
Recounting Mammoth Cave Encounter and Ear Piercing Pain
Sep 2, 2024
4:09
Explaining Integrated Awareness and Comment Removal
Sep 2, 2024
1:53
Distinguishing Integrated Cognition from Fragmented Processing
Sep 2, 2024
2:50
Changing Ear Piercings While Speaking on Integration
Sep 3, 2024
1:30
Documenting Park Cottage Conditions at 4AM
Sep 3, 2024
5:33
Tracing the Origins of Judgment from a Bathtub
Sep 4, 2024
3:04
Reframing Height Awareness as Integrated Cognition
Sep 4, 2024
3:24
Showing Bailey's Carrier Setup and Rejecting Compromise
Sep 4, 2024
1:19
Ending the Onus of Being Understood
Sep 5, 2024
PUBLIC
August 25, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED
Temp 0.20
Density 0.70
Energetic Quality
steady exploratory momentum under heat load
Journey Phase
iterating — system under active construction
Directional Vector
toward a transmissible form for his cognitive style
Narrative

He came out of the RV freshly shaved, hair cut, and said so out loud into the phone camera — pleased about it. It was one in the afternoon on a Saturday and already eighty-seven degrees, with the forecast holding in the nineties all week. He noted he probably should have put reflectix up on the windows before leaving and hadn't, though he'd arranged things well enough that he thought it would hold; the day before it had reached eighty-five inside by late afternoon, with Bailey in there. He had stopped at the lodge first, hoping for an omelet, and was told they don't make them and that breakfast was over anyway. There was an event on, the place was busy. He left without eating, brought water, drank a Pepsi, and drove out to the short trail near Barren River Lake — not the state park proper, the one he half-remembered as Peters Creek, where the school bus sits below the river.

The bus was part of the plan. He'd learned there had once been a bridge across the water, that the bus likely came over on it and stayed when the bridge collapsed sometime after the sixties — hearsay, he said, from someone who didn't sound certain. He'd featured it once on his Alien X channel, back before he thought about footage as footage. He wanted it again, shot by someone who now thinks like a videographer, at least a little.

The gear was the real experiment. A new backpack, the GoPro jerry-rigged to the shoulder strap with a clamp, a smaller vise he couldn't find, a head mount in reserve. The camera had been shutting off on him all the previous day — washing the Jeep, driving into Bowling Green with the mount riding too high so the frame caught sky and headliner instead of road. He'd worked the problem through with AI and arrived at two hypotheses: heat, and 4K at sixty frames per second. So today it ran off a portable battery instead of its own, and he intended to drop it to thirty on the walk back, so he could compare the two halves of the same trail. He paired it to his phone over Bluetooth, found he could start and stop recording remotely, looked for a preview and found none, and read off eighteen hours of card space and eighty-nine percent battery he wasn't using. Then he walked, listening for whether the thing beeps when it dies.

The webs came early and constantly — the worst part of trail hiking, he said, requiring a level of observation he didn't want to have to sustain, distressing on the skin. He talked through the two-camera split as he went: GoPro for first person, phone for direct address, a Lumix he hadn't brought yet that AI told him could be made to see the way his eyes see, if he learned the settings, which could take months. He noted he needed a system for carrying it all, because right now the load meant he wasn't pulling the phone out to shoot the canopy he kept looking up at. Then the road forked, and the fork reminded him of the video.

The explainer video is unstarted, in draft, cooking. He described wanting a branching trail in it as the image for dialectic reasoning — one path looked down, then the other, linear against branching — and other nature shots keyed to each section, recorded in segments off teleprompter software on his phone, because he speaks stream of consciousness and has no practice reading from a script. He named the problem it's meant to solve directly: people arrive at his channel through their own cognitive style, and he doesn't think the gap can be crossed experientially, only intellectually. He's spoken before about integrated systems thinking, about non-dualistic cognitive synthesis; dialectic reasoning is recent, and he stated he thinks it's a larger part of him than the rest. He said he wanted to take his time with it, get every section right, and that it could be a game changer.

His shins hurt at the start and stopped. He talked about age — that he accepts it, doesn't fight reality, and that accepting it is also a struggle — about thirty years of smoking, decades of Mountain Dew, and about weight coming off and tone coming in over a couple of months of doing this. Then he moved the phone camera into position and told the Natural Bridge story: an all-day hike, the Sand Gap trail, a final trail he believed would return him to the lodge and his Jeep that instead carried him back up the mountain, two or three miles in, phone at two percent, everything wet, nothing recordable. He said he stopped often, that he thought about the people who push too far and have to be rescued and end up on the news, and that it wasn't going to be him. He got back, crashed at the cabin, slept for hours. He named what it gave him: the knowledge that the eighteen or twenty miles of trail he'd mapped around this lake are inside his range. He turned that outward — walk to the end of the driveway and back, if that's the scale — and then back to himself, to the years before the RV, which he described as a long liminal state where he was observing society and integrating a cognitive style he didn't yet have a name for. Important years, he said. And then you get back up.

The GoPro shut off once mid-story. He noticed the notification, restarted it, kept walking, and let the sixty-frames hypothesis stand untested for now. He said plainly that he's getting desperate about income, that it's been six months, that a lot of people have found the channel and watched a little without subscribing, that he still has to figure out what belongs on YouTube against the monetization gate and what justifies five dollars a month on Patreon. He said he doesn't think he should give up on it. Then a new sign appeared on the trees — the route down to the water and the bus closed off. He'd literally just been asking about the bus. He looked at the new plant markers nearby, ground cover, three to eight inches, someone had come out here and done work. He said it was too bad, that he'd wanted to go down and look for where the bridge had been, any trace of a road. But it was in the nineties and he was feeling it, Bailey and the RV needed dealing with, and he had all afternoon in the editing software with yesterday's footage and today's. The GoPro cut out again on the way back. He noted the heat, noted he hadn't unclamped it to change the framerate, said they'd try thirty next time, and that it had generally worked. He was basically done. He left it off.

Tags

hiking camera gear testing GoPro troubleshooting content strategy physical conditioning dialectic reasoning channel monetization

Summary

rswfire records a hiking transmission on a hot Saturday afternoon (87°, 90s forecast all week), opening with the note that he has shaved and cut his hair. He heads to a trail near the lake — he believes it is Peters Creek Trail — where an abandoned school bus sits, and relays hearsay that a collapsed bridge from the 1960s is how the bus arrived.

The hike functions as a gear test. He rigs a GoPro to his new backpack strap, powered by an external battery, and troubleshoots repeated shutdowns he attributes to heat and to 60fps settings, planning to test 30fps on the return. He describes controlling the camera by Bluetooth, discusses a Panasonic Lumix he intends to learn, and notes consultations with AI about settings and trail planning.

He outlines a planned flagship video explaining his cognitive style — specifically dialectic reasoning, alongside integrated systems thinking and non-dualistic cognitive synthesis — using a branching trail as its visual structure, to be recorded in segments with teleprompter software.

Other threads: physical conditioning and age, recounting a Natural Bridge / Sand Gap Trail hike he completed by pushing through exhaustion; a direct encouragement to viewers to start small and keep going; quitting smoking, still vaping; and channel economics — YouTube monetization and Patreon, six months in, with income not yet solved.

At the trail he finds a new sign barring access to the bus and waterline, so the descent does not happen.

Environment

Recorded outdoors on a Saturday afternoon in the Barren River Lake area of Kentucky — a short trail near, but not inside, the state park, which he identifies as the Peters Creek trail, where an abandoned school bus sits below a collapsed river crossing. Air temperature 87°F on arrival, forecast in the 90s all week.

Capture runs on two devices: a GoPro jerry-rigged to the strap of a new backpack and a phone camera for direct address. Home base is his RV, left arranged against the heat with Bailey inside; the nearby lodge is the food and vehicle point.

Substrate

The architecture being held is a production system being built in public: gear, mounts, framerates, capture workflow, and platform split are all treated as one unsolved engineering problem, tested in the field rather than planned in advance. Underneath it sits a translation problem he states directly — that viewers approach his output through their own cognitive style and the gap between styles can be crossed intellectually but not experientially — and the planned explainer video is the proposed bridge. The ontological position is that endurance and iteration are the same operation: capability is discovered by pushing to the actual limit, and process (gear, body, channel, income) is refined by running it, failing, and adjusting.

Actions

Performed

  • •hiking a short trail near Barren River Lake
  • •clamping the GoPro to the backpack strap
  • •narrating to camera while walking
  • •checking GoPro storage, battery, and Bluetooth phone control
  • •restarting the GoPro after repeated shutdowns
  • •observing ground cover, tree canopy, spider webs, trail signage
  • •reading a new sign closing access to the bus
  • •drinking Pepsi, vaping
  • •filming the branching trail as a planned shot
  • •diagnosing shutdowns as heat and 60fps related

Referenced

  • •shaved and cut his hair
  • •shot earlier footage of the bus for the Alien X channel
  • •used the head mount while washing the Jeep and driving into Bowling Green
  • •reviewed old shaky Jeep-mounted footage
  • •consulted AI about camera settings, trails, and the explainer video
  • •went to the lodge for an omelet, declined service
  • •hiked to Natural Bridge and the Sand Gap trail, took a wrong trail, hiked back over the mountain, slept afterward
  • •bought equipment before moving into the RV
  • •quit smoking after 30 years
  • •lost weight over a couple of months of activity
  • •acquired chargers for existing vape batteries
  • •learned to embed video inside video via the Alien X channel

Planned

  • •switch GoPro to 30fps and compare footage
  • •mount the camera on the Jeep glass instead
  • •learn the Panasonic Lumix settings
  • •build a secure carry system in the new backpack
  • •hike the remaining trails around the lake, roughly 18–20 miles total
  • •drive the quarry road to the abandoned limestone quarry
  • •compile a hiking-around-the-lake video
  • •write, segment, and record the long explainer video on dialectic reasoning using teleprompter software
  • •edit yesterday's and today's footage
  • •split content between YouTube and Patreon
  • •not return to this location next summer; seek cooler weather
  • •possibly return to the lodge for a burger

Entities

beings
Bailey — left in the RV; heat management is a stated constraint on the day's length
places
Barren River Lake — Kentucky lake anchoring the current camp and the planned trail circuit
Peters Creek trail — the trail hiked in this signal, named with uncertainty
the collapsed bridge — hearsay river crossing that likely explains how the bus arrived
Natural Bridge — site of the all-day hike he cites as proof of capacity
Sand Gap trail — long trail segment in the Natural Bridge account
Bowling Green — town driven into with the head mount running
the lodge — food and parking point; omelet declined, event in progress
limestone quarry / Quarry Road — abandoned quarry reachable by a locals' road, planned destination
systems
the RV — home base; heat load managed by window setup
the Jeep — vehicle; prior mount platform for the GoPro
GoPro — first-person capture device, shutting down repeatedly under heat and 60fps
Panasonic Lumix — higher-capability camera not yet learned; target for eye-accurate footage
YouTube — monetization target requiring differentiated content
Patreon — five-dollar-a-month tier requiring distinct value
AI — consulted on camera settings, trail planning, reframing, and video strategy
concepts
dialectic reasoning — recently named component of his cognitive style; core subject of the planned video
Integrated Systems thinking — previously articulated facet of his cognitive style
non-dualistic cognitive synthesis — previously articulated facet of his cognitive style
liminal state — term he applies both to the pre-RV years and to the current pre-production phase
media
the school bus — abandoned bus below the trail, subject of earlier Alien X footage; access now closed
Alien X — his other channel; source of the embedded-video technique and the bus feature

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

branching trail
collapsed bridge
abandoned vehicle
barrier sign
heat
first-person lens
ascent and return
threshold

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (all gear, route, platform, and disclosure decisions made unilaterally in the field)
liminal (explicitly named twice — the pre-RV years as a long integration period, and the current pre-production phase for the explainer video)
embedded (operating inside heat, trail, insects, battery limits rather than around them)
integrating (recently named dialectic reasoning being folded into an already-articulated cognitive model)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

technical/equipment (mount geometry, framerate, external power, thermal shutdown diagnosis)
media-production (two-camera workflow, embedded video, chapters, teleprompter segmentation)
cognitive-epistemic (dialectic reasoning, integrated systems thinking, the style-translation problem)
somatic (shins, breath, weight loss, exhaustion thresholds, heat tolerance)
economic (channel income, monetization gate, Patreon tier, stated six-month runway)
ecological (ground cover, canopy, spider webs, lake proximity, temperature)
relational/audience (viewers who watch briefly without subscribing, comment patterns, the bridge he intends to build)
logistical (RV heat management, Bailey, food access, day-length budgeting)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

experiment / testing / figure out a system
cognitive style
dialectic thinking / branching vs linear
pushing yourself / true limits
liminal state
process / workflow
value / authentically engaging
Narrative

He came out of the RV freshly shaved, hair cut, and said so out loud into the phone camera — pleased about it. It was one in the afternoon on a Saturday and already eighty-seven degrees, with the forecast holding in the nineties all week. He noted he probably should have put reflectix up on the windows before leaving and hadn't, though he'd arranged things well enough that he thought it would hold; the day before it had reached eighty-five inside by late afternoon, with Bailey in there. He had stopped at the lodge first, hoping for an omelet, and was told they don't make them and that breakfast was over anyway. There was an event on, the place was busy. He left without eating, brought water, drank a Pepsi, and drove out to the short trail near Barren River Lake — not the state park proper, the one he half-remembered as Peters Creek, where the school bus sits below the river.

The bus was part of the plan. He'd learned there had once been a bridge across the water, that the bus likely came over on it and stayed when the bridge collapsed sometime after the sixties — hearsay, he said, from someone who didn't sound certain. He'd featured it once on his Alien X channel, back before he thought about footage as footage. He wanted it again, shot by someone who now thinks like a videographer, at least a little.

The gear was the real experiment. A new backpack, the GoPro jerry-rigged to the shoulder strap with a clamp, a smaller vise he couldn't find, a head mount in reserve. The camera had been shutting off on him all the previous day — washing the Jeep, driving into Bowling Green with the mount riding too high so the frame caught sky and headliner instead of road. He'd worked the problem through with AI and arrived at two hypotheses: heat, and 4K at sixty frames per second. So today it ran off a portable battery instead of its own, and he intended to drop it to thirty on the walk back, so he could compare the two halves of the same trail. He paired it to his phone over Bluetooth, found he could start and stop recording remotely, looked for a preview and found none, and read off eighteen hours of card space and eighty-nine percent battery he wasn't using. Then he walked, listening for whether the thing beeps when it dies.

The webs came early and constantly — the worst part of trail hiking, he said, requiring a level of observation he didn't want to have to sustain, distressing on the skin. He talked through the two-camera split as he went: GoPro for first person, phone for direct address, a Lumix he hadn't brought yet that AI told him could be made to see the way his eyes see, if he learned the settings, which could take months. He noted he needed a system for carrying it all, because right now the load meant he wasn't pulling the phone out to shoot the canopy he kept looking up at. Then the road forked, and the fork reminded him of the video.

The explainer video is unstarted, in draft, cooking. He described wanting a branching trail in it as the image for dialectic reasoning — one path looked down, then the other, linear against branching — and other nature shots keyed to each section, recorded in segments off teleprompter software on his phone, because he speaks stream of consciousness and has no practice reading from a script. He named the problem it's meant to solve directly: people arrive at his channel through their own cognitive style, and he doesn't think the gap can be crossed experientially, only intellectually. He's spoken before about integrated systems thinking, about non-dualistic cognitive synthesis; dialectic reasoning is recent, and he stated he thinks it's a larger part of him than the rest. He said he wanted to take his time with it, get every section right, and that it could be a game changer.

His shins hurt at the start and stopped. He talked about age — that he accepts it, doesn't fight reality, and that accepting it is also a struggle — about thirty years of smoking, decades of Mountain Dew, and about weight coming off and tone coming in over a couple of months of doing this. Then he moved the phone camera into position and told the Natural Bridge story: an all-day hike, the Sand Gap trail, a final trail he believed would return him to the lodge and his Jeep that instead carried him back up the mountain, two or three miles in, phone at two percent, everything wet, nothing recordable. He said he stopped often, that he thought about the people who push too far and have to be rescued and end up on the news, and that it wasn't going to be him. He got back, crashed at the cabin, slept for hours. He named what it gave him: the knowledge that the eighteen or twenty miles of trail he'd mapped around this lake are inside his range. He turned that outward — walk to the end of the driveway and back, if that's the scale — and then back to himself, to the years before the RV, which he described as a long liminal state where he was observing society and integrating a cognitive style he didn't yet have a name for. Important years, he said. And then you get back up.

The GoPro shut off once mid-story. He noticed the notification, restarted it, kept walking, and let the sixty-frames hypothesis stand untested for now. He said plainly that he's getting desperate about income, that it's been six months, that a lot of people have found the channel and watched a little without subscribing, that he still has to figure out what belongs on YouTube against the monetization gate and what justifies five dollars a month on Patreon. He said he doesn't think he should give up on it. Then a new sign appeared on the trees — the route down to the water and the bus closed off. He'd literally just been asking about the bus. He looked at the new plant markers nearby, ground cover, three to eight inches, someone had come out here and done work. He said it was too bad, that he'd wanted to go down and look for where the bridge had been, any trace of a road. But it was in the nineties and he was feeling it, Bailey and the RV needed dealing with, and he had all afternoon in the editing software with yesterday's footage and today's. The GoPro cut out again on the way back. He noted the heat, noted he hadn't unclamped it to change the framerate, said they'd try thirty next time, and that it had generally worked. He was basically done. He left it off.

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