{"id":87204,"date":"2012-04-21T00:32:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87204\/exploring-urban-oasis\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T00:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:32:51","slug":"exploring-urban-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87204\/exploring-urban-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring an Urban Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Last night, on Nova, I watched a nature documentary about a couple who went and spent a year in the Idaho wilderness.\u00a0 They lived in a tent most of the time, and the husband was a professional zoologist who studies and films wolves.\u00a0 Great film.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought about my own Tour d\u2019Joko films and the one I had just completed that day.\u00a0 Mind you, I\u2019m not comparing as apples to apples something I, an amateur with consumer equipment, make in a couple of hours with an hour-long documentary that took a year to make.\u00a0 That said, there were imitable qualities to his film that I, with a little more patience than I normally have, maybe some better equipment and a firmer commitment to making something TV-worthy could replicate.\u00a0 Take inspiration from, at the very least, and that I have done.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, I\u2019m going to spend a week at Yellowstone National Park.\u00a0 I want to turn that time into the best Tour d\u2019Joko film I have yet made.\u00a0 It will require planning.\u00a0 It will require some kind of mission or narrative beyond just me going on vacation.\u00a0 I need to think on these things.\u00a0 Come up with a story that will hold the viewers\u2019 attention beyond the five-minute limit that most people who watch YouTube videos will tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>Joko goes\u2026 what?<\/p>\n<p>In search of bear cubs?<\/p>\n<p>Finding the wolves of Yellowstone?<\/p>\n<p>Discover which kind of ukulele song bison enjoy most?<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I got some planning to do.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please enjoy my latest\u00a0 marching-through-the-woods video, Tour d\u2019Joko, Carkeek Park Edition.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Momma Bear for my new fancy walking stick.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><br \/>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on Nova, I watched a nature documentary about a couple who went and spent a year in the Idaho wilderness.\u00a0 They lived in a tent most of the time, and the husband was a professional zoologist who studies and films wolves.\u00a0 Great film. Then I thought about my own Tour d\u2019Joko films and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}