{"id":3176,"date":"2015-07-08T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:23:27","slug":"talking-to-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Talking to the Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015-07-08_seated\"<\/a>I spent most of my time in the swamp, today, recording for my Making of a Mud Movie, Movie (MMMM). Yes, I’m still working on that. I was planning on doing some quick shots for the MMMM, but when I saw that the tide was taking it’s time going out, I decided to record some more audio for the documentary.<\/p>\n

\"2015-07-08_jeans-no-feet\"<\/a>I had some trouble with the card reader on my Nikon. That cost me about 15 minutes of recording time. I figure, though, if I was going to lose a clip, the clip I lost wasn’t the worst one to lose, by any measure. I cleaned the card reader when I got the camera home. I hope it doesn’t do that, again.<\/p>\n

\"2015-07-08_in-deep\"<\/a>At the end of recording my voice over material, I slid off that bamboo pole and into that deep mud below it. It occurs to me, now, that I could have recorded my voice overs while I was up to my neck in mud. That would be the ultimate “talking head” shot. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Once I got done with the MMMM, I put away the cameras to head out. It was then that I realized the tide had finally gone out, and it was going to be difficult to get my boat out of there. So, I decided to jump in and enjoy some mud while I waited for the tide to come in. I knew it wouldn’t be more than 20 minutes, and I was right. I did not, however, set up any cameras to record my time-killing tryst with the mud. There wouldn’t have been much to see, anyway. I took my breathing tube and spent at least half my time completely submerged.<\/p>\n

On an unrelated note: I uncovered the clay pit for the first time this year, last night. I got in and stirred it up for a while. I managed to get immersed past my nipples in the thick, sticky clay. That clay is really something else. There is no way you can get out in a hurry. I get rather excited by the glued in feeling, but I also get frustrated because I can barely move in it. It’s virtually impossible to get immersed. It was a good time, anyway. I worked the clay a bit and enjoyed a couple of beers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent most of my time in the swamp, today, recording for my Making of a Mud Movie, Movie (MMMM). Yes, I’m still working on that. I was planning on doing some quick shots for the MMMM, but when I saw that the tide was taking it’s time going out, I decided to record some … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clay-pit","category-deepmud","category-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}