the pineaway

here is my first video! i didn't plan on making one so soon, but i happened to find some more chaga on my walk, and documented the occasion. then i got so carried away with editing the clips that i did it on one go. it took all day.

i'm pretty happy with the outcome, all things considered. slowly but surely i'm getting the hang of the editing program. it's not easy on a 9-inch laptop, mind you. that's why the cheers thing at the end is repeated. i didn't see the first one so i thought i had accidentally deleted it. i have to work with a tiny preview screen, and playback is always out of sync.

one thing that really annoys me is that i couldn't overlap the audio track with the title clip. i wanted to have the stream sounds continue onto it. that is kind of why i made the hypnotic soundtrack, to cover up the awkward transition and to distract from other wonky sounds.

the orange fungus up on a tree is not cinder conk but phyllotopsis nidulans, as far as i could tell. i did go mushrooming in the woods near my home later, and found a few funny velvet foot mushrooms growing on my fallen 'enoki' tree. just enough to float a few in a cup of miso soup. i have footage of them, too.

now i'm trying to make patties with leftover soup from yesterday. it is persistently too watery, so i have to keep adding to the mix. so far there's grated beets, an egg, rolled buckwheat, soy flour and psyllium fibre. i left it to soak up for a while, i really hope it holds up the next time i check. i could've just made puréed soup, but the craving for crispy, fried stuff is something awful.