JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

This is a pic captured from some video footage taken of the goodies the boys received for the holiday. The morning started off with a vanilla-flavored maringue treat…

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View brief video of the boys’ main present.

This is a captured pic of some video footage I took of the Goya overpass in Koza (Okinawa City) Japan prior to deconstruction, which was completed last night. The overpass and I have a history in that it was one of the first places in which I had an encounter with the locals when I arrived on island in 1973.

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View brief video

A pic of hubby jamming at a local street festival.

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View brief video of some festival highlights.

One of the hawks that visit our residential area around this time every year.

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View brief video here.

Well, it’s November and that means time for a month full of street festivals. According to sources, Gate 2 Street will be closed to traffic most of this weekend for the Kokusai Carnival. This will be a two day event that is supposed to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, and around noon on Sunday, Nov. 5, and ending around 10 p.m. each night. I’ve also been told that B.C. Street (Chou Park Avenue) will be joining in on the activities this year (once again according to sources). Check with your island activities provider for further information.

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View brief video.

Okay so today I’m going to try a video plugin:

Well that didn’t work.

So let’s try this:

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A video of my first capture of the annual hawks in small size for the post.

Just completed another brief video of more of the local bird songs, mainly meijiro, taken yesterday morning.

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This week I’ve been busy learning how to edit and add effects to videos, as well as audio for the final product. This is a clip from one of my first attempts at video editing. View this and other island road trip videos here.

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This is the latest of the video projects … an updated long version of the 2005 Take 2 fireplace video. Yes, one can find a few fireplaces on Okinawa, usually in the older homes built around the 50’s.

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