Yesterday was my 4 weeks straight doing daily writing #ulog posts, there had been days where it was difficult to find something interesting to write about but I managed to come up with ideas. Today, I'm making a DLive video for a contest by @ulog (Terry aka @surpassinggoogle).
I thought I'd integrate the contest entry into an actual #ulog daily post and share with you a morning in the backyard, feeding the worms and black soldier fly larvae, checking the lettuce tree and harvesting some homegrown ginger rhizomes.
This is also my first ULOG in video, can we call it a VULOG (read View-LOG) ?! hahaha 😄 As #ulog is a whole new concept, we can start inventing new derivated words for it heh. I should have thought of that and said it in the video... 🤣Feel free to use it if you think it's a cool word.
Anyway, back to the topic. This morning, I took the kitchen scraps to go feed the worms and black soldier fly larvae. Eventhough it is winter and the cold has slowed them down a lot, they are still alive and feeding. Adding a little bit more food waste than usual will generate more heat to keep them comfortable. Just don't expect them to eat as fast as in warmer days.
Later on, I noticed the ginger plant were wilted, it's time to harvest the rhizomes. After digging, pulling and washing, here is today's harvest:
I took that inside and washed some more. My wife will preserve them in a sugary mix and we can keep them for long time and consume them as we go. This would be more for making ginger tea, a healthy snack or when you have cough and sore throat.
The Video
I recorded the video with an iPhone 8 Plus. The built-in microphone works OK but it's not ideal. So I recently invested into a Zoom iQ6 Lightning stereo field microphone and I added a deadcat which is just a fancy name for microphone windshield. What it does is prevent the wind from reaching the microphone and make horrible wind noise.
The photo below is of my work iPhone 6S (I'm using my phone to tkke the picture) with the Zoom iQ6 microphone attached to it. The hairy and fluffy fluorescent green is the deadcat:
This is the deadcat attached to the microphone:
Hopefully, the sound will be clear and clean of wind noise. The other great thing about this microphone is that it is recording in Stereo that means you might hear my voice going from left to right as I move myself sideways, the surrounding sounds would also sound more natural and submersive, I think...
Contest Summary
No losers as every participant wins something.
Since you will be posting from DLIVE, make sure you use #ulog and #ulog-dlive #ulog-noedits as three of your tags.
Simply do a short playful/creative video of you or (your avatar, puppet, animation, mask, matrix shades etc if you are a private figure) of you saying any of the variation of the words "ULOG, ULOGS, ULOGGING, ULOGGER, ULOGGEOGRAPHER, ULOGGEOLOGIST, ULOGGIST etc within your own sentences, without pronouncing the sound from the letter "U".
So instead of the sound "YOULOG or U-LOG", playfully try to pronounce it as a whole word like you would with vlog or blog. Hahaha so maybe you will sound like this: "I love YLOG like crazy!"
For more details checkout We Are Taking ULOGGING On DLIVE In The First Official #ulog Contest. A PlayFul Contest Without "Losers" Where We Will Get Better Insight Into The Grand Picture For ULOGS.ORG
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- The image at the top has been generated with the Canva app using my own photo.
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