ViewTube

The good news is that I got promoted again and have more responsibility and more hours at work!  I am building business systems and educational material and other stuff that has never existed before.  It's challenging and rewarding and I like it a lot.
The bad news is that my "Youtube work day" is gone.  I can still get a few hours a week in the mornings/evenings, but there are not enough hours to return to my old schedule of alternating short-form and long-form video.  I need to find a new sustainable pace for this work.
If you had to pick, would you prefer that...
1) Continue to do weekly short-form videos ONLY.  This gets you regular content, and I can dig up and explore more ideas, facts, and be an educational voice in the short-form space.
2) Work on a long-form videos ONLY, and build them until they are ready.  This gets you more in-depth videos something like once a month.  These videos ultimately help thousands of people learn something new. 

Summer of Shorts!

I approached this summer with a set of ambitious videos written that require on-site filming.  I have travel and other commitments coming up that line up really well for filming.  But travel and other commitments interfere with editing/posting.


In the long run the solution is probably to hire an editor.  I'm thinking about how that will or will not work, and at what point it makes sense financially, because it doesn't right now.  But it's a good time to think about it.

In the short run, like this summer, I'm going to do a Summer of Shorts, with a new Short every week.  I have TONS of ideas and facts which are interesting, but not deep enough to discuss for 3-5 minutes.  By having Shorts come out every week, we can still connect with birds even when I'm on the road.

Then in the fall, with all the footage from the summer, you can finally see this set of outdoor videos! 

A short, wordless story about an unusual bird. 

Here's the custom Turkey skeleton that Djinn506 made for our turkey collaboration!  It's so detailed!  Check it out and see if you learn something new about how birds are built!
PS - I noticed how fused the synsacrum and pygostyle are (lower back/tailbone).  That's probably why birds waddle when they walk. :) 

Early Access to "Birding at Dawn - The Dawn Chorus"