Our Story

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I am currently enrolled in Knight Center  For Journalism of the Americas Massive Online Open Course: Social Media for Journalists. We completed the first module and on to the second with a focus on setup and configuring social media accounts. As a pre requisite I have to post to one of the forums presented in the class. One of the broad range of topics which i found interesting was storytelling with 1 minute of video or less. The following is the complete forum post of mine.

If 1 picture=1,000 words does 30fps x60sec=1,800,000 words?

Can one minute of raw video contain the data equivalent of one million eight hundred thousand descriptive words ? I present this as a potential question not a finite quality which can be mathematically proven. In referencing the proverb originally stated by the ancient Chinese “Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.” Although the original forum post asks for specific examples of stories I chose to go deeper in defining what is possible from a purely theoretical point of view.

If you must quantify a specific example I chose to reference the creation of our known universe, the galaxies, our sun, and the evolution of life on planet Earth. The sun which oddly enough does not go by a name unlike all the other stars which have been discovered and cataloged to date. “Our sun doesn’t have an official proper name, according to the International Astronomical Union. In antiquity, the names Sol and Helios referred to ancient sun gods and perhaps the sun itself”. Our sun may not have an official name but alas it does have an official symbol.

The one minute and 36 second example “Our Story in 1 minute” I give can be found on youtube.com

Please take the initiative to pause the video and click the gear icon and select quality 720P HD from the resolution pop up window offering the highest quality data intensive experience. If you wish to go deeper in exploration select the full screen option brackets to the right of name “YouTube” for a more substantial data emersion.

our sun
official symbol for Earth’s sun
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In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was first incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & NKO.ORG. Using SGI Cosmo Worlds software, we pioneered the development of Internet based 3D virtual reality GIS based interactive worlds. In 1996 with a network of seven high performance SGI workstations we pioneered development of live streaming MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Real Video and QuickTime Streaming Server utilizing Kassenna MediaBase software. In Maui 2002 we pioneered and tested the first wireless live streaming video using laptop computers and Maui Sky Fiber's portable 3G wireless device. In Maui we pioneered live streaming video using usb modems from AT&T , Verizon as well as live streaming from iPhone 3 over 3G wireless networks. Today The Maui S.A.V.E. Program has diversified into storm tracking including visualization and analysis of large, memory-intensive gridded data sets such as the National Hurricane Center's wind speed probabilities. I volunteer my services to numerous Disaster Services Organizations. In June 2013 I returned from Hurricane Sandy deployment as a computer operations service associate with the Disaster Services Technology Group assisting as The American Red Cross migrated from a Disaster Response Operation to Long Term Recovery Operations. Pioneering the production/editing and Internet distribution of HD video to sites like Youtube.com and Vimeo.com we are shining the light towards environmental and peace efforts of humans across the globe. Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

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