Some nice time lapse photography

[Blue_In_AK]

This isn't mine, but it's so nice I wanted to pass it on. Be patient, it takes a minute to load up, and it sticks a couple of places -- at least on my computer -- but this really is pretty.

http://vimeo.com/3206510

[Richard D]

1. Very nice

[Tindalos]

2. Thanks for the link

I really like the shots of the clouds rolling over the mountains.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. We love Dennis Zaki, the photographer.

He is the one who went out to investigate the food/fuel crisis in western Alaska and whose footage eventually made its way to CNN. He's a gem.

[Tindalos]

4. He's doing a great job

How are things up there? I haven't been online much recently and have no idea what's going on in the world. Somehow I doubt Governor Twinkletoes has done anything to help. Are supplies getting to those who need them?

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Yes, the supplies and contributions from donors all over the world

are making their way out there, more in spite of Sarah than due to any help she's provided. There's a wonderful story in this morning's Anchorage Daily News http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/690057.html

A wave of donated food and cash has swept into lower Yukon River villages over the past month, with more than 19,000 pounds of supplies and $13,000 landing in Emmonak alone.

Money appeared from donors in England and Bangkok. Villagers hundreds of miles away on the frozen edge of the state pitched in dried fish and muktuk. And, organizers say, much more help is on the way.

Cindy Beans has been tracking the gifts of peanut butter and rice and coffee for the Emmonak tribal council, where she watched the scene from her office window on Wednesday. Five, six, seven people passed by within 20 minutes on their way to the warehouse, each hauling away a small box of food on plastic sleds and snowmachines.

"Every day when it opens up, there's a flood of people heading over there," Beans said. When someone donates money, the council gives out vouchers for free fuel, 10 gallons at a time.

<snip - much more>

The problems out there are systemic and long-term, and some major infrastructure changes need to be made, as well as reining in the huge Bristol Bay factory trawlers which have been essentially sucking up all the fish, leaving little for the residents along the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers -- but at least we have averted a disaster for this winter.

What we need is a governor with some vision and some empathy for the Native way of life. Sarah just doesn't have it in her.

[Maestro]

6. Cool time lapse

That area is so beautiful.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I've been down there hundreds of times...

maybe even thousands, and I'm awestruck every time. It's always changing, never the same.