cmayda youtube videos

an apparent rockclimber usernamed cmayda has some fun with a video editing program, some country music, and a trip through the intermontane region (between the Rockies and the Sierras. A terrific use of software and stuff for geographic purposes.

There's also this less entirely successful (but vastly more ambitious) video, called "Geography as Art: The Course of Empire," about landscape art as tracing the philosophical course to empire in the US. The research that must have gone into this is phenomenal. But the "Star Wars" theme and quotes were very cheesy, and the music, overall, not so great. The images really spoke for themselves and didn't need the overly simplistic context they were given. Nevertheless, a very cool project and multiple hand claps for effort.