Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Terje Sorgjerd -- The Mountain

By John Ballard


This beautiful video has been linked by a number of Twitter links and is too beautiful to miss. My system needs to be paused to avoid buffering delays but the results are worth waithg for. Enjoy full-screen with good sound.


 



 



This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain�s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world�s best observatories.


The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.



More details and comments at the photographer's link.


This achingly beaurtiful music is new to me. The composer is Ludovico Einaudi.
Composer's website link.
I found the original track on You Tube
(Nuvole bianche is Italian for white clouds.)


This listener comment is from the You Tube thread...


One of my friends had never heard of Ludovico. This is how I replied, "I advise his Nuvole Bianche piece...it's like...*Stares off into the sunset*... Sitting in the Colosseum watching a unicorn fight a dragon in slow-motion while a beautiful woman in a bikini hand feeds you a? graham cracker taco filled with melted chocolate chips and marshmallows."



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  1. Bill H.April 21, 2011 at 3:44 AM

    Here is a similar piece by Randy Halvorson. The marriage of music and vidoe is hauntingly beautiful.
    Sub Zero - winter night timelapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

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