Being new to the world of long-term traveling, the world of blogging, and the world of blogging while long-term traveling, I am still experimenting with the technology and the processes and the forms of how to exactly share this experience with you. I haven’t quite pinned down the best way to capture and share motion just yet, and have not even settled that I’m going to travel with a full-fledge video camera. (Remember everything I buy, I’ve got to carry all the way around the world, so every pound counts, not to mention the cost). So, since I am stationary in Hong Kong for a while, I’m playing around with a few ideas on video (or at least multimedia).

Today I’ve posted a set of photos called Hong Kong: Places, and its meant to help you see what Hong Kong feels like.

As you’ll see Hong Kong truly is a collision of East and West, of modern skyscrapers mixed with open air food markets and peppered with traditional Chinese temples and shrines. Hong Kong isn’t all hustle and bustle, big city either, its got long beautiful beaches, massive forest reserves, and quite little harbors. In the coming weeks I’m going to experiment with some other formats (still photos over live sound, video from a little hand-held Canon point-and-shoot digital still camera, and probably some full-out video too.) Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas, and enjoy the first photos of Hong Kong. Tomorrow, I’ll post all the photos from the sideshow in a still photo gallery so you can look at them a bit slower and I’ll include captions! All the photos can be seen in the photo gallery called Hong Kong: Places.

Click HERE to view the video.

Thanks to John over at audihertz and radiozoom for the plug on your site, yes, you’ve spurred me into action buddy. John is a long time blogger, and one of the first podcasters (he was podcasting before podcasting was cool, possibly before it was a word?). You really should check out his site, if you want to see how this blogging and podcasting stuff is supposed to be done. John and I go way back, our most notorious collaboration was with Christopher Linn, when we produced the short-running radio show The Frequency Brunch on KRUI 89.7 FM in Iowa City. The show featured all sorts of madness, with a ton of guests including They Might Be Giants, John Freyer (a guy who sold his entire life on eBay), and a college student who bought a car with $40,000 cash in $2 bills, among others. ($2 Larry, please take a bow).