Just checked out two video responses to my sheep-shearing video on Youtube.
Both guys had uploaded videos of themselves shearing sheep -one was in Australia and another in Ohio.
These videos had a freshness and immediacy about them and there is a whole sub-culture on the web around sheepshearers ( OK forget the jokes…)
No, I am not in the habit of filming sheep-shearers – it so happened that I was on the Isle of Skye and passed some farmers shearing their sheep and I happened to have my video camera with me.
It is good to know that the story that nobody would talk about, 40 years of missing Welsh history, has finally been recognized and embedded in the history of medicine – thanks to my internet based multi-media community project.
Dr Carole Reeves, Outreach Historian with The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London has been invited to talk at a very prestigious conference this autum in London on "The Children of Craig-y-nos".
She says: " I have been asked to give another paper on the
Children of Craig-y-nos – at the British Society for the History of
Paediatrics and Child Health annual conference (12-13 September 2008) at the
Courtauld Institute, London. "
The book which I am co-authoring with Dr Reeeves, will be the first ever collective account of childrens experiences in a TB sanatorium.
While I have been deeply immersed in "The Children of Craig-y-nos" project some of my 47 videos on Youtube.com/annshaw have developed lives of their own , around which people with shared interests cluster.
These range from huskies to raptors.
It is as if the video has acted as a flashpoint, or catalyst, allowing people to congregate online and exchange their views.
I am not too surprised that the blonde woman wrestler in our local Highland Games who flashes her knickers from time to time as she throws men to the ground has attracted thousands of "hits".
But others continue to surprise me. A clip of myself driving huskies in Alaska , during a stopover to Japan, has been surprisingly popular.
Web site sorted out. Lets draw a veil over the technical problems…sufficient to say the fault was not in one machine talking to another but in human error: mine.
Fortunately Andy , former colleague from Art School who now does web design sorted it out for me.
Lets get the bad news out of the way first… my web page:www.annshaw.net has disappeared and I spent a very frustrating morning trying to contact my domain server who refuses to answer emails. (they withdrew telephone support some time ago).
But this evening I learn that the problem maybe with Apple so have sent off a flurry of emails to them. They promise to answer within 24 hours. We will see.
Discovered that my internet channel ( Youtube.com/annshaw) is also up in Chinese and Polish.
Dont know why or how this has come about.
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