Category Archives: Fun

Photographing the Solar Eclipse 2024

Smarter Every Day: I Accidentally Photographed Something Unknown During the Eclipse. (YouTube, 23:40min)

I’m already looking forward to finding out if someone is able to identify the satellites.

Here’s the earlier video which he did in preparation for the eclipse: April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Here’s what you need to know. (YouTube, 22:55min) It includes a lot of information about things you can observe during the partial phases, like how shadows change or why small clouds will disappear.

There’s more information and a link to the eclipse app at Destin’s website: Smarter Every Day – Eclipse.

I haven’t experienced a total solar eclipse, only a few partial ones, but I hope to be able to see one in the future.

UK’s South West Coast by Tandem

Ed Pratt: I Took My Girlfriend On Her Longest Ride Ever! [Full Film] 1000km Cycling England’s Hilliest Coast. (YouTube, 2:11 hours)

“This film follows our self-supported attempt to cycle 1000km (600 miles) around England’s hilliest coastline – the South West Coast! Join us on our seaside cycle tour and see if we survive pedalling through Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset on our 65kg touring tandem!”

I posted about this series earlier when the first episode was released. This ist the whole series in one fell swoop.

It’s still one wheel per person

Ed Pratt: 1000km on a Tandem Bicycle! | Ep.1 | Cycling England’s Hilliest Coastline. (YouTube, 25:22min) “In this episode my girlfriend Aishola and I travel to the UK to begin preparations for a new two wheeled cycling adventure…”

I wrote about Ed’s unicycle world tour before, and he has since released the last video series of his world tour: Unicycling Across America Ep.1 // 6000km Cycle Through The USA.

During the lockdowns I used his videos as a way to travel around the world in my imagination while it was impossible to do so in real life, and I re-watched the whole series via this handy playlist of all 131 episodes.