Ok just getting caught up on the personal blog about what has been
happening in the last month. Winter is finally over but I think we will
have one more major winter storm in northern Minnesota before the end
of this month.
Ben and I survived the road trip across the country and we set the
record for being the first to live stream across the United States of
America and to live stream across the USA on Youtube Live. It took 45
hours from Time Square in NYC with non stop driving to Venice Beach Pier
in California.
It is a freaking cool idea, the next road trip I plan on doing will
not be non stop. Seriously, we need a break at night to get some sleep
and rest up.
California was cool to visit again. I made the trip to Malibu to the world famous El Matador Beach to chill out for a few hour’s before making the long drive back home. Here is a photo that I wanted to do the last time I was out there with Bill Reid but never had a chance to do. Cross this one off the bucket list.
El Matador Beach Cave photo.
Right now I’m enjoying the down time to get caught up on paperwork and work stuff. I need a vacation from the vacation…
Contact: Douglas Kiesling 651-238-0258, Ben McMillan 515-451-6330
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY- StormChasingVideo.com LLC, and
The Iowa Storm Chasing Network are proud to announce a partnership in a
coast-to-coast journey this weekend to test out the latest technology in
live mobile newsgathering.
In partnership with Google Corporation’s YouTube.com, Kiesling and
McMillan will attempt to make the approximately 2,900 mile drive from
Times Square, New York to Santa Monica Beach, California NONSTOP while
streaming live video to YouTube LIVE starting at 1pm Eastern Time
on Friday, March 21 2014.
The pair will mobile broadcast from the New York City area over the lunch hour Friday, and then proceed to cross the country LIVE in front of YouTube’s millions of viewers, broadcasting each mile of the historic trip in high quality video.
Live stream drive across America in under 45 Hour
The trip is scheduled to conclude around 8am Pacific Time Sunday
morning after showing the sunrise on Santa Monica Pier in California.
Other highlights on the trip will include driving over the Brooklyn
Bridge, past the Saint Louis Arch, streaming the Interstate 70 corridor
through the Rocky Mountains, driving through the Las Vegas Strip, and
finally through downtown Los Angeles at night.
Devon Storveck, of the YouTube Partnership Team, says a project like this has never been attempted or
carried out before by any of their broadcast members.
Kiesling, along with company technical advisor Brian Dombrowski, devised a system to broadcast
SD and HD video out of moving vehicles and into TV newsroom studios and multiple CDNs, such as YouTube LIVE, simultaneously.
The technology has been deployed by Kiesling’s company,
StormChasingVideo.com, with the primary mission of covering
breaking-news weather events around the country as they happen.
Most recently, Kiesling covered the severe winter storms associated
with 2014’s “Polar Vortex,” and McMillan broadcasted live from both El
Reno and Moore Oklahoma tornadoes in May of 2013. This week’s project
engages the pair’s mobile newsgathering equipment to push the limits of
geography and duration.
Media inquiries are welcome, and live footage and interviews from the road will be provided to both local and national clients.
Television markets on the route include:
1. New York
2. Pittsburgh
3. Indianapolis
4. St. Louis
5. Kansas City
6. Denver
7. Las Vegas
8. Los Angeles
About StormChasingVideo.com
StormChasingVideo.com, LLC. provides late-breaking HD stock video of
news events as they happen. Known by many in the industry for a niche in
breaking news weather stories, StormChasingVideo.com has some of the
fastest turn-around times when processing packages from its stringers.
When the story is weather, StormChasingVideo.com helps clients tell the
story first and accurately with video from the front line of stories.
Recently partnering with LiveNewsVideoNetwork.com, a venture of Creative
Heads Inc. of Sarasota Florida, StormChasingVideo.com company has
extended its content to include LIVE breaking coverage for both
television and online news clients.
About the Iowa Storm Chasing Network
The Iowa Storm Chasing Network provides weather forecasts, and up to
the minute updates for the state of Iowa and surrounding regions. A
team of storm chasers deploys each Spring to cover severe weather across
the American Midwest. The team focuses on professional live coverage
of severe weather as it happens.
I have not posted about this on my personal page yet, but the last three months have been insanely difficult. Back in December, on my fathers birthday, he was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia and COPD. After a few week’s of fighting the pneumonia, he lost the fight on January 2nd, 2014.
One of the hardest thing’s I have ever had to do in my life was to help write the following for the memorial.
Charles Allan Kiesling, Sr, originally of Murdock MN, passed quietly on January 2, 2014 at the age of 83. Charles was surrounded by his wife and family at his passing. Charles is survived by his wife, Nancy; daughter, Dorothy (Lyaman) McPherson; sons, Charles Jr. (Rose), Gregory (Stacey), Howard (Paul Massmann), and Douglas (Neva Andersen); and five grandchildren – Alaina McPherson, Ashley (RJ) Reyes, Thomas (Mandi) Kiesling, Candace Kiesling, and Nicholas Kiesling. Charles is also survived by his sisters, Muriel, Margaret and Janet; and brother, Donald.
Charles worked for Sperry Rand through its various incarnations, including Sperry Univac and finally Unisys in the electronics engineering and developmental department until he retired after 38 years of service in 1993. Charles’ many accomplishments while working with Sperry include the creation of some of the first computer networking systems in the early 1960’s for private industry and the government. He was also credited with patents US 3497760 A and US 3531796 A. He was the father of the Logical expansion circuitry for display systems, or “Graphical Computer Video Card” and the flashing or “Blinking Cursor.” Charles’ visionary computer designs and ideas in the 1960’s and 1970’s helped lay the foundation for our modern computer world today.
Along with his large family, Charles was proud of his service with the US Navy and his Navy family. As a crew member of the USS Collette DD 730, he was part of the Sitting Duck Squadron at Inchon during the Korean War. He was the most recent editor and publisher for the USS Collette Association newsletter and enjoyed the ship’s company reunions. Over the years, Charles was very active in his community including the Boy Scouts of America, Clan MacBean Association of America, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5555.
While he was sick and in the hospital I put work on hold for the most part and made it a point to get down to see him at least every other day. The last time I saw him was on New Years Eve. I told him I was heading up north for CNN to cover the record breaking insane cold and that I was I would be back later on Friday, the 2nd to see him again and the weekend.
I did manage to fulfill the promise of the goal that I told him about to get into the record breaking cold of -40F air temp and colder. I even did the idea I was kicking around with freezing an egg in the -40F temps.
Freezing Eggs at -40
The funny thing about “The Ice Box” of International Falls. Their are no banks with the time and temp signs in the city. I had to look around to find this at sunrise to show how cold it was.
Outside Air Temp -40, it is just COLD!!!
Soon after I took this photograph, I got a phone call from my sister telling me I needed to get down to the hospital and that it was not good and they did not think he would make it through the day. When I told her I was up in International Falls, I was told to hurry back.
I wrapped up my video shoot with the daylight conditions and raced back as fast as I could legally drive… Here is the video shoot for the daylight footage.
Hella Cold Outside
I kept giving my family updates on my location and when my brother Greg called and told me to hurry, I knew it was not good. I told him to tell Dad I was racing down there to say goodbye but just outside of Minneapolis on the 694 loop, I got the call to slow down, it was too late and he was gone.
So with heavy heart, I have to say the last two month’s have been very hard. But it is still fun to remember everytime I look at a computer, I can still remember him saying telling me how and why he wrote up the blinking courser code and saying “I Made It Blink” sand with that, those are his final words on his tombstone.
He made it blink.
Also in the 1970s when Apple Computer’s came out with the Apple II, he was pissed since he said that Apple pirated the code and Sperry did not go after them on it. I’m sure when he got to heaven and saw Steve Jobs, he gave him a piece of his mind.
I have not posted about this on my personal page yet, but the last three months have been insanely difficult. Back in December, on my fathers birthday, he was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia and COPD. After a few week’s of fighting the pneumonia, he lost the fight on January 2nd, 2014.
One of the hardest thing’s I have ever had to do in my life was to help write the following for the memorial.
Charles Allan Kiesling, Sr, originally of Murdock MN, passed quietly on January 2, 2014 at the age of 83. Charles was surrounded by his wife and family at his passing. Charles is survived by his wife, Nancy; daughter, Dorothy (Lyaman) McPherson; sons, Charles Jr. (Rose), Gregory (Stacey), Howard (Paul Massmann), and Douglas (Neva Andersen); and five grandchildren – Alaina McPherson, Ashley (RJ) Reyes, Thomas (Mandi) Kiesling, Candace Kiesling, and Nicholas Kiesling. Charles is also survived by his sisters, Muriel, Margaret and Janet; and brother, Donald.
Charles worked for Sperry Rand through its various incarnations, including Sperry Univac and finally Unisys in the electronics engineering and developmental department until he retired after 38 years of service in 1993. Charles’ many accomplishments while working with Sperry include the creation of some of the first computer networking systems in the early 1960’s for private industry and the government. He was also credited with patents US 3497760 A and US 3531796 A. He was the father of the Logical expansion circuitry for display systems, or “Graphical Computer Video Card” and the flashing or “Blinking Cursor.” Charles’ visionary computer designs and ideas in the 1960’s and 1970’s helped lay the foundation for our modern computer world today.
Along with his large family, Charles was proud of his service with the US Navy and his Navy family. As a crew member of the USS Collette DD 730, he was part of the Sitting Duck Squadron at Inchon during the Korean War. He was the most recent editor and publisher for the USS Collette Association newsletter and enjoyed the ship’s company reunions. Over the years, Charles was very active in his community including the Boy Scouts of America, Clan MacBean Association of America, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5555.
While he was sick and in the hospital I put work on hold for the most part and made it a point to get down to see him at least every other day. The last time I saw him was on New Years Eve. I told him I was heading up north for CNN to cover the record breaking insane cold and that I was I would be back later on Friday, the 2nd to see him again and the weekend.
Last time he held my hand on New Years Eve 2013
I did manage to fulfill the promise of the goal that I told him about to get into the record breaking cold of -40F air temp and colder. I even did the idea I was kicking around with freezing an egg in the -40F temps.
The funny thing about “The Ice Box” of International Falls. Their are no banks with the time and temp signs in the city. I had to look around to find this at sunrise to show how cold it was.
– 42F on 1/2/2014 at sunrise.
Soon after I took this photograph, I got a phone call from my sister telling me I needed to get down to the hospital and that it was not good and they did not think he would make it through the day. When I told her I was up in International Falls, I was told to hurry back.
I wrapped up my video shoot with the daylight conditions and raced back as fast as I could legally drive…
I kept giving my family updates on my location and when my brother Greg called and told me to hurry, I knew it was not good. I told him to tell Dad I was racing down there to say goodbye but just outside of Minneapolis on the 694 loop, I got the call to slow down, it was too late and he was gone.
So with heavy heart, I have to say the last two month’s have been very hard. But it is still fun to remember every time I look at a computer, I can still remember him saying telling me how and why he wrote up the blinking courser code and saying “I Made It Blink” and with that, those are his final words on his tombstone.
Also in the 1970s when Apple Computer’s came out with the Apple II, he was pissed since he said that Apple pirated the code and Sperry did not go after them on it. I’m sure when he got to heaven and saw Steve Jobs, he gave him a piece of his mind.
On the last day of February 2014, spring seems as if it is still month’s away instead of just week’s away as another round of winter weather impacts southern Minnesota.
B-Roll footage in the evening at sunset around Albert Lea, MN of the snow storm along Interstate 35. Various scenes of traffic and snow plows on the interstate.
To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com
On the last day of February 2014, spring seems as if it is still month’s away instead of just week’s away as another round of winter weather impacts southern Minnesota.
B-Roll footage in the evening at sunset around Albert Lea, MN of the snow storm along Interstate 35. Various scenes of traffic and snow plows on the interstate.
SID: Douglas Kiesling
To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com
1/28/2014 Bayfield, WI Frozen Apostle Sea Caves “Ice Caves” – Stock Footage & ENG Package
B-roll footage extended edit for stock footage and ENG of the extremely brutally cold sub zero temperatures that are allowing rare access to the Apostle Sea Caves near Bayfield Wisconsin.
TRT: 13:00:00
To see the rare sight of the frozen Apostle Sea Caves, you must walk along the shore line for about 1.5 miles from the parking area.
The hike to the cave is not an easy one as you are walking along the shore line over numerous snow drifts, ice heaves and then once you get near the caves, you are walking on the slippery ice itself.
The hike out takes about 45 minutes and depending on weather conditions, with the winds blowing across Lake Superior, plan on walking in near blizzard conditions due to the blowing snow and cold temperatures.
*** Also Snow Shoes or Ice Crampons Are Advised To Wear While Walking Out On The Ice ***
To see the full shot sheet, visit www.StormChasingVideo.com
The powerful ground blizzard and sub zero temperatures are still impacting much of central Minnesota this evening with wind gusts near 50 miles per hour.
The blowing and drifting snow is making travel around the region dangerous as many of the rural roads have become impassible due to the drifting snow.
Clip 1 Tight shot of a Stop Sign blowing and twisting in the wind.
Clip 2 Wide shot of the stop sign blowing in the wind.
Clip 3 Stearns County snow plow driving towards the camera and the camera pans with the snow plow as it passes and drives away.
Clip 4 Blowing snow over a snow drift on the side of the road.
Clip 5 Snow plow driving towards the camera.
Clip 6 Blowing snow with high winds over an open farm field.
Clip 7 Tighter shot of the high winds blowing snow over a field with farm buildings in the background.
Clip 8 American flag in the distance blowing in the high winds.
Clip 9 Blowing snow with snow drifts covering the roadway.
Clip 10 Blowing snow with high winds and snow drifts covering the roadway.
Clip 11 Blowing snow with the setting sun in the back ground.
Clip 12 Blowing snow with the golden setting sun in the back ground over an open field with a treeline in the back ground.
Clip 13 Low shot of blowing snow over a road and snow drifts in the background.
Clip 14 Setting sun on the horizon with a sun dog on the right that was caused by the blowing snow from the ground blizzard.
Clip 15 POV Driving shot in low visibility
Clip 16 POV Driving shot in low visibility
Clip 17 POV driving shot with high winds blowing snow over the road.
Clip 18 POV Driving shot with blowing snow and snow drifts covering the road
Clip 19 POV Driving shot as a snow plow drives toward the camera in the other lane.
Clip 20 POV driving shot with high winds blowing snow over the road.
Clip 21 POV driving shot with the sun setting and blowing snow over the road. To license this footage, visit http://www.StormChasingVideo.com
2/26/2014 Central Minnesota Ground Blizzard Conditions B-Roll
A powerful weather system is hitting the upper midwest area again with winds up to 45 miles per hour across Minnesota and causing ground blizzard conditions.
Various footage shot on the Stearns County and Polk County area from Sauk Centre to Glenwood, MN.
Clip 1 MNDot Snow Plow on highway 71 trying to clear the snow drifts growing across the road.
Clip 2 Bank sign with temp of -10F outside this morning.
Clip 3 Bank sign with a temp of -2F an hour later.
Clip 4 Blowing and drifting across highway 28
Clip 5 Massive snow drift behind a group of trees
Clip 6 Polk County snow plow removing snow drifts.
Clip 7 Winds gusting up to 40 mph out in the open country of western Stearns County with a stop sign in the shot.
Clip 8 Near whiteout conditions along a north south road.
Clip 9 Near whiteout conditions along a north south road with a car in the distance that is lost in the blowing snow.
Clip 10 Blowing snow
Clip 11 Blowing snow and a yeild sign in eastern Polk County, MN.
Clip 12 Blowing snow across a road
Clip 13 Blowing snow and poor visibility with whiteout conditions.
Clip 14 Huge flag blowing in the wind.
Clip 15 Snow blowing across highway 71
Clip 16 Tight shot of a wind sock blowing in the high winds.
Clip 17 Wide shot of the wind sock blowing along highway 71 with blowing and drifting snow across the roadway.
Clip 18 Traffic and blowing snow
Clip 19 Heavy Blowing snow across Highway 71
Clip 20 Heavy Blowing snow across Highway 71 with traffic
Clip 21 Blowing snow across an open field
Clip 22 Heavy Blowing snow across Highway 71
Clip 23 – 25 POV Driving shot of blowing snow across a roadway
