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Beach Walk #4 – Beauty and Rain

February 24, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment


E komo mai and welcome to show number 4 of Beach Walks with Rox. We caught a break between showers. It was one of those days when the islands of Maui and Molokai were visible 40 miles in the distance. I don’t understand what makes that so breath-taking, the visage of another island. I guess it is partly the deep connection I feel with the rest of humanity. Including you.

Watch this video.
(3:43 minutes; 22.32 MB; Quicktime – it’s required. It’s free.)

About Today’s Show:

I talked about beauty today. The beauty of fellow women video podcasters Amanda of Rocketboom and Cali of GeekBrief.tv. As compared to my own unprepped and pre-showered morning self. I find it quite liberating and something I am not sure I could have comfortably done before living in Hawaii.

I also noticed the coincidence of starting our first week of videos, with rain and dark clouds every day! Not the usual “beauty” one thinks of for Hawaii. Yet it has been a beautiful week for me and I hope for you too. In writing up this post, I looked to see what the dictionary had to say for beauty, and it included this lovely synchronicity to my comments in the show: In poetry, beauty is shown by references to nature, especially to the sea and rain. The discussion on rain is also quite beautiful! I had forgotten there are so many ways to know rain in Hawaiian.

We all become more beautiful when we are loved, and if you have self-love, then you are always beautiful. –Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Hawaiian words
nani: beauty
ua: rain

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Beach Walk #3 – 24 February 2006

February 23, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a Comment


E komo mai and welcome to show number 3 of Beach Walks with Rox. The winter rains continue, so we went in the afternoon. Natch, we ran into some friends! (Aloha to Lynn and Carl.)

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About Today’s Show:

Pet Flight airline travel information for your pets
Music is Kaimoku: The Ukulele Experiment

This morning it was raining. Pretty darn hard. We haven’t figured out a way to rain-proof the camera yet, so the beach walk was postponed until late afternoon. This shows feature a little more of Lexi (our wonderful dog) and how she is helping me meet people both offline (on the beach) as well as online. I was a little tired today, so you’ll also get to see my first blooper, aka “blond moment!”

Upcoming Show Teaser: I am determined to get a surf board soon and plan to let you in on that process. I’m currently accepting advice from the surfers out there who might want to influence my long board purchase. (Hint: Call the Conch line!)

Hawaiian words
‘Ä«.lio: dog
ho’oikaika kino: exercise
hoa.loha: friend
nalu: surf

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Beach Walk #2 – 23 February 2006

February 22, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments



E komo mai and welcome to show number 2 of Beach Walks with Rox. Winter rains continued today and it made for the most mystical and beautiful morning. Today’s shows introduces you to outrigger canoe paddling, which is one of my favorite past-times.

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About Today’s Show:

Winter morning, it’s cold, windy, and rainy. Lanikai Beach. Meet the “wa’a lele” outrigger canoe that we paddle in several mornings a week plus check out the difference between a paddle blade and a steering blade.

Hawaiian words
anuenue: rainbow
wa’a: canoe
lele: to fly, jump, leap, burst forth; to sail through the air
hoe: paddle

Mahalo nui loa to the Foti family who share the wa’a lele with us and to my great camera man, Shane. If you are a traveler, be sure to check out the Foti Filter to breathe clean, fresh, moist air on your next long, dry airplane trip.

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Beach Walk #1 – 22 February 2006

February 22, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , , | 4 Comments

E komo mai and welcome to show number 1 of Beach Walks with Rox. I started playing around with a little video many months back. Mahalos to Ryan Ozawa and Eric Rice for helping me get started with video. I now want to bring you a little slice of my morning routine, which is a daily walk and swim on “Lani-Kailua” or Lanikai and Kailua beaches in Hawaii.

Watch this video. (3:05 minutes; 18.54 MB; Quicktime required.)

About Today’s Show:

Winter morning, it’s cold, windy, and rainy. Lanikai Beach. Still beautiful. Still swim. Talk about my first Hawaiian massage 30 years ago and decision to come to Hawaii.

Hawaiian words
hanai: to raise, feed, nourish; adopted child, foster child
mana: supernatural or divine power
lomi: to rub, squeeze, knead, massage, as in lomilomi massage

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About Us

February 21, 2006 | |

photo of rox and her dog lexi

_Aloha_.

I am Rox. Roxanne. Miss Darling. Roxy. Co-caregiver to Lexi, one of the luckieset dogs around. A person happily living my dream life come true in Hawaiʻi.

And still facing the usual challenges of keeping clients happy, sorting out the occasional temper burst with my guy (mine or his), doing what it takes to get those bills paid — you know the sort of things that are just part of a normal life.

But most every day that I am here in Hawaii, I go to the beach to walk and swim with our dog Lexi, and Secret Cameraman comes along so we can share it with you. (Other days I am on the road or we do something special here in Hawaii!)

*Beach Walks reviewed on NewTeeVee*
Jackson West says Beach Walks with Rox is a remarkable show. Wow! Mahalo Jackson. Jackson continues to “count us as one of his daily fixes”:http://newteevee.com/2007/10/02/boingboing-finally-goes-fully-hollywood/.

*Rox presents Beach Walks at the Podcast and New Media Conference*
Justin Kaiser says “Roxanne Darling is the Darling of VideoCasting… She is a tremendous presenter and http://www.beachwalks.tv is truly a relaxation of time.”:http://www.creativeidentitygroup.com/2007/09/29/2007-09-29-twitter-updates-for-creative-identity-group/

*Beach Walks To Be Featured at Pixelodeon Festival*
Patricia Lange, of the Annenburg Foundation, is curating a session at “Pixelodeonon “Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: The Importance of Physical Place in the Vlogsophere” and is featuring “Beach Walk #388 OTR – What Is, Can Shift”:http://www.beachwalks.tv/2007/03/18/beach-walk-388-otr-what-is-can-shift/.

*Beach Walks Analyzed at The Barnard Center for Research on Women*
You can read about us on Page 2 of “The Vulnerable Video Blogger: Promoting Social Change through Intimacy”:http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/blogs/lange_01.htm

*Rox Interviewed on Podcast 411*
Rob Walch is one of the premier interviewers and his show is one of the originals and still one of the best. “Here is a direct link to the MP# audio file”:http://media.libsyn.com/media/podcast411/411_070411.mp3

*Rox Interviewed on Focus.tv*
This is David Kowarsky’s show, part of Jeff Pulver’s “Network2.tv”:http://www.network2.tv network.
“Watch the video interview here”:http://focus.blip.tv/file/102437/

*BBC News Mentions Lexi and Beach Walks*
“What to watch on the web”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6178644.stm
_Online video may still in its infancy, but there is already a dizzying amount to watch. The quality is often questionable – but there are some good places to dip a toe into the online video ocean. One of the most successful video blogs is Beach Walks with Rox, made by Hawaii resident Roxanne Darling’s, who delivers soothing and spiritual thoughts about life while walking her dog Lexi._

*Beach Walks Wins 3 Vloggie Awards!*
On November 4th, 2006, we won three “Vloggies”:http://www.vloggiessf.com.
Best Inspirational Vlog (Judges’ Favorite and People’s Choice)
Best Entertainment – Nonfiction (People’s Choice)

*We’re on “Akimbo”:http://my.akimbo.com/browse_category.aspx?cid=16e7cf7dfa44f0b4!* That is a service that lets you download selected programs from the internet and watch it on your TV. Beach Walks is one of a handful of video podcasts to be accepted.

I invite you to join me on the walks as we remember to _be here now_. Stay tuned and together we’ll see what treasures the sea shall bring us.

Malama pono,

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“Email me if you like.”:mailto:beachwalks@gmail.com

*Some Show Specs for the Curious*
* All original, unscripted content.
* Viewers in over 70 countries.
* A daily show, seven days a week. (Yeah – it’s crazy!)
* Consistently in the top 10 at “Network2″:http://network2.tv/thebest/
* Consistently in the top 10 at “Podcast Alley”:http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_genres.php?pod_genre_id=12 (out of over 1030 video podcasts).
* Praised by “The Clip Show”:http://theclipshow.com/index.php?post_id=118029, “PodGuide.tv”:http://www.podguide.tv/archives/2006/03/beach_walks_wit.html, “Podcast Salad”:http://podcastsalad.com/podcastsalad20060519.html, and more.
* Sometimes serious, sometimes frivolous, always Aloha!

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