a nice Quietwater paddlesports article in the paper

Quietwater Films received a very nice bit of newspaper coverage today. Here is a pdf of the article that was written by Brian Lavendel and published in the Outdoors section of the Wisconsin State Journal.

a test run on a high definition video website

Prior to discovering Vimeo this week, I had not heard of high definition online video.
So I uploaded a rough cut to see what online high def video looks like. I think it looks great. This rough cut clip is taken from a canoe design segment of our upcoming tandem canoe movie. If you view this clip, be sure and click the "full" icon in the lower right corner of the Vimeo page. That will give you the HD screen.

Google Earth and the mysteries of a KML file

Google Earth is a free desktop application. It is a Google "thing" and can be freely downloaded to your own computer. I've been messing around with it and recently produced my very first KML file (Keyhole Markup Language) that will show you an aerial view of Lake Wazeecha, which was the subject of our first "pleasant place to paddle" column in our newsletter.
Please note that for the link to work and the KML file to open, you first need to have downloaded Google Earth.

canoeing with our dog

We added a quick little podcast in iTunes, on canoeing with your Dog. Darren's dog is "Gracie". He offers some notes on what he did to get Gracie comfortable in a canoe. Here's a link to the Quietwater Films podcast and here's a link to the online video piece of canoeing with your dog.

tandem canoe movie on the Wisconsin River

This weekend we will be starting our third DVD/movie. This one will cover tandem
canoeing. Shooting will take place on the


Wisconsin River and at


Devil's Lake.

Release day is here!!!! Finally.

The kayaking DVD has been released. You can purchase it from our website. But feel free to view some clips of the contents as well. This is a big "yahoo" moment for us! We hope you will enjoy it as well!

Over the weekend we added some video podcasts to iTunes. iTunes is worth a look, there are some other interesting podcasts as well.


If you open up iTunes and go to the store:

1. click on podcast in the store category list


2. now click video podcast in the upper middle of the main screen


3. back in the podcasts listing there is a sports & recreation - click that it's near the bottom


4. after it refreshes now there is one more box further down


5. in this final box there is an "outdoors" category - click that


6. at this point I then search on kayak...but I like to browse through all of the other outdoor podcasts too.