Harvest and Eat Seaweed with Ngobe Indians

Have you ever eaten seaweed? Have you ever harvested it? You can do this and so much more at Urraca Private Island. Van and I spent three wonderful days in this paradise with the owner Francine Roy. Check out our 4-minute video below.

A big thank you to Nuque Palacio, Elisia Mumani, Cecilio Mumani and Ignacio Bruce, four local Ngobe India's who took excellent care of us. I really wish we could have spent a few more days with you!

Emmmm... seaweed. Eat it, drink it or spread it on your skin.

Cecilio paddles me out to the seaweed farm in a traditional Ngobe canoe. BYOMS (bring your own mask and snorkle).

Check out the video at TripFilms HERE

Check out Urraca Private Island HERE

Edible Jungle in the TripFilms Newsletter

It appears we made the weekly TripFilms newsletter. Truly exciting as TripFilms has a wide following and it helps us get recognized. Thanks TripFilms!

view the TripFilms blog HERE

Eat Chocolate in Paradise [4-minute video]

Vân and I are honored to have earned our 19th Editor's Pick award and a Video Pick of the Week award from TripFilms.com with our new short doc Edible Jungle. This was the first piece entirely edited by Vân and I think you would agree that she did an excellent job. We are sending this short out to festivals right now.

view the video on TripFilms HERE

view the video on Vimeo HERE

In case you couldn't tell from this video, we absolutely loved our time at La Loma. I can't think of many of my friends or family who wouldn't love it as well.

Check out La Loma Jungle Lodge and Chocolate Farm HERE

Apple Nails It Again

What is more impressive than shooting a video in one day in fifteen different locations in ten countries? That is was all shot on an iPhone? No. Watch the minute and a half ad first:

I knew when I saw this commercial during the Super Bowl that it was a bit more than just a bunch of people shooting video with their iPhones. I should have known that it took hundreds of thousands of dollars. Much of this support gear (gear holding the cameras) costs tons of cash just to RENT! Then there are the professionals working behind them. Then there is Jake Scott, son of Ridley Scott, directing it. This is impressive. Apple nails it again. Not only making a great commercial but doing it in a... impressive way.

More about it at the No Film School website.

More from Apple here.