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    VIDEO: “WATER/CLOUD/WIND/LEAF: A Hoeft Marsh Melody”

    Hoeft Marsh in Greenbottom WV is where I get off to when I want to get off the timeline of the world's news. "WATER/CLOUD/WIND/LEAF: A Hoeft Marsh Melody" is a short musical visit there. It's a little fishy, too.

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  • Art,  Photo Essay,  Video

    VIDEO/NOTEBOOK: Byways, Highways & One Amazing Ceiling

    Take a musical sojourn along along West Virginia's byways, highways and roads less traveled, during the months of May/June 2022. Plus. one to-die-for ceiling in the state's capital city.

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  • Essays,  Poetry,  Video

    VIDEO: “The Green, Green Hills of Earth” and who it’s for

    When the azaleas burst into bloom around a Buddha given me by a dear, departed, harmonic soulmate, it was time to set her memorial song to imagery of the green, green hills of Earthh ...

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  • Essays,  Poems,  Video

    VIDEO/POEM: ‘The Difference Is’

    There is a difference / between people who do things / and people who don't ...

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  • Poems,  Poetry,  Video

    VIDEO/POEM: “Something for Nothing”

    I want to see / if it is possible / to be a nobody / from nowhere. / Creating something / out of nothing …

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  • Art,  Video

    VIDEO: When the hummingbirds fly

    When an audio clip arrived in our 'in-box' from a buddy, Joel Preston Smith, featuring a live recording of hummingbirds dive-bombing his feeder in rural Liberty, WV., wings a-whirring, we asked if we might illustrate it with some action-packed hummingbird video

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  • Art,  Video

    MUSIC/VIDEO: “Sonata for Piano & West Virginia, No. 1”

    I invite you to take five minutes from feeling harassed by the news or our own hectic heads for "Sonata for Piano & West Virginia No. 1." It offers another way of looking at West Virginia and those parts that remain uncorrupted, fresh, and true.

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  • Art,  Photo Essay,  Video

    NATUREGRAM: Two minutes of nothing but pines, plus some calming music

    We can't share with you the sweet aroma of a stand of pine trees in Putnam County, West Virginia. But we can share with you the experience of standing among them. A new WestVirginiiaVille shelter-in-nature short video.

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  • News,  Video

    VIDEO: ‘Rosa Parks’ feet did not hurt’

    The actual story of the stalwart moment Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 was far more powerful than a supposed frail, tired old Black lady sitting where she shouldn't.

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  • Video

    VIDEO: “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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  • Art,  Essays,  Video

    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, by a pandemic and with winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wanted to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. Then, she kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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  • Essays,  Video

    MAKEITSHORT: Three Not-the-News, Under-a-Minute Videos

    When you are suffering from an overdose of dire news, may we suggest spending a minute with a happy dog tooling down the road, a koto-fueled Japanese fire, and bird upon a Buddha's head?

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  • Editorial,  News,  Video

    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Joe Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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  • Songs,  Video

    MUSIC VIDEO | An “Over the Rainbow” Primer and Duet

    "Let the boys have the damn song." How "Over the Rainbow" almost didn't make the cut for "The Wizard of Oz." A look back at a "sacred" song in the American canon, on the occasion of creation of a down-and-dirty music video version.

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  • News,  Video

    JUSTICE PROJECT | “Pills & Suits” & Patrick Morrisey

    In an illustrated excerpt from Pulitzer-winner Eric Eyre's "DEATH IN MUD LICK," he describes WV Attorney General's Patrick Morrisey's entanglement with one of the huge pharmaceutical companies that helped spawn the opioid crisis, and the devastation that continues to affect families.

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Welcome to The StoryIsTheThing, featuring poetry, essays, photo-essays, video & more. The site is a production of writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. Its companion site is AmpMediaProject.com, where we do all the heavy lifting of moving pixels around. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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