This chapter has been produced using a different video software program, Openshot. This is an improvement for me because it allows a video preview synced with the audio. Previously I've always had to calculate the start and end times for clips by following the text while playing the audio in audacity. This program also allows me to combine video clips with still images. Technically I could do that with PiTiVi but the results often failed during export. Anyway, chapter 31 is Mark Twain's visit to Pompeii. I've used the illustrations from the book, The Oxford Edition, images from Wikipedia Commons as well as some screen capture clips from the Second Life reading. There were a number of additional Commons images that would fit with this chapter but I've left them out so that it could retain a general audience rating on YouTube and on Blip.tv. Pompeii is known for the erotic images painted on some of the walls.
Reading Date
January 24, 2012
SL Venue
Fate Gardens
Twain Chapter Comments
Maintenance of Roman Roads in Pompei (and elsewhere).
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ancient-roman-road-repair-0423/
"Although the Romans were quite advanced in their public works (and corruption was indeed a problem in Roman society), Twain was perhaps not aware of how complicated road repair during that time could be. Repaving the street was out of the question in most situations — it was simply too expensive and time-consuming. If a narrow street was damaged, traffic could be blocked for months until specialists finished repaving the street."