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Day 29 - Trying to Sleep
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Kerry Brogan and is followed by a post by Mary Matthews. Music by: Imogen Heapvideobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 9 months ago
Combat Wombat live at spectrum
I actually made it out to a gig on a Friday night - this is one of my favourite Sydney bands Combat Wombat - they're on my fav Sydney label, elefant traks. they're partly a subversive, hip hop, outdoor party band, & have been running a traveling vege-oil & solar powered van & crew called the "Lab Rats Solar Sound System" which traveled the outback and brought music & mayhem to various outback & Indigenous Australian towns for many years - before the cars were talking about being converted. http://www.myspace.com/labratssolarpoweredsoundsystem Combat Wombat at the Curse ov Dialect album launch 27/11/2009 http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=artists&artistId;=81 http://blip.tv/file/2904562Published 9 months ago
Day 25 - 3 Generations
Following from Frank's video exploration of Darwin and evolution yesterday, I was inspired to think about generations and families, how they change and evolve over time. David made a recording of his dad years ago, talking about what life was like when he was young. Listening to it again this morning, I was struck by the fact that he made £2.10 pr week in his first job, less money than I spent on his grandson's birthday cake! The third generation is a bit more subtle. I'll leave that for you to think about....Published 9 months ago
Day 27 - What I Didn't See
Here’s my decidedly lo-fi contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos project for Navlopomo 2009. This video follows yesterdays collection of rituals rendered in animated gifs by Jennifer Proctor. Next up: Kerry Brogan.Posted 9 months ago
Day 20 - Death in the Morning
Jay emailed me this link and I watched it at around 8:30am, held back tears, then let a couple go when Ryanne showed up. Cursed him aloud, emailed him that I was going to go out and try to capture something. Started walking toward Prospect Park, then turned around and started walking toward Greenwood Cemetery. This is my video response to Jay'smomentshowing.net/2009/11/video-sure/ for NaVloPoMo Music by Chopin.Published 9 months ago
Day 18 NaVloPoMo
Day 18 of NaVloPoMo and day 18 is my day. Been very busy up early and all over the place. I hope it was worth it.Published 9 months ago
Day 17 - Time...For A Dog Walk!
Dog Walk is my contribution to NaVloPoMo The idea is to do a video that was inspired by the previous days video. I followed Cheryl Colan and was inspired by her use of windows, leaves and a morning face. This inspired me to imagine waking up to the big trees outside my bay windows and needing to take the dog out. Go figure. This was a great test for me as it really set into gears the task of quick script writitng, shooting, editing and my limited HTML all within a few hours to keep the game going for the next person...Good Luck Ernie! I'm happy with the final piece as time allowed, but somehow the aspect ratio got botched with bad settings when I imported from iMovie HD. Clark Park has one of the few, if not only statues in the world, of Charles Dickens.Published 9 months ago
Day 08 - navlopomo#08
I think some of the previous work is in my video. Then again... HD Version: http://vimeo.com/7510280Published 9 months ago
Day 26 - Rituals - Animated GIFs
It’s NaVloPoMo ([Inter]National Vlog Posting Month), and this year, thanks to Rupert, a month-long video-chain has been created in lieu of the traditional post-a-video-a-day-all-month insanity. This year, vloggers were asked to sign up for a particular day during November and, based on the video that came before theirs, make and post something for that day. I chose American Thanksgiving, 26 days into the vlogging festivities. After viewing Trine’s NaVloPoMo video, I started thinking about the rituals we perform to mark moments in time. This Thanksgiving, I didn’t get to see my extended family, and, to my surprise, I found myself particularly missing those traditions that happen year after year. So I decided to document a few little rituals that took place on my holiday: baking, opening the window to the unusually empty street, a long day watching TV specials (this year, a “Band of Brothers†marathon that I only occasionally partook in). I’ve also been thinking quite a bit about loops lately, and of course the very notion of rituals or traditions implies a loop or cycle, a way of passing on heritage from one generation to the next. These little documents then became loops in the form of animated GIFs - a departure from conventional vlogging, I know, but it seemed the most appropriate form for these little moments to take. It’s an idea I’d like to explore more - animated GIF as documentary. Next up: Brook Hinton!Posted 9 months ago
Day 16 - Little Pieces
Kath published some intriguing thoughts about time, the data-body, and outsourced memories along with her video. Her piece begins with a quote from “Time Squared,†a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Which is kind of funny because when I think about time, I always come back to Delmore Schwartz’ poem Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day, which, of course, provides a big theme for the Star Trek Generations film: Time is the fire in which we burn. And I also come back to Don Charles’ song, “Little Pieces,†performed by D-Squared, which I used as the soundtrack. As Charles says, we’re all just “walking, talking, burning little pieces.†And for the origin of both, you can always look back to Heraclitus.Posted 9 months ago
Day 30 - REM 30
Day 30 entry of 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a video by Steve Garfield.vimeo.com/7871542videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 9 months ago
Day 11 - more than one home, sadly.
for vlomo09 11-11we tried to bring "home" to my grandmother's final year at a nursing facility.the little tangible conveniences and intimate objects and memories. and accompany her as much as we could.in the end, she went to her final home.... her resting place.Published 9 months ago
Day 09 - Home is where the larch is.
Navlopomo #9(number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine)Miguel's video got me thinking about home -- specifically returning home. Brian & I have been sort of floundering re:home. Is the city home? Is the country home? Is New Orleans home? We seem unable to decide.Then I remembered the larch we planted last Spring. Our very first tree at our very first house. We planted it together so that we could watch it grow as we got old.Home is where the larch is. edit: I'm just now looking outside my office window and can see quite plainly the the larch is dead. This does not bode well.Published 9 months ago
Day 28 - Seeing
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Brook Hinton and is followed by a post by Steve Garfield. Music by: Delmo from ccmixter.com.Posted 9 months ago
