Archive for July, 2007

waiting for rain

Monday, July 16th, 2007
 
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Just a momentshowing - hanging out on my mom’s porch, waiting to see if it will rain, watching the ants confused by the sudden humidity. I sound intelligible because I’m holding my glasses in my mouth so I can see the camera better (guess it’s time for bifocals). I like the sound of the quiet […]

lumiere 004: Parade

Monday, July 16th, 2007
 
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Update: January 17, 2008
I created five Lumiere videos between June 27 - July 22, 2007, in response to encouragement from fellow vlogger Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen. It was fun. My videos, along with those of many others, were linked to from videoblogging.info.
In August 2007, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen and Brittany Shoot published the Lumiere Manifesto. I wish […]

If I Were Your Teacher in 1964

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
 
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I’ve been archiving all my old backup discs, making their contents searchable with disclib. I put the 148th disc in today and found these recordings of myself as 1964 elementary school teacher.
They were recorded and mixed in 2001 for a film I made for the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park by the incomparable […]

Aboriginal Welcome Song

Monday, July 9th, 2007
 
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I met Joe Gala in Australia in 2004 and again in 2005. I am very proud to call this man my friend. I blogged about him the day I met him, and had a lot to say. Here he’s performing Gari Gynda Narmi, the welcome & farewell song of the Badtjala aboriginal tribe of eastern […]

Mulberry Tree

Monday, July 9th, 2007
 
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Back in 2002, I took a digital storytelling class to supplement film school courses, and it changed my life. I stopped wanting to be a “filmmaker” and started wanting to tell real stories, snippets of lives, mine and others. So this is my very first digital story, exploring a place I spent a lot of […]

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