Archive for the 'family' Category

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 […]

BScrabble

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
 
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My mom and I invented an enjoyable, quick-playing version of Scrabble (with apologies to Milton Bradley). If you hate the agonizing wait while your opponent tries to make a triple-word-scoring word out of a letter set with no consonants, you will love our version. If you can’t spell, you will love our version. If you […]

Grandma and Me

Sunday, April 1st, 2007
 
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This is my kickoff post for Videoblogging Week 2007. I’m posting a video I made two years ago, before I started vlogging. If Videoblogging Week had started any other day, I probably would have made something new. But on April 1, there is only one video I want to post.
April 1, 1903 was my grandmothers’ […]

Popo

Sunday, January 7th, 2007
 
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On this day in 1980, I lost my grandfather to heart disease. This is a short video tribute to him, made from old family photos. He was a good man and a quiet man. He wore brown, smoked a pipe, and smelled like warm and safe. He loved his family. I miss him.

cheryl colan’s mixed media podcast - vlogging and sharing audio for fun and non-profit.