Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Silos

This past summer when I was in Austin, I went to these silos while I was visiting my brother. I mixed it with my music and liked how it turned out. Let me know if you do or not.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Estes Park Sept 2007

This is a video of our drive through Estes Park and up into the mountains in Colorado at the end of September. You can notice that it was raining when we were at lower elevations, but stopped the higher up we got. At 10,000 ft, the road was blocked off, we parked, and I walked a little ways higher to see if I could see anything else. Needless to say, it was VERY cold and I only had shorts (brought no long pants with me to Colorado) and a short sleeved shirt.



Thursday, October 11, 2007

Rain

When I got home from work today, it was raining so I took some video out my back window

Monday, October 8, 2007

The Wedding

Last week I met up with a friend from Texas in Colorado and we went to the wedding of a friend we have known for about 20 years. This is just a mash up of that event.
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Friday, October 5, 2007

Trip to Boulder, Colorado

Sandy and I went to Boulder to go to a dear friends wedding. On the first day there, we went to Pearl Street Mall and found a fantastic candy store...it had all the candy you could imagine. We also did a little other shopping. As you watch this video, you will see that when we travel, we only buy the essentials!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Effigy

Didnt they blow these things up about 60 years ago?

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Dance II

This is the second video I made called Dance, thus Dance II. This is just from some video I took this summer here in NYC at different times around the city. I tried to mix it up a little to make it more interesting. I hope I did that.



Thursday, September 6, 2007

Circus Amok II

One of the skits (from the previous post) from Circus Amok - Colony Collapse Disorder. See the queen B give birth!
More video of when I was in Washington Square Park this summer and serendipitously Circus Amok was there. Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City. This is sort of another video mash up of one of those performances.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Washington Square Park


Just a recent video mash-up I made from a recent weekend visit on a beautiful weekend in Washington Square Park here in NYC.
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Friday, August 31, 2007

Katrina

I meant to put this up two days ago on the second anniversary of hurricane Katrina, but I didnt have it finished. Please watch this. I think that it is important we remember what happened, so that if we ever find ourselves in circumstances where this might happen again, we can prevent it.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Max Roach Tribute

Over 2,000 people gathered at Riverside Church in New York on Friday for the funeral of the legendary drummer, educator and activist Max Roach, who died on August 16 at the age of 83. He was credited with helping to revolutionize the sound of modern jazz and for playing a prominent role in the struggle for black liberation at home and in Africa. The poem in this video is by African American poet Sonia Sanchez who spoke at the funeral.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Nieces

I went back to Texas a couple times this summer where I am always happy to see my nieces. They are really fun girls to be around...some of it is here.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Madison Square Park

I was at the park this past weekend and ran into these huge sculptures of trees made out of some type of silver metal. It was interesting to see these huge metal trees next to the organic trees of the park.

Monday, August 20, 2007

India Day Parade

I went to the India day parade here in manhattan this past weekend with a really good friend. I didnt put any music with this video (as I did with the others) since there was music at the parade.



Sunday, August 19, 2007

This is more from my recent trip to San Antonio. While I was there, I went down to Hemisphere Plaza to go up into the Tower of the Americas (as can be seen in the post just prior to this one). While I was walking around, I took some video and compiled it here.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Tower of the Americas

Just a video I shot while I was in San Antonio this month...enjoy!

Monday, August 13, 2007

Installation

So I have been gone for almost two weeks in San Antonio visiting family. While there I tried to take some video of things I did and people I saw...some of which I will try to put up here. This is an art installation I saw in downtown San Antonio.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The Visit

So a friend came up to NYC to visit Dale and I this summer. Unfortunately I didnt take as much video as I should have (lesson learned!) and the times we were together were only captured in two places...anyway, it was good to see our friend and this is from that time.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Staten Island Ferry July 2007

Earlier this month on a day when I was bored, I decided to just catch the bus down to the staten island ferry and catch a quick ride to staten island and back. This video is from that day.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

2007 National Pastry Competition

So earlier this month I went to Nashville for the the 2007 National Pastry Championship and saw what these sugar experts could do with sugar. I was able to take a little video while I was there, tried to make it into a short. I hope you enjoy!

Monday, July 16, 2007

Broadway Barks 9

Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore host this annual (9th year now) program in Times Square to bring awareness to pet adoption in the city. I was walking through Times Square this past weekend and got some video of some of the things that were going on.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Let it be

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I had something in mind when I made this, but dont want to say what it was...what do you think it was or what does it mean to you?

Thursday, July 5, 2007

biodome

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So I was away this past weekend for a convention/contest I will put in a different post, however the hotel I stayed at was gigantic...it reminded me of biodome because in addition to all the rooms for the guests, there were a ton of plants, waterfalls, restaurants, etc. I was actually just beginning to get a sense of direction in the place on the last day I was there (3 days)...which was also the case for other people there who you could overhear saying they were lost. Anyway, this is just a bit of video I took while walking around the hotel/resort.


Saturday, June 30, 2007

Der Panther

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I would never claim to be an authority on the meaning of this poem...as a matter of fact, like most people, it takes a lot of work on my part to glean things from poems... but for me, this poem has universal value. There are things that hold people back in life-self imposed or by others-and this poem uses the panther behind the bars at the zoo (that Rilke saw in Paris) to illustrate this point. The last part of the poem is particularly interesting to me because it suggest that though our innate desires can be stifled, these instincts don’t go away...they are still there...is this hope? Maybe our passions never die...and we are doomed to live behind these bars. I dont know. What does this poem mean to you?



Sunday, June 24, 2007

dance


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This sort of reminds me of the really old Bollywood films where there is always dancing and singing. I love the ornate outfits and the music (by Latafat Ali Khan) is mesmerizing to me...I hope you enjoy this one.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

patriot


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I think the most important part of this is the audio...so even though there is a bit of video associated with this post, make sure to listen to the audio.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

subway


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So this is the first attempt at trying to get something online using some things I got while in the subway. Please forgive the extra background noise that apparently reverberates much more than I expected in the subway. Hopefully I will be able to take care of this in future posts with similar circumstances.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Hello

Hope to get this going soon....