Ego Sensation and White Hills have made a well-deserved splash at SXSW and on their accompanying tour this early Spring! Check out these awesome photos and also check out the two galleries below for more. Besides their work ethic and look, their sound is not to be believed! Let's just say that the photos only show half of the mind-melting moments created on stage. To hear their sound is the key. Check them out.
This is my friend Tim Smith's blog who lives in Japan outside of Tokyo. Interested to read his blog and learn about what he is doing to keep positive. Biking is it for him so this was a unique perspective on the situation there. He is also keeping the rest of us updated on the radiation fall-out and how he and his family are dealing with it. I liked this video because it shows how the population is 'honoring while doing', which I admire. He loves single track or single gear biking and thus has keep in great shape. Photos at the start and approximately half way though show some of the devastation mixed in with biking shots. Max Hodges is the photographer who he must know well as he integrated some of the shots in with the video footage he took. at 5:35 you can hear his voice which is strangely calming. at 6:11 you can see a crushed car that helps you understand the force of the earthquake and tsunami. Wow.
I had forgotten about this for a while and wanted to revisit it, not only because it's a rad music and visuals track, but because it gets me excited about video and film. Just a step back in time to when I first experienced this at the MOMA a few years back.
We had a great time making this video for Nat's K class. Their school is unique in that each student invites the entire class to research their family and home-life by making a "home visit". They transport their notebooks to the home, ask questions and write and draw their findings. We have enjoyed chaperoning on some of the other visits and wanted to find out more about what they think. We also set up a little green screen video fun in the studio which they seemed to like a lot. It's 11 minutes so enjoy.
I thought this was interesting and timely. I read this article from the January 24th issue and remembered one of my students from my Mediabistro course was working for AOL's Patch site in Maryland. Erin Donaghue took Zachary's and my course late last year and she is one of these new journalists mentioned in the article who is learning how to report digitally and to create interesting new content on a local level. I personally don't think that I would access the new AOL homepage for my first stop of the day's perusal of local events as it looks like a Yahoo page and had more information than I needed about celebrities. But AOL's development of Patch sites around the country (there are currently 700 Patch sites operating in the US) is fascinating.
I looked for video on Erin's site but didn't see any yet, but did find some video from my hometown's Patch site that used mostly Voice Over and some handheld video footage of roads and a flooded rivers. It seems like their PatchCast video on this site is mostly a driver to their articles as there are no talking heads or reporting of people. It's definitely modeled after The New York Times Timescast series but less interesting as animations of an article on a website and static footage with no people is nothing I would be looking at on a local news level.
If I am one of those people training local journalists to create news and lifestyle content online, than hopefully these newsmakers will be creating more compelling original content than I just saw on PatchCast. So far, it's not so impressive.
I read about this in New York Magazine, but liked seeing a little of these shots here. The end of an era. I remember the first camera I got for Christmas, it was a Pentax, K1000, a camera many of my peers used in the early days. It was solid, felt good in my hands and was my Dad's brand. I think the last role of film I took and got developed was the year that Leo was born, so almost 3 years ago.
Steve's blog has more of these lovely photographs, plus a whole lot more. I guess Fuji will have to take over where the Kodachrome will be missed.
I liked this piece because it was in-depth and detailed for any real fans of his long storied career out there. I was revealing to learn about his moods and his addiction to creating sculpture and New York. In particular, I liked the description of his siblings and him watching the news during the Vietnam War during the '60's and having his mother instruct them to watch carefully in case they should see their father. "We would of course sit there and go, 'I think I saw him' over and over again."
I also really liked the last words in the piece too: "New York can do that to you, "he says smiling. "You come here to change the world, but you end up changing yourself."
Poignant and real.
