Hello?

Word Play

Re-edited the Tag video to fit more with a song by Kathy.
Watch.

Broken

This is a video for a song by House of Freaks.

I will be focusing on making videos for The PAN
Music Moments, using songs by bands I like, which don't have videos.

Filmed on the train down to Virginia and edited it on the ride back to NY. I have loved this train ride, in the past. It provided a much needed transition time from NYC to Richmond.

But this time is difficult. I have not visited since the murder of the Harvey family and I am still broken from it. I don't know if I will ever fully repair. I find myself crying most of the ride down and back. Making the video is difficult because of this, but cathartic, I am hoping...

Notice how the shift in the camera's perspective alters the way the land passes outside the train window. With the camera's lense parallel to the window, the trees pass by so quicky that they become an abstraction on a flat flickering screen. When the camera's lense is at a 45 degree angle from the window the world outside gains enough depth to become a doirama of streets lined with toy houses.

It is amazing how a small alteration in physical perspective can change so much.

Betty Davis Eyes

Around these parts we call it 'Mary-oke'. Watch this video and you will understand why.

This one goes out to two of my favorite blogging, karaoke-ing, Amerincan Idol artists - MTAA and Marisa Olson.

Impact Sudan

This is the last video from my conversation with David, a friend who works for the UN on demilitarization efforts in Sudan. The audio is taken from a conversation we recently had, here in NYC, with video he made while in Sudan.
It is heartening to know that some of the people involved in making policies and developing plans for severely damaged places in the world are creative, down-to-earth and caring. It is easy to only see only the negative decisions being made by people in government and corporate agencies who seems so removed from the reality of situations at hand and never know about the people within the system who work hard on for positive change despite the odds they are up against.
Click on the image to watch the video.

Sudan dancing

More on Sudan. The video was given to me by my friend David who works in Africa for the UN, the audio is a from conversation we had here in NYC.

click picture below to see the video
Get your dance on with these highlights from Faublous Entourage playing on the Rocks Off rockin' boat ride. Their song 'Hello', is now the official (not that anything here is all that official) theme song of my videoblog. Pardon the frenetic filming style , I did mention that it was on a boat, right?

not women?

We are DEVA!
Lady DEVO cover band, rocks the rock at Lit. 

Here I go again

They have a singing saw, a theremin, and an accoridan and they play the rock n' roll songs you love.
Back by popular demand. Live and kicking, it's STICKERBOOK!

Not Karaoke

                                    
If you are really really good at karaoke, you might be invited to perform at Terry Jinn's birthday party. Well, it's something to aspire to.
CliCk on the PiCtUre tO SEE.

Amercan Idols

Click HERE to Watch

All that emotion. The pathos and performance, it is positively classical, greek even? To paraphrase Richard Wright, and the words of their souls were the lyrics of popular songs.

Who's got moves?

Click Here to Watch, if you please
This is a shit edit but I just get such joy from seeing the karaoke performances themselves, that I didn't feel the need to keep fussing with it. I mean, it is what it is. Am I really going to be able to 'say' more with it? I don't know but I do know that it is imperative that I continue to record and archive these wonderfully shameless performances.

you must CLICK ON THIS text- rather than the photo, if you want to WATCH THE MOVIE. I know it is counterintuitive but that's just the way it is right now. I promise I'll take the time to figure out how to link the photo to video this weekend. This video is longer than the others but hang in there (maybe a whole minute?!), i think its worth it.

I am my own American idol

click on this to watch
This is a video of karaoke from last night.
I'm having technical difficulties. I have the posting-through-typepad down now but its not really what I want. I can't make the video link to the thumbnail and I cant make links in the text. So I got 'ecto' up on on my computer (note you must use this with the mac browser 'safari') but only managed to upload the text no images were showing up! Then the whole computer freaked so I had to reboot and now 'ecto' and 'safari' have gone missing. So, it's tomorrow and im back to where I was yesterday. At least with the goal of a daily video post, Im starting to feel used to 'getting my hands dirty' - rather, I'm less frustrated with having to do things repeatedly, make mistakes. I need to get to the point where I feel as free to play with this medium as I do with any other. Once you get the hang of the technical aspect then you can really begin to make something.