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Geek Beat: Confessions of a Non-Artist

April 22, 2011

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I'm proud to say I got to help out on a shoot for this piece!
http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2011/04/19/geek-beat-confessions-of-a-non-artist/

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R1 Embryo Macro

Found footage I originally edited by hand. I had each 16mm frame scanned at 5K and then put the whole clip back together again digitally at 24 fps. It is part of a larger film in progress.

Stop Motion and Strobe Lights

Stop motion, strobe light test...kinda reddish orangey smeary fun. The strobe light is a beautifully designed app I downloaded onto my phone. http://strobily-free-strobe-light.soft112.com/

I never really made the connection as a kid hearing my family joke about Rose A'Sharon and putting your grandmother in her rocking chair on top of the car when loading up to go on a camping trip. Okies from Muskogee, Hank Williams Sr, "The Grapes of Wrath," biscuits and gravy, ham hocks and lima beans, and my favorite... pinto beans and corn bread. Only until I grew up and moved away did it all fall into place. My maternal grandmother told me stories of picking cotton at age 5, being told there was no reason to go to high school as she was "just a migrant". These types of stories came from both sides of my family, some wanted to talk more than others. Watching Ken Burn's "The Dust Bowl" documentary a few years ago I found myself severely disappointed by most of it... I recognized the same photos of the migrant mother, the man and his child fleeing a storm toward their shack patched with tar paper, video clips from the Prelinger Archives. Same ol

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