PG in 3

So this is a little piece of nostalgia and of what i know about my grandpa PG (paternal grandfather[ even though he is my mother's father???] ). I origionally made this for an intermedia class, so i was trying out some different stuff that i am not used to, like stop motion, and print transfers, hand painting, and most of the material in this video is dug up from my grandparents dungeony basement... where my grandpa also practiced dentistry. he was quite the famous dentist, i'm finding out... also ginkos were his horticultural passion...and they inhance memory. think about it.

take back the night

This is a short video of the annual Take Back the Night Protest in Iowa City on Thursday Oct. 19. All went well. This video makes me feel good about the night...however i had other feelings on the protest itself...read below. for mor info on take back the night check out.... take back the night history or the official website .

life as of now

welp, internet is hard for me to come across so i fear i only can post a few times a week... and hard to over weekends. anyhizzle, i made a short video of the annual take back the night protest march in iowa city this past thursday. i had never gone before, but had always heard of it from all of my feministfriends. all in all it was a good experience. a couple things erked me about the tradition... well i guess the main thing i noticed was that after the protest, i was super paranoid of every male i saw walking home that night, and i've never felt that way in iowa city. does awareness come with this price? does it have to? i cant help but think it is naive of me to even pretend to feel safe. but..honestly i have always felt safe in iowa city.

after the march and hearing women speak of how they have been abused.... instead of empowering me, it made me incredibly depressed, i wonder if this was the same for others.

Apocalypse?

I made this video in August, after feeling a lack of creativity this past summer and an intense desire to try rotoscoping. first rotoscope ever. and yes i went frame by frame... i think it ended up being over 400 frames. it took about two weeks working about 8 days at 6 hours a day... that's... what 48 hrs... well i guess that's not too bad. my friend Charlotte spent 96 hrs. on a 9 sec. rotoscope once. that's crazy!

morning glory

i just finished a deliscious breakfast at the Cottage, of tomato and spinach quiche. so i guess the spinach scare is over. that's good. the morning is dreary, wet, and cold. stupid me, i wore my chacos thinking i'd be ok. my feet are freezing.

this is my vlog. vlog vlog vlog vlog... it just rolls off the tongue. i am very excited to be starting this! Thanks to Jen Proctor, Aaron Valdez and Iowa City Microcinema for having an amazing weekend of video blogging events. attendence was low... unfortunately. but i think the people that were there did gain a lot of insight and inspiration from visiting vloggers Chuck Olsen and Chris Weagel.
So what does Video Blogging mean to me? well, #1 as a film student i see this as a valuable outlet and reason to keep practicing short form filmmaking, and especially experimenting... with no consequences. #2 to see the world that others present themselves in is very fascinating. #3 people like watching videos over reading to get their news information, well i do anyways... newspapers frustrate me.

so i will blog. and i will vlog. and it will be good.

mt. biking summer 2005

sports

here it is!

it is great!