Stories: Thembi "break in"

A friend I met in South Africa telling me a story about how her house was broken into.

What I Saw Today

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This is what I saw today. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Hands Do.

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The future is scary. What will my hands do?

Definitely taking a page out of Dave Huth's book for this one. (www.davidhuth.com) What can I say he's a great teacher and friend.

Music: Devin Anderson from Podsafeaudio.com

-City-

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From my trip to London. Hope you like it. Music: Devin Anderson "Trifels-A Play in One Act" www.podsafeaudio.com

Worry

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Description: What do you worry about? My friends and I worry a lot about the future. I also worry about the test that I blew off studying for to make this video.  Music: Bobhellbringer You Need www.ccmixter.org

Meaning

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A collaborative Vlog Opera (vlopera?) between myself and videoblogger Dave Huth http://davemedia.blogspot.com . Im not sure what we were thinking. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Slew of groovy tunes from http://podsafeaudio.com and http://ccmixter.org .

Happy Valentine's Day

What would happen if we wrote what we really wanted to say in Valentine's Day cards?
Music: Likewater "When You Hide" www.podsafeaudio.com

I don't know what the deal with blip is right now. I can't get it to cross-post and I'm do tired to figure it out.

Full size version is here: http://blip.tv/file/get/Reeltoreel-HappyValentinesDay968.m4v

Light-Response

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Sort of in response to CD's challenge in week five to produce some light art (http://blip.tv/file/632641) and Michael Aivaliotis post (http://michael.aivaliotis.com/2008/01/26/light-painting-experiment-with-the-kids/#respond). Still trying to figure out some in camera ways to animate light without using stop motion. Experimenting is always fun tho.

Music: "Bouncing to the Mourge" by Devin Anderson.  http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

Experiment

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I am the teaching assistant for a digital video class.  This week my task was to give a demonstration on logging and capturing in Final Cut.  One cool thing Final Cut will do is allow you to recapture an clips that you may have deleted while still saving all the edits in the timeline. I couldn't resist trashing all of my footage and having it randomly reconnect in the timeline. Strange.........

belief-3

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Third in a series of shorts about belief. This is my friend Ryan.  The first time I met him he was cussing in chapel.  My kind of guy.

dream

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Weird? Maybe, but I'm okay with that.  Taking a week off of straight documentary stuff to explore a feeling I was having.

Music from podsafemusic.com: "Trifles" by Devin Anderson

Belief-2

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The second of a series of interviews about belief and the beliefs of the people that hold them.

The music came from www.ccmixter.org by Tomas y. its called "Fuer Bob"

belief-1

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The first of a series of interviews about belief and the beliefs of the people that hold them.

New York-New York

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Clips from my recent trip to New York City. I would be remise if I didn't mention Jay Dedman (www.momentshowing.net) and Ryanne Hodson (http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/) because looking at their work was definitely an inspiration for a clip like this. The music is from http://www.podsafeaudio.com/. It is "Movement One" by Ocean Alexander.

Taking out the Trash

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World AIDS Day 2007

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I video I made to support a international event that my college participates in called Word AIDS Day. Interviews included: Megan Nykyforchyn-Clark the HIV/AIDS Manager for World Hope International, Charlotte Keniston a Houghton College Alumnus and currently a Faith and Justice Fellow Acting on AIDS for World Vision, and Rachel Varughese a Houghton College Alumnus. For more information on World Aids Day and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS around the world check out these sites. http://www.worldaidscampaign.info/index.php/en/campaigns/in_country_campaigns/north_america/usa www.worldhope.org www.worldvision.org www.actingonaids.org

It's Killing Me

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By nature I make documentary type stuff. I don't feel comfortable letting my feelings show or dealing with personal matters in public arenas. This is definitely one of the most personal videos I've ever posted. I'd been toying with narrative work recently and when this idea was born was rather upset about my work in general and just me as a person. Luckily, I have great people in my life that encourage me to create even when I don't think I can and push me to do my best for me and not for what others. I hope whoever sees this enjoys it but I didn't make it for you. I made it for me. It was a struggle to even be willing to post it. I owe many thanks to David Stith for graciously letting me use his music. You can check his work out at www.dmstith.com. I also owe many thanks to Dave Huth who always offers encouragement on my crazy ideas and provides me inspiration through his work. You can check his work out at www.davidhuth.com. "Real teachers make you believe in yourself, even when you would rather take the easy way out and quit. They draw the best out of you and their inspiration often gives you the courage to fight on." -Ron Lindeboom

Performance

Friends-
Some Houghton students and I participated in a contest promoted by Apple in which we had 24 hours to write, cast, shoot and edit a 3 minute short film. The top 25 films are screened before judges including Barry Sonnenfeld, James Mangold and Nora Ephron. However, in order to get into the top 25 we need you! The public votes in order to decide which films are good enough to get into the top 25.

We would really appreciate your vote.

To vote all you have to do is go here

There it will prompt you to login and give you further instructions if you don't have an apple ID. Apple makes it really easy to create an apple ID if you don't have one so please don't let that deter you from voting.

If you would like to know more about the process of participating I'm happy to answer any questions and there is a short press release on Houghton's website as well that you can find here

Thanks!
Kerry

laughter

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I couldn't pull anything but laughter off this tape so I decided to make a video about laughter.

"House Dinner"

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Well if you looked at my house and had to pick out who you thought would be the ones cooking...I guarantee you would not choose me and Kate. However, we have found that we actually do the majority of the cooking despite our adventures exteriors we are little Susie homemakers on the inside.