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The Rapidian is a new venture in hyper-local citizen journalism here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I couldn’t be more proud to serve on its steering committee. Launched September 15th and still in beta, the project is the brainchild of the Grand ...

My contribution to Star Wars Uncut, Casey Pugh’s work of crowdsourced database cinema that re-imagines Star Wars as a collective DIY film. Each contributor grabs a 15- segment to re-create (or “swede“), then has 30 days to upload the ...

This film is pretty much done with the festival rounds, so on to the web it goes! (2008, 18:00, digital video and found footage) An energetic documentary that offers an insider’s look at the writing workshops at the University of Iowa through ...

Some station promos I made back in the day at Texas Student Television at UT Austin. Ah, VHS, Hi 8, 3/4″. I cut my teeth on thee and thy linear editing system. More promos from fellow TSTV alum here (Tony Brummer) and here (Aaron Valdez).

Videoblogging Week #6 - a little meditation on the slow, slow decay of winter in West Michigan. Most of my time shooting this was spent figuring out how best not to fall through the ice. Also, remind me not to go on a snow hike in clogs.

A volley back at Quirk, Day 5 of Videoblogging Week. Based on: Composition in Circles and Lines then Pixel Smear then Pixel Tennis then Pixel Badminton then Pixel Tetherball

For Videoblogging Week Day 4, Proctor vs. Proctor vs. Quirk vs. Proctor. It’s Pixel Badminton. Original sources: Composition in Circles and Lines Pixel Smear Pixel Tennis Amazing how it starts to look like hand-painted film after so much data ...

For Videoblogging Week day three, a little excursion into data moshing. This is based on a previous post, from last year’s Videoblogging Week, which was based on Adam Trowbridge’s Sensation Containers project. Now it’s been moshed, yo!

I don’t know what this is. Fun with compression and layering on a previous post. It gets kinda interesting in the middle. I’m too tired to do any more. Thanks, as always, to Gurdonark for the song “Kestrel”, courtesy of CC ...

I don’t know what this is. Fun with compression and layering on a previous post. It gets kinda interesting in the middle. I’m too tired to do any more. Thanks, as always, to Gurdonark for the song “Kestrel”, courtesy of CC ...

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. I’ve been busy. Some updates are below. In the meantime… My first video for Videoblogging Week 2009. It’s late, but it’s here. A superquick foray into kinetic typography - ...

A long overdue document of the giant communal pillow fight at Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids, September 2008. Watch it here in HD. An event hosted by Rob Bliss Urban Experiments, who also engineered a huge zombie walk through downtown Grand ...

A long overdue document of the giant communal pillow fight at Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids, September 2008. Watch it here in HD. An event hosted by Rob Bliss Urban Experiments, who also engineered a huge zombie walk through downtown Grand ...

A long overdue document of the giant communal pillow fight at Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids, September 2008. Watch it here in HD. An event hosted by Rob Bliss Urban Experiments, who also engineered a huge zombie walk through downtown Grand ...

A little radio interview on West Michigan’s NPR station, WGVU, about this Saturday’s international celebration of Home Movie Day. Thanks to Scott Vanderwerf for the plug. Here’s the deets on Grand Rapids’ official screening ...

A little radio interview on West Michigan’s NPR station, WGVU, about this Saturday’s international celebration of Home Movie Day. Thanks to Scott Vanderwerf for the plug. Here’s the deets on Grand Rapids’ official screening ...

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for Quicktime (higher quality) A little voodle made with Processing and data visualization, courtesy Radiohead’s “House of Cards” project. Made with Processing, AfterEffects, and Final Cut Pro using original data scans of Thom Yorke ...