1. A place for ideaposts. Idea posts are for things I’d like to do or see someone else do. Email me or reblog if it makes you think of something related, or already done, or that you’re about to do with me.
2. A concoction of things that I like and a few things that I make. I'm especially into anything that helps me imagine ways to connect youth from different cultures in artistic, ridiculous, hilarious, serious exchanges.
3. Inspired by students & teachers I've worked with through projects like these: Inside/Out: Multimedia exchange between students in California and China. The Small World Project: Ongoing workshop series of online youth collaborations piloted in Hong Kong.
Always eager to say hi back, allegro at gmail.
Just back from Vietnam.. a trip that was like a year of travel packed into 4 or 5 days, with unexpected twists and turns (and some sweet, magic up up down down left right left right b a start moments to savor).
I would now like to:
a. map the rest of phu quoc island’s red-dirt roads by motorbike
b. continue the madness & great conversations in ho chi minh city with tom and dj samurai of orangestyles.vn and help build that warehouse skate park for local kids
c. swim during more downpours
WNYC’s Radiolab, always remarkable, has been creating more gorgeousness with their recent series on death. This video response from a listener on ‘moments of life’ is pretty stunning. I’d love to see what students here in HK would make if they tackled a project like this.
It’s time for a short trip outside HK. Last-minute cheap tickets will deliver us to Ho Chi Minh City in a few hours, then maybe on to Con Dao or wherever else I can find. We’ll be back to HK for a final couple workshops with some fresh collaborations and ideas from the past week of intense and wonderful happenings.
Lift off.
such big love to my dear friends tyler and allison who will be married in the little shasta church in 12 hours, a million miles too many from hong kong. but right next door.
3rd day of our 2nd Small World workshop. New group of students and a few new tricks up our sleeves. Today we remixed old footage from Ford Motor Co., inspired by and building upon a storyboarding workshop by Christophe Bruchansky in the UK. You can check out the final projects here:
http://vimeo.com/groups/smallworld
Everything from dancing in space to cake suicide (or die lovely). It’s always a surprise to see what the students come up with. Tomorrow we plan to have them create a silent film. We’ll be voting on the topic.
loving my new invention: a windows media video to quicktime file converter. only requires a mac, VLC, a canon G10, a tripod. all in the name of education.
gettin the job done, ghetto style.
Kicked off a new Small World workshop this week.. so far, really great. Among many other things, we’re building upon artist Christophe Bruchansky’s project from the recent Dreams of Progress exhibition in the UK, hoping to bring kids from the two places together through his great storyboarding & video remixing project.
We’ll be uploading our projects the ClipDub group on Vimeo, the same place you should visit to make a remix of your own right now.
our old friend and bouncy mobile office, bus 969 to and from tin shui wai.
Just try walking through an HK sunday with this in your ears. Oh man.
Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea.
(another angle that day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDqk67AhsE)
