The hoop’s perspective as my friend Kat hoops in the studio.
February 11, 2012 | Categories: Experiments and Observations, Favorites | Tags: camera, dancer, female, girl, hoop, hooping, hula, motion, perspective, POV | Leave A Comment »
Highlights from Trashion Show 2011, a fashion show of outfits made from recycled materials put on by students from MIT Next House and the Undergraduate Association’s Sustainability Committee. The video was shot by grad student Lan Li and I was asked to edit it for MIT News.
January 6, 2012 | Categories: Events and Performances, Favorites, Promotional | Tags: designer, fashion, female, house, mit, model, next, recylce, student, sustainability, trashion, ua, upcycle | Leave A Comment »
My friend and frequent collaborator Eric Love runs a LARP Adventure Program, where he teaches live-action role-playing skills to kids and puts on awesome adventure events with them. I have shot some of these events and edited them to look as much as possible like real sci-fi or fantasy movies, for the kids and their families to keep on DVD. This fantasy-based event called “Shadows of Isle Eldarian,” produced for Arlington Enrichment Collaborative, took place underground and was staged at Metro Rock in Newburyport, MA. I love this kind of project as it combines fantasy (which originally got me into film and video) and education (which is increasingly what interests me these days.)
Music by Eric Love.
November 28, 2011 | Categories: Events and Performances, Movies | Tags: action, adventure, arlington, arts, collaborative, drow, elves, enrichment, fae, fantasy, gnomes, kids, larp, live, ma, metro, nebblen, newburyport, playing, program, rock, role, sci-fi, snerf, teens, theater | Leave A Comment »
When my husband Dan brought our rosemary plant inside for the winter, he noticed two caterpillars on it, and let them stay in the hopes the would make cocoons. They did! Here’s a time lapse of one of them– 1 minute = 1 hour. A few weeks later, two brown moths came out and fluttered around our living room!
November 6, 2011 | Categories: Experiments and Observations | Leave A Comment »
Two years ago my brother Kurt and his wife Anjali had a fabulous Hindu+Jewish wedding in Washington, DC. Local videographers Ben Williams and Lance Duvall shot the wedding day. I shot the pre-wedding events and edited three days worth of footage into this two-hour film. An epic video project for an epic wedding!
October 24, 2011 | Categories: Events and Performances, Weddings | Tags: baraat, dc, hindu, jewish, ketubah, mehndi, washington, wedding | Leave A Comment »
The MIT Assistive Technology Group is a team of students who were winners of this year’s IDEAS competition. I helped them create this video as part of their submission for a prestigious Da Vinci Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and they won the award!
August 1, 2011 | Categories: Favorites, Promotional | Tags: als, android, assistive, da vinci awards, mit, ms, psc, students, technology, windows | Leave A Comment »
Highlights from the 2010 Wake Up The Earth festival in Jamaica Plain, MA, organized by Spontaneous Celebrations. Featuring the Grass Gypsies, Samba No Pé, Brief Awakening, a portion of Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Humanwine, and the legendary Bread & Puppet Circus. (If you can identify any other performers, please let me know.)
April 10, 2011 | Categories: Events and Performances, Favorites | Tags: 2010, boston, brazillian, Bread & Puppet, brief awakening, community, emperor norton's, festival, grass gypsies, humanwine, jamaica plain, jp, kids, massachusetts, multicultural, roxbury, samba no pé, spontaneous celebrations, wake up the earth | Leave A Comment »
The Eight Muse’s live video for “North”, by Small Houses, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeremy Quentin’s project. This song will be featured on his upcoming EP “Just Before the North”, which will contain songs Jeremy wrote while living in Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. This performance was recorded in his tiny Back Bay apartment the day before he left for good, to go on tour for many months and then return to his native Michigan to record.
January 3, 2011 | Categories: Music Videos | Tags: acoustic, back bay, berklee, boston, female, film, film look, folk, guitar, jeremy quentin, male, singer, small houses, songwriter, vocals | Leave A Comment »
In the vibrant yet slightly creepy world of Victorian-era Boston, a self-conscious student gets a little uncomfortable when his professor sends him to the home of a mysterious wealthy widow. But things really get interesting when she creates a clone of him to pose nude for her Bohemian friends to draw. It turns out this is just his introduction to the arcane world of alchemy.
Starring Alexander Lewis and Kim Kennedy. Written and Directed by Josh Kastorf. Produced by Josh Kastorf and Kim Kennedy. Music by Rob Byrd.
July 30, 2010 | Categories: Effects, Favorites, Movies | Tags: 19th century, alchemy, alexander lewis, boston, doppelganger, fantasy, figure, kim kennedy, mit, nude, rob byrd, steampunk, student film, surreal, victorian | Leave A Comment »
Highlights from the 2009 Wake Up The Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain. Featuring Zili Musik, Choir of the Universal Sound, Tentumbao, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Boston Hoop Troop, Michael “Mooch” Mucciolo, and Acronymph. (If you can identify any of the other performers please let me know!)
April 25, 2010 | Categories: Events and Performances, Favorites | Tags: acronymph, band, boston, community, earth, emperor norton's, festival, hoop troop, hooping, jamaica plain, marching, multicultural, music, spontaneous celebrations, stationary, tentumbao, wake up the, zili musik | Leave A Comment »
Just a taste of Together Music Festival’s VJ Showcase put on by Zebbler of Vermin Street at MassArt. Four sets of audio/video performance artists interpreted portions of the Hansel and Gretel story. Includes bits of performances by Zebbler Encanti Experience, Psylab, QFWFQ Duo, and MuseHybrid (sorry I wasn’t able to get Brian Kane). Also some behind-the-scenes footage.
togetherboston.com zebblerencantiexperience.com psylabunderground.com
qfwfqduo.com musehybrid.com zebbler.com verminstreet.com
February 21, 2010 | Categories: Events and Performances, Favorites | Tags: boston, encanti, fairy tale, festival, massart, musehybrid, music, performance, psylab, qfwfq, showcase, together, underground, vermin street, video art, vj, zebbler | Leave A Comment »
Superbug performs Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” at Perks Coffeehouse in Norwood, MA.
http://www.myspace.com/superbug
January 19, 2010 | Categories: Events and Performances | Tags: band, guitar, jimi hendrix, massachusetts, music, norwell, perk's, red house, rock, steve marchena, superbug | Leave A Comment »
An experiment with compositing a character into a painting.
September 29, 2009 | Categories: Effects, Experiments and Observations | Leave A Comment »
A promotional video created for Andover Landscape Construction, LLC, in collaboration with Chris Williamson.
Andover Landscape: andoverlandscape.com
Chris Williamson: photovisionary.com
September 19, 2009 | Categories: Promotional | Tags: backyard, chris williamson, commercial, feature, landscape, landscaping, oasis, outdoor, promotional, water, waterfall | Leave A Comment »
The Eighth Muse’s video for “Hijack a Sound Boy” by Vinyl Blight of Vermin Street, featuring Swirl Cat.
Music by Vinyl Blight. Puppets designed by Jen Doyle and Josh Kastorf. Puppets performed by Vinyl Blight, Joe Lourenco, Jen Doyle, and Sarabeth Anderson. Directed and edited by Josh Kastorf.
June 10, 2009 | Categories: Music Videos | Tags: bird, cat, dancing, drums, funny, music video, puppets, squid, vermin street, vinyl blight | Leave A Comment »
New Hampshire, Fall, 2008.
June 4, 2009 | Categories: Experiments and Observations | Leave A Comment »
Mark N. performs at the Multi-Core Event put on by Vermin Street and Dev/Null.
Mark N.: myspace.com/bloodyfistmusic
Vermin Street: verminstreet.com/
October 19, 2008 | Categories: Events and Performances, Favorites | Tags: boston, dancing, dev/null, dj, electronic, mark n., musician, underground, vermin street | Leave A Comment »
Trailer for my low-budget fantasy film, Crypto-Candida.
More info here.
July 4, 2006 | Categories: Effects, Movies | Tags: crypto-candida, elves, experimental, fairies, fairyland, fantasy, festival, film, firefly, freezepop, low-budget, rob byrd, surreal | Leave A Comment »
