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.

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.

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!

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!

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.)

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.