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I have a lot of free time today… hours and hours in fact, so I’m going to try and sum up the noteworthy events of the lest several days of my trip in chronological order:
Wednesday 7/15:

Flew from BTV to PDX. Arrived at 1AM local time. Sat next to ACM sisters and brothers from Great Neck [...]

Here is a list of things I’m going to do next week on my trip to Portland, Oregon…

Attend the national Alliance for Community Media conference
Visit with new and old friends
See The Decemberists and Andrew Bird play an outdoor show
See the movie Moon
Attend a live theater-in-the-park performance of the classic Star Trek episode, Amok Time. Yes, [...]

I spent all day last Monday at the Windjammer conference center in South Burlington with a TV crew recording a conference put on by the ACLU of Vermont called Thought and Expression in a Changing World. It brought together a bunch of lawyers who specialize in civil liberties case law to talk about how our [...]

This film was made by the Burlington High School Filmmaking Club that I led this past school year. The writer/director, Graham Raubvogel, is going to be a junior at BHS this year. We premiered the film at last Wednesday’s bike-in movie night at VCAM. You can watch it in the embed below, but I recommend [...]

VCAM is at the Vermont ACLU conference (Thought and Expression in a Changing World) today at the Windjammer in South Burlington, covering it with our cameras. My co-worker Seth decided on a whim to try and stream it online. We did no real planning for this, he just brought along a laptop and we figured [...]

Three of my co-workers are in NYC this weekend for the Open Video Conference and I’m a jealous community media center staffer (I’ll have to brag about what an awesome time I have next month in Portland, OR for the National Alliance for Community Media conference to make them jealous). Fortunately, the OVC is being [...]

Here are a couple of examples of some of my early editing work. Back in the mid 90s I was transitioning from public access TV producer and film student to the community media center staff person and filmmaker I am today. The world of media making was transitioning too, from analog videotape to digital video. [...]

So I’m at the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Regional conference at Champlain College today hanging with my PEG access peers from around the region. We’re actively trying to encourage community media folks, most of whom have been active in user-generated content for many years (since way before YouTube), to embrace social media as a [...]

Last week I demonstrated basic 3-point lighting for film and video for my CCV Intro to Filmmaking class. We videotaped the demo to use as a VCAM resource and this was the result. It’s 12 minutes, so you should probably only watch it if you’re curious about lighting for film and video.
3-Point Lighting Explained! from [...]

Last week I was on The Mark Johnson Show on WDEV. Mark was broadcasting live from the Leahy ECHO Center for Lake Champlain, talking about ECHO’s Voices for the Lake project and social media. I was there to talk about blogging and Twitter and new media in general. I was on right after Senator Bernie [...]