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Camera swing and funk colors after hours playing with video mixing and djing… fun stuff…

Creations from the community by the community & for the community.
Very neat short promotional film piece done by friend Adam Kebede and his small crew. I am excited where film is going in terms of Vancouver community Television and W2 Media Arts Centre. Community Television covering local projects, activist workshops, protests and events, celebrations and [...]

Mock arrest of Jim Prentice and Stephen Harper at Vancouver’s Arts Gallery.

 

 
Sometimes, it is hard to hear the lives of women elders. They are often full of tragedy and unjustice which is hard to come to terms with, realizing that such realities were so extreme for women who wanted to be professionals, or who tried to go against the wishes of their parents or their husbands. [...]

 
This is the first video I edited. I just translated it today and I am kind of happy to see it.
Bolivia was an amazing experience from which it all began again.

Can a living wall or a community garden change something in Vancouver downtown east side?

Blood alley, syringes, needles, shakes, poverty, drug dealing, petty crimes, marginilized populations… unfortunately these are many of the stereotypes and ideas that come as one pronounces the words Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Hastings and Blood alley. Nevertheless, being in blood alley while [...]

This is my bicycle manifesto, it is my statement in my case for riding a bicycle instead of a car.

We live in an Era of machinistic dominance, times of utter industrial pollution, unsustainable city development, concrete and synthetic based metropolis. The bicycle stands as an icon to reclaim physical, mental and spiritual autonomy. It will [...]

The German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein philosopher expressed once “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world” or was it “the limits of my language are the limits of my world”. Analyzing the English translation one could see how the difference becomes a powerful one whether the verb to mean or to be is [...]

 
 
It has been said that Vancouver is a town where bicycles are slowly taking over as the predominant cultural and fashionable mode of transportation. Today, the Burrard bridge open a project in which one of its car lanes became exclusively a lane for bicycles. With media ranging from the local news, CBC and Alternative Media, [...]

I actually like this edit better, i think it is quite interesting how music can be mixed with some film cuts (need to get my own music). It is an interesting way to put together an easy piece to feel quite relaxed to. As i said before, painting “stuff” green just seems right, it is [...]

I love the art of painting. Although i have painted few times in my life, there is something almost metaphysical about splashing color into a surface which will never be the same. Painting to music is even better, painting with a loved one on a canvas after while disinhibiting each other in the process of [...]

Two recent documentary films show how the current times demand action from the media and the general public to change the situation some species are facing. These are films one must see and consider seriously when it comes in how media can become a very powerful resource for change.
THE COVE

SHARKWATER

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imagine for a second that you are in the sixties,
imagine that the Vietnam War is happening and the world is going into Chaos,
that people are being killed in a foreign country and soldiers are being shipped in caskets,
imagine the Cold War, Communism, Cuba and nuclear missils in the verge of a holocaust
imagine the Civil Rights [...]

Music: Le Tigre, Deceptacon.
There were an Italian, a Vietnamese and a Camera Crew who never had been out in-front of the real world trying to film something as it happens, sort of vérité fashion. It was a learning experience the planning, the shooting, the reviewing… but most of all, the editing. How to make an awkward pedicure missing shots between the scenes [...]

Music: Skye, Whats wrong with me?
This clip was one the first clip I liked which I edited. Two day class of Flashplayer allowed me to do this combination of pictures and music (all downloaded from the internet) to convey a view. The evolution now has been interesting as soon the newer stuff being edited will show the [...]

Director :          Tom Tykwer
Writer:              Eric Singer
Official Site:    http://www.everybodypays.com/
It is amazing how fiction begins to resemble the world we live in. It is no myth how the IMF, WTO and WB lent millions of dollars to Latin American Countries and the African countries to governments who [...]