Video Diary

rose-papillon: The world’s first colour footage - shot in 1902...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:45:14 -0400

rose-papillon:

The world’s first colour footage - shot in 1902 by Edward Raymond Turner (featured in the sixth gif) - England.

One of my favourite ads of all time.

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:10:56 -0400

One of my favourite ads of all time.

Mitt Romney A lip sync

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:53:33 -0400

Mitt Romney A lip sync

idiot-legs: AND EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT ♥Soul...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:29:09 -0400

idiot-legs:

AND EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT ♥
Soul nourishing lolcries.

oh gosh i’ve watched this at least 6 times now! SO GOOD.

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:34:21 -0400

oh gosh i’ve watched this at least 6 times now! SO GOOD.

Evidence by Godfrey Reggio

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:16:22 -0400

Evidence by Godfrey Reggio

How to catch a kangaroo in 0:32 seconds

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:44:04 -0400

How to catch a kangaroo in 0:32 seconds

Gustation. 2012

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:12:23 -0400

Gustation. 2012

How English sounds to non-speakers. This is freaky. It makes...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:57:49 -0400

How English sounds to non-speakers.

This is freaky. It makes you feel like something that should be so familiar to you is foreign again.

Larry McConkey Steadicam work on Hugo. More info...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:46:31 -0400

Larry McConkey Steadicam work on Hugo. More info at http://www.freshdv.com/2012/05/hugo-steadicam-bts.html

Brock Davis is a mixed media artist whose recent project was to...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:36:51 -0400

Brock Davis is a mixed media artist whose recent project was to make something cool everyday for one year.

idiot-legs: slugbox: mageofbutts: blingostarr: spiswatchingyo...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:22:19 -0400

idiot-legs:

slugbox:

mageofbutts:

blingostarr:

spiswatchingyou:

i-steal-your-pantsu:

videohall:

Wow that’s amazing, I thought it was fake after seeing them draw on the paper. That alone is ingenious.

what the hell

oh my gOD

i was already dead at the dance dance revolution part

thaaat’s pretty cool

i’m dying right now oh my god i need this in my life

I love humanity sometimes.

i need a makey makey because of reasons

Video

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:24:11 -0400

Modernist Cuisine (modernistcuisine.com/) is a six-volume,...

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:47:42 -0400

Modernist Cuisine (modernistcuisine.com/) is a six-volume, 2,438-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use thousands of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging.

Hollow by Takahiro Kimura

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:08:00 -0400

Hollow by Takahiro Kimura

Video

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:17:07 -0400

We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:32:08 -0400

We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

ohmessyme: HELLOOOOOOOOO SEXY! To my new GLORIOUS Canon 5d mk...

Wed, 09 May 2012 03:53:12 -0400

ohmessyme:

HELLOOOOOOOOO SEXY! To my new GLORIOUS Canon 5d mk II. Rollin’ with the pro’s now. haha

May even take some nice video now!

Tractor-fight from “Alluda Majaka”

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:29:26 -0400

Tractor-fight from “Alluda Majaka”

Nina Katchadourian - Accent EliminationSix televisions, three...

Sun, 06 May 2012 22:40:36 -0400

Nina Katchadourian - Accent Elimination
Six televisions, three pedestals, six-channel video (three synchronized programs and three loops), headphones and benches, 2005

My foreign-born parents who have lived in the United States for over 40 years both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that I have never been able to imitate correctly (and have not inherited). Inspired by posters advertising courses in “accent elimination,” I worked with my parents and professional speech improvement coach Sam Chwat intensively for several weeks in order to “neutralize” my parents’ accents and then teach each of them to me. The very existence of these courses points to the complexities of assimilation and self-image, and the tricky maneuvering between the desire to preserve the distinctive marks of one’s culture, on one hand, and to decrease them in order to seem less foreign, on the other. In the video, my parents and I struggle to hear and imitate what is so close at hand and yet so difficult to access. The accent is treated very literally, like an heirloom, and the project illustrates the very awkward attempt to concretely transfer this elusive, and ultimately culturally determined, attribute.

This is a six-channel piece, with the front “talking head” monitors showing a synchronized conversation, scripted by my parents, which plays out first in our natural accents, and at the end in our “reversed” accents. The middle section consists of outtakes from our practice sessions in my studio, and has been edited to play with the patterning and repetition of various words.