Video: RLCD Festival

Notes: Just random clips thrown together, 5D mk II and D90, mostly handheld, and of course manual focus on everything.  One could see the advantages of the little “HD” cameras out there with their extreme depth of focus (i.e. every unnecessary thing in focus), but I still like the messups and the old 16mm look.  Song is […]

LAY-OCEAN?

Notes: Been a while since I posted anything Lao related…as you all know by now, I started off as the typical Lao kid holding the sign with his name in the refugee camp, was lucky enough to resettle in the good ol’ U S and A, grew up with two cultures, studied art, went back in time to right the […]

Lao’d and Proud

Notes: All the images are screengrabs (D90 Movies) from a few weeks ago at our local Korean coffee shop with ai Thavisouk…I’ve wanted to do this type of documentary work for awhile now, just gathering some like minded people and sitting them in front of the camera.  Granted the environment wasn’t the most serene, but when a […]

4th of July

Video of fireworks that surprisingly fit together well with M83’s “We Own the Sky”

Video: Yasukazu Kano

Featuring: Yasukazu Kano and Miyamoto Takana Notes: Really amazing flute player and musician from Japan, You might recognize the theme songs from some Miyazaki Films: Castle in the Sky, Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), Turns into a DJ Shadow drumfest at the end, “filmed” with a D90 and 105mm 2.8 Micro VR, Maum Bakery, Doraville, GA

Lathsene Village Schoolkids

From our trip to Laos.  The preschool location was in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most bombed areas in Laos, and one of the poorest.  The region also has the sad honor of being first in bombie farming accidents.  Lathsene village lacked running water and even electricity, but the schoolchildren and villagers treated us […]