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Music Videos

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I have worked on several music videos, many with the singer-songwriter-artist Maïa Vidal. I love music videos as a medium; rarely longer than 3 minutes, in a music video you can develop an entire aesthetic univerese. Vidal's exhibit a DIY-aesthetic that echoes the punk-aesthetic that initially got her involved in performing.

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Socially-conscious Films

Short narratives, long on cultural context and inquiry

Nice Girl Films (NGF) is a woman-centered film/video production company with footprints in Ithaca and New York City, NY. NGF has created award-winning short films and is currently in production for The Chanticleer a feature film set in 1955. True to NGF form, it promises to entertain while exploring provocative cultural complexities.

Hens and Chicks is a short narrative about a girl who grows up with two moms. This award-winning film played in over 90 film festivals in the United States and overseas. I was the editor on this film and am a partner in the non-profit Nice Girl Films production company; we have several projects in production, and other films that have toured in the indie film circuit.

A trailer for this video is publicly available.

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Live VJ Collaboration

using archival video footage as a VJ

One of my video art collaborations was with David Borden, a synthesizer musician and leader of Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., and a video DJ. Borden wrote two suites of original compositions related to dancers he has known, I prepared short video clips of the dancers, with some post-processing and special effects, and during the performance, the video DJ did a live selection of the clips in response to the ensemble's music performance.

Some documentary footage of the Denishawn performances and the Viola Farber series are publicly available.

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Bioenergy Works

Biochar is the new black!

This is a non-profit that I lead whose mission is to educate, communicate, and inspire and promotes biochar, sustainable energy practices, and community involvement.

For more info, visit the Bioenergyworks website

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Books and Websites

visual communication via books and websites.

I have designed several small book projects and websites. I enjoy working in both print and web media.

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Online Publishing

Scientific Journal publishing.

I manage a small scientific journal. We recently moved from being a print-only journal to being an online journal. We are moving toward an Open Access solution as soon as we can figure out how to remain alive without income from subscribers.

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Publicity Portraits

CD covers and author photos

I enjoy working with people to create portaits that work as publicity material and remain true to the people involved.

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Teaching Clothing Construction

Using 3D VRs and online tutorials to teach textile history and construction

Teaching clothing design often takes a great deal of an instructor's time in demonstrating basic skills. Cornell has an extensive clothing archive, but pulling garments out of the archive and showing them to students is also time-consuming. This site has two main parts aimed at addressing these problems: one has step-by-step instructions for fitting common clothing items, and the other has galleries of 18th-19th century and modern clothing. The garments were shot using the QuickTime VR object format, and are rotatable and zoomable. I particularly like the dress donated by Mark Twain's niece, Ida Langdon.

This website is publicly available.

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Law Case Materials

bringing primary resources to students

This is a course site that I produced a couple of years ago for a professor teaching a pre-law course for undergraduates at Cornell. Her interest was to create a set of media-rich materials related to legal cases in the local area. We hired 3 graduate students to work one summer on creating and gathering materials. We then organized and formatted them for web-viewing. I was responsible for the project management and the web design for the site. The content is presented as a set of resources, there is no inherent pedagogy in the organization of materials; the class uses a Blackboard course to manage the assignments. Some of my favorite features are the maps, many of which were scanned for this project, and the videos interviews shot by the students. This site is publicly available (although some of the videos are protected) and consists of two parts: materials for Land Claims cases and materials for same-sex marriage cases.