The past few weeks I worked on a pilot show for a radio program on KPBS (produced by Angela Carone, with film critics Beth Accomando and Scott Marks). It’s a special halloween edition of the KPBS Film Club of the Air. See what you think. We will be creating a few more pilots, so stay tuned.
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New (used) camera!
(Canon 10D with Canon 17-40mm f/4 L) This is my new ebayed camera! You can expect to see much more photography here in the future. This is a powerful tool kit (I only have this lens at the moment; I’ll soon have a 50mm f/1.8 and am pricing 100mm f/2.8 Macros as well). The camera can shoot 3 frames per second, ISO 100 to 3200, raw 6 megapixel images at 3072 x 2048, and all the obvious luxury and power of full auto to full manual controls including time-lapse photography.
You can read reviews from dpreview.com, photo.net, and fredmiranda.com.
I sold my 35mm Pentax Z50 and am retiring a Nikon Coolpix880. I bought the Nikon in 2000 for panoramic photography. Here are some Quicktime VR examples. The Nikon now has several hot pixels but has performed pretty well for a point-and-shoot.
A pretty hilarious take on being a gringo in M?©xico (17min).
Windows Media Video
high (110mb) | med (59mb) | low (28mb)
Quicktime Video
high (131mb) | med (51mb) | low (27mb)
A Film by Greg Berger. More videos at SalonChingon.com
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0v3r104d to screen at Getty Center
Surveying the Border: This 90-minute program presents some of the best short video works made by artists since the mid-1970s that take the relation between the United States and Mexico as their subject matter.
- Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Admission: Free. Reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or register online.
Politics, Landscape, Humor
The program screens videos that address the experience of immigration and the subsequent reality of living in the neighboring country, including provocative political works by a number of artist activists. More lyrical pieces focus on urban and rural landscapes, while other works comment on the humorous absurdity of stereotypes. The evening encompasses a number of genres of video, including conceptual and performance art, experimental documentary, short fiction, and music video.
Artists in the Program
“Surveying The Border” features work by artists based in Southern California, Tijuana, New York, Mexico City, Florida, El Paso, and Oaxaca. Artists include Greg Berger, Ira Scheider, Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (BAW/TAF), Alan Calpe, Ximena Cuevas, Nathan Gibbs, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Art Jones, Andrew Lampert, Jesse Lerner, Yoshua Okon, Sal V. Ricalde, Alex Rivera, Shannon Spanhake, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Bruno Varela, Willie Varela, and others.
With Brinco, Judi Wertheinhas created a project that links migrants’ efforts to cross the border illegally with the increasing global corporatization of goods and labor. The project is a uniquely designed sneaker, trademarked Brinco. The design of the shoe is inspired by information and materials that are relevant to, and could provide assistance to, those illegally crossing the border. Underscoring the tensions sparked by the global spread and mobility of the maquiladora, the sneaker will be manufactured in China. In counterpoint to its potential for utilitarian use by Mexican migrants, the sneaker will be sold as a one-of-a-kind art object and will be available in the United States during inSite_05 in Blends, a high end sneaker store located in Down Town San Diego. In a single object Judi reveals the contradictions between fashion, competition in the manufacturing industry, and migratory flows, themes that lie and the heart of the dynamics of labor geography in today���s world.
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Deport illegal immigrants
…found online here.