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  Reel World Youth at the Langevin School

  March 1, 2013 at 10:41 pm / Educate, Reel World Youth

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  The last five months I’ve been teaching the entire Langevin School grade seven contingent on how to make a short documentary video. With four classes of thirty students each giving me roughly 120 students and 4 teachers to work with, this has been a challenging and exciting project. This article captures some of my learning from the experience in case others want to do the same.   The Goal As before with the Alice Jamieson School, I wanted to see [...]

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  The Art of Shooting Sport

  October 2, 2012 at 11:30 pm / Educate

  When I took on the Artist in Residency with Sport Calgary, I never imagined I would end up swimming underwater with a camera, skating on the ice with my gear, or looking over the edge of a rock. But here I am working with six different amateur athletes in six very different environments. Every shoot is an intriguing puzzle requiring a different way of thinking. So what am I doing? My goal is to show what sport can develop in [...]

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  Message from the Field: In Kathmandu

  July 21, 2012 at 5:56 am / Advocate, Educate, Videography

  With a slow internet connection, intermittent power, I did manage to get one video message out while I was shooting a documentary in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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  Arriving in Kathmandu

  July 14, 2012 at 11:39 pm / Educate

  Here I am caught on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. It is hard to describe the cacophony of visual and audio stimulus. Horns signal the passing of motorbikes, bells ring from Hindu meditations, hammers slam against concrete blocks… and all the while you are assaulted with the smells of curries and garbage, pollution and incense. What brings me here? Well, it’s not to be a typical vacationer or trekker of the Himalayas. I’ve been commissioned by CAWST produce a documentary resource about [...]

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  Meet the Human Race

  April 4, 2012 at 9:25 pm / Educate

  This is quite possibly the most important video I have cut together to date. Not because I shot it. In fact, I’ve taken liberally from HOME, Journey of Man, and Short History of Progress. It’s important not because the ideas are original. They are drawn from Leadership Calgary and from the work of the Action Studies Institute. It’s important because it’s a vivid reminder to me every day that I am part of the human race whose history is my [...]

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