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Osaka PhotoVid Still Series from 2002

Footage of Jeju Island, its waterfalls, waves, and diving woman set to the music of Jet Echo’s “Nizium.” (myspace.com/jetecho)
Most of the footage was recorded in June 2001 on a rainy day with my old Digital-8 camera. I just didn’t have any idea what to do with the footage, until I somehow thought it would go nice with this song.

Mother’s Day Video Contest

There’s a Mother’s Day Video contest just started at Revver. To that end, I created these two videos tonight. The latter one is just the third entry I’ve done thus far for the new Vidtionary project.

Last Tree Standing

I have recently had the idea to film really mundane places, like suburban landscapes, and give them the same respect of camera that I would to a more conventionally beautiful place.

Suburban Sky on Vimeo

Media Release Kamloops Art Gallery – Winner of Kami Short Video Competition

MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from

Kamloops Art Gallery

March 21, 2007

Newcomer wins first Kami

short video competition

DoAn Forest with Kami

The Kamloops Art Gallery is pleased to announce the winner of the
first Kami Short Video Competition. DoAn Forest, a newcomer to
Kamloops, won the competition for the best short video about "the
place where I live." After moving here from Korea in February 2007 and
learning about the Kami competition, Forest raced to complete a video
about his new hometown. His video was chosen as the best by the
audience attending the screening competition, and Forest took home the
coveted Kami People's Choice award. The video can be seen at
http://efeele.blogspot.com/2007/03/kamloops-new-arrival.html

The screening competition, held on Sunday, March 18, 2007, featured
six 5-minute videos by participants from Kamloops and the
Thompson-Nicola Regional District. Their interpretations of the theme
"the place where I live" varied from cowboy scenes to alien
perspectives. Fueled by hot popcorn and cold drinks, audience members
made their difficult decision after viewing all six videos.

Admission fee to the screening was a donation for the Kamloops Food
Bank. The Gallery thanks the audience for contributing 26 items of
food at this small but successful event. The Gallery also extends
thanks to the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce for permission to use the
Kami mascot image on the competition trophy.

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Please direct all media inquiries to James Gordon, Marketing and
Communications Coordinator, Kamloops Art Gallery, (250) 377-2403, or
jgordon@kag.bc.ca

MIchida by DoAn Forest

My contribution to internet lip synching.

Michida on Vimeo

Kamloops Arrival

I made this in late February 2007, three weeks after beginning life in Kamloops, BC, Canada. The video has been submitted into a video contest at the Kamloops Art Gallery with the theme, “The Place Where I Live.”

UPDATE: Happily, I ended up winning the contest that I submitted this video to (Mar. 18th, 2007). I also met some really good people at the event, including a few fine arts professors at the local university and various art gallery staff. A very good experience. Perhaps, it’s the first thing I’ve ever won since I won a drawing contest at a Cornwall seaside hotel resort when I was eight years old. I love the handmade, one-of-a-kind wall-plaque I got as a prize.

The Future is China

I made this video for a video contest that had “Future” as its loose theme. I contemplated the future, and saw RED. This is the result. On a technical note, the video was made using Apple’s Motion software. I used all the tricks I’ve recently learned.
At the time I had this video at the video sites Metacafe and YouTube, and it seems to have attracted slightly odd comments.
Hopefully, people, whether Chinese or American, can see the humor in this video and not take it too seriously.

Lassooed By the Lights – Bangkok VJ

Strobing photos from the Bangkok night set to a dub beat. Seafran had taken these photos in Bangkok and thought they’d be good for a visual remix. He provided the looping music track for this, too. I mixed up the photos in the Arkaos VJ software and did some after-work in Motion.

DoAn Forest

The zen of horse racing

Osaka PhotoVid Still Series from 2002

Woman of the Sea