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Kamloops Arrival
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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.
Hurling
A video for Jet Echo’s song “Auralgraphx: Hurling”
The song fits itself to sports so well.
Check Jet Echo out at: myspace.com/jetecho
“Run/Stop/Restore” (a MakBak video)
I’m working on a collection of videos for MakBak, a Seoul band of 2 ex-pats (sometimes 3). I hung out with them in the studio and recorded different vignettes. This video is for the first 45 seconds of MaK Bak’s “Run/Stop/Restore.” An experiment with blue screens – or rather, blue yoga mats! Check their site at myspace.com/makbak/
MakBak – 33 on the 45
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This is a 10 minute documentary made on the occasion of MaK BaK’s debut CD launch party, which was also their last show. MaK BaK was a band of two Canadian ex-pats living in Seoul, Korea. The film shows footage from their various live shows in Seoul, before going into the studio with them as they record the CD. And finally the final live show.
Band page: myspace.com/makbak
Bong Fire Mountain
Made in Seoul in 2006. Music by Jet Echo (myspace.com/jetecho). Words by Jack Quin. Video by DoAn Forest.
The audio has the sample, “The train for Bong-hwa-san is now arriving.” The word “bong” can’t really be translated into English (but of course, think BONG), and “hwa” means fire, and “san” means mountain. This video is kind of a short story, but not too easy to follow.
Macrogroove (a MakBak video)
This is MakBak in the studio in Seoul, recording the first 45 seconds of their song “Macrogroove.” The cool thing about this video is that I had only one camera, so how did I get the two shots to line up so well? That’s the magic of MakBak. Check them at myspace.com/makbak
Emotional Content (Han of K-Pop Remix)
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This video concept was born when I bought a 6-DVD of Korean pop music videos around 2001. In almost these videos, it seems that someone meets a tragic end — it could be a disease, a crash, a suicide, a gunshot wound, or just of heartbreak. Living in Korea for a long time, I find this tragic appetite of their pop culture to be almost tragicomic.
The video was cut to a song which was a collaborate between Jet Echo (myspace.com/jetecho) and MakBak (myspace.com/makbak) … two bands who lived in Seoul in the mid 2000s.