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The following is an overview of selected video projects.

Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh!
is an exploration into the use of VHS as a recording medium with
a degraded but desirable image, much like hand-processed
Super8 film or PXL2000 video.

As the usage of movie film declines, the "film look" of wiggly,
vibrating scratch lines and film grain is replaced with the rolling
horizontal bars and multicolored blotches of old video. The current
generation of young adults probably grew up with video, removing
the nostalgic feeling from watching chemical film.

On another level, Vide-Uhhh! was an experiment to "scratch"
video much like one can scratch the emulsion of waste 16mm film.
Experiments with magnets on prerecorded tape were conducted,
but the magnets could not produce visually compelling interference.
The best results came from altering video by physical force as the
content was being recorded; in this case it was a live image of the
VCR itself, provided by a video camera.

Staring Newscasters

2006
Manipulated digital recording of a
local news broadcast, 1.5 minutes

Staring Newscasters utilizes extensive use of matte technology
to re-direct the actions displayed by local news reporters.
The hour-long broadcast has been transformed into a 90
second drama about the boredom of the local news, and the
desire of the newcasters to be elsewhere.

Conceptual motion picture imaging

Paper Movie Process

Inkjet Printed Film Process