Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Movie projects - personal archives

Here are some of the animations, movies and other experimentations my student, colleagues or I have produced. Some are long term – pre-scripted projects, other completely student developed. No one technique works best for everybody, every class or every teacher. No fancy equipment was required, but Mac imovie is still my favorite for movie editing. New tools such as photostory 3 and Comic Life offer interesting possibilities. Enjoy!




Saturday, February 28, 2009

Expanding our Boundries - weaving across borders

So, in good time and form - it`s 3:25 am - here are a few exerpts from an expansive evening in which:
  • Supper at India Cafe was offered with disarming humility, pride and generosity.
  • Dave Restivo and his trio at the humminly electric REX blew the place out of the water.
  • Met too many regulars to remember including a honey-voiced jazz singer who invited us for chicken curry on Sunday.
  • Teachers all over including the trio's New York based guest drummer Alyssa Taft and a drop dead trucker-talking Catholic 5th grade teacher who just came back from the opera with her class.
  • Finally, full cultural integration with the spill out crowd at the Big Slice (yes, they are really big). See the video of the food samples on the wall.

Trouble with video uploading. Here`s some wake-up jazz. http://www.myspace.com/daverestivo