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Entries from May 2009

Grassroots Media Conference Lighting Workshop and GMC on Brian Lehrer

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

This Saturday – May 30th – I’ll be conducting a low budget video lighting workshop with fellow IMA students Laurie Sumiye and Sebastian Gutierrez at the 6th annual Grassroots Media Conference. It’ll be in the morning slot 10:30 – 12:00 at Hunter College.
And Hunter’s own Veralyn Williams was on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show [...]

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Tags: Activism · Integrated Media Arts

Grassroots Media Conference “Youth Action” Screening, May 14th 2009

May 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Here are some photos from the “Youth Action” screening last night. It was put on by the Grassroots Media Conference crew and hosted by Youth Media Reporter at the Academy for Educational Development. Filmmakers that have made work through Educational Video Center, and Casa Atabex Ache were on hand to show and [...]

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Tags: Activism · film

Embarrassingly Funny Email Exchange With My Kid’s Teacher

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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