Comic Book City, Portland, Oregon USA

Project done!

I recently finished the film, after integrating the sound mix, including music by Adam Selzer, from my sound editor, Dave Huston, and have begun submitting to festivals. Check back here for news of screenings.

In the meantime:

• I will be posting more reflective and personal pieces on my Wordpress blog, A Weird Fish, starting with this post.
• I have moved my video hub from blip.tv to Vimeo. You can still view my work at blip, but check my Vimeo page for new and updated video postings.
• The project also has an IMDB page.

Association of American Geographers preview

As mentioned in the previous post, last Wednesday (4/13), I presented a live preview of footage from the documentary in a paper session at the 2011 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA USA. This preview includes interviews with writer/artists Dylan Meconis and Graham Annable, and a segment on race in Portland that includes creators Meconis, Kevin Moore, Sarah Oleksyk, and Sara Ryan, as well as Carl Abbott, professor of urban studies at Portland State University.

 

View on blip.tv.

 

More preview footage forthcoming

I will be presenting a live preview of footage from the documentary in a paper session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Seattle this coming Weds (4/13). I will make that footage available after returning from the conference.

Work in progress screening

In March, I screened some work in progress footage from the documentary at a Public Library Association preconference on librarians and comics. The video portion of the presentation is posted on blip.tv.

Oregon 150 short

The short doc I made for Oregon 150 is now up at blip.tv. You can also see it on YouTube.


Interim project

As you can see, there haven't been any updates since last fall, mostly because there hasn't been much to report. Reviewing and logging footage from the summer continues in fits and starts, and I hope to move onto additional photography this coming spring.

In the meantime, as part of the Oregon 150 program at Western Oregon University, I am working on a short culled from the footage from last year's 24-Hour Comic Day at Cosmic Monkey. The screening is scheduled for noon on Friday, February 13 in Hamersly Library room 107 on the WOU campus. Look here for additional information as a I complete that project.