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My video project from my ASL 2 class. Captions to come!

Wondering what I ve been up to? Catch up with a somewhat nonsensical birthday update!

I hope everyone s holiday was as wonderful and blessed as mine!

Download Movie I m taking an ASL (American Sign Language) class at a local community college. I took a year of sign language in high school, and ever since then I ve wanted to become an interpreter. When I get tired of designing websites, that will be my next career, or co-career. Who knows? [...]

Download Movie After the turkey, the real fun begins. Here you ll find two of the stars of my short film Cupid, Incorporated, and their father/manager, cutting loose with American Idol Karaoke.

Download Movie After an abbreviated Videoblogging Week due to my life just being too freakin hectic (5 days is a week too you know), I got some sage advice today. I will have to reflect on it seriously Thanks to Mark and David for making appearances today, and oh yeah, that is not my cake. [...]

Download Movie As you can see this piece does break this week s rule of no editing, however, in my defense, since I technically did not direct the video, I have not cheated. (videobloggingweek2007) 1:30, 7.3 MB

Download Movie Beware (videobloggingweek2007) Music: Danny Elfman, Doc Ock Suite 1:06, 3.8 MB

Download Movie When I went to college I decided to major in film because I thought it made more sense, career-wise, than majoring in writing. I figured I d make films for a living and write in my spare time Oh well, I was only 17 (videobloggingweek2007) :30, 1.2 MB

Download Movie I once took a meditation class where we practiced walking meditation. When this clip was shot I felt that the drive was a meditation (luckily I wasn t behind the wheel). I ve always loved when you can actually see the sun rays streaming through the clouds. It looks like heaven is [...]

Download Movie Here we go again, if it weren t for Videoblogging Week I wouldn t make any videos at all. This week I have challenged myself by doing one video per day, shot that day with no editing. Titles, filters and effects are allowed, but no cuts! Should be interesting Today s video features [...]

Download Movie The final video of the week. Phew! It s not as easy as it looks kids. But I keep rolling on . (videobloggingweek2006) :55, 4.7 MB

Download Movie U Street, Washington DC. Someone is always watching even those people who we try not to see (videobloggingweek2006) :59, 2.3 MB

Play Movie I thought you might appreciate a little perspective on this whole Videoblogging Week phenomenon. (videobloggingweek2006) :21, 1.9 MB

Play Movie The only danger is us. (videobloggingweek2006) :53, 1.6 MB

Play Movie Long before I learned to make movies with a camera, I made them in my head. Sometimes I think those are the best kind (videobloggingweek2006) 1:34, 3.9 MB

Play Movie Here is the sequel to yesterday s informative presentation on how best to burn up your girlfriend s kitchen. videobloggingweek2006 goes on and on . 1:34, 4 MB

Play Movie So it s that time again, another week of videoblogs, 1 per day for 7 days. Today, Jared teaches us how to make fried chicken! Should be an interesting week Viva La Videoblog! 3:04, 5.6 MB

Play Movie Don t get excited it s not mine. But my brother Paul did get a new toy. Yay! 1:16, 4 MB

Play Movie Well, I m not sure if I m actually revisiting it since I m still here (for another few hours) but here s the rest of my trip. Met some cool new people and a cool old one too. Not old as in old, just well, you know what I m trying to say (right Scot?). The Blogging While Black massive represented well and it was great meeting everyone: Baratunde, EJ, George, Lynne, Tiffany, Tony, Jeff, Laina, Denise, J. Brotherlove, and Victor (and anyone I may have forgotten ) Music: Band Marino 3:19, 14.2 MB

Play Movie I m in Austin, TX for the SXSW Interactive Conference and Film Festival. On the first day, I walked Music: Jean-Luc Ponty 1:42, 8.5 MB

Video As I said farewell to another year I realized there was so much left unsaid so much footage left unseen I thought of doing a wrap-up of the year, but instead I will leave you with some of the B-sides - clips that time almost forgot, but now have received another chance for glory. 4:41, 10.3 MB

Video Christmas 2002, from the James family to you! 3:15, 8.4 MB

Well folks, we re back from hiatus this week with another season full of brand new reality programming here at Phatalspin dot com. Enjoy! Video (MP4 format) What really goes on behind the stalks of a corn maize?? DMC employees endeavored to solve this mystery recently. 3:18, 21.9 MB

Here s some press coverage from the Cry_Wolf film premiere. You get to hear my brother, the other cast and filmmakers plug the film. Both videos happen to be by the same correspondent . Horror.com s coverage Horror.about.com s coverage (Both videos require Real Player)

Video Hooray for Hollywood . This from my whirlwind trip to LA. My brother s film opened last Friday. Check it out, it s a fun movie, I honestly enjoyed it and I m not just saying that because of nepotism. Pictures of the event can be found here. Stars sightings: Topher Grace, Tom Green, Darius McCrary, and of course the cast of the film. 1:44, 5.8 MB

Video Today you get 2 posts for the price of 1 all due to the fact that I was on the news this morning. Fox 5 News did a brief story on some cutting edge technology that I highly recommend. What s great about videoblogging is that I don t have to tell you how it went. You can see for yourself (it s amazing what you can do when you get up at 6am; I edited and posted 2 videos before work!) Yay videoblogging!! Thanks to Fox 5 producer, Sean McGarvy, for the camerawork. Oh yeah, video courtesy of Fox 5. 2:34, 13.8 MB

Video Part two of my extremely late Vloggercue retrospective. Music from The Three Peice, Extra Mumbo EP 1:03, 5.3MB

Video A few weeks ago some videobloggers had a barbeque in Jersey. I brought along my friend Thea. Getting there was half the battle. 1:34, 8.3MB

Video More fun at Ellery s expense. This is where Ellery works. He s concerned about theft in the office so he says. 1:18, 7.1MB