| Blandlands |
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Seed planter and wagon. Planter rotates every 15 minutes from planting to transport position. Housed at the home of Kinze manufacturing in Williamsburg, IA. It can be seen driving along I-80 between Des Moines and Iowa City (exit 216)...
Dangle your feet off the loading dock and imagine warm beaches and hot tubs.
Looking out on the river from train tressel feet you can see seagulls and fastfood signs like a crayola M’s in the clouds.
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A mobile kitchen, known colliqually in some regions as a “X” Truck, is a mobile venue that sells food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell mostly frozen or prepackaged food; others are more like restaurants-on-wheels. Food t...
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Rake leaves in a pile on the City right-of-way area in front of your house (between the sidewalk and the street curbing). Be sure your pile of leaves is no further than five feet back from the curb. The vacuum hose will...
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When they tore down the used car dealership they left a wall. Wall: any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous s...
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In heaven roof shingles are cut custom and accompanied by a leaf-blower symphony.
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The fenced-in-area is potential. The railroad tracks connect hobo homes to the recycling center. Beneath the ebb and flow of Ford Festivas and F-150’s.
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On the edge of town. Out by the airport. Near the bowling alley. Across from the farmers’ cooperative. A new road is being built. Connecting an old road. To a highway.
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We begin with a store I pass going to and from work every day. There’s never anyone there yet it retains its shiny exterior. It may be a front for a top secret operation. I think about gi...
My personal videoblog has morphed it something boring. Welcome to the Blandlands.
I’m cross-posting this from Valdezatron Industries, my other web joint. The feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/valdezatron or you can get the big feed of my videoblog and Valdezatron Industries through http://feeds.feedburner.com/Aa...
Super 8 film captures a few moments over a three month period. Shot in Austin, Texas during my time at the Charles Bukowski Suites on Lavaca and MLK Blvd, also Marathon, Texas and a trip to East Texas.
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No Budget music video for the song “Over Years and Miles” by the local musician Unknown Component. It mixes found film with video. All of the images are intercut, no superimpositions. I’ve been obsessed with persistence o...
My 2003 found footage collage, Dissolve, is now available for download. It’s 15 minutes long (80MB). Made by cutting dissolves from over a hundred found films and splicing them back together to form a new film. This is a 100% handmad...
This one goes back a way. From 1996 or 1997. Back in those days I was shooting only super8, making these little one-reelers. Robby Knievel was in town doing a promotional jump at a Nissan dealership in Round Rock, Texas. I grabbed my Bole...
I saw the original source material of this last week on DV Blog (an invaluable videoblog) via Bedazzled. This is the second entry in a study (or me messing around) with audio and video delay. I did a Bob Dylan one way back. Nothing new bu...
This is Marathon, Texas. A small town in West Texas just outside of Big Bend National Park. My great-grandfather lived in a one-room shack with a small kitchen and a bed. Just big enough for a fella working on the railroad.
The town is ...
Initial mock-up for a music video for Unknown Component. The SMPTE leader part will be replaced with other graphical 16mm heads/tails pieces that I’ve compiled. And another layer with the artist will be either superimposed or inserte...
Re-vlog from Nanoramas, an excellent videoblog by my wife Jennifer Proctor, of Bike-in Theater, a dirty-style summer video series I started last year.
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Feeling uninspired, so I’m posting this truly original vision made at work. I don’t feel like I’ve had any :::vision::: for awhile. I’ve had plenty of dreams… mostly events that suddenly turn into religious ce...
I started a program at the Public Access Station I work at where we provide free film-to-video transfers in exchange for exhibiting the work for Home Movie Day held in August every year. A gentleman brought in a couple of reels for transfe...
I cut this film by hand - scissors, tape, and a gang sync - five years ago. I planned on doing a synced dual projection with music but the damn thing could never make it through the projectors with all of the splices. It was intended for...
5 sections from my 2002 film.
Tags: shadows, art, walls, film, trees