I came across local photog Jessica Castro after a series of links – kickstarter pages, a local UCF grad, Jessica had shot her and posted to flickr, a poster image from this video linking to Jessica’s Vimeo account and this video. Sort of the “six degrees” way I find many of the videos for this blog. I really love the aesthetic. And as much depth-of-field blur as we see these days, I think it actually worked here.
Food Truck Wars, which will be at the Oviedo Mall on March 31, will feature all the delicious dishes and treats prepared by participating trucks along with a beer and wine garden, live music and a silent auction, whose proceeds will benefit local charities. The event, sponsored by the mall and the city of Oviedo, is free, but food and drink will be for sale.
As part of the fun, a video featuring Louie’s Bistro owner Luis Colon, the Country Chuck Wagon owner Larry Long and Oviedo Mayor Dominic Persampiere promises fun galore at the inaugural event.
Faith Arts Village Orlando is a ministry of Park Lake Presbyterian Church that provides a place where the faith community and local artists can work together to share their gifts of inspiration, beauty, and spiritual expression to promote peace, understanding, and well-being in the larger community.
As a ‘village’ it will emphasize the activity and integration of many constituents: local artists, church members, community patrons, schools, and civic groups. The Faith and Arts Village may include:
Published on November 15, 2011 in Orlando Video. Closed
I saw someone who was apparently pro-TeaParty post this video to a blog because he was proud that someone roughed up these three girls… I don’t think anyone should be proud of that. I definitely don’t have all of the backstory, but it seems like they had something to say against the speaker, a Tea Party supporter from Arizona, Sherrif Joe Arpaio. According to Wikipedia, “Arpaio has become a flashpoint for controversy surrounding Arizona’s SB1070 anti-illegal immigration act.”
The person who posted this on his YouTube channel is a Jason W Hoyt, who claims to be one of the “founding fathers” of the Tea Party Movement.
Every Monday, the corner of Corrine Drive and Winter Park Blvd is converted into a local market with fresh food and other handmade goods from local sellers. Here is one woman’s view of the best of the market.
Published on September 13, 2011 in Orlando Video. Closed
Dewey Chaffee, “a comedic improvisational character performer”, recently posted a series of videos relating a story where he tracks down and confronts a hateful teenager after the boy posted comments on his facebook wall. Dewey is well-known for thinking quickly on stage when in character, but how does one deal with a heckler who is hundreds of miles away? Part 1
I really enjoy this quote from a grant application Dewey filled out a few years ago, it gives you some idea of his “mission”:
One day, I created a character and I named him Wayburn Sassy. Wayburn is eighty-nine years old and has declared himself an “Entertainment Legend.” He embodies the bigotry and the prejudices that I witnessed from the people who raised me. I knew from the very first moment that Wayburn appeared on stage that, with him, I had stumbled upon something special. Audiences need Wayburn. He demonstrates to us how laughable blind ignorance truly is.
Here’s hoping this self-described mini-documentary carries that mission forward.
The end of the NASA Shuttle program’s 30-year mission to boldly go to the International Space Station has caused a lot of hubub on Florida’s East Coast. Take a look at some of the people affected.
Welcome to Titusville shows the impact of the 30 year Space Shuttle program on the residents of Titusville, a city that lies only a few miles from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Music by Phillip Sheppard
If it were not for NASA, we would not have UCF (originally built as a tech school to train engineers to work in the Space industry), the “Beach Line”, Waterford Lakes, and tons of other amenities in Orlando. People give Disney a lot of credit for bringing economic development to Orlando, but the people employed by military contracts, Lockheed, Siemens, simulation and training, and other engineering industries is really the backbone of Orlando’s higher-paying jobs. This is a huge impact to our entire region, not just the few towns neighboring Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
Peter Murphy and his Orlando Live project (along with Izon Orlando) is carrying the torch we were hoping to carry when we started Orlando Scene TV years ago. Mark Baratelli and The Daily City is also doing awesome work to get the people out in the streets with his Food Truck Bazaar events around town. Here is an interesting collaboration with the above mentioned folks and United Arts of Central Florida for their “The Arts Matter” campaign.
A local duo, who ironically call themselves Snapwell Films, have released a clip reel from the recent Snap! Photography Festival in Orlando. This year was the second installment in what I hope will be a long-running Orlando tradition. The festival itself is extremely urban, modern, hip, and flashy at times, but so simple and stripped down at others. It really strikes a great balance. Check out the video for more:
Last night, downtown Orlando was graced with a spectacle of light and sound as the kickoff to the 2nd Annual Snap! Photography Festival. The historic Kress department store building, now home (in part) to the Kres Chophouse was lit up by a show created by a group called Paintscaping.
Snap will be going on for the rest of this week at the Orlando Museum of Art and the GAI building in Thornton Park. Local, National and International photographers are showing their work and giving workshops and other lectures. This is an event that is definitely raising the cultural bar in Orlando.
I believe it is safe to say that Nerdapalooza is a phenomenon not often witnessed around the world. The video I am posting here, created by South Florida’s Corey Clark, is a great overview of the atmosphere and mission of this premier Nerd Music festival, and it’s a winner of a participant-submitted video contest from the 2010 festival. I believe 2011 will be their 4th year, and their mixture of national, international and local acts draws a large, passionate crowd of geeks, nerds, otaku-heads, comic lovers, and so much more. At the same time, this is not a “con” in the traditional sense – it’s a sub-culture event, and from what I understand the community is much tighter than many big conventions you might come across.
I’ve been to several of the “Road to…” Nerdapalooza events, but not the actual festival itself. This year, I’m proud to say I will be participating in one of the performing groups, as I am the current drummer for Marc with a C, whom we have mentioned several times on this blog.
The 2011 festival is July 16th and 17th at the Orlando Airport Marriott. Not the most likely place for a music festival, but convenient airport access is a huge plus. I’m excited to see it for myself this year.
Just based on dates from their website, this project has existed for nearly a year. They don’t make any mention of coworking that I could see, and one of the people tweeting about it hadn’t heard of Urban ReThink. That doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things, but those are two movements in the world and locally that are very sympathetic to conduit, and I would love to see us working together, at east to share ideas and experiences.
I am a child of divorce. And remarriage. And then another divorce, and more remarriages and more divorces.
Watching my mother blunder through so many pairings was beyond difficult. I promised myself I’d never be like her. If I ever married, it would be “for real”… to someone I loved, someone I would be proud to publicly declare half of myself and half of all that I would ever become in life.
Instead, I married Brian.
I don’t love him. I barely know him. I’ve shared nothing with him, excepting our convictions, over the past 11 months.
Any two loving people who want to build a life together are entitled to whatever protection of that shared life the government is willing to give. The fact that our government only provides this security to male-female couples is an exercise in oppression. It is more than wrong, it is an insult to all proponents of love and commitment in our country.
Some people seem to think that my marriage to Brian was a lark. A joke-lightly entered into and now lightly left behind. That’s the problem with watching a performance like this: the real drama isn’t easily perceived; it’s not lit up on a stage or scored with moody orchestration that tells you how to feel. It’s secreted away in the hearts of the performers.
Marrying a stranger was a sacrifice. If I ever marry for love, it’ll be tarnished. By marrying Brian and now, separating, I’m just like my mother. I’ve given up my personal conviction that marriage is a lifetime commitment. And though I believe I offered up that sacrifice to a greater cause, it doesn’t alleviate any of the pain I feel right now.
This performance was nothing but a token for the suffering of same sex couples who, by virtue of the very relationship they wish to publicly protect, are denied the rights and securities granted so easily to opposite sex couples… like me and Brian.
Contact Equality Florida and donate funds or time to promote the end of this injustice in our home state. Write your State Representatives and Senators to let them know that it’s past time to add protections for same sex couples to our constitution.
At yesterday’s Enzian FilmSLAM I ran into filmmaker Ali Imran Zaidi, who told me he’d been working on a web series here in Orlando called One Minute People. I have embedded Episode 1: Jessie here to get you started:
Imran is hoping to shoot a second season sometime soon. Maybe if you give them a PayPal donation it could speed up the process.
Use the button above to donate to the One Minute People production budget.
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