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VINTAGE ZE FRANK

Ze Frank performs a Nigerian spam e-mail in 2003. This brings back good memories of watching The Show in high school during 3rd wave lunch spent in the video production room.

MORE WACIPI

So, in advance, I promise that there is a lot more to reservation life than wacipis/pow wows. But I was lucky enough to be here on Pine Ridge last weekend for the largest one in the nation, including 350 dancers from all corners of the country, and I happen to be obsessed with the event. There were so many fancy dancers, chicken dancers, jingle dancers and traditional dancers, that the grand entry took half an hour just to get them into the grounds. Shoot. It was the cover story in Rapid City's Native Sun News:

Majority of what I'm doing is construction and community work, which in time I'll post about. For now, the drum groups are still echoing. These are from my Standing in Light Series. It's too bad I only have a mediocre digital out here.

I caught her face from our float in the pre-pow wow parade. We built the skeleton of an outhouse onto a truck bed, since makeshift plumbing is our popular product. Pretty much everyone showed up on the main drag.

SELF-ESTEEM ENGINE

Pictures For Sad Children.

LIVING ROOFTOP

This was a Vimeo Staff Pick today and I'd thought I'd share it. Seems like a pretty good idea to me, but I bet they had to sort through a lot of bureaucracy to get it approved. The description below is pulled in from their Vimeo page.

The roof of the Vancouver BC Convention Centre is covered with over 2.5 hectares (6 acres) of native grassland. Usually closed to the public, we were able to get a tour and interview with the landscape architect of the project, Bruce Hemstock.

This is part 1 of the "Growing Cities" documentary series shot while traveling in the USA and Canada - June 2009.

SOME ANALOG LINES - AN ESSAY FILM BY DAVID LOWERY

I heard about this short film when David Lowery was making the festival rounds with his feature debut St. Nick last year. All of the reviews coming out of SXSW referred to Lowery's previous entry, Some Analog Lines, as a fantastic one-man short. Lowery recently put it on vimeo so now it's here to share. You can check out other work by Mr. Lowery at his website.