Tributes & Video Biographies
Sharing Life Stories, Connecting Generations, Preserving Legacies
We recently completed a video that we were hired to do by Bright Sky Press, a Houston-based publisher of fine books for national and international trade distribution. The video explores the message of Venerable Master Miao Tsan, abbot at Vairocana Zen Monaste...
Read more ● Friday, October 8th, 2010
Flickr photo:wirwuen Who are we? Besides living organisms, we are a story, the details (sub-stories) are connected to other people’s stories and they are part of community stories, family stories, national stories…. you get where I’m going her...
Read more ● Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
This is the second year that Texas Monthly has hosted a short film contest during the annual Austin Film Festival. The contest provides a platform for Texans to share their Texas pride by making a film 10 minutes or less about Texas, your experiences in Texa...
Read more ● Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
I recently returned from the 2010 Association of Personal Historians Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia. The theme of this conference was “Voices of the Elders” and was named as such to “honor the First Nations, the first peoples...
Read more ● Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Flickr photo:nathangibbs Since 1995, Ira Glass, one of the greatest storytellers of our time, has been the host of the radio show “This American Life,”a weekly hour-long show that is primarily journalistic non-fiction but also features essays, short fict...
Read more ● Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
I was recently telling someone about the work I do and I got some interesting feedback. He said, “you’re an interpreter.” I have been spending some time with that statement and find it very intriguing. I guess I have always collapsed an int...
Read more ● Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Flickr Photo: Eric Lafforgue Yesterday, on the Association of Personal Historians Listserve, someone posted a question asking if anyone remembered an African proverb that was told to us by James Walsh. Walsh, a history professor at the University of Colorado...
Read more ● Friday, June 4th, 2010
A few weeks ago one of my clients, Dan Duncan, a well known businessman and philanthropist, passed away. His passing was unexpected and we were just days away from shooting new footage for a another tribute video on the Duncans. Both Dan and his wife Jan wer...
Read more ● Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
At the end of March I attended an all-day workshop on Multimedia Storytelling led by Brian Storm of MediaStorm, an award-winning company based in New York and focused on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms. The worksh...
Read more ● Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Sometimes you see something visual and it just resonates with you on such a deep level that it starts the beginnings of an interest, an obsession, or even a love affair. I was in the Catherine Couturier Gallery a couple months ago and came across a few pieces...
Read more ● Sunday, September 8th, 2013