Video

A year of big change! That’s all I’m going to write this time around. Enjoy the video!

It took 14 days and an ambitious crew of videographers/photographers to put this nearly 2 minute stop motion/ time lapse together.

Instead of Forest Gump making the trek however, female fans of the CGP will be happy to notice that the filmmakers chose to have a Abercrombie model who barley breaks a sweat fill in for Tom Hanks throughout the vid. This lack of attrition displayed actually gives me the confidence that I can pull off the feat and come out equally as attractive at the end, but these those are thoughts for another day.

Jokes aside though, this is as close as you'll get to taking a journey across the USA without actually suiting up your own running shoes. So try pausing
the vid a few times, its the only effort you'll really need to take in all the scenery.

Via Modern Met

For the second time in my life I participated in the global movement entitled Take Back the Night (TBTN). It aims to end sexual violence especially against women, but our group at The New School (and many others) opens it up to simply fight gender based violence.

To give you a better understanding of TBTN I first would like to share a quote with you from the official website of the movement: http://www.takebackthenight.org/

“Why Take Back the Night?

Three days left to the presidential elections in Colombia. The outcome is supposedly quite critical for the country’s future and I am searching the German mainstream media for any updates.

For the past four years I have been involved in the VDay Movement (www.vday.org) to end the violence against women around the globe. I have performed in The Vagina Monologues several times and directed Any One Of Us: Words From Prison. I was also very fortunate to spend a whole afternoon with Eve Ensler, the playwright and founder of the movement, who is one of the strongest, most inspiring and world-changing people I know of! It was incredible!

I’m sitting on the Bolt Bus from New York City to Washington DC and I am realizing that there could be no better week to post this film I worked on called “Continent Unknown.” It was written, directed and edited by a colleague of mine – Meng Xie and tells the story of… Ah no, this is a vlog, right. So you should just watch it yourself before you continue reading! P.S. I was the Director of Photography, or “DP” as they call it in the filmmaking circles, meaning I was in charge of camera and lighting.

In the summer of 2007 I went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil participating in a course on Human Rights and Media. Over the course of 4 weeks we met with countless NGOs, as well as community leaders in different favelas across the city. Most of them worked with young people teaching them how to use the arts, especially video and photography to empower them by telling their stories to the world, and to get them off the streets.