Commit in Words
This is my video called “Commit In Words”. It is about how words can only scratch the surface of a lot of how things go down. There is a dancing rat, and an urgent message to relax.
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The Colouring Book
Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of a poet? “The Colouring Book”, a collection of poetry and prose exploration of race and identity, was self-published in February 2006. Now writers from the book are putting on the director’s hat and turning their prose and poetry into short videos. Find out about their creative journey as they embark on a one-week intensive digital storytelling workshop to shoot, direct, and edit stories that document their growth, struggles, and power as young adults of colour.Archive by author
Colords of the Ring
Colords of the Ring:
There’s a total hail storm of activity on this site, and I am very curious to see how its presence is felt in the long term. I still am a bit on the lost side in this blog, but I know the internet is going to open my eyes to a lot.
The Coloring Book has been a sweet cooperation, bringing palette elevation, relevant revelation, and subversive renovation to that static station in your location. No more Haitian cotton Hatin’!
This is a message in a bottle, for anyone with an inkling… where should the Coloring Book ‘look’ next? We got the crew, now what to do?
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A boy named Tzu
I got up this morning and had to try to decide about shaving. I’m not sure what my big hang up with shaving is, but sometimes I just prefer a good ‘hair helm’ over trying to decide what hollywood person I dream of looking like. I like to keep at least some facial hair generally, but alot of those looks are too tainted, or take like a protractor to cut.
I guess it stems from not totally liking my face. The benefit being that while it’s not a mona lisa, it may not be a picasso either, and when I haven’t seen it in a while, the unvieling can be both fun, frightening, and once in a while, fetching.;)
A boy named Tzu
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Poetry-turned-animated short
Hedy’s interview with Rusty (covering workshops from July 30th-31st):
“So it’s been really fun and productive – we had a very long day yesterday! We just plucked away at our respective projects; for me, I’ve been working on an animated short. In a way, the more you put into the animation, the more there is to look at so you have to keep putting out stuff. And even for a person looking at the cartoon for the third time, they realize how simple it is and how it’s not much but then the third time there is a surprise or two in it and it is funny. So overall an incredible opportunity and even though there is a big lag it’s incredible because it takes a lot of perseverance.
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July digital storytelling workshop days 4 & 5
Hedy’s interview with Rusty (covering workshops from July 28-29th):
“So far everybody’s been trying to get as much done and finished as fast as possible. It’s hard to do cause we’ve been enjoying ourselves. I’ve been working on lip-syncing and playing around with this one character. So that’s what I’m working on today.”
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Animation, Photoshop, & After-Effects
Hedy’s interview with Rusty (covering workshops from July 26-27th):
“So basically I came to the NFB studio here and I’m working on this mainly animated thing and so the first day I kind of just worked on the storyboard – I’m kind of already familiar with a lot of the stuff because I’ve worked with Photoshop before and I’m used to animation so I just got the storyboard done more or less the first day and got into working on the finished images and it’s basically going according to plan – just a lot of drawings to do – today (Sunday) was more about finishing the images because basically After-Effects allows you to put images on a timeline and the actual making of the images is most effectively done in Photoshop. It’s best done with Flash but I’ve got an old version of Flash so it’s more beneficial to work with After-Effects and just go straight from Photoshop to After-Effects.”
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About this blog
Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of a poet? “The Colouring Book”, a collection of poetry and prose exploration of race and identity, was self-published in February 2006. Now writers from the book are putting on the director’s hat and turning their prose and poetry into short videos. Find out about their creative journey as they embark on a one-week intensive digital storytelling workshop to shoot, direct, and edit stories that document their growth, struggles, and power as young adults of colour.
Blog Authors
Haridescendant: son brother grandson cousin nephew friend kasama, love. brown: pnoy desi luzvimindanero south asian pangasinan telugu southvan visitoronthisland. migrant: strive support enjoy uplift learn getdown workplay. storyteller: write perform en/re/vision because I love to, because it might ignite, because it heals.
Hedyeh BozorgzadehHedy is a graduate of the UBC Film Program, has a passion for storytelling and is thrilled to be coordinating The Colouring Book Digital Storytelling Workshop at the NFB.
Hui-Ling LinHui-Ling Lin is originally from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. She is very interested in the experiences of migration/immigration, and spatial issues related to race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. She is fascinated by alternative ways of story-telling and hopes to make films about incredible women who are currently invisible and deserve more recognition.
Marge LamMarge Lam, born on unceded Coast Salish Territories- Vancouver, is an artist, freelance journalist and community worker. She is an emerging writer for Diaspora Dialogues and has also co-hosted for Stark Raven Radio and freelanced for CKLN and CBC Radio One. Marge is currently making home in Toronto.
Rusty BeachRusty Beach is a sometimes goof waiting for his life to light up. Other times, he just goes ahead and shines it up, whether with shoes, moons, tunes or cartoons.
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