Lillet Poached Pears from jessica castro on Vimeo.

http://jessicacastrophotography.com

Parting thought: while I really enjoy the handheld feel, I wonder if a little bit of manual stabilization, such as a $15 Steadycam could have helped.

Food Truck Wars from Suzie Vigon on Vimeo.

Quoting Anjali Fluker from the Orlando Business Journal blog: Food Truck Wars debuts in Oviedo this March

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:

• Studio space for artists
• Green and exhibit space for community gathering
• Meeting and classroom space
• Gallery space
• Open air markets
• Outdoor performance space
• Cafe space for refreshments
• Office space for administration
• Possible future residential space for designated guests
• Mission outreach through the arts
• Encouraging art as an expression of faith

Orlando Film Festival opening night from Snapwell Films on Vimeo.

I know Marlon and Jeff of Snapwell Films from their involvement in Urban ReThink – they even produced a promotional video to help us out.

Part 2

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.

Welcome to Titusville from Ride5 on Vimeo.

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.

Orlando LIVE – TheDailyCity.com Food Truck Bazaar from Concrete Lion Pictures on Vimeo.

Snap Orlando 2011 from Snapwell Films on Vimeo.

Footage of the 2nd annual Snap Orlando Photography Festival.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks for reading OrlandoVideo.TV – If you like this, you’ll also want to check out OrlandoPodcasters.com and Pulpp.net – the two newest sites in our network.

You can (must) certainly check out their latest album, Fatelifter. The band had a Kickstarter campaign for Fatelifter earlier in the year, which was very successful. You can probably get the most up-to-date information on Mumpsy at Facebook.

Photography by Chris Garcia
Hair/Makeup by Lisa Carollo
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Santa arrives on Amtrak and as he walks through Winter Park is surrounded by holiday cheer as children and bystanders join him in singing Joy to the World.

This video is part of a viral campaign for a local film and book about the legend of Santa Claus. Check out their site Santa Is Real.

Also check out the KRSMedia YouTube Channel

Santa made a stop at Enzian to visit and pick up the kids’ letters to Santa, and he promises that “they’ll get to the right people.” A lovely time was had by all, kids, parents and Santa.

I love some of the fun themed (non-movie) events that the fine folks at Enzian have been cooking up lately.

Marvel from Solillaquists of Sound’s latest release “No More Heroes” (Anti-/Epitaph Records), is the first of a 3-part music video series shot by fellow Orlando MC/producer and first time director, X:144.

This series of videos is set to mirror the groups collection of three conceptually linked albums called The Listeners Trilogy. This first video, much like the first album of the trilogy, As if We Existed, introduces the story’s characters to the audience.

The next video will follow the action-packed dynamic of No More Heroes. The story will unfold over the next couple of months with the release of the next two videos and provide a bridge to the final album of the trilogy.

video edited, directed & cinematography by X:144 (Maged Khalil Ragab) on NO budget.. not one penny!

more info & lyrics at solilla.com

As seen on The Daily City

Part 2:

Audobon Park Community Market from Big Wheel Provisions on Vimeo.

music by Ratatat

The Audubon Park Community Market is the Ourlando community’s source for the best selection of truly local food, from produce and other farm goods to prepared foods, grocery items and meals. We work hard to bring you food that is grown, raised, caught, or carefully made right here in Florida, emphasizing freshness and encouraging sustainable practices. The market is a community of growers, ranchers, fishermen, chefs, artists, handicrafters, musicians and neighbors.

This weekly gathering of friends, local food, local art, live music and more takes place in the Stardust parking lot at 1842 E Winter Park Rd. Every Monday, from 6pm to 10pm, creating a place where people can come together.

Then there is this excellent video by Mark at the Daily City.

We set up a table Monday night at the market to pimp our blog to the passersby. Most people passered-by without so much as a “what is this?” or “This isn’t locally-produced goat cheese. Get out.” They took one look at me, my nose in my laptop, and my table covered in shoddy flyers and scurried past. I felt like a perfume lady at Dillards forced to spray Fergie’s latest scent on stranger’s inner wrists.

A few wanted to know about Taco Truck Taste Test. Once they learned what it was, they took a shoddy flyer. Hope they show up. Having a blog table at this market is wonderful. You see how known you are and how far you need to go. Grateful they let me set up shop once again. We’ll be back, sans goat cheese and well-designed marketing material of course.

The Queues – Waiting By The Phone from Alex Wolfe on Vimeo.

This is the music video for The Queues’ song Waiting By The Phone. Directed by Alex Wolfe, Written By Jarl Sonkin, Rob Wintour, Jonathan Hamilton, and Alex Wolfe.

I enjoyed the video, and the production quality… and the song is pretty good, too! Give it a listen. It’s much longer than a normal music video, because the song is baked into the story. I’d like to see this group enter their video in the next Orlando Comedy Video Sketch Fest on October 14th at the Gallery at Avalon Island.

From August 12 – 15, 2010 more than 25,000 fans from all over the world gathered in Orlando, Florida to celebrate the phenomenon that is Star Wars. Here’s a look at the festivities hosted by one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations.

Jessica’s show at Taste is her first solo show, and the entire show depicts mothers, girls grappling with the state of being a mother, and the fact that they are able to become mothers.

A blurb from the Daily City had this to say:
From Jessica Earley at Taste

Jessica Earley (Audience Choice Awards, Blunder Bungle, Interview) has her first solo show *ever* June 11, 2010 7-9pm at Taste (717 W Smith Street). Free admission. Drink specials. She describes the show as this: “There will be boobies, there will be babies, there will be blood (really).”

Not to mention the purple hair, but WTF?

http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/Locations/stcloud.html

While communities across the nation seek new ways to generate local economic development and job growth without spending millions of dollars, St. Cloud and Osceola County took a big step forward recently with the formal dedication of the new UCF Business Incubator-St. Cloud facility at 3201 Budinger Ave. in St Cloud.

Gordon Hogan, director of operations for the UCF Business Incubation Program, said the launch of the new 14,000 square foot facility marks a new era of economic development activity in Osceola County.

Four incubation client companies are locating offices in the new facility immediately, Hogan said, and the UCF Business Incubation Program expects to name a full time site manager in less than 30 days. Eventually, the UCF Business Incubator-St. Cloud could accommodate as many as 20 client companies.

Business incubators rank among the most cost-effective ways to generate sustainable local economic growth. Since 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 140 emerging companies generate more than $800 million in annual revenues and more than 1,600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000.

Research has shown that 87 percent of incubator graduates are still in business five years after graduating from an incubation program, said UCF’s Business Incubation Program Founder Dr. Tom O’Neal.

“The UCF Business Incubator-St. Cloud will provide a wide range of services to accelerate the growth of promising young companies so they can play a greater role in economic expansion in the local area,” Hogan explained.

The UCF Business Incubation Program currently supports nearly 90 client companies, Hogan said, and ranks as one of the premier university-based incubation programs in the U.S.

“St. Cloud is very excited to have one of the premiere incubation programs in the country in St. Cloud. The UCF Business Incubator-St. Cloud will not only assist in growing our own companies, but will help to achieve the long-time goal of diversification in the local job markets and the overall economy,” said Ernie Gearhart, Economic Development Consultant for the City of St. Cloud.

The St. Cloud incubator facility is one of eight in the University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation program. Additional incubator facilities are located at UCF Campus, Research Park in east Orlando, and in Orlando, Sanford, Winter Springs and Leesburg.

Orlando’s Official World Pillow Fight Day Event Since 2008. Produced by Brian Feldman Projects http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55560628133

http://pillowfightday.com

http://PILLOWLANDO.tumblr.com

http://twitter.com/PILLOWLANDO

http://www.brianfeldman.com/PILLOWLANDO

A smurf, a dragon-lady, and a witch doctor walk in to a bar. The robot bartender asks…

Thunder Hag

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter

Curious about the lineup of this band, I dug a bit and discovered a link to Hannah, Brian Feldman’s wife, who he married for artistic and political reasons last week.

All the right video clips, all the WRONG edits, effects, and titles. I seriously want to barf right now.

Give ANYONE with 3 ounces of talent access to your video library – there are some really great things in there, I’m sure, and you must have spent so much money capturing and acquiring all of that footage (or someone did), why would you then let a 3-year-old with a mouse and keyboard near it?

I apologize to the person who did the editing – you may have just been following orders, but they were BAD orders.

Jessica then went on to perform several pieces with a Mr. Brian Feldman, of wide renown in Orlando for his outdoor, public, time-based performance art. I also saw Jessica’s piece titled “I want your sympathy” at the Orlando Museum of Art’s First Thursdays, and I participated in her outdoor gallery event , “Blunder Bungle”, held at the aptly named “Museum of my Neighbor’s Backyard”.

Jessica also caught my attention when she signed up for twitter for exactly one day. Then, the 10,000th day she was alive, she paraded from her home to local hangout Stardust Video & Coffee in a parade of one, which was 10,000 steps long.

This video seems to be starring Jessica, though I don’t know who shot and edited the piece. The YouTube page for the piece says it’s a music video for a Chicago-based artist named Maigin Blank.

More links:

• Jessica’s Blog
• Jessica on Thomas Thorspecken’s Blog (this is the link that brought me to Jessica’s YouTube page, and how you got this post)
• Jessica and Brian on Elizabeth Maupin’s Blog

Chris Zabriskie is a good friend of mine, and a damn fine filmmaker. This month, he put together a little video with some amazing stuff from the hit TV show LOST.

I saw this on a blog Chris co-writes for called Retro Low Fi (full disclosure, Marc from RLF and I do a podcast called Pop Means Cuddle, I used to be in his band).

As of right now, this video has 226,005 views and counting. Way to go, Chris.

Check out Chris’ other featured videos on Orlando Video.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

59 times out of 60, Orlando Video highlights a clip made right here in Sunny Floria, but today I must give props to two gentleman more talented and dedicated than myself at showing off cool videos. Their names are Jim Kirk and Chuck Baker, and their talent produces many podcasts, one of which is The Clip Show. I really have to hand it to them for following the KISS methodology and just keeping things super-simple. The show within the show that you see The Heap, actually gets it’s own web site and feed, because they write and produce things that last 2 to 10 minutes and just get it over with.

This particular episode of the Clip Show doesn’t follow the familiar format, where they rate video podcasts on the C.O.G.D.N. Rating System, which is a modest scale of 1 to 13 COGDN, 13 being knock your socks off amazing. In fact, the reason why I linked to this episode is to direct you readers to 13 shows you should really check out, a great sampling of video podcasts. Add these 13 shows to your iTunes / Miro / FireAnt player, or visit each web site individually each week and get a cramp in your hand from all the clicking like I know so many of you do, but give all of these shows an equal chance.

Visit the Clip Show and make sure you subscribe!

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

I’ve been reading the Graphics Technology program’s blog from Valencia Community College for as long as it’s existed, I think. The best part is: it’s an interesting read! There are always students winning awards, getting jobs and the like, and now there are videos, too!

Amanda Kern writes:

I’ve uploaded six new projects from my Interactive Design 1 course to share with you all. Last semester I began assigning a new typographic animation project which has had some great results. You’ll just have to check out the videos for yourself. Enjoy!

A BIG thanks goes out to Digital Media Professor, Rob McCaffrey, who was instrumental in spearheading our new youtube account. Keep an eye out for new videos by visiting Valencia’s digital media/graphics youtube account directly.

I know I’m going to continue keeping an eye on this blog for more videos. It looks like these were captured with a screencasting software instead of exported from Flash. There are also several more examples of animated type on the blog post where I found this video, so go check them out.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

Tough love is necessary sometimes…

CentralFloridaNews.TV – I have met Chaz Yorick and seen him perform poetry to a decent degree, but these initial videos are not his strong suit.

Here’s some free advice – for anyone posting lots of videos to the web – do post your videos to YouTube, but on your web site post higher-quality vids from Viddler, Blip.TV or Revver – all three of these allow for contextual ads in the video, and their playback quality and video players are much better. A service like TubeMogul can help you post and tag the video on multiple sites, as well as tracking the number of viewers you get.

More free advice – as much as I love “A Comic Shop” and the plan for what they announced for their MegaCon booth, as a producer, you need to understand when your interview subject is as exciting as a wet noodle and you need to read the copy yourself. We made that mistake on the TASTE video and paid the price.

You can catch Chaz any Wednesday night hosting the poetry open mic at Austin’s Coffee. Also this weekend at MegaCon. Something about live streaming, but it doesn’t really say where or by what method…? Twitter – something called College Boys Live that looks like a Justin.TV thing. Not too sure what zombies and comic books have to do with college boys streaming 24/7 on the internet, but it will make my google ads more interesting for a few weeks, yes?

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >. We also started a show called OrlandoScene.TV – it is open for anyone to contribute so we aren’t duplicating efforts and splintering the viewership. Anyone out there making videos like this, we want to work together.

Update: According to the announcement made in this video, he and some folks will be streaming live from MegaCon this weekend via the Justin.tv service. I’m watching a little of it right now – people eating lunch. I like that someone is doing the live streaming thing from Orlando. Props.

Update 2: I had my doubts about this project earlier this week, but after watching the live stream at MegaCon, I see that you not only get to watch them set up for the videos, but all the crazy folks walking around in costume is an experience like no other. I have only been to MegaCon once in the past, but this live stream lets me get just enough of it and remain immersed to make it fun.

Jason Hawkins is a winner. We’ve featured his SOLMI videos here before, and now he’s creating lots of video for other folks in town. I dig his motion graphics, camera work, and the way he (or his camera) captures color.

Also, props to Jason Seifer. Kissy face? Nice work, broseph.

On a very serious note, if you’re reading this blog, you should make plans to go to BarCampOrlando and do a presentation – if you’ve got short films, this is a great captive audience to show them in front of – 20 minute time slots. If you do a podcast or vlog, work in television, motion graphics, design, or anything of the sort, the second day in particular will be of interest to you and you should really sign up to present. As I said on my blog about BarCamp:

I’m recruiting presenters and attendees for the New Media Day. Be there, bring your A-game. (your B-game is equally welcome)

At the last event, I think everyone’s understanding that there were going to be some crazy awesome presentations as well as some mediocre ones was not very solid. I spoke to a few people who presented and said “I thought I was going to be all by myself in a room with like 5 guys all scratching their chins, but I was SO wrong”, the other half of them said “I thought about presenting, but I didn’t think I was ‘good enough’, but then I saw it was just a bunch of guys like me, so I’m going to blow them all out of the water this time”.

Really, those are you only two options. You should have either presented at last year’s BarCamp, or decided that you were definitely presenting at the next one. If you weren’t there, then take my word for it and create a presentation. Really.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

blissink is a ‘zine writer, designer and a father. The last role is important because I think his kids are doing the voices on this video. According to my friend Aleshia:

These are very violent.

It’s interesting though, because it’s not explicit, but it is very violent. We’re no stranger to desktop theatre here, and the Robot Chicken Generation is certainly blossoming through YouTube and other video sharing sites.

It appears blissink is doing a series of these Star Wars/LEGO videos. Under the banner of blissink, he’s also acted as a designer for the ELLA Music Festival, which we here at Liberatr had a bit to do with.

This doesn’t feel like a regular Orlando video post, but I’ll end it the traditional way by saying that we accept submissions, and I’d love to find out about you and your latest projects if you’re making videos in the Central Florida area. All you need to do is email me < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

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You can check out my full post about Orlando Puppet Festival over at BloggingFringe.com, but here’s the short version:

This weekend, a parade of puppeteers will precipitate through downtown in an un-pompous display of consonance…. or they’ll just knock your socks off with some kickass puppeteering. This isn’t the stuff your nieces and nephews are watching on Nickelodeon, we’re talking real theatre with one of the oldest art forms in the world as the showcase.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

From the YouTube page:

Skull Kingdom,one of Orlando Florida’s Landmark Attractions on International Drive. It was a Year-Round Walk-through Haunted House for about 10 years, A Giant Castle with a Skull on the front. They started demolition on Friday,27th July 2007 and will be finished by the end of Saturday the 28th. They started with the iconic Skull Facade, which seemed solid for the years came down like 2 kids attacking a pinyata with chainsaws.

This video is the first in a series, including several from the auction of the interior props and accessories from Skull Kingdom. Robert, who recorded this video, also goes by Bunny, and he performs with the Rich Weirdoes, our own local Rocky Horror cast, at Universal CityWalk’s megaplex theatre.

I also know Bunny does an evening over at Stardust where he dresses up like Groucho Marx and reads poetry. I’ve at least seen it happen once. If I find out any more info about this, come back to this post for dates or links.

This might be Orlando Video’s first revlogging via camera phone, but let’s hope it’s not the last. If you have a camera phone or an interesting video from your friend’s phone, email me at < liberatr AT gmail DOT com > and I’ll see if we can’t get it posted here. I’d also love someone to take up some of the burden of blogging around here. If you want the job, we can share.