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15:15:39 11/04/08
Joshua Viertel, Terra Madre 2008
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Joshua Viertel, president of Slow Food USA speaks at the USA regional meeting, Terra Madre 2008 , Torino Italy. 26 October 2008
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14:36:05 11/04/08
Winona LaDuke and her Nephews, Terra Madre 2008
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Winona LaDuke from The White Earth Land Recovery Project followed by her nephews Kellen Shelendewa of Pueblo Zuni and Brett Ramey from Flagstaff AZ.
Shot at the Slow Food USA meeting at Terra Madre 2008 , Torino Italy 26 October 2008.
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05:56:31 08/06/08
Brooklyn Rider: "Ascending Bird" at In A Circle, January 2008
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Brooklyn Rider is:
Violin - Colin Jacobsen
Violin - Johnny Gandelsman
Viola - Nicholas Chords
Cello - Eric Jacobsen
special guest, Shane Shanahan on percussion.
This performance was part of the program at 'In A Circle' at the Brooklyn Lyceum on 14 January 2008.
visit www.brooklynrider.com
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00:58:43 08/14/07
Integral Exercize: Swimming Dragon
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Swimming Dragon by Ray Rizzo
Music by Joshua Geisler
Video by Vlognomad
Filmed in Shantiniketan, West Bengal India
February 2007
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20:40:56 03/09/07
Network2 at Anjuna Market
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Posted by Casey Meade on 9 March 2007
Links: Network2 , Wolf+Lamb , Goa
This is my official entry in the "How To Watch Internet TV" Contest sponsored by Jeff Pulver and Network2.tv . It's true, this is basically a commercial for Network2. However, I wanted it to also stand on its own as a viable vlognomad peace, and I think it is successful as a window onto the Anjuna Beach Wednesday Market scene, a small slice of Goa lifestyle, plus a glimpse at the new Vlognomad/ Projectile Arts base on the hill (Wired -- and unwired -- for broadband since two weeks!).
As usual, this post comes with an apology: this is my first time in an on-camera situation. I had some great talent lined up and I was planning to do the shooting, but things didn't work out quite so smoothly and I had to step in and be the "personality"... It was kind of fun and I think it worked out ok... Special thanks to Jeff Pulver for giving me incentive to wake from my narcissistic slumber, induced by the theft of my Sony T50 and iPod (along with all my photos and footage from Kumbh Mela and two weeks in Calcutta!). Sorry for the lapse recently. THANK YOU also to Wolf+Lamb . They're in Argentina. I'm in India. Why not collaborate... we all come out of Brooklyn, right? Enjoy.
-Casey Meade
Anjuna.Goa.India
10 March 2007
vlognomad [at] gmail [dot] com
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06:14:19 01/25/07
Naga Babas - 19 January 2007
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Posted by Casey Meade on 25 Jan 2007
Links: Ardh Kumbh Mela , Nouvelle Vague
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So my awesome new Sony T50 digital camera records great videos, but I cannot figure out how to get the videos into Final Cut Pro WITH SOUND! If anybody has any insight into this problem, please email me immediately.
As a result of this minor obstacle, this second post from the Ardh Kumbh Mela features a little cultural clash of aesthetics. Maybe you don't think of Nouvelle Vague when you're crammed into a crowd of 5000 excited and shivering naked men covered from head to toe with ash, shouting at the top of their lungs as they push and shove their way down to the river for a bath... in the midst of 18 MILLION other pilgrims. But there's something about this music that brings out the sublime nature of that moment as I experienced it.
...And there's something about the lyrics that brings out multi-layered compexity of the Naga Babas. I have been spending a lot more time with them this time than I did at the Maha Kumbh Mela in 2001. At that time, I was so busy running around coordinating the production of Take Me To The River , that I had little time to actually sit down and try to get to know the environment that we were documenting. That was fine at the time, since we weren't trying to produce an analytical film. We wanted to capture the bewildering kaleidescope of aesthetic experience as we experienced it, as directly as possible. That was all we could do as a group of 20-something american artists with no previous knowledge of Indian or Hindu culture.
Now that I have had an opportunity to immerse myself in the Kumbh Mela somewhat deeper, I realize that the more I discover, the less I understand about the Kumbh, The Naga Babas, The Akharas, The History, Myths etc. It could take a lifetime of scholarly analysis to sort through the thousands of contradictions that dance around every inquisitive endeavor here. And then what would be achieved? The essence of the Kumbh Mela is the aesthetic and emotional experience that gives it spiritual meaning to each individual separately. To take away it's mysteries and try to come to some conclusion, would be to distroy it... and whatever conclusion one comes to would certainly be wrong.
Back to Nouvelle Vague, those complex Naga Babas. Sorry for laughing... actually it's ok, laugh if you want to, just don't try to figure these guys out. The general consensus is that 50-70% of the Naga Babas and other aesthetic Saddhus are "fake". But which ones are fake and which ones are real? You may need to be enlightened to figure it out, I certainly can't. Almost all of them are quite enamored by money, in fact the whole akhara infrastructure and hierarchy is driven by cash. It seems those saddhus with seniority are the ones with the most money, generally (but not always) given to them as donations by their desciples. I'm sure many of the "fake" ones are very cool, and some of the "real" ones are jerks. You could try to ask one baba about another, but the response could be tainted by feuds that date back all the way to breakfast or back to the times of the Upanishads.
That's enough blabber from now. If I have come to any conclusions, I know they are wrong. Enjoy the video. Stay tuned for BabaVlog !
Casey Meade
Allahabad, India
24 January 2007
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04:44:57 01/16/07
Shahi Snan 1 - Kumbh Mela 2007
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Posted by Casey Meade on 17 Jan 2007
This video's not perfect, I know! but I'm kind of giddy right now because I just successfully uploaded it in an internet cafe here in Allahabad, India, barely 24 hours after this procession took place. I was getting over a cold, and didn't go out yesterday morning... I had a 'been there done that' smugness with which I declared that I would stay and watch our well-placed, but very vulnerable tent. Cerdar, our default (but very skilled) videographer was even sicker with a migrane. So Fernando rustled himself and Shiva and Lorna and Witt Davis before dawn and set out to surf the the babas breaking toward the river. Fernando's never used this camera before... and I've never edited a piece, sitting on my nees in the middle of the night with people snoring and coughing all around me... like a symphonic crescendo of wheezing and hacking. (you try to make 5 million people to leave their viruses at home). So, it's not perfect, but it's here... and it is a pretty crazy thing. What is it? Good question. It all goes down again on the 19th and 24th and you can bet I'll be there to get another angle. So stay tuned, subscribe now via iTunes or FireAnt and catch the next vlognomad posts without lifting another finger.
You can also view exerpts from our feature documentary, Take Me To The River, shot at the 2001 Maha Kumbh Mela Festival here .
Casey Meade
Allahabad India
16 January 2007