Independent America

That's A Wrap! Filming in NOLA

This blog proved to be really helpful in building a grassroots audience for our first film.

But now that I'm busy running a digital media Master's program at the University of Washington, and managing its blog as well, my bandwidth has seriously narrowed.

Still, I found great joy in microblogging about my time in New Orleans last week, as I wrapped up shooting "Rising from Ruins."  Thanks to Twitter, I could post a 140-character (or less) comment to my account, which would also get cross-posted to this blog (see the Twitter feed in the top right hand corner) and my Facebook page.  And most of the time, I did it via my Nokia E61i phone, even from a shrimping boat off of the coast of Lousiana.

So to recap, here's what I did over the last six days (most recent first):

How A Burger by the Columbia Launched my Digital Media Career

Cascade Locks OR

I took this photo, seven years ago, using the digital image function (640 x 480, very low res) on my Sony TRV-900 camcorder.

It's under the Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks, OR along the Columbia River.

It's quite fitting that I've returned to this region for the first time since then, on a "Faculty Fellows" field tour as a professor with the University of Washington.  Because I wouldn't have gotten here (as Director of the UW's Master of Communication in Digital Media) without going there (Cascade Locks, OR).

How do the two connect?  Read on...