In October of 2023 I shot and edited an Instagram ad for a new course called Environmental Public Health in the UW’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
A short video about the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Center for Agricultural Safety & Health, showing some of the important work they do.
This is a short PSA I edited for the University of Washington's Center for Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health.
This is a student recruitment video for the University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences featuring Cassady Surfleet
This is a student recruitment video for the University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences featuring Belen Salguero.
This is a student recruitment video for the University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences featuring Greta Gunning
I was asked by the University of Washington Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences to edit a video to celebrate their 2020 graduates, in lieu of an in-person graduation ceremony during the pandemic.
This is the English version of a series of public service announcements about COVID-19 I edited in early March 2020 for the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. They wanted to get vetted information out quickly to local communities for whom English is not their native language. Interviews were shot (not by me) with translators from those communities and have been viewed widely on social media both locally and abroad.
This is one of a series of short videos I edited in 2019 and 2020 for the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. I was provided footage with some significant audio and video issues but did what I could to salvage it. They are currently being used on the DEOHS website and on social media for a student recruitment campaign.
This is another of the student recruitment videos I edited for the UW’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
One more of the student recruitment videos for UW’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
A mini-doc about the Smithsonian Folkways Certificate Course in World Music Pedagogy. This is a summertime, week-long intensive course offered every year at a number of universities across the U.S. for educators to learn ways to incorporate world music into their classrooms and curriculums. This is a sample of the classes at the University of Washington in the summer of 2017.
In 2005 I participated in the annual 'Dream Parade and Pageant' in Taipei, Taiwan's largest city. This is a community arts and puppet festival at the Dream Community in the Shijr neighborhood that brings together artists and puppeteers from around the world to work with the local schools and community. I was asked to produce a video about that year’s parade and pageant. It was broadcast on TV in Taiwan and published in a DVD/booklet. This is a five min. cut-down of the hour-long final video.
In July of 2016 I was commissioned to produce a video retrospective for the Klingman Open Cancer Charity Golf Tournament. Kent Klingman, founder and director of the organization, was a cancer survivor himself and early success story for stem-cell treatments at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. This video tells his story as well as others whose lives have been impacted by the tournament.
I was hired to shoot and edit videos of two performances of DASS Dance Company’s Seattle City Nutcracker at the Broadway Performance Hall, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. It is an “unabashedly contemporary production” showcasing many forms of dance such as jazz, ballet, modern and acrobatics as well as tap and high flying aerial.
The introduction to the Plymouth Congregational Church’s 2020 "virtual" Christmas Eve service.
The dancer is Keon Price and the music is by Sari Breznau.
In 2018 I was commissioned by HYPERNOVA Dance Company to create visuals for projection on stage during their performance for Seattle’s On The Boards theatre’s annual Northwest New Works Festival. These are the sections from beginning, middle, and end when the projections were used.
A “virtual” concert by the Plymouth Congregational Church Choir in Seattle, singing David Byrne and Brian Eno’s One Fine Day.
A Seattle band that asked me to shoot video for a gig they had at Nectar Lounge in Fremont
In 2011 I shot and edited a video of Kasumai, an annual African music and dance event at the Kirkland Performing Arts Center in Washington. Produced by Seneglese drummer Thione Diop, it features artists and groups from all over Africa. This is a shorter edit of highlights from the show.
In 2011, world-renowned Kora player from Gambia, Foday Musa Suso, who now resides in Seattle, asked me to help him get some new songs he was working on up on Youtube. He asked that it be a very simple setup, shot in his apartment but with good audio. Here is an excerpt of one of the songs.
In 2006 I was asked by the Fremont Arts Council to produce a short video of preparations underway for that year's Summer Solstice Parade.
I was hired by a Seattle-area independent Tesla repair shop to produce some videos for social media. This was a customer appreciation BBQ.
From 2008-2009 I worked as a 'Video Chronicler' on eco-tourist, ship-based trips for National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions. This is the beginning of a video documenting an expedition in SE Alaska in May, 2008. I also documented multiple expeditions to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador as well as Baja, Mexico.
In 2012 I shot and edited a video to be posted on the listing site for this beautiful house in Jenner, California.
The official park film for the Redwoods National Park produced by Camera One in 2007. Shot on Super 16 film and HD video.
From 2004 to 2008 I worked for Camera One, a small Seattle-based production company that specializes in making films for national and state parks in the U.S. I was the principal editor (Final Cut Pro/ Media 100) and second shooter (Super 16mm film, HD video, and DSLR).
This is the official park film for the Devils Tower National Monument produced by Camera One in 2005. Shot on Super 16 film and HD video.
A short film about the Toltec Mounds State Park and archaeological site in Arkansas. This was one of several films featured on a DVD the Arkansas State Parks contracted Camera One to produce in 2005.
A 2004 production of Camera One commissioned by the Bureau of Land Management for their visitor centers at Newport, Oregon's two historic lighthouses.
In 2008 Camera One was hired by Utah Scenic Byways to produce a documentary about a gold rush era mining flume hanging precariously over the Dolores River in Colorado.
One of several short films that made up America's Parklands 2, a DVD produced by Camera One around 2005 highlighting notable parks throughout the country. This one is about Big Sur, San Simeon and Hearst Castle.
Another short piece I edited from America's Parklands 2 about vestiges of the gold rush era in the Gila Mountain National Forest of New Mexico.
Another short piece from America's Parklands 2 about Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
A short piece from America's Parklands 2 about Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
In 2006, while living in Bangkok, Thailand, I was commissioned to direct a series of short documentaries highlighting the efforts of a prominent Thai company to foster and encourage sustainable development projects in rural communities.
This is a short doc about the destruction caused in southern Thailand by the tsunami of 2005 and reconstruction efforts underway for some of the worst-hit communities.
A short doc about efforts to rehabilitate a rural area of Thailand adversely affected by years of mining,
A short doc about efforts to revitalize a rural Thai community with new job skills and opportunities for small business people.
For this lovely (though rainy) wedding near Seattle I was the editor and one of two shooters.
While employed at Topics Entertainment, I produced a set of Yoga classes that have been popular and well-reviewed on Amazon Prime and other online streaming sites. I worked closely with Anne Phyfe Palmer, director of Seattle's 8 Limbs yoga studio. This is a short sample of some of the classes.
