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About floop
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Doing computer based tasks, even if culturally enriched, takes its toll on me. On evenings and weekends I try to get away from digital technology by forming metal and wood. I find fire and saws strangely rewarding after a long day of staring at tvs and monitors. I tossed up a quicky website for some of my caving oriented jewelry at http://www.oztotl.com. So far my "fine woodworking" hobby has been mostly about resurrecting the woodworking skills I had in college by acquiring tools and tinkering with them. I don't yet have any recent wooden projects worth bragging about but hopefully this will change soon. :,>
For the "not so fine woodworking," each year a group of us get together and build a big "haunted house" the day of halloween in a neighborhood where a bunch of underprivileged kids trick-or-treat. There are links on http://www.regina.com leading to photos of the last 3 years, which were themed as an alien crisis, a toxic hillbilly swamp and a maximum security institute for the criminally insane. We average somewhere between 900 and 1500 trick or treaters each year during the 3-4 hours we are "open"... but the real magic of halloween is that it lets us come up with lots of great excuses for buying power tools!
During the day I produce documentaries for television and interactive media with Documentary Arts, Inc. I've won a couple of international awards and had the honor to write, edit and animate an episode of PBS's NOVA for last season. For the next year, a museum exhibit on a freed slave cemetery in Dallas, TX which was partially paved over in the 40s for I-45 will be exhibited at the Dallas African American Museum. I designed and programmed all the dvd-based interactive content as well as designed the display cases, moveable walls and solid oak kiosks for this exhibit. A few weeks ago I finished, "Sacred Steel," a documentary for Arhoolie records on gospel steel guitar. In January, 2001 NPR begins airing a 52 part radio series on "masters of traditional arts" which I edited and co-produced. I am currently developing an interactive dvd-rom with the library of congress on winners of the NEA's "heritage award", which is a program to document and preserve cultural traditions which are in danger of being lost or no longer practiced.
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