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Dan Cashman’s Video Velveeda

tcampbell — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:17:51 +0000

Video Velveeda, Found Media and Privacy in Art

Recently, as part of their weekly midnight movie showing, Pleasant Street Theater screened a unique film produced by Valley artist, Dan Cashman. The movie, entitled, Video Velveeda, features Cashman himself as well as highlights from more than thousands of hours of found VHS footage. Footage which Cashman collects and repurposes. Thousands of hours worth of old VHS footage which Cashman finds everywhere from Video Liquidation sales to Tag Sales and more recently, YouTube.

Many of your may know Cashman as half of the DJ duo, Purity Supreme. And while many of Purity Supreme’s events have featured Cashman’s video collage work, Pleasant Street Theater’s show marked the filmmaker’s debut to a “paying audience.”

I had the opportunity to briefly sit down with the artist and talk about why he does what he does as well as discuss some of the privacy issues involved with video collage. In the following interview, conducted at the Haymarket we discuss these things and more.

Dan Cashman’s Video Velveeda by Skytemple

And watch the trailer for Video Velveeda HERE

Tornadoes Attack En Masse!

Jason — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:50:55 +0000

We’ve had an interesting day at the office. What began as an astonishing lightning storm that kept Kris, Leah, and I glued to the windows became freakish as hail, wind, and rain made a fricassee of the debris-scattered streets. Northampton, however, got away with a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, in Springfield, a tornado touched down about 50 feet from Kris’s condo!

The whole neighborhood looks like a war-zone, and more tornadoes are reportedly touching down in Palmer, West Springfield, Wilbraham, and others.

We’ll be adding links to videos as they come out, so come back later tonight to see the full collection. To stay abreast of the situation, Hamp Scanner is an excellent resource.

More Videos

ABC: As seen from Route 91

CNN: The Memorial Bridge

Tornado watch has been canceled. 4 deaths confirmed. National Guardsmen activated in Springfield and the Governor headed our way. Springfield public schools closed tomorrow. We’re in the clear for dealing with the aftermath. It’s staggering.

-Social media strategist and Valley Summit presenter Karo Killfeather

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“Rhymes with Orange” Cartoonist Appeared at UMass-Amherst on April 7th

Sean — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:21:04 +0000

Hillary Price, who does the strip “Rhymes with Orange,” appeared at UMASS-Amherst on Thursday, April 79th, 2011 at 5:00 PM in Room #249 of the Boyden Gym. We hope you are familiar with her work and know the strip in particular, as it’s a surreal masterpiece – and she’s wonderful, too! Take a look at the strip that accompanies this post and please share this info with anyone whom you think might be interested.

The Pioneer Valley Web Summit is Here!(Saturday, April 9th, 2011)

Sean — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:04:32 +0000

Pioneer Valley Web Summit is Western Massachusetts’ first annual web conference. It will be held on Saturday, April 9th, starting at 10:00 AM, in Seelye Hall at Smith College in Northampton, MA. Registration begins at 9:30 AM.

There is no specific focus of this conference, making it accessible to all. We plan on having three rooms active, one of which will be an “unconference” (so bring your session ideas with you!)

Some broad topics you can expect to encounter include: web design, social media, SEO, web development, discussion of CMSs… and anything else web-related! See the “Speakers” page to see who will be presenting, and the Schedule page to track which sessions you would like to attend.

Sponsors include:

Additionally, you can follow notices from the organizers via the @ValleySummit Twitter Account as well as follow commentary from attendees (and organizers) via the #valleysummit Twitter “Hash Tag”

We look forward to seeing you there!

http://valleysummit.org

April Fool’s Recap

Sean — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:20:39 +0000

We hope you enjoyed our April Fool’s antics last Friday! Did you get to see our “upside-down” web pages? They were a lot of fun to put together, and the response we’ve received has been absolutely wonderful! Hooray for fun! Now, whatever shall we do for next year?