Rice Mill in Thailand

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today is the first day of november, which is now NaVloPoMo or National Vlog Posting Month which is a riff off of National Blog Posting Month which originated as National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. so, a bunch of us are posting a video a day for all of november. can we do it? YES. so can you! just start posting today (or tomorrow or the next day or whenever) and join the little ning group so we all know to encourage each other. post anything and everything. think of it not as a month of toil, but a month of FREEDOM!!

i think i'll be pulling things from my archive that i've been meaning to post for a while. this is good motivation for sure!

Thailand: Week 1

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ok here we are in thailand! been here for more than a week. hard to find good internet and time to edit. we've been shooting a lot of video for Prevent Human Trafficking, so check out their site in the next month or so for more videos.

Cambodia to Vietnam

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more momentshowing. this is how we take pictures. people tell us to upload our photos to flickr, but i never take photos, i guess momentshowing is just our version of photos. cambodia to vietnam. the shot of me frantically and obsessively trying to upload video to the web on an old PC in the internet cafe cracks me up. look at my face! i look crazed! it's true, i must upload or else! now we're in thailand. i'm liking it so far! bangkok is huge, it reminds me of LA.

Cambodian Light Orphanage

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We visited the Cambodian Light Children's Orphanage a few days ago. It was amazing to see how much can happen with so few resources and money in a place like the slums of Phnom Penh. A little bit of money for Westerners can go a really long way in a place like this. The children here just blew me away with their dancing and musical skills. The performance you'll see in the video was just so beautiful. Mr. Pat Noun, the founder of the orphanage, was so welcoming. All the improvements he wants create to help the kids be just a little bit more comfortable while trying to learn was super inspiring.

Lumiere 3: Metro Cafe Bathroom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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this is a fancy internet cafe in the touristy part of phnom penh. good food, free internet...color changing walls.

Cambodia: Days 2 and 3

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yesterday we went to some pretty intense and amazing places. recorded mostly on the big camera so you'll get to see them later. 2 orphanages, one in a rural village and one in the urban slums. it feels weird bringing cameras in to those places, but it seemed that everyone there, children and adults, welcomed us. i really love hanging out with kids. they're so playful even under the worst circumstances. pretty amazing. thanks for watching, i'm so excited to be able to share this stuff with everyone almost instantly! and i'm glad people care to watch. i love videoblogging.

Cambodia: Day 1

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jay and i made it to cambodia! the first day was recovering from the long flight and checking the place out. damn internet is slow here. this 20mb file took two attempts, one canceled after an hour upload to blip. the second, i'm FTPing using internet explorer to my own server. nutty, but not impossible!

We're going to Thailand and Cambodia!

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we're going to southeast asia to work with Prevent Human Trafficking Institute to help them document the work they're doing to, as their name implies, prevent human trafficking. we are super excited to be helping an organization like this share their stories on the web through video. we recorded this video using a Vcam Now 2.0 toy camera.
we're bringing 3 of these along with a heftier Canon Powershot that we'll be delivering to a school that Beth Kanter helps run in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. w00t! hopefully we can spark their interest in capturing moments of the students there!

Thanks to Nick Schmidt for sending me 20 Thai bucks!