Chroma Key Seminar
October 4, 2009 at 7:24 pm | In 1 | Leave a CommentTags: chromakey, fcp, film, media
Balseros peleones
Here is a short video I made for a Chroma Key class taught by Alex Isorsky at Cambridge Community Television. Chroma keying is the act of using an editing program to select a “key”color (chroma) from an image or video and manipulate it in some way. Most commonly when editosrs use the chroma key effect they cut out all of this selected or “keyed” part of the image (Excerpt from class handout).
Counting Crowds
January 15, 2009 at 12:26 am | In 1 | Leave a CommentTags: bostonuniversity, education, inauguration, neighbormedia, obama, onemillionmanmarch, politics, science
Dr. Farouk El-Baz
In 1995 Magaly Koch, a Cambridge resident and member of Cambridge Community Television, was one the scientists who participated in a project by Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing that involved estimating the crowd size of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
At the time, there was a huge controversy surrounding the actual number of people who had attended the event organized by the Nation of Islam. The National Park Service claimed the number to be well below one million whereas the organizers estimated a figure above one million people. Dr. Farouk El-Baz, who is the director of the Center for Remote Sensing, was approached back then to provide a scientifically more accurate number that would help settle the dispute. Ever since, he has become the nation’s leading expert in counting crowds.
So with the historic event of President Barack Obama’s inauguration approaching, Dr. El-Baz has been bombarded with telephone calls from the news media. Everybody wants to know how many people can fill the Washington Mall. Check out this conversation between Farouk and Magaly reminiscing about the Million Man March crowd counting project and discussing the number of people who can be expected to fill the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on January 20th, 2009.
Click here to watch the video.
The Cuban Humorist from Boston
December 22, 2008 at 10:35 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: books, cambridge, cctvcambridge, music, neighbormedia
Back on October 23, 2008, the Cuban humorist and storyteller Mario Barros a.k.a. Lenguaviva (Living Language) presented his latest book KleanKuts, Inc., Los misterios de Cayo Lungo at Schoenhof’s Foreign Language Books in Harvard Square, Cammbridge, MA. We shot the entire event with a low-tech, low-cost Flip Mino Camera.
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Hear: José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch
December 5, 2008 at 12:47 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: activism, audio, cctvcambridge, humanrights, latinoamerica, politics
José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director for the Americas of the US-based NGO Human Rights Watch recently spoke at an event organized by the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government about the current state of human rights in Colombia and Venezuela. At first glance, Presidents Chávez and Uribe seemingly belong to opposite sides of the political spectrum but, upon closer examination, their government’s human rights records share a great deal in common in terms of violations that threaten the rule of law. Mr. Vivanco kindly agreed to an interview over the phone with us, in which he talks about US foreign policy towards Latin America, human rights issues in Colombia and Venezuela and his recent expulsion from Venezuela.
Oyster Middens
October 12, 2008 at 1:06 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: cctvcambridge, food, maine, oysters, video
So we went up to Damariscotta, Maine – a four hour drive from Boston – for a few days with the intention to shoot a short about an Oyster Farm along the Damariscotta river. Unfortunately, the owner of the farm was not very cooperative and canceled on us in the last minute and we were left stranded with all the equipment, not knowing what to do. Luckily, the beauty of Maine’s maritime landscape and the pecularities of its landmarks provide enough filming material and we decided to come back next year and give it another shot (pun intended). In the mean time, our good friend and host Joe, a true Mainean, showed us around and took us to Glidden Point where you can see Oyster Middens which are, basically, heaps of oyster shells left behind by the Indian inhabitants of the region a thousand years ago.
Click here to watch our little home movie in high quality.
Science LIVE at CCTV
September 16, 2007 at 5:30 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: cctvcambridge, science
Science LIVE at CCTV is conceived as a follow up program to Minority Women In Science featuring the same four women scientists but focusing on their science rather than the gender related issues they had been discussing in the previous video. Produced with an all volunteer crew in the Cambridge Community Television studio, the women scientists give fascinating presentations about their cutting edge research in front of a live studio audience covering such diverse topics as the biosphere, marine environments, earth observation from space and outer space. The program was cablecast live on CCTV’s Channel 9 and simultaneously web streamed to the world on CCTV’s Web Channel on April 29th, 2007 as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Click here to watch the video.
The Gender-Bending Mouse
August 18, 2007 at 8:21 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: wired
Every once in a while, I will check on the number of hits that my videos are generating on YouTube. As of lately, I’ve been noticing that the numbers for Minority Women In Science are increasing exponentially which aroused my curiosity and prompted me to investigate a bit further. As it turns out, some blogs, one of which is the Wired Blog Network, along with a bunch of Japanese web sites, were somehow linking to my video. Oddly enough, though, upon closer examination of the blog posts, I couldn’t find any specific reference to my video. I did discover, however, one thing they have in common: They are all linked to a YouTube video about a Gender-Bending Mouse. Once you finish viewing the infamous Mouse Video, YouTube’s player will give you the option to continue watching so called related videos, one of which happens to be Minority Women In Science. Hence the increased number of hits. Go figure…
Científicas de fama mundial debaten sobre los obstáculos en su vida profesional
August 18, 2007 at 7:50 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: spain
Minority Women In Science was mentioned in the local Spanish press: laverdad.es and diarioinformacion.com
Minority Women In Science
June 23, 2007 at 12:58 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: cambridge, cctvcambridge, documentary, education, festival, film, media, minority, science, video, women
The idea for the film Minority Women In Science developed from observing the obstacles and frustrations experienced by my sister and some friends of mine, as women academics in the United States. Most are struggling to be considered for tenure or tenure-track positions in their university departments.
Unlike other countries, in the US only a tenured position can secure you stable lifetime work in higher education. Typically, these positions are scarce and extremely competitive. And even if promoted to full professorship, women are rarely considered for the top leadership jobs such as department chair, head of a research center or dean of a school, let alone president of a university.
On one occasion, I remember asking my sister: Why is there still a gender gap problem? I thought universities were research institutions where objectivity prevails and people, irrespective of gender or race, are hired and promoted based on merit, where everybody is competing on equal terms, at least in theory. Continue reading Minority Women In Science…
A Dissenting Voice
June 22, 2007 at 6:19 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: activism, cctvcambridge, community, documentary, film, iraq, media, politics, protest, video, war
A short documentary produced for Cambridge Community Television about a man who became a full time anti-war activist late in life. Starring our dear friend and longtime Cambridge resident, Walter Ducharme, the video features an unauthorized cameo appearance by King George as well as music — licensed under a Creative Commons license — by Paul Shuler/Micah Carli and El Patapsco.
Click here to watch the video.
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