Hi, I'm a filmmaker from Juneau, Alaska and heard about this group through Jay and Irina. I hope this is the proper place to introduce myself.. if not, please just ignore me as I stagger around blindly bumping into your furniture.
------ I started a small media firm about five years ago and this past year my business partner/friend and I decided to jettison our clients in favor of lower paying, more personally gratifying, creative work. My main project is akrobotics.com where our short films are hosted and the side car is jumpsociety.com, a film club for local filmmakers. At this point we're just trying to develop our skills and find a niche on the internet while building up our local film community. Most of our films are under a Creative Commons license and we've been posting our work to YouTube (http://youtube.com/AlaskaRobotics) and have a Democracy feed... or is that Miro? I'm not so much a fan of the new name. I've also been teaching a class at the Yaakoosge Alternative High School on digital video and have been encouraging the students to create video journals using YouTube heavily as a teaching and publishing tool. The students have been responding to You Choose political candidates, making recycling PSAs and are currently working to finish up some short documentaries. The goal of the class is to show them how digital video and technology can be used as a medium to express themselves. http://www.youtube.com/group/yaakoosge Aside from making short films I like to play soccer, read comics, draw, listen to music, eat, sleep, and hunt for adventure. All my best, Pat Race
