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Production is back underway for my video about Willet’s Point.

Willets Point is the neighborhood of Corona, in the New York City borough of Queens. It has no sidewalks or sewers, and as of 2007 only one resident. Nearby, a new stadium has been built, Citi Stadium (named after the main financier Citibank). Although the mayor has called the area a \”euphemism for blight,\” the immigrant-run businesses in the area are in better standing than the large financial institution forcing their demise. This video is a portrait of the area during its last days before urban renewal.

• description: video (2:22) Video documentation from the Apple trade show in San Francisco when they first introduced the G3.

• description: Video Running Time: 16 minutes A travelogue from Kiev, Ukraine taking place two years after The Orange Revolution. The videos premise is a tourist asking Ukrainians what it was like to participate in the Orange Revolution. Responses to the actual question were vague yet revealing of a cultural climate of constant political unrest. In the video, younger and older generations give starkly contrasting viewpoints and problems with translation metaphorically demonstrate the shortcomings in trying to understand a revolution from outside.