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2006-12-20T22:54:00.000-05:00

Iranian-American Student

2006-11-23T01:52:00.000-05:00

UCLA Police Repeatedly Taser Handcuffed Student For Refusal to Show ID, University Orders Outside Probe

Officials at the University of California in Los Angeles are launching an independent investigation into campus police officers' repeated shocking of an Iranian-American student with a Taser stun gun. The student was handcuffed the entire time. The incident was captured on video has and sparked outrage across his campus and the country.

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Sky Mirror NYC

2006-10-22T15:33:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I went to see the sky mirror in Manhattan with my dearest Sachiko. I've realized I'm not the greatest at interpreting "art" and I really just didn't understand the point of a huge metalalic structure across from Rockefeller Plaza. I felt a little bummed about the fact that I'm so dense about understanding abstract art, but when I came home and reflected on the day, and thought about compiling my video, I realized that I actually could take meaning from the giant sized pocket mirror.

My video is more of a socio-personal interpretation but I hope it's easy to understand where I am coming from. Enjoy all.

Sachi, I love you with all of my heart!

Cold Feet

2006-10-12T23:40:00.000-04:00

I've really been missing Spain these past two weeks. I don't know why. As I keep going through all of my footage I'm realizing how beautiful it was there and how much I wish I had been happier while I was living there.

This is some (very shaky) footage of a beach in Asturgas. It was incredibly cold, but incredibly beautiful at the same time.

Spain's Rain

2006-10-09T03:34:00.000-04:00

Before embarking for Spain the director of our program REPEATEDLY told us that the city of Leon was very dry and that he highly doubted it would rain while we were there.

Here is what I have to say about that...

The South African Boy

2006-09-07T19:36:00.000-04:00

Finally someone other than myself on this vlog! I met Theo in Spain and he is one of the coolest people I've met in a long time.

I miss you Theo!

Everybody Loves The 80s

2006-08-31T01:21:00.000-04:00

Me and one of my closest friends, Leang. I was intending on posting something entirely different of her and I, but when I watched the footage I just found this really funny. Love you Leang!

Identity Crisis

2006-08-29T15:35:00.000-04:00

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I'm trying to get all of the vlogs in while I can. Once work gets into full swing I probably won't be posting much, unfortunately. I'm hoping to start taking some media classes at Hunter this semester if all works out. I'll keep my fingers crossed, but until then it's more of my head talking. I've found talking to the video camera to be immensely therapuetic though, so I can't promise that I won't stop doing it!

I Love Hawaii

2006-08-29T01:07:00.000-04:00

I think we can technically call this a "real" vlog. I'm excited to post this because I fell in love with Hawaii and it shows one of the reasons why. In this clip I am in Maui. I can't wait to go back!

Back In Business

2006-08-28T02:58:00.000-04:00

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It's been a ridiculously long time since I've last posted; here is my excuse why!

I Love NY

2006-08-07T09:29:00.000-04:00

I'm finally home! I didn't post "en vivo" while I was living in Spain; I just didn't have the time. But now that I have a little time on my hands before school starts (and I go to Hawaii! Really, I'm not pretentious!) I'm planning on getting some footage posted. I'm also aiming to do some serious overhauling on my page.

I have so much to say about "how this experience changed my life" but for now I will say that when I returned from Spain (I think) I had an epiphany - I'm going to go into broadcasting. Feel free to leave me any tips or feedback about this. That would be much appreciated.

SO MUCH to edit - I'll get some vlogs up eventually! In the meantime you can checkout the new pics I've posted on flickr (mostly starring my sister).

Day 1: Leon, Spain

2006-07-04T10:52:00.000-04:00

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2006-06-06T00:56:00.000-04:00

The Nata village vlog
Josh Leo's Webpage
Michael Verdi's Webpage

2006-06-04T01:25:00.000-04:00

vlogging in the rain is fun

2006-03-18T18:57:00.000-05:00

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
~Victor Hugo

2006-03-18T18:29:00.000-05:00

"Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others."
~William O. Douglas

2006-03-11T15:08:00.000-05:00

"Whether or not you claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive."
~Thomas Merton

2006-03-10T18:16:00.000-05:00

"I simply long to love someone for who they are; not what I wish them to be."
~My Profound Self

2006-03-06T23:46:00.000-05:00

Me: are you gambaru-ing?
Him: un, gambatteiru yo
Me: ?
Him: ore ha gaman shinakute ii kara
Him: sugoi hito dakara
Me: ::waits for English::
Him: gambatte honyaku shite kudasai

2006-02-28T22:07:00.000-05:00

Howling At The Moon: A Play Based On "Where The Wild Things Are"

2006-02-28T20:27:00.000-05:00

"Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least they do when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying hard to make it happen some other way. If you're in tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they need to, no matter what you may think about it at the time. Later on, you can look back and say, 'Oh, now I understand. That had to happen so that those could happen, and those had to happen in order for this to happen...' Then you realize that even if you'd tried to make it all turn out perfectly, you couldn't have done better, and if you'd really tried, you would have made a mess of the whole thing."
~The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

2006-02-26T23:21:00.000-05:00

"My own humanity was awakened, rising up to greet me with a handshake as I watched the first glimmers of sunlight peek over the horizon. There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, and the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's."
~The Color of Water by James McBride

2006-02-25T18:17:00.000-05:00

Bean Town, MA

2006-02-23T14:02:00.000-05:00

"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
~Philippians 3:12-14

2006-02-21T00:31:00.000-05:00

"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."
~Hebrews 12:14

2006-02-11T12:37:00.000-05:00

“Mi sueño es el de Picasso; tener mucho dinero para vivir tranquilo como los pobres.”
~Ferdinando Savater

2006-02-09T22:37:00.000-05:00

"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. "
~Psalm 127:2

بَاطِلاً تَكِدُّونَ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ الْمُبَكِّرِ وَإِلَى وَقْتٍ مُتَأَخِّرٍ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فِي سَبِيلِ لُقْمَةِ الْعَيْشِ، فَإِنَّ الرَّبَّ يَسُدُّ حَاجَةَ أَحِبَّائِهِ حَتَّى وَهُمْ نِيَامٌ.

ﺮﻴﻣﺍﺰﻤﻟﺍ 2:127~

2006-02-02T22:24:00.000-05:00

I Think I've Convinced Myself That I Really Am Insane

2006-02-01T18:15:00.000-05:00

Easter Sunday: 1980's

2006-01-28T12:22:00.000-05:00

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
~Oscar Wilde

2006-01-19T19:46:00.000-05:00

"This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely."
~Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden

2006-01-16T23:25:00.000-05:00

Yay, Joshie!

2006-01-16T00:12:00.000-05:00

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
~Leo Tolstoy

2006-01-12T06:57:00.000-05:00

"But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works."
~Psalm 73:28

2006-01-07T23:18:00.000-05:00

“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
~Belva Davis

2006-01-07T08:22:00.000-05:00

Boys, Boys, Boys!
(Christmas Eve with the fam - 2004)

2006-01-02T00:46:00.000-05:00

“You are as many a person as languages you know.”
~Armenian Proverb

2005-12-31T19:44:00.000-05:00

Our Backyard - Words Are Superfluous

2005-12-31T19:43:00.000-05:00

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

2005-12-29T23:23:00.000-05:00

“Dreams grow holy when put into action.”
~Adelaide Ann Proctor, 1859

2005-12-27T14:11:00.000-05:00

Rae, what are you looking at?

2005-12-27T10:28:00.000-05:00

"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
~Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2005-12-26T17:31:00.000-05:00

"Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin's womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked 'No Entrance' and left through a door marked 'No Exit.' "
~Peter Larson

2005-12-23T01:31:00.000-05:00

"There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness."
~Jeffrey Fisher

2005-12-21T00:10:00.000-05:00

How My Students Learned To Use Chopsticks

2005-12-18T23:57:00.000-05:00

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein

2005-12-16T23:56:00.000-05:00

“The journey is the reward.”
~Taoist Saying

2005-12-15T21:47:00.000-05:00

"The Cockroach"

2005-12-15T21:28:00.000-05:00

Capri - The most beautiful place I've ever been

2005-12-12T02:00:00.000-05:00

"There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment."

~Thomas C. Halliburton

So what does this constitute - the kiss of death?

2005-12-08T23:54:00.000-05:00

Turbulent Yet Beautiful - The Sea

2005-12-06T09:00:00.000-05:00

Could anyone legitimately be this happy about eating escargot?

2005-12-06T08:32:00.000-05:00

"All I need is a reindeer..."
the Grinch looked around.
But since reindeer are scarce,
there was none to be found.
Did that stop the old Grinch?
No! The Grinch simply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer,
I'll make one instead!"
So he called his dog Max.
Then he took some red thread
and he tied a big horn
on top of his head.
~How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess

2005-12-04T22:17:00.000-05:00

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
~William James

2005-11-29T23:37:00.000-05:00

Scary!

2005-11-29T23:29:00.000-05:00

Michelle's Wedding

2005-11-29T22:59:00.000-05:00

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success."
~Brian Tracy

2005-11-19T18:23:00.000-05:00

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
~Dr. Loretta Scott

2005-11-11T10:36:00.000-05:00

Harley and Bongo : Substitution for Grandchildren

2005-11-08T23:10:00.000-05:00

"Nationalities will continue to try to get ahead of one another if we keep calling them 'races'."
~Anonymous

2005-11-08T22:53:00.000-05:00

"She's My Sister"

2005-11-08T22:51:00.000-05:00

Jake, Jackie G, and Yours Truly

2005-11-07T23:37:00.000-05:00

"Never look down on someone unless you're giving them a hand."
~Peter Hamil

2005-11-07T22:57:00.000-05:00

Belize!

2005-11-07T22:53:00.000-05:00

Me and Jackie

2005-11-07T22:34:00.000-05:00

Alicia and Myself