Film & video

7 Second Delay (2004, digital video, 2.2 min)
Final project for a digital video class in UVA’s School of Architecture. To my credit, I shot this (almost) completely by myself in the television studio at the Curry School of Education. It was a pain in the ass. Tapdancing courtesy of Ryan Looney. Skinny arm courtesy of Tom Rose. Music by the grrrls in Le Tigre.

The Airplane (2005, 16mm & DV, B&W, 2 min.)
Part of the Addendum project for Brooklyn-based band, One Ring Zero. The band made their songs available to the general public and asked anyone to select a song and make music videos for it. I chose The Airplane a) because I like that particular song and b) it was one of their shortest. I was grad school and didn’t have too much free time to spare. Much of the footage I used was from the Prelinger Archives. I shot footage of ORZ at Mojo’s in Richmond, VA. Many of the resulting 20 or so videos are incredibly well-done. All of the videos are available on the DVD Addendum, which you can purchase at the One Ring Zero website.

Signal (2004, DV, 1.4 min)
Shot at night in the winter at the busy intersection outside of my apartment in Charlottesville. I found when I waved the camera around, the video image blurred and bled in an interesting way. The image here is of a traffic light. Music is from Godspeed! You Black Emperor (or is it Godspeed You! Black Emperor, or is it…).

The Twin (2005, DV, 3 min)
This video emerged out of an earlier failed idea I had. The original idea was to shoot a steamy bathroom mirror and overlay the “steaminess” on my face throughout the video. Instead, I began shooting a conversation with myself in the bathroom, which developed into The Twin.

Curse (2005, digital video, 3 min)
I set-up a little backdrop on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville and, like some kind of circus busker, invited people over to be interviewed about their favorite “curse” word. Not surprisingly, I was turned down by quite a few folks, maybe because it was Easter Sunday and folks were feeling pious. One of the interviewees, I found out later, was a Lutheren pastor.

Photobooth (2002, Super 8 to DV, 3. 3 min)
Shot on Super-8 for “Attack of the 50-foot Reels”, a yearly event put on by Flicker, Richmond’s independent film outfit. You get a cartridge of Super-8, shoot it (editing it in camera) and see it for the first time during the show. I played a manipulated King Kong song, “Old Man on the Bridge,” to accompany the movie when it was shown. Features friends George, Lee, Dave, Alex, Elaine, Tim, Petra, John, Sarah and my old dog Soup.

Bigfoot vs. The Indian vs. ZZ Top (2000, Super 8, 15 min.)
Coming soon…

Websites

Ekoji Buddhist Sangha
http://www.ekojirichmond.org

This was my first web site. At the time I built it, all I knew was a bit of HTML I learned in a class at a local community college. It is in need of updating, which I will get around to one day.
EDLF 546: Software Applications
http://richardsebastian.com/546/

This website–and the others I used for my Curry classes– is based on a design by Dr. Steve Whitaker, who was a doctoral student at Curry and had previously taught several of the technology classes I took over, including Teaching with Technology and Digital Media Development. The php coding was all his, although I did know enough to “borrow and repurpose” for my own database. Anyway, credit where credit is due: thanks, Steve.

EDLF 703: Educational Game Design
http://richardsebastian.com/703/

This site supported the Educational Games class I co-taught with Dr. Mable Kinzie in the fall of 2005. I added a security page that allowed only enrolled students to access the class files.
EDLF 707: Digital Media Development
http://richardsebastian.com/707/

This site supported the summer class I taught in 2004 and 2005.
Curry School of Education
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu

I was part of a 4-5 person web management team in the Educational Technology office that helped maintain and update the Curry site.

Elaine & Richard’s Wedding site (2006)
http://richardsebastian.com/wedding

I built this site for my 2006 wedding.

Photographs

Barcelona, Spain (2004)
Spain & Portugal (2004)
London & Barcelona (2005)
Flickr

Flash & PHP

Soup the Dog Puzzle
Striptease Banana
What’s your favorite song?