A video montage I made in an attempt to compress several hours of riotous hip-hop, dance, circus acts, and giant, rotating burning heads into a few minutes. It was a Twilight Zone New Years party @ Exquisite Exhibit in the heart of Bradenton’s Village of the Arts. And you wonder why we live in Florida. [...]

Sometimes, with its old-fashioned neighborhood camaraderie and old houses, Bradenton’s Village of the Arts feels like it’s in the 1950s, not the 2000s. Here’s a casual little New Years Eve get-together at Karen Klosky’s house that easily could have taken place in 1957 instead of 2007.
Karen Klosky and Friends — New Years EvUploaded by roblimo

In 2006 I volunteered to help a local candidate with her campaign. I came in late, and my original offer, to make a series of Internet-delivered campaign videos, soon extended to maintaining her website. Severely outfunded by her eventually victorious opponent, our candidate had high hopes for Internet campaigning. But her online effort was far [...]