HEM Productions - Video Posts

Aesop’s Fables – The Ant and the Dove

Roger — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:53:21 +0000

Click image to play video for The Ant and the Dove – an Aesop's Fable with a moral on good turns.

Hops Story with Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops

Roger — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:59:23 +0000

Click image to play video of Matt Sweeny, of Simple Earth Hops, on growing, colaborating, harvesting, and using hops. Simple Earth Hops is near Dodgeville, WI.

Beer Day

Roger — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:02:41 +0000

National Beer Day has gone and past. The morning of I heard about it on the news and just happen to be with my mother, so we shot this little video. The occasion is especially interesting to me as each time we visit this particular microbrew I realize how the company, and the environment makes things taste better. I really enjoy the beer at this location when I am there with my mother, but not so much beyond that. It's okay, but sitting with my mother for a glass makes the occasion special and my taste buds are happy as me.

So the story goes… Rog has a beer with Mom for Tom on April 7th which is National Beer Day. There is a long and interesting story about this day which leads to Franklin D. Roosevelt signing a law that repealed prohibition on April 7, 1933.

Produced by HEM Productions with Creative Commons Music "Kids then Age" by Fireproof Babies.

Prairie Burn at Schumacher Farm

Roger — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:22:17 +0000

Video clips from Prairie Burn at Schumacher Farm as Diane Schwartz talks about the prairie and why the fire. A crew of volunteers from Oscar Meyer assist with the Dane County organized burn. As Diane describes it, the efforts imitates nature to recreate fires from the past past, plus we get a glimpse of very early pasque flowers and really old glacial rocks.

MACSAC changes name to Fairshare CSA

Roger — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:50:33 +0000

MACSAC announced today, at their 20th annual community convention, that their new name is Fairshare CSA. The name change is a reflection on how the association has grown and expanded into a statewide organization, but also reflects on their sharing and community efforts.

Watch this video to hear about the announcement and what community leaders like the Board Chair, a CSA farmer, the Dane Country Executive, and Mayor of Madison thinks.

On The Water

Roger — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:28:37 +0000

"On the Water" is a 96 second video produced from royalty free content provided by Getty Images for the mishmash Music/Video/Remix competition. Categories include Short Story, Music Video, and Video Art.

"On the Water" is a compositing of video elements to demonstrate impact of imagery to musics in a way that might be used in narrative, documentary, promotional, or other types of video – the way one might use royalty free content. The composites include elements of water, life, and body movement. Video is likely PG-13 as it has very brief nudity.

Scroll to right in the lightbox viewer to "like" the video – It's a vote for me in the contest which I'd greatly appreciate.

Community Support – WESTconsin Credit Union and Hot Air Affair

Roger — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:23:12 +0000

I am a big supporter of community involvement of residents and people that work for companies in the community that generate business from the community. I don't believe that companies are people but I do believe that people work for legal enties defined as companies… in the end it is people with names that make decisions.

I'm also a supporter of credit unions so having a chance to interview WESTconsin Credit Union, a corporate sponsor of an event I love – the Hot Air Affair in Hudson Wisconsin – was a privelidge for me. They are local and support local in many ways.

This is an interview from 2010 with Jay Fahl of WESTconsin Credit Union on their corporate sponsorship of the Hudson Hot Air Affair.

Reflection, Old Day, VideoSpigot video in 1993

Roger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:21:28 +0000

My concluding thoughts for 2011.

The end of 2011 started with scanning. I started scanning old slides and looking at old video footage. The memories made me realized what a wonderful life I’ve had, and the great people I’ve enjoyed it with. Plus, I didn’t have to jump off a bridge to realize it.

The scanning gave me with warm feelings and another realization that I’ve had wonderful opportunities to participate in a history many only viewed. My wife has always been a part of this, and the old photo’s reminded me of that in a warm feeling I’ve enjoyed for days. I am fortunate that we had bought a good 35mm SLR camera back in the days. The quality of the scanned slides has been amazing so especially enjoyable. We’ve documented many events in our lives which include my art works and involvement in leading edge technologies so I’ve got lots of material to “broadband enable”.

Watch video by clicking on image above or click here to read the rest of the story.

As 2012 approaches this video looks back to what it was like to capture and edit video in the early 1990's – not quite 20 years ago. The video's were low bitrate, small frame size because of limitations to typical personal computers. That carried through to the late 90's as the Internet was also too slow to handle high bitrate video. That has changed drastically and this video contrast the difference.

5 Cats Sing Jingle Bells

Roger — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:25:43 +0000

This was about all I did for Christmas so far… An animation with 5 cats that sound more like ducks because my keyboard doesn't make the best cat sounds.

Jingle Bells Public Domain music from Archive.org

Peace Brings Us Together

Roger — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:07 +0000

Sometimes ideas just come around when you play with drawing, which this one came from playing with a rotating globe. It started out as an animation using NIN music, but they didn't really license as Creative Commons as far as I could tell, so I redid it using music that did have CC BY licence. The music is from ccMixter.org by basematic and it's called La Madeline Au Truffe (composed by Jeris).

The world is split apart then brought back together again by doves – symbols of peace.