Literature, culture, people, their communities. the world of ideas and music through the emerging art of desktop video.
NOTES Created with materials from the Library of Congress American Memories section. An interactive version of this piece allows v/users to interact with character movies within the film.
Business, Commerce, Literature, The Arts and Community through the emerging power of desktop video and the web.
visit/purchase directly from Coffee House Press http://www.coffeehousepress.com The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history remains largely unknown. Driven to share her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir is a tribute to the remarkable woman ...
I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair Bellevue Literary Press http://blpbooks.org/ $22 Trade paper ISBN: 978-934137-09-3 144 pages Nonfiction "Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness." --Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's...
A trailer for a graphic novel animation about a homeless business man taught a thing or two by a street musician. Illustrations by Salgood Sam http://www.salgoodsam.com
Written by Minnesota Book Award winner Kalia Yang. Video by John O'Brien. Music by Casey O'Brien (new music mixed with the traditional Hmong).
Promotional Piece for the Album by drummer, Graham O'Brien released by NO ECHO Records
NOTES A time study for the production in progress, "The Sun in my Eyes."
The band's complete Press Kit with interviews is below in a different file. This is just the animated introduction.
