media coverage

check out casey meade's (aka video nomad) next video
http://blip.tv/file/141852

look out for some clips of my ascetics with cameras project (making prints with sadhvis and hari giri with my video camera)...

other good news! this morning in the Hindi version of the Hindustan Times (burried in a full page spread about Juna Akhara sadhus in Varanasi) was a little blurb about me and my ascetics with camera project (interviewed yesterday). some Sadhus pointed it out to me. One read it aloud... from what I understood it sounds good. but I've got to translate it and then find a place to scan it to post it online...

still trying to digest everything, not really keeping up with the blogging like I hoped to... I've been trying to write every night, been saving work on my usb stick... now I'm trying to find an internet shop where I can insert the usb stick and copy and paste all the stuff I've writen to catch you all up on the past few weeks of this project... ahh Kashi (aka Banares, aka Varanasi) one of the oldest cities in the world...

things are going great in Varanasi with the rest of Juna Akahara, busy still bumping into people I knew from previous melas and hadn't seen in Allahabad yet. also busy giving out prints. ran into all the sadhvis from nepal this morning and today we (24 of us) took a trip (boat ride across the ganga then a 10km walk (all without breakfast) to Ramnagar Fort and Museum, with several sahdvis taking photos and one naga baba holding the video camera to shoot the journey along the way. lots of pretty portraits in fields, at temples, walls over looking the Ganga, on the boat etc. I'm impressed how much trust has formed over the past few weeks, and that they really give me back the rolls of film to get developed for them. now I just have to find a place to develop film and make cds in the old city.

bare with me as this blog will begin to seem scattered and out of order, once I start posting the mela recap stuff...

all for now
om namo narayan

videos

ok realized there was an error in the link I posted.
this should work:

To watch video clips from our experiences at the mela, check out Casey Meade’s (of Projectile Arts) video blog http://blip.tv/users/view/vlognomad
Deeply embedded within Juna Akhara this time, these shots show a much more insider perspective of the mela, than in our first experience making TMTTR

Look out for footage shot by Fernando, Casey Meade, Hari Giri (using my camera) and Dharam Giri (using his Nokia N70 mobile phone camera). Truly amazing!