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Here's some images from the first few days at the Mela handing out cameras in the Mai Varda (Juna Akhara's woman's camp):Within the first few days of getting settled into our mela tent, cruising Sector 5 (Juna Akhara camps) especially the Mai Varda (woman's camp), Jessica and I handed out nearly 40 disposible cameras, keeping a list of to whom we distributed as well as handinge out my card with

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

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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/vlognomadDeeply embedded within Juna Akhara this time, these shots show a much more insider perspective of the mela, than in our first experience making TMTTRLook out for footage shot by

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I realize the entire mela went by without a post… my apologies. So much was happening everyday, it was very difficult to leave the mela grounds and go to town to use the internet. So I’ll be posting a series of recaps to cover what I’ve gone through the past few weeks. I’m heading to Varanasi in a few days and there I will have 24 hrs electricity and internet access daily. So I plan to write,

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reached allahabad some where around the 5th...can even begin to describe... still trying to unravel my head... two bathing days down, one more to go before I follow every one to Banares for Maha Shivaratri. simply put, I've handed out over 45 cameras and a ton of film... beginning to get prints back as well as print those from the digital cameras. amazing response!once I get to Banares (Varanasi)

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This is a test entry for what I will begin in 2007... I land in New Delhi on Jan 2nd and hope to be making my way to the Aardh Kumbh Mela by the 4th... from there I will be posting weekly updates on my project Ascetics with Cameras.So it's really Saturday, I'm still in Brooklyn (notice these posts are on IST (Indian Standard Time)... not much time left, though. I'm almost packed, but the loft is

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