Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that her pine-green sleeping bag has become a fixture there. While long incubation hours in Sever's basement are a typical stage in the development of a VES film project, Merriman's senior thesis, "Burial," shares little else with the rest of the pack. Merriman cites numerous VES video classes as well as a Literature class called Culture and Performance as steps leading toward her thesis project. In addition to the guidance provided by these classes, a summer job as a "memorial gardener" at an animal shelter provided the central image for her piece...
Inspired, in part, from her experience with crane-assisted horse burial, Merriman's video performance project features an actual crane which lowers a Plexiglas box full of prosthetic legs into a seven-by-seven foot hole in the ground which is then covered with dirt by an excavator. Meanwhile, four monitors on either side of the hole display videotaped images concerning Merriman's personal search into what happens in the afterlife. The images, shot at various angles, include her little brother and sister playing, newly planted flowers, and views of unusual objects associated with death rituals, such as fabulously-designed...
...video featuring a collection of Richard M. Nixon's most famous political speeches drones on in the background, while buttons from Herbert Hoover's race for the White House remain untouched inside their glass cases...
...video has proven a big hit among my friends, perhaps because most of them have not jumped, or possibly because it just confirms for them how crazy I must be. Of my five minutes on camera, four minutes and 30 seconds show the instructors hamming it up while I hesitated, a death grip on the railing. Only the final 30 seconds show me leaping, falling and then bouncing around on a big rubber band. At least my swan dive looked pretty good...
...Jersey Devil's fan. This site, authored by Michael R. Volonnino '01, who is a Crimson editor, has it all. A well-designed and easy-to-use site with everything you ever wanted to know about the New Jersey Devils but were afraid to ask. A photo gallery, video clips, editorials and box scores. Complete and frequent updates keep the information fresh and the news interesting. (Of course, if you aren't a Devil's fan you'll have to look elsewhere...