My Survival Kit

Click to Play An edit of a live performance by Seth Tobocman at the Sanctuary for Independent Media.  - What more is a nation-state than a prison with a flag on it?

Click to Play a short animated package

Click to Play this is a videoblog.  shot in hood river, oregon, troy, new york, NYC, minneapolis, minnesota, and detroit, michigan.

Click to Play Greendance is a winery in Western Pennsylvania. 

Click to Play featuring the voice of nyc councilman charles baron and the music of public enemy.this short documents a march which took the streets on march 17, 2007 demanding community control and accountability of the NYPD. learn more at: http://myspace.com/peoplesjustice 

Click to Play From the Tlinglind Legend of how mosquitoes came to be. Created by Caroline Silver & The Video Club of Greenman Hill. (2007)

Click to Play this is the first in a series of animations created for the My Survival Kit TV show.  the sound is by an electro-acoustic ensemble that existed in Troy, NY circa 2002.  animation by Andrew Lynn

Watch the videoHere is a hastily compiled trailer which will air between shows on MNN (www.mnn.org)- public access TV in New York, and will be availalbe online, of course. Stay tuned for more episodes in 2007.

Click To PlayEpisode 3 features experimental vids and animation from Marc Arsenault, Penny Lane, Andrew Lynn, Victoria Kereszi, Elizabeth Press among others.? Featured in this episode also is a cut-up version of the Telestreet documentary (pirate TV from Italy!). (28 min. | 137MB) enjoy!

Watch the videoThis a short animation exercise entitled 'New York City Animals'.? Students chose an animal that lives in NYC, wrote an acrostic poem about it and animated a story about the poem. (the alligator is a sewer alligator)? All in one hour!!!!?

Watch the videoThis is a series of really short animations made as in introductory exercise with a group of 3, 4, & 5 graders for Animation Arts class.? In the assignment each student created a head, body, or legs in the style of 'exquisite corpse'. Then we fused them randomly into monsters and practiced our stop-motion skillz.? ENJOY!

Watch the videoMy Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 1 of the second episode, finished in August 2006. This MSK features the work of:  Angie Moore | Victoria Kereszi | Eliza Jane Curtis | Andrew Lynn | Elizabeth Press | Penny Lane | Emily DeGruchyWe make homemade TV.  Some people call it digital content.  Others call itvlogging. Others call it making art.  Others call it a waste of time.  Sowhat. This episode has got new collage & animation, pigs in space, more DIYmusic lessons, spam slams, an abandoned house and other brief surprises.It's antiTV made for, and by people who dont watch TV. In the words of afriend and critic after watching episode 1, "it wasn't bad."SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST/INTERNET TV FEEDS!!!!!!!MSK music at: http://my-survival-kit.blogspot.comMSK Internet TV: http://breathingplanet.blogspot.comYou can subscribe with fireant, itunes, democracy player, mefeedia, etc...COMMENTS AND REVIEWS (pos. or neg.) ARE ENCOURAGEDEnjoy!

Watch the videoMy Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 2 of the second episode, finished in August 2006. Enjoy!

Watch the videoMy Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 3 of the second episode, finished in August 2006. Enjoy!

Watch the videoMy Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 4 of the second episode, finished in August 2006. Enjoy!

Watch the videoMy Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 5 of the second episode, finished in August 2006. Enjoy!

My Survival Kit ~ Episode 1 / Part 1 Watch the video My Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 1 of the first episode, finished in July 2006. Enjoy!

My Survival Kit ~ Episode 1 / Part 2 Watch the video My Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 2 of the first episode, finished in July 2006. Enjoy!

My Survival Kit ~ Episode 1 / Part 3 Watch the video My Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 3 of the first episode, finished in July 2006. Enjoy!

My Survival Kit ~ Episode 1 / Part 4 Watch the video My Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet. Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing. This is part 4 of the first episode, finished in July 2006. Enjoy!

My Survival Kit ~ Episode 1 / Part 5 Watch the video My Survival Kit is a homemade video collage which airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable access, and on the internet.  Created by the members of My Survival Kit - www.myspace.com/mysurvivalkit & www.breathingplanet.net. The 28 minute show has been divided into parts for web-viewing.  This is part 5 of the first episode, finished in July 2006. Enjoy!

This is short excerpt from a 28 minute documentar featuring Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. The piece was produced by a collaborative team of artists under the banner of Hudson Mohawk Indymedia.

This short video documents a memorial bike ride that took place in January of 2006 to commemorate the accidental deaths of more than 20 cyclists in NYC in 2005.

This is just a short trailer for a longer documentar produced in 2005 about the ongoing crackdown, and harrassment of Critical Mass cyclists in NYC. More information at www.stillweridethemovie.com