Easthampton's BearFest ~ "The Souvenir Video" (11-minute trailer)

The 60-minute Souvenir DVD is available ($15 per copy) from Fuzzy Clock (413-548-6804) and/or via local outlets (such as the City Clerk's Office, Nashawannuck Gallery, etc) throughout 2010.

This trailer includes highlights of the "Mardi Gras" launch-party, the childrens' Activity Morning, the St Patrick's Day parade (featuring the "Paddy Bearon" float), and the Grand Unveiling of all the bears in situ, together with 'sample' snippets from interviews Fuzzy has conducted with sundry BearFest artists along the way.

Duration of this trailer : 11 minutes.

Kate Rocks ~ "Painting Rocks & Canvases" (8 mins)

A segment of one of Fuzzy's current works-in-progress, this item has an interview with Westhampton artist Kate "Rocks" Fontaine during which she talks about her work, which includes painting (and glazing) rocks and pebbles.
The finished piece will feature in next week's "Art Walk" programme, which will be shown on local cable TV stations during June.

Duration of clip : 8 minutes.

"Fire & Ice ~ Easthampton's 'Valentine' Art Walk" (30 mins)

Another "Art Walk" Fuzzy production for local community access stations. This programme is about February's "Fire & Ice" theme and features interviews with various exhibiting artists including one who makes her living "cutting up paper."

The programme was shown on local Community Access stations (Amherst, Easthampton, Frontier, Northampton).

Duration : 30 minutes.

Trailer for IC's commemorative video/DVD (15 mins)

A short "sample" of Fuzzy's two-disk commemorative DVD for Easthampton's Immaculate Conception parish, which on July 1st merged with two others (Notre Dame and Sacred Heart) to form a new Catholic parish, Our Lady of the Valley. The Main Disk includes a history of the parish, interviews with parishioners and with Father CJ, Father Chris Malatesta, Father Gene, and two nuns who taught at the IC/NDIC school, together with a chapter on "Best Memories" and also a look to the future, as Our Lady of the Valley parish. The Bonus Disk includes highlights of the Final Mass (27th June), a chapter on the stained-glass windows, a tribute to Father Gene, and the rest of the interviews.

Duration of clip : 15 minutes.

The finished 2-disk Commemorative DVD set (Main Disk 90 minutes; Bonus Disk 120 minutes) can be obtained directly from Fuzzy (413) 548-6804 or can be ordered through Karen, at the Rectory. Proceeds go to Our Lady of the Valley parish.

"Stone Cold" (50 seconds)

Another of local poet/sculptor John Landino's street-poetry extemporizing exercises, this one ("Stone Cold") being performed recently in a local (Easthampton) graveyard.

Duration : 50 seconds

The Great Easter Egghunt (17,000 eggs!) ~ 30 minutes

Fuzzy's latest production, shows the preparation and execution of Easthampton's annual Easter Egghunt ~ 60 volunteers spending all morning stuffing 17,000 plastic eggs with candy, and 10 volunteers spending all morning laying the eggs out in the local High School's fields... And youngsters up to 10 years old take 90 seconds, flat, to clean 'em all up!
Cablecast by ECAT (Easthampton Community Access TV) over the weekend, and by other local Cable Access stations over the coming weeks.
Duration : 30 minutes.

Rebecca reads her short story, "Lunacy." (11 mins)

A clip from one of Fuzzy's works-in-progress, a programme about Meat For Tea's recent prose-and-poetry readings held at the New York Shop Exchange in NoHo.

The finished programme is 42 minutes' long and will be show on various local cable-TV stations during April.

Clip duration : 11 minutes.

Just testing, to see if this works...

Here is the YouTube link to one of the clips from the programme I'm making of Meat For Tea's reading-session held at the New York Shop Exchange recetly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whgjFHIiNNI

Duration of clip : 5 minutes.

Clip from "Fuzzy's Week" (March 15th ~ 7 mins12

Part of one of my works-in-progress for local Access TV stations, "Fuzzy's Week," featuring Easthampton artist/poet/sculptor John Landino extemporizing poems in the street.

Duration of clip : 12 minutes.

"Xmas & Birthdays Are Toughest" (Part One ~ 30 mins)

This is the first half of Fuzzy's latest production for Community Access TV, "Xmas and Birthdays Are Toughest: The Grieving Journey ~ Children Coping With Death."

(See the second half, below.)

The documentary features a gig by The Children's Room's Teen Performance Troupe at NoHo YMCA recently (Feb 21st), organised by The Garden. Both the Children's Room (Arlington) and The Garden (NoHo) help children and families to cope with bereavement.

The troupe's skits and reminiscences are featured, plus interviews with organisers and the five bereaved teenagers who performed.

The finished (1-hour) programme will be shown on local cable access channels (Amherst, Deerfield, Easthampton and Northampton) and will be shown on Arlington Cable TV (where The Children's Room is based).

Copies of the full programme are available from FuzzyClockProductions@Hotmail.com

To contact The Garden, NoHo, Center for Grieving Children and Teens, go to
~ www.garden-cgc.org

To contact The Children's Room, Arlington, go to
~ www.ChildrensRoom.org

Duration of clip : 30 minutes.