Christmas home movies

Attack of the Clone from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

A Cajun Christmas

We Bugs have just uploaded our Christmas tune.  It included shout-outs to all of our loved ones (mine is to dancing Lexi Lou).

Merry Cajun Christmas!

Gobble

Gobble from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

I'm in Carthage, Missouri gorging on lots of food and here's the footage to prove it. I shot 1,000 still images to make this gem. 

A bride. A groom. Handcuffs

I recently went to Connecticut to hang with my girl Carla, wedding photojournalist extraordinaire. I tagged along to a wedding she and Mike shot. The groom is a police officer and thought it would be fun to do some portraits with handcuffs. He was right.

A Bride. A Groom. Handcuffs. from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

I've been tagged

Travis tagged me in a viral blog game to share random fun facts with friends. I have added some multimedia components so I can keep true to the mission statement (well, title) of this blog.

Here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you. (Travis)
Post the rules on your blog. (That's what you're reading.)
Write 6 random things about yourself. (Below)
Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post. (Everyone I know has been tagged and those who haven't would kick my a-double-s for suggesting they do this.)
Let each person know he/she has been tagged. (I'm opting out of this one.)
Let the tagger know when your entry is up. (Will do.)

Random things about moi:

1. I come from musical stock. My dad was a singer, played the saxophone, clarinet and drums professionally. My father's 95-year-old uncle still plays ever summer in the Catskill Mountains (think "Dirty Dancing")

2. I've been pen pals with Wendy "The Snapple Lady" Kaufman since 1994. She sent me the bobblehead in '94 after I wrote her to tell her how much I loved her and Snapple. I wrote her again in 2006 to tell her I was glad she was back in the commercials. I also included a self-portrait with my bobblehead and she rewarded me with a gigantic box of Snapple goodies. She sent Snapple towels, a Snapple golf umbrella, Snapple flip-flops, Snapple pens, Snapple pencils, Snapple T-shirts, and a bunch of Snapple coupons. I love Wendy!


3. I fainted the first time I met Carter. (This picture is not from that evening, but I do have video from that night somewhere.)


4. I love playing basketball. I set a record in high school by scoring 32 points in one game. The record will never be broken since it was still intact when the school closed a few years ago. Yes, that is an Olan Mills photo.


5. I've been on the Today show four times. Well, I've stood outside the window four times and acted a fool. I always get my mug on the air for a few seconds. This video is from May 2002. I was there later that same year with Denise and we saw JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE perform!!! (Believe me, that deserves three exclamation marks.)

6. "Coming to America" is one of my favorite movies, followed by anything with Goldie Hawn.

Obama wins!

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Classic rock for today's youth

You must check out Micah White (Kentucky White's offspring) totally rocking some Weezer at the Wichita Collegiate School's eighth-grade talent show. It's brilliant.

The Indigo Boys perform The Indigo Girls

Carter joined his friend Nick today at Grace Presbyterian Church (where Nick plays weekly) and performed several songs, including "Secure Yourself" by the Indigo Girls and a song about love by Cajun Bluesman Tab Benoit. It was definitely not the traditional hymnal stuff.

This clip is of "Secure Yourself" and it opened the service.

The Office theme song

Gregatron on the accordion

sorry about the lack of posts

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I have a good excuse, I've been in prison. Well, I spent a few hours behind bars in April and the story finally ran last weekend.

  

Food, glorious food

I just finished my new food wall in my kitchen. It's a collection of photographs of food I've eaten (and watched while others ate) from around the world including exciting locations such as, Brazil, Mexico, Chicago and Wellington, Kansas. 

Robin and the Arb need your help

Bartlett Arboretum is a finalist for Markham Vineyard's Mark of Distinction grant of $25,000. This grant would help examine and alleviate flooding in the Belle Plaine community while fortifying this historic property. Your vote could help determine the winner.

Please to go to www.markhammarkofdistinction.com and vote for Bartlett Arboretum today! You may vote once per day through July 21.

UPDATE: The Bartlett Arboretum won the grant!

I'll make you smell my armpit

Wow! I'm sorry I missed this excitement at a recent Wingnuts game.

Gracie Rose screening

Gracie Rose will be shown on the big screen at the Historic Orpheum theatre this Saturday, June 21 at 7 p.m. I'm psyched because Carter scored the entire film with fantastic original music written for the movie. I even helped out in a very tiny way by playing some sloppy drums in a honky tonk bar scene (I'm not shown on the film, only heard). We viewed an early copy of the movie without the music and I can't wait to see it with Carter's fine work.

In the leading role is my friend (and former Gridiron alum) Rebekah Dryden. The movie was written/produced/directed by Rebekah's husband, Jason Bailey (the two now live in NYC). It also stars Anna Kraus who is a great friend to all of the Mudbugs.

Classic photographs depicted in Legos

Check out this link my buddy (and fellow Mudbugger) Brian sent me. It's a group of photos of Legos depicting classic photographs. 

Mudbugs on Myspace

We just created our Myspace page. Check it out and become our friend.

Party Pics

Here's a slideshow I made with pictures taken at yesterday's croquet party. Click on the arrow on the top right to see the second part of the show. All of the pictures are also on my Flickr account.

Click on the bottom right-hand side of this show to view it in full screen. 

it's not too late to go to church today

If you slept in this morning, I believe that watching this video I recently made will be a good substitute for the church service you missed. Amen.

Euphrates Creek

Here's a short video I made the other day at the Arb. Please pray for no more rain until after the croquet party.
Reunited And It Feels So Good from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

The Fun Barn - Part Deux

I spent the day painting the barn and making a time-lapse piece in the process.

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Lady, get outta my frame.

I made a video last night of the Wichita River Festival's Sundown Parade. I used my video camera and a still camera to do a time-lapse piece of the event. In all the festival crazines,  I forgot about the still camera and stepped in front of it a few times. If you look closely, you can find Denise in a few frames, too. Oops.

Greensburg, Kansas: You might have heard of us...We're kind of a big deal.

Spent a couple of days last week in Greensburg, Kansas. I stopped at the new gift shop at the Big Well and spotted this T-shirt. I really wanted it, but I recently gave a way a ton of T-shirts and it just didn't seem like the right thing to do. I did, however, purchase a lovely postcard for Brian Corn.

Here's a video I made of a Greensburg resident and here's one I did of President Bush's visit to the town.

Gridiron '08

This is how I spent the last month of my life.


Gridiron '08: Four Decades of Massively Mind-Blowing Mediocrity from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

Art at the Arb

I just got back from "Art at the Arb" at Bartlett Arboretum. In my very biased opinion, the best art at the Arb was Robin Macy and her band (featuring the talented Carter Green on bass and hot guitar licks by Kentucky White who snuck a Guns N' Roses lick in at the end of the show). They performed tunes from "Songs from the Garden," Robin's first solo album. It was incredible to see three of my favorite people in the world (and my top three Myspace friends) playing together.

The album took over a year to make at Greenjeans Studios and it's incredible. I've heard it about 200 times and I still get goosebumps when I press play. 

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Flat Stanley Visits Wichita

Untitled from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

My friends in Vermont sent me Flat Stanley last week as part of a project their daughter is involved with. Enjoy our journey together.

The Fun Barn

Here's the video from our gig. The Fun Barn has asked us to play there again and I can't wait. Aaiee!

Untitled from Jaime Oppenheimer on Vimeo.

Aaaaieeee!

The Mudbugs are getting ready for our first gig on Sat. It's at the Fun Barn near Winfield and it's a fund-raiser for a festival in Arkanas City. The info is below and if you wanna come, you must get a ticket in advance. It's a long haul and we hope to be playing a little closer to home in the future.

We recorded some songs during practice a few weeks back. Here's a Cajun classic called "Diggy Liggy Lo."

WARNING: You're gonna dance. The music is too groovin' to keep your feet still.

Check out Greg's killer accordion moves. Expect to see more at the show.

Fashion Passion

I just posted a video I made for Kansas.com about the making of our fashion section. I had fun using some new techniques.

a little trickster

Here's a short film of Lexi trying to pull a fast one on Maddy this morning at Panera.

Google Reader Rocks The World Wide Web

I started using Google Reader a few weeks ago and it has really changed my online viewing habits in a great way. You set up a list of your favorite sites and it tells you when they are updated. No more random surfing of the Web wandering if there is new content. It's good stuff.

Just trying to be useful as well as ornamental.

Eastbound and Down

I just finished editing the documentary of our trip. Enjoy the ride.

WARNING: You'll be humming this tune for awhile.

1,000 miles

CRG and I just returned from our five-day trip to Atlanta with stops in St. Louis, Cleveland Tenn. and Chattanooga. I hope to put the video documentary together in the very near future.

DAY 1

The weather was pretty miserable. It took us eleven hours to get to St. Louis.

The window in our room. Beats a view of the parking lot.

DAY 2

I think CRG could win an Edge look-alike contest.

The Kubrick-like cart we rode in to the top. Four minutes up and three minutes down.

It's not in focus and over-exposed. I swear, I am a professional.

Later the same day.We had to make a quick stop in Metropolis, Illinois. I think it's a good look on him.

Truth. Justice. And the American way. And it's all in front of the county courthouse.

Down the street from Super Man is Big John. Notice a theme in this town?

DAY 3

My buddy Jeff at one of our old hangs in Chattanooga, Big River Brewery.

Another favorite place, the Bluff View Arts District.

We visited a few of my old drinking establishments and this one is Durty Nelly's. I'm so glad we did because they are closing for good this week. A few more beers and CRG probably would've bought the Irish joint.

CRG doing a little headlight adjustment on my Civic. He really is useful as well as ornamental!

DAY 4

When in the South one must visit the Waffle House. It's like church.

Mary clutching her Barbie drink. Wow, we sure do look like lushes!

DAY 5

Passing the time on the MARTA by making shadow puppets. CRG does a great Louis Armstrong (not pictured here).

D and D - Dancing and Driving

CRG and I are going on a roadtrip tomorrow to Tenneessee, the birthplace of my 1996 Honda Civic. We're going to visit some friends, give my brother my car and then fly back home. Oh, and we're gonna make a documentary about my car and the trip.

I interviewed Denise today about my ol' '96. She was in Tennessee when I bought it and has spent many miles in the passenger seat, and a few behind the wheel. Below is a preview of the film. Expect to see the feature-length in the next few weeks.

I heart heart socks

I'm such a sucker for anything pink with hearts on it. While photographing a group of senior citizens exercising and stretching this morning, I spotted Mary Jo's rockin' socks. I have serious sock envy.

Ushi Booey

It's been a crazy couple of weeks and I haven't had much time to post anything. My sister Lara and her daughter Ursula visited me from Chicago last week. Of course I took a ton of adorable photos of my niece that I just must share with you.

Mmm. Blueberries are good.

A blueberry beard is even better.

Reading books at the Wichita Public Library. She's already a genius!

Umm. You're not gonna get too far in that winter outfit.

Damn! She's cute.

I stole this off of Denise's blog. She took it of my two favorite gals.

beautiful women and not-too-shabby guys

Here's something I've been meaning to post for awhile. It's a behind-the-scenes documentary about my friend Carla's portrait project called "See Real Women: Really See Women." She asked women when and where they feel beautiful and then photographed them in those places. The project hung at the Hartford Public Library and she put together a snazzy book with the images.



She also recently got a chance to photograph beautiful men when she was allowed to shoot a Duran Duran concert. Niiiiiice.

999 and counting

As of this writing, "How to be the perfect girlfriend" has been viewed 999 times since August. It hasn't gone viral as Denise promised, but it's not too shabby either.



Oddly enough, "Poop Ball" isn't too far behind "Perfect Girlfriend" in the views department. It's been seen 812 times. Not sure why people searched for it and I'm not sure I really wanna know.

My friend Sara tells me that Lexi has introduced a new phrase to her family's lexicon (she has a toddler). They say "poop ball" all the time! I'm not really sure what the context is but the possibilities are limitless.
On another note, there hasn't been too much activity on Scruffins Multimedia for a couple of reasons. I've been busy tending to my daily blog, 366 Images and Carter and I are storyboarding a new stop-motion animation film incorporating this gift Michelle gave me for Chrismukkah.

Scruffy, are you out there somewhere?

Suzanne Perez Tobias has written a touching, investigative piece about our fuzzy friend. Scruff, we'll find you soon.

I have accepted the challenge

Denise was inspired by this collection of studio pictures and has issued a blogger challenge to post our own. I visited the vault this morning and found a few, um, gems.


Somebody looks a little grumpy. I think this was taken during America's Bicentennial Year of 1976. What's with the funky knee patch?


Probably the cutest pic of me ever. I'm guessing it was taken in 1979. Gotta love the double-exposure.


Messy moppet much? I look like an orange ragamuffin. My style definitely went downhill in 1980. And I STILL have that awful cowlick.



I'm also posting this picture of my sister Gretchen because I think it's too freakin' cute.