Saturday, July 21, 2012
Paddling UNDER Hartford video released
video produced by www.ReelifeProductions.com
for more info about the art of Samuel Rowlett: http://www.samuelrowlett.com/
for more info about "The Hog River":
http://www.damnedct.com/park-hog-river-hartford
http://sadcityhartford.blogspot.com/2012/05/more-from-hog-river-revival.html
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
excited to document Samuel Rowlett's journey UNDERNEATH Hartford today… I knew I could put my kayak to good use! First we're stopping off at Real Art Ways to pick up his hand-made canoe… read more about this visionary artist from Williamsburg, MA here
https://www.facebook.com/samuel.rowlett
Friday, July 13, 2012
Hampshire Life ID features Reelife's Director
http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/07/13/thomas-john-adams
ID: Thomas John Adams
Friday, July 13, 2012
Tom Adams says he enjoys his work so much that the line between "work and play" is getting fuzzy. He's the owner and director of Reelife Productions, a video production company in Williamsburg. He is a photographer (his work can be seen at www.folktographybytom.com) and a folk musician who plays drums with the bluegrass band Acoustic Brew and has recorded nine CDs with the experimental rock-jazz band NiL. He also masquerades as an unpublished but prolific writer/poet/cartoonist named lester b thomas.
Full name: Thomas John Adams
People know you as: Tom
Date and place of birth: May 6, 1969, Clarence, N.Y.
Address: Williamsburg
Job: Media producer/photographer
Who lives under the same roof as you? My wife, Melissa, daughter, Amanda, 12, son, Neil, 10
Education: Clarence Central High School, 1987; University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991
Pets: Dog, Maggie; cat, Charlie; five chickens; two hamsters; a guinea pig; a fish
Hobbies: Interneting, recording, playing drums, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking
Book you'd recommend to a friend: I don't read much but I highly recommend "The Shroud of the Thwacker" by Chris Elliot
Favorite movie/TV show/singer: Movie - anything by director Errol Morris; TV - Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; Singer - Neil Young
Five items you can't live without: Family, iPhone, camera, drumsticks, kayak
Last thing you purchased just for fun: Wiffle balls
What's at the top of your bucket list? Run with the reindeer
Life-changing experience: It's all a big beautiful blur
Strangest job you ever held: University of Vermont health study caffeine-substitute tester
What is your current Facebook status? "Here's where we'll be in 10 days" (picture of Grand Canyon)
A little-known fact about you: I was homecoming king
Dumbest thing you ever did: Went train hopping with someone that was crazier than me
One trend you'd like to see return: People saying hello to each other
What really sets you off? Closed-mindedness
If you could spend the day with a celebrity from any time in history, who would it be? Neil Young. He seems like a really nice guy and he has created a great balance between following his muse and being a husband/father, all while becoming one of the most well-respected figures in modern music
Best advice you ever got: "Take my advice, don't listen to me"
Favorite place to get a bite: Joe's Cafe in Northampton. Good cookin'
Your favorite team: Buffalo Bills. Because I used to care a lot about sports and Buffalo is a wonderful place filled with some of the nicest people in the world
What does your ideal weekend look like? Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods with family and friends, or with no one at all
One thing you would change about yourself: Look on the bright side of things more often
What gives you the creeps? People that are completely disconnected with the bigger picture, and malls
People who knew you in high school thought you were: Fun to be with and maybe a little weird
Whom do you most admire? My parents. Because they are who they are
Parting shot: There's more to the picture than meets the eye
- Keri-Ann Aubin
Editor's Note - To suggest someone for ID, email Keri-Ann Aubin at kaubin@gazettenet.com.
ID: Thomas John Adams
Friday, July 13, 2012
Tom Adams says he enjoys his work so much that the line between "work and play" is getting fuzzy. He's the owner and director of Reelife Productions, a video production company in Williamsburg. He is a photographer (his work can be seen at www.folktographybytom.com) and a folk musician who plays drums with the bluegrass band Acoustic Brew and has recorded nine CDs with the experimental rock-jazz band NiL. He also masquerades as an unpublished but prolific writer/poet/cartoonist named lester b thomas.
Full name: Thomas John Adams
People know you as: Tom
Date and place of birth: May 6, 1969, Clarence, N.Y.
Address: Williamsburg
Job: Media producer/photographer
Who lives under the same roof as you? My wife, Melissa, daughter, Amanda, 12, son, Neil, 10
Education: Clarence Central High School, 1987; University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991
Pets: Dog, Maggie; cat, Charlie; five chickens; two hamsters; a guinea pig; a fish
Hobbies: Interneting, recording, playing drums, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking
Book you'd recommend to a friend: I don't read much but I highly recommend "The Shroud of the Thwacker" by Chris Elliot
Favorite movie/TV show/singer: Movie - anything by director Errol Morris; TV - Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; Singer - Neil Young
Five items you can't live without: Family, iPhone, camera, drumsticks, kayak
Last thing you purchased just for fun: Wiffle balls
What's at the top of your bucket list? Run with the reindeer
Life-changing experience: It's all a big beautiful blur
Strangest job you ever held: University of Vermont health study caffeine-substitute tester
What is your current Facebook status? "Here's where we'll be in 10 days" (picture of Grand Canyon)
A little-known fact about you: I was homecoming king
Dumbest thing you ever did: Went train hopping with someone that was crazier than me
One trend you'd like to see return: People saying hello to each other
What really sets you off? Closed-mindedness
If you could spend the day with a celebrity from any time in history, who would it be? Neil Young. He seems like a really nice guy and he has created a great balance between following his muse and being a husband/father, all while becoming one of the most well-respected figures in modern music
Best advice you ever got: "Take my advice, don't listen to me"
Favorite place to get a bite: Joe's Cafe in Northampton. Good cookin'
Your favorite team: Buffalo Bills. Because I used to care a lot about sports and Buffalo is a wonderful place filled with some of the nicest people in the world
What does your ideal weekend look like? Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods with family and friends, or with no one at all
One thing you would change about yourself: Look on the bright side of things more often
What gives you the creeps? People that are completely disconnected with the bigger picture, and malls
People who knew you in high school thought you were: Fun to be with and maybe a little weird
Whom do you most admire? My parents. Because they are who they are
Parting shot: There's more to the picture than meets the eye
- Keri-Ann Aubin
Editor's Note - To suggest someone for ID, email Keri-Ann Aubin at kaubin@gazettenet.com.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Summer Reading
This video produced by Reelife back in 2007 for Pamela Thompson's Every Past Thing (Unbridled Books) features the author talking about her concept for the book... and it reminded me that it's time for some summertime reading...
If you're interested in buying the book, it's available on the Unbridled Books website
If you're interested in buying the book, it's available on the Unbridled Books website
Happy 4th, America!
Hope you're out enjoying an American landscape this July 4th... relax and have fun!Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Ron Sims on the Future of Sustainability
Okay, so the word "SUSTAINABILITY" is totally overused, but,... here's a great lecture by Ron Sims, former undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that puts it all into perspective and actually gives meaning to the word.
Reelife recorded the lecture for Lincoln Institute of Land Policy at the annual New England Smart Growth Leadership Forum on December 2, 2011, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The event was co-sponsored with the regional offices of HUD and EPA, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston and its focus was the past, present, and future of HUD's Sustainable Communities initiative.
Reelife recorded the lecture for Lincoln Institute of Land Policy at the annual New England Smart Growth Leadership Forum on December 2, 2011, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The event was co-sponsored with the regional offices of HUD and EPA, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston and its focus was the past, present, and future of HUD's Sustainable Communities initiative.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Mobile Studio: Now Available!
With our current heat wave, I'm really ready for the call to use the mobile studio (aka kayak) for a shoot... I'm just sayin... isn't there anybody out there who desperately needs a documentary of something river related? Anybody?
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