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Here’s my contribution to NaVloPoMo2009, the brainchild of (RAAAA!) Rupert Howe where we all make videos together in November.

Our videoblogging community has worked on a number of group projects such as Videoblogging Week 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. There was also a couple years of Carp Caviar orchestrated by the quietly creative, Erik Nelson. The archive for these projects seem to be gone, but here are my two contributions: 2006 and 2008. There’s also NaVloPoMo2007. And of course there was Semanal where we all tried to post every week for all of 2008.

I’m really amazed at the quality of video I see these days. Either the video/film people have finally embraced the web…or regular people are just getting better at it. Probably a little of both. And it’s been less than five years since all this started.

Anyway here’s my contribution shot on an iPhone. My mom died a couple months ago. She has been sick for years and she was in a vegetative state the last several weeks. I’m glad Ryanne gave me the good advice to record what happened so I could remember these last couple days with her. It’s largely inspired by this video that my good friend, Michael Verdi, created. In memory of my mom, Nancy Jean Dedman, 1949-2009.