This is a breakdown I had on the side of the road.

This video is my attempt at getting the American flag to fly at full-mast but finding that the flag will only fly at half-mast. Comedy ensues as I'm overcome mentally and physically trying to get the flag up. It was Charlie Chaplin who said that "life is a tragedy in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot". This video takes this approach using comedy to deal with tragedy, reflecting the complications of patriotism in the simple of act of attempting to fly a flag.

Sometimes things just don't fit...

Smog is a video that draws comparisons between the smog and pollution of Beijing and the rising tide of gentrification in Washington, DC. In the video, a man is seen walking the streets of DC, wearing a facemask to protect himself from pollution as cars and people move past him. As the video progresses, it becomes clearer that he is walking just ahead of a continual stream of encroaching city construction. As sister cities, Beijing and DC share not only the status of national capitals, but also that of cities that have been completely transformed by quick growth and development. Smog attempts to explore this growth and the ramifications of it through the simple act of strolling the city streets.