Lost in Light » Architecture http://lostinlight.org small gauge filmmaking videoblog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:22:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Images of India http://lostinlight.org/2008/05/02/images-of-india/ http://lostinlight.org/2008/05/02/images-of-india/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 17:27:43 +0000 Jen http://lostinlight.org/2008/05/02/images-of-india/

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More from Ashima’s collection of home movies this week. Here, we feature a visit to India in 1969, with lush, detailed images of the spectacular architecture there. Ashima offers a little more detail on the locations:

This must have been 1969 and taken at two places, Red Fort in Delhi and Jama Masjid. The snake charmer was at Red Fort. This must have been just before we left for Europe.

The Red Fort is a tremendous fortress palace and Jama Masjid a historic mosque, both constructed by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the mid-1600s. See a satellite view of the Red Fort here and Jama Masjid here.

Click the “MPEG-2″ link above for high-resolution footage of this gorgeous film and more at the Internet Archive.

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This week’s film comes from my aunt and uncle, University of Texas alumni, visiting the campus and attending the big game versus Southern Methodist University on November 2, 1968. Texas went on to win and finished ranked #3 in the country. The game footage captures UT’s bovine mascot, Bevo, and SMU’s Shetland pony, Peruna.

Other scenes include a walk around the Littlefield Fountain and looking out over the city from UT’s Clock Tower observation deck. This was the first year the Tower was reopened following the infamous 1966 Charles Whitman shootings. It was later closed in the 1970′s due to a number of suicides and re-opened again under tighter safeguards in 1999. A portion of the film shows a POV from the water spouts that Whitman later fired from after authorities and citizens with hunting rifles began returning fire.

Music “Viertel nach Mitternacht” by Adhesion via Podsafe Music Network.

– Aaron Valdez

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Videoblogger extraordinaire Ryanne Hodson (RyanEdit, Ryan is Hungry) sends us this spectacularly beautiful and fascinating footage from Cuba, early 2000s. Ryanne captures Cuba’s singular cultural and natural landscape with a keen eye for cinematography and pacing. In her own words:

This was May of 2001. I had just fallen in love with a boy long distance and this was the first time we’d been together in about 3 months. The sad thing about it? He didn’t feel the same any more and broke up with me on the first day in Havana. 90 miles from the US and I was completely trapped with no communication back home, sharing a hotel room with this fucker. 18 days in hell is basically what it was. Fortunately, this was a college trip so I had some other folks around to drink amazing rum with and smoke the best cigars on earth. Someday I hope to get back to Cuba and enjoy it with new eyes.

As always, visit our File Directory for a link to a high resolution file at the Internet Archive of this footage and more from Ryanne’s trip to Cuba.

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