Closing Chapters

So a whole year as gone by and I'm back home were it all started.

Since the blog is called "Once upon a year in America", I'm still going to post videos of what I saw and what I did in the States in 2011. At least some of it...there's so much footage I don't even know where to start.

That brings me to a point I want to make about travelling abroad and how your perspective of reality changes the instant you step off of that plane. Heck, the instant you're sitting on that plane everything is already new and exciting! I remember when I was arriving in Atlanta a year ago, watching a movie the flight provided entitled "Life as We Know It". The movie is set in ATL and exactly at the same time I'm watching this scene showing the city's skyline, the plane is on it's way down to the tarmac. I pull up the blind and I'm "living" the same skyline. You can somewhat now understand how it's easy to get "lost" in photographing and videotaping every single thing you see from then on. It's also stuff like this that moves me to search for new adventures somewhere else out there.

This movie inspired me in a lot of ways, none of which have to  do with this  image.

Atlanta's skyline. (By the way, I did not take this pic.)

For now though, I'm closing this chapter of my life by putting together the last videos of that all-around wonderful experience. Stay tuned.

Purple Vision: Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes with COMM 493: Purple Vision, the class that transmitted the WCU Football games for the stadium's Jumbo Tron and a live web-stream.Thanks to everybody involved with Purple Vision for a great season.

Video by Marcelo Maia
Western Carolina University, Fall 2011

WCU International Outreach - Tuscola High School

K-12 International Outreach Program at Tuscola High School, Waynesville, North Carolina.

Sponsored by the International Programs and Services of Western Carolina University.

Special thanks to all the teachers and students of Tuscola and WCU.

Fall 2011

Music by John Legend.

"Soaring" Like a Catamount

You might be asking yourself: "But cats don't soar!" 

Well these ones do! Or at least they fall really fast from the sky and land softly with their butts in the grass.

Thanks to everybody that contributed with the interviews and to Base Camp Cullowhee for providing yet another awesome trip! Go wildcats!

The Coca-Cola Factory

ATL, 2011

This is by no means advertising for Coca-Cola, even tough it is.