Tom Hapgood

Buffalo Flows wins two EMMY awards

Congrats to James Greeson and Larry Foley for each winning a Mid-America EMMY award for their work on the Buffalo Flows. Greeson’s category award was Musical Composition/Arrangement and Foley’s was Writer/Program. Don’t forget that the film is on national PBS Tuesday night, at 9:00 p.m. CST.

Film Festival Screenings Friday, Saturday

Buffalo Flows will be shown Friday, November 14th, at 7:00 p.m. in Theatre 1, or JBHT 216
‘Free, If Only,’ my motion short film, will show just before Buffalo Flows on Saturday, November 15th, at 1:50 p.m. in Theatre 2, or JBHT 266
Details here

The Buffalo Flows Screenings

View The Buffalo Flows web site here
According to Writer/Producer Larry Foley in the Department of Journalism, the screening of The Buffalo Flows documentary was standing-room-only at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival recently. My contribution to the film, which was photographed by Trey Marley of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and edited by Dale Carpenter in the Department of Journalism, is some animation and the packaging design, a piece of which is shown above. The image on the front of the packaging is by Tim Ernst, the famed Arkansas photographer.

The next screening of the film is at 7:00 p.m. on November 14th, in the JB Hunt building as part of the 2008 Northwest Arkansas Documentary Film Festival. Everyone is welcome to come and view (and even volunteer).

Bloody Finger band video

To all of you who asked, here’s the video. I stress the “15 years since I’ve played,” and many apologies to Allen and Tommy, who are actually quite competent musicians. See it here.

‘Bloody Finger’ Performs at 80s Party

My new band, ‘Bloody Finger,’ played our first gig the other night at my birthday party. On my right is Allen “Anim-eater” Renfroe, and on my left Tommy “Insane in the Membrane” Loya, who played a bit with Cypress Hill in the 90s. I haven’t picked up a guitar and played with any serious intentions for 15 years and the three of us had never played together once. I probably shouldn’t have tried the guitar solo… (The hair was the closest I could find to the original mullet (below) and ended up a cross between Dee Snider and Bette Midler.)

Maybe some video coming soon.

24-Hour Film Festival through Art Amiss

Ready. Set. Shoot….

Prepare for the ultimate test of your creative abilities, not to mention your plain old endurance and will: The first annual Art Amiss 24 Hour Film Festival will take place in conjunction with Art Amiss VIII. An unlimited number of teams will race to complete a short film in the course of a single day. The likely-to-be uneven results will be screened at Art Amiss VIII.

More details here.

Private Property Exhibition

February 20th starts my exhibition “Private Property” with sculptor Bethany Springer here in the Fine Arts Gallery. The show runs through March 14th with the opening reception on February 28th from 5 – 7 p.m. I’ll be showing “Identify Friend or Foe,” “Stick it to Dad,” “Raw Sewage” and “Stop Sign Preacher.” The theme of the exhibition examines ambiguous interpretations of privacy and ownership in modern life using video, digital media, and sculpture.
More info here and here.

New Computer Lab Ribbon-Cutting!

The Art Department’s new computer lab is complete and being used for classes! To officially announce the completion and kick off a new era of design work in the department and Fulbright College, everyone is invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, January 23rd at 2:30 p.m. in the lab, FNAR 323.

Lab hours have been posted here.

Digital Storytelling Makeshop scheduled

Create a digital, personal narrative that can be shown on DVD or posted to the Web. The makeshop attendees will utilize modern, easy-to-use software in constructing their digital stories, including scanning of photos and documents, digitizing videos, writing and recording a voiceover script, using music and editing it all together. It will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday November 2nd and Friday November 9th at the New Design Center 572 W. 6th Street in Fayetteville, AR.

More information on the Digital Storytelling Makeshop here.

Clips of SimU 2007 Conference Presentations

Here are the individual clips of the conference with your favorite conference emcee. Continue reading Clips of SimU 2007 Conference Presentations…