It has been a busy month. I’m way behind in reading emails and blog entries. On the one hand, take the modern approach to Memorial Day and be heading out to the beach. However, as I dig through my emails, I find a lot of material related to Memorial Day.

I’m helping pull together the Citizen Filmmaking track at the Media Giraffe Summit at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, coming up June 29 – July 1.

As I look through various videos, people have pointed me to The War Tapes. David Weinberger describes it this way:

“Five soldiers in Iraq have been carrying video cameras with them throughout the past year. Working continuously with a director via IM, they have produced a 94-minute version of the film set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 29. It is non-partisan, or perhaps multi-partisan...How could you be a soldier in Iraq and not have points of view?”

This is contrasted with Project Harmony, where students in Vermont went to Jordan and videoblogged some of their trip.

Another friend pointed me to this video made by adding images to the song Dear Mr. President, by Pink. Other People have made similar videos. One person has his own video up with a different, but similar song he had written a while ago.

One final video to add into the mix: As I spoke with friends about citizen videos, Lon Seidman from the Joe Courtney campaign sent me this link about Veterans for Courtney.

If you know of other material, please let me know.