Projects We Love: My Video, My Voice

A close and personal friend of Project Kinect is creating an amazing documentary.  She has reached her current goal but will need additional funds in the near future.  Take a look and maybe help her out. Here is a little about the project:

The documentary is a community video project, engaging young people affected by incarceration and asking them to be a part of the filmmaking process. 5 teens will film their daily lives. Then, based on the footage they shoot, we will interview them one-on-one and follow them around for a bit. We think some pretty cool footage will result, as well as some very honest storytelling.

To help her out, check out the Kickstarter. Here is the preview video:

Projects We Love: The Gay Men Project

The Gay Men Project is a personal project by New York based photographer Kevin Truong. His goal is to create a visual catalog of gay men living across the world.

Every profile shares a story in the person’s own words. In Kevin Truong’s own words:

“This project is simple. Basically I’m trying to photograph as many gay men as I can. My goal is to create a platform, a visibility on some level, and a resource for others who may not be as openly gay. A visual catalog of gay men and their stories. When I think of my own experience, and all the time I spent in the closet and hiding the fact that I was gay–to be at a place now where I feel completely comfortable being on the blog and telling the world “Hey, I’m a gay man,” I think there’s a power in that, for me and for a lot of the men on the blog. So it’s kind of a numbers game, I think the more men I photograph, the more impact the project has.

My dream is to take the project to as many different cities as I can across the world.”

If you would like to participate please contact:

kevin@kevintruong.com

The Gay Men Project: the First 373 Portraits from The Gay Men Project on Vimeo.

A New Show About All Of Us

This pilot episode explores what the show will be and what living out is.  With the help of four brilliant and lovable Clinton School classmates, Gregg bounces ideas off of them for living out, becoming allies and what it means to use privilege for the marginalized.  Gregg’s running this ship though so there is references to Designing Women and the movie Living Out Loud with some “flowery language.”