Still Pending

for the Oregonian's Teen Blog

Still Pending is a group of 12- and 13-year-olds who won a Cartoon Network contest last year:


Still Pending from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

How My Parents Got Married, pt. 2

The second (and final) part covers the wedding (disaster!), the honeymoon (nuns!) and the months after (2-for-1 Burger King!)

Listen here

2006, from the vault

I just found this video MTV video of me


I look so skinny! so sincere! I wanted so much! Also, I sound really super Southern.

How My Parents Got Married

Listen here


My mom was the salad and chocolate chip cookie girl at Hardee's. She was pregnant. The story involves an electric can opener, a tin roof and my dad's heart melting like butter.

Annie and the Dreamboats concert

I shot this a couple of weeks ago, but just got around to editing it. My friend Dana Rae's band:


Annie and the Dreamboats from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Fatman: The Movie

I made this video to go with This story. So cute:

Fatman: The movie

Tyree Harris / Influence raps

Rob Finch and I are working on a longer story about this guy, but this is a video I made of Tyree Harris aka Influence rapping at a concert at Parkrose High School.



Tyree Davis / Influence from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Tattoo for school

Jon Garcia earned an A for probably the strangest school project I've ever known: He got a tattoo. This video is part of the Oregonian Teen Blog I help produce.

Jon Garcia's Tattoo

New teen multimedia blog

Judy Siviglia and I, along with the O's summer interns and hopefully some education reporters, are producing a teen blog. Basically it'll have videos about teenagers and short stories about cool things teenagers are doing. The idea is that teens do a ton of cool things that don't fit the usual /newshook/ standard.

Here is one of the first ones, online now at the Oregonian

Craig Irby croons

Relaxing on the beach

Relaxing in Pochomil from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Dancing with senior citizens

Dancing from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Border Crossing

Border Crossing from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

From Cahuita to Puerto Viejo

more in Costa Rica:


Untitled from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

music in San Jose

music in San Jose from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Clinton party at the E Room

I shot all the video for this, but my buddy Rob Finch edited it:


Egyptian Club from Oregonian on Vimeo.

songs

I spent an hour this afternoon watching a garage band tutorial and then I made this:

Listen!

Neola on Passover

Neola talks about cooking grain-less "macaroni and cheese."



Untitled from Casey Parks on Vimeo.

Chatty Harpoon

Cathy Harmon talks about how she got her nickname:

Listen here!

Bye bye Nat

I made this (with help from Neola and Kate!) last month as a going-away present for Natalie. It's kind of filled with inside jokes, but it's still fun. YouTube makes it look bad, but oh well.

Winter 07/08

What I did this winter: