4-H News: Interview with Nick Hill

4-H News: Interview with Nick Hill

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Arinna Pongrey conducts her very first podcast interview with Nick Hill, who talks about the Jefferson County Food and Farm Program.

At The Artmine Grand Opening At The Inn at Port Hadlock, Arinna Pongrey Interviews Co-Owner Paul Christensen

At the Artmine and Inn at Port Hadlock joint grand opening, Paul Christensen, on of the owners of the Inn, talks about the hotel's history and it's development into what it is today, as well as the integration of art into a hotel.

Historic Quilcene Hotel Burns To The Ground; Quilcene Fire Chief Bob Wilson Talks About His Efforts

On May 15th, 2006, the Historic Quilcene Hotel caught fire and burned to the ground. Quilcene Fire Chief Bob Wilson talks to Quilcene resident Pamela Roberts about the fire and the Fire Department's efforts to save the hotel. The Hotel's website holds more information. The Brinnon Fire Department put up a blurb about their involvement as well.

This video was made while I was learning Final Cut Pro, and was posted on The Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader website along with their story.

At A Rotary Club Luncheon, Arinna Pongrey Interviews Rotarian Bob Rosen About His Experiences In Thailand

At a Rotary Club Luncheon, Bob Rosen talks about the humanitarian mission he took to a small Thai village and about the impact he and his group had on the community.

Arinna Pongrey interviews Jay Bennett, Development Director of Diversified Resources

4-H Network News: Arinna Pongrey interviews Jay Bennett

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Jay Bennett, Developement Director of Diversified Resources, talks about current projects and his life.

Folklife, Day 1; A Written Commentary

Today, we arrived at the 35th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival at around noon. It was still warm and sunny at that point. Gene parked in a handicapped spot (legally) in a church parking lot. Jack, Gene, and I walked around Folklife, familiarized ourselves with the surroundings, and procured three VIP buttons (they get you into the hospitality tent... which had no food, but lots of sodas and a Sobe Adrenaline Energy Drink or 5.

We then went back to Gene's car to grab film equipment, and the Priest noticed us and made Gene move the car... oops! So then we went and did a few interviews... none of us had remembered to bring headphones, so Jack unwittingly plugged the mic into the headphone jack.... OOPS. Luckily for me, the built in mic picked up most of the interviews, even if it picked up just about as much background noise as well... we can clean up the audio in Final Cut Pro.

Then we met up with Lucie, and she did an interview with an artist, and this time Jack had headphones, and by this time had realized his mistake... so that interview came out with wonderful sound quality!

We then went over to the KOMO 4 Headquarters, right across the street from Folklife. We were shown into a conference room right behind the front desk, which has security guards posted at all times, through a door that requires their pass to open. We get this room to ourselves for the entire weekend, so we don't have to haul the computers around. As we were heading towards the building, it started raining.

As soon as the rain let up, Jack and I headed back out to redo some of the film that we couldn't salvage from before (and Gene went home). Before we did that, however, I interviewed Irena, a face painter. After I wrapped that up, she offered to paint my face (Jack filmed it) for free. It ended up looking a little more detailed than the camera could capture, but here is the photo, taken on the cell phone and e-mailed to my flickr account:



So the last couple interviews I do, and that includes the intro, which I had to redo, have me with a painted face.

We then walked around and found a few other interesting things, one of which is a band made up of 14, 15, and 16-year-old members, called The Neons, who were incredibly good for their age. Their website can be found here. Then we proceeded to walk back towards the KOMO headquarters and came across what looked like a Pakistani wedding dance, Artis the Spoonman with a guitarist/singer whose last name is Paige, according to Jack, and a R&B dance group in their early teens. Only at Folklife would you be able to find such a large variety of music in one 10 minute walk.

At The Artmine Grand Opening At The Inn at Port Hadlock, Arinna Pongrey Interviews ArtMine Employee Ann Katzenbach

Arinna Pongrey, 4-H News, interviews free lance art writer and part time Art Mine employee Ann Katzenbach at the Grand Opening of the Art Mine and the Inn at Port Hadlock.