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Philadelphia Neighborhoods – Graduate Hospital

Graduate Hospital – South Philly Well, I meant to post a few more videos from the visitphilly.com’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods series, but time has gotten away. This video features Rakia Reynolds of Skai Blue Media explaining why she loves Graduate Hospital — the Philly neighborhood just south of South Street. I lived in the neighborhood from 2002-2004, [...]

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Philadelphia Neighborhoods – Spruce Hill & Cedar Park

Spruce Hill & Cedar Park — West Philadelphia The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) recently unveiled a new two-year campaign to promote fourteen different Philadelphia neighborhoods that are outside the typical Center City area. Since late December I’ve been working on several videos for this series. This video is a neighborhood tour of two adjacent [...]

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Philadelphia Neighborhoods – East Passyunk

East Passyunk — a neighborhood of South Philadelphia On Friday, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) unveiled a new two-year campaign to promote fourteen different neighborhoods that are outside the typical Center City area. Since late December I’ve been working on several videos for this series. This video is a neighborhood tour of East Passyunk [...]

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Bucks County

Over the last few weeks I’ve been shooting video area guides for the New Hope/Philadelphia branch of Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Reality. Kurfiss plans to use the videos for the launch of the new company website. This video shows off various towns in Bucks County, including Doylestown, Newtown, New Hope, Lumberville, Carversville, Washington Crossing, and Lambertville [...]

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The JD video for NewsWorks

Germantown musician works to create the ‘soundtrack of my thoughts’ For the last two and a half years Germantown resident, John Deininger (a.k.a The JD), has been composing, recording, and mixing music in his second-floor studio on Morris Street. When pressed for a label, Deininger defines his music as “eclectic instrumental,” but likes to think [...]

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Health Hero Challenge – Philadelphia magazine’s Be Well Philly

Over the last few months, Philadelphia magazine’s health blog Be Well Philly has run the Health Hero Challenge, in which readers could vote for several nominees that make a big impact on the health of people throughout the Philadelphia area. The Health Hero Challenge is also sponsored by United Healthcare. UHC has donated one dollar [...]

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¡Pizza Napoletana!

Perfect Pizza? Nomad Pizza just might have the best pizza in the Philadelphia area. And this is no small feat in a city that has had a recent pizza Renaissance of sorts. Pizzeria Stella, Osteria, In Riva, and Pizzeria DiMeo’s have all helped raise the pizza bar in Philly. But can any of them compare [...]

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Alaska!

As you may have read elsewhere on the blog, my wife and I spent some time in Alaska this summer. This video tells the story by combining still photos, motion graphics, maps, and video. It documents our stay and activities in Denali National Park, Talkeetna, Chena Hot Springs, and Fairbanks. We did do one overnight [...]

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Pub & Kitchen – uwishunu Philly 101

Pub & Kitchen Philadelphia is located at 20th and Lombard Streets. This spring I worked on the uwishunu Philly 101 project — a series of videos featuring prominent Philadelphians discussing what they wished more people in Philadelphia knew about. This video features Jonathan Adams, the chef at Pub & Kitchen and a partner in Rival [...]

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Sol Lewitt Garden – uwishunu Philly 101 video

If you haven’t seen the Sol Lewitt Garden behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, check it out before the blooming is over. The garden was designed by Susan Weiler, a landscape architect at Olin, based on the drawings and instructions of Sol Lewitt, an American artist. In this video Susan Weiler speaks about what she [...]