Laura Sortwell
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New Camera This is the first set of photographs I took with my new camera, a Canon Rebel 2ti. Most of them are from my trip to California and some in my old house in Saint Louis, MO. July Photos This set is the photos I took in Nantucket and at my family friends, the Rechters, 25th [...]

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Haven’t posted in awhile… Site to be updated soon and many posts to come. Doing this now to make sure it happens.

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Over this last winter break, I visited my friend Margaux Harrold in Chicago. I had an amazing time and had the unique opportunity to work on the set of one of her family friend’s music videos.  The band, Filligar, comprised of four awesome guys, shot the video for one of their songs, Nightfall, and Margaux and I [...]

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The opening sequence for the new HBO Comedy Series, How To Make It In America is my new favorite opening sequence.. The editing is awesome and the show looks great. Check it out below. How To Make It In America Music: I Need A Dollar By Aloe Blacc And here is the show trailer:

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Passion. Creativity. Social Media. Entrepreneurship. Video Production. Conversations. Lots of friends. Connections. Marketing. Big ideas. Fun. If any or all of these words apply to you, and if you are looking to be involved in a start-up project in which you will: work with fun people, be encouraged and expected to think outside the box, [...]

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For my Stop Action Animation project in my Video & Animation Class, my too very artistically talented friends (Natasha Frank and Claire Callagy) put Natasha’s shoe on the wall and took pictures of it…. so I mixed an audio track and used final cut pro to make this. Enjoy.

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Greetings Hoya friends! My friend Jessica Lioon and I are currently in the process of starting a blog hub for the Georgetown community. Basically, we are envisioning a website that rolls in blogs from various students and alumni and organizes them into different categories based on their content. We hope to create a place where [...]

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For one of my independent studies this semester, my friend Natasha Frank and I are designing visual accompaniments to music using the programs Final Cut Pro and Photoshop- basically we want to make some sick music videos.

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In the course of approximately three weeks, we completed 21 interviews with people from all over DC. We investigated many different consumer attitudes towards the Green Movement, the highlights of which are in “A Capital Greening.”

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I’m currently learning how to do Motion graphics (part of the Final Cut Pro Suite) and have fallen obsessed with this Jay-Z video that I assume used Motion to make. Whatever was used- its awesome. Check it out…

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Google barely advertises but when they do I think they do it right. Do you?

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Videos from 2 Famous Dyslexic Entrepreneurs- Paul Orfalea & Richard Branson

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‘ Thanks Alex Muckerman for the shout out to LauraSortwell.com!

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Dodge Ram’s new commercial “I am RAM” is a well-made commercial with a bad message

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Google Social Search will enhance the search experience and provide users with more personally relevant search results, by bringing the places where people make social connections and publicly post content closer to them.

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, originally uploaded by TheVoiceThatSaid. “More Perfect” great photo I grabbed off of Digital Kitchen’s blog @digitalkitchen http://bit.ly/2D0asf

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watching a bio on albert einstein and going to bed. thanks hulu for once again rocking my world # AdAge: Original vid of LinkedIn’s Founder Reid Hoffman on his social networking site & how its difft from all the others http://bit.ly/JT2Rv # AdAge: Original vid @adagevideo Inside the Changing Business of Mobile Social Games http://short.to/v4bc [...]

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Videos and info on Google Voice- It’s essentially making Voicemail more like E-mail

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