Families May Be Losing Their Home Movies and Tapes

Portland, OR.  Holidays fill us with memories of the past, but how long has it been since you’ve taken that proverbial “stroll down memory lane” by watching your old home movies and tapes?  Well, if you hurry, you can give a holiday gift to yourself and to your entire family that will last more than a lifetime – much more!  Home Video Studio – Portland, OR., an affiliate of the largest national network of home video studios, can help you preserve your precious home movies and videotapes that are probably gathering dust in your attic or garage.  More important, your old 8 mm movie films and VHS videos are deteriorating every day!  Even if you still have the old equipment to watch them, they may already be unplayable.
Philip Beech Video Producer and Co-owner of Home Video Studio - Portland, OR., advises everyone to “search through your home immediately!  Find all of those old 8 mm home movie films and old VHS tapes and get them transferred to DVD as soon as possible.”  
Mr. Beech knows what’s he’s talking about.  He has been rescuing movies and tapes for Portland, OR.  residents in their home-based video studio for years.   “Some of the films and tapes we see are already in very poor condition.  And it would be a shame to lose those family histories when it’s so easy to move them all onto DVD.”
Mr. Beech’s system not only transfers the movies and videos to DVD, but also it allows you to add titles and even music thereby creating a memorable experience for generations to come.  “The DVDs,” Mr. Beech adds, “really are the gifts that keep on giving, generation after generation.  Imagine your grandchildren or their grandchildren being able to watch and hear their grandparents or great-great grandparents long after they are gone!  Or, just think about being able to relive your own childhood simply by popping in a disk that will preserve those memories into the next century!”
Whether for the holidays or any special occasion, Home Video Studio’s service solves the frequent problem of what gift to give to the “hard to buy for” relative.  He explains, “We can transfer any kind of film or video to DVD, but we can also do other creative keepsakes, for example, putting slides and photos on DVD, editing your vacation videos, making sports highlight programs for your son or daughter, and even repairing broken video tapes.”  Mr. Beech also mentions that they can also transfer audiotapes and cassettes to CD.
Mr. Beech hopes that folks will contact him soon, especially if they want to create a Christmas gift for this season.  “It takes some time to transfer the movies and tapes to DVD,” he adds.  “We don’t want anyone to be dissappointed.  But whether it’s for the Holidays or after the Holodays, you really do need to preserve and, in some cases, improve those precious memories!”
            For more information on transferring and preserving your home movie film, contact Philip Beech at his Home Video Studio – 503 716 8578
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Landscape legend Lawrence Halprin dies at 93

I shot a dance performance video last year that celebrated the work of Lawrence and Anna Halprin. Here is a description of the work and video highlights of the performance.

City Dance - Keller Fountain from Philip Beech Home Video Studio on Vimeo.

With choreographers Linda K. Johnson, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, and Tere Mathern and writer Randy Gragg.

In 1971, Portland christened a new urban park that The New York Times architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable heralded as “the most important urban space since the Renaissance.” Called Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain), it was part of a sequence of Portland plazas that combined water, sculptural form, and public space in ways never before attempted in a city. Yet the plazas were merely one outgrowth of the daring experiments in movement, sound, and space being conducted by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin; his wife, the legendary choreographer Anna Halprin; and radical musical composers such as Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Lamont Young, and Morton Subotnick.

Third Angle New Music Ensemble, the Northwest’s premier presenter of contemporary music, along with some of Portland’s most accomplished choreographers, will celebrate the plazas and the artistic milieu from which they emerged. Third Angle will play some of the Minimalist music pioneered by the composers in the Halprins’ circle as the choreographers explore Anna Halprin’s philosophy and her intense blend of movement with social and personal consciousness often cited as the beginning of postmodernism in dance.

“We were trying to invent new languages of dance, music, and architecture,” Lawrence Halprin recalls of the time. So, too, will City Dance attempt a new kind of celebration of architectural and creative heritage.

City Dance is Oregon’s 2008 American Masterpieces project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission, along with the Portland Development Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, TVA Architects and other partners.

Great web site

Check out the PDX Plate website. It has everything you need to peruse the Portland Oregon food and drink scene. It is the ultimate Portland restaurant guide. Message boards, blogs, reviews, comments, links, photos and yes there are videos! And please avail yourself to the Monday Roundup all week long. Don't for get to check out the videos from the Oregon Bartenders Guild videos.

"About a year ago, a small message board was born out of the idea that despite the unusually large number of food sites here in Portland, there was a kind of conversation that wasn't taking place. Instead of the usual forum babble of "have you gone?" and "how is the?" and "where should I?", the singular driving mantra of pdxplate has been one of blazing your own food and drink trail, jumping without a net, and mixing metaphors. Taking one for the team. It's a simple notion, but a powerful one, and it's what this site is all about. "

Had a great time at Great American Distillers Festival at the Bossanova Ballroom last weekend. Enjoyed some amazing spirits and the company of some of the most dedicated and talented distillers in the Pacific Northwest not to mention the country.

The Festival opened with a keynote address from Bill Owens, president of the American Distilling Institute
and the MixMaster Mixology Competition preliminary rounds ensued.

These guys participated in the Spirits Seminars

Robert Hess: The Man Behind The Curtain: Molecular Mixology’s Little Secret

Blair Reynolds: Tropical Mixology and the PNW Connection

Neyah White: Barrel to Barrel, the magic of wood

Here are the attendees and their products;

Artisan Spirits
Martin Ryan Vodka
Apia Vodka
Elemental Vodka
New Deal
Hot Monkey Vodka
Organic Nation Spirits
Organic Nation Gin
Organic Nation Vodka
Dry Fly
Dry Fly Gin
Dry Fly Vodka
Bend Distillery
Crater Lake Vodka
Cascade Mtn. Gin
Hazelnut Espresso Vodka
Roughstock
Montana Whiskey
Pacific Distilling
Voyager Dry Gin
Pacifique Absinthe
Deco Distilling
Rogue Spirits
Rogue Spruce Gin
Rogue Dead Guy Whiskey
Rogue Hazelnut Spice Rum
Integrity Spirits
12 Bridges Gin
Trillium Absinthe
Lovejoy Vodka
Stranahans
Colorado Whiskey
House Spirits
Aviation Gin
Krogstad Aquavit
Loft Liquors
J Witty
Chamomile Liqueur
Hood River
Cockspur Rum
Yazi Ginger Vodka
Pendleton Whiskey

Beech Marketing Online

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Photo and Video Keepsake Videos - Makes A Great Gift for the Holidays!

Need a gift idea for the holidays? Why not create a "Photo Video Keepsake" for your family? Home Video Studio can take family's photo and video memories and develop a touching tribute. Our professionals will add music and titles to produce a unique family history. Photo Video Keepsakes" are great gifts to give relatives and friends too. They are fantastic not only for the holidays , but also for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, reunions and other special get-togethers. Let Home Video Studio help you make these extraordinary Photo Video Keepsakes" ! VHS and 8mm tapes transferred to DVD make great gifts as well.

Here are more gift ideas:
Create a highlight DVD of your best clips from your VHS or camcorder tape library
Organize, archive, and showcase your family photos, 35mm slides, and/or photo albums on CD or DVD
Create a Lifestory (a mini-documentary) showcasing a family loved one complete with interviews, photos, and video clips from the past
Call us today at (503) 716-8578. Don't let time and the elements damage or destroy your irreplaceable family memories. No job is too small!



Call us today!!! 503-716-8578

The Chauncey

Fourth in a series of videos produced by Home Video Studio for the Oregon Bartenders Guild.
Bartender David Shenaut of Teardrop Lounge and Beaker & Flask in Portland, Oregon, creates The Chauncey right before our eyes. Cheers!

May I buy you a drink?

Third in a series of videos for the Oregon Bartenders Guild.
This one featuring Blair Reynolds of TraderTiki.com preparing the Mai Tai. Enjoy with poi. Cheers!