The footage for this video was taken during two the major Kyrgyz holidays of Nooruz and The Last Bell. These two holidays were very fitting for this video, on both of these days the children of Kyrgyzstan are always seen running about and having fun. Which meshed perfectly with the verbal imagery of the song's lyrics.

The seventh video. Rejoyce and I were on a trip to visit our training host family during our first March. The hotel we stayed at afterwards had the worst screen, everything was distorted and the news coverage was about the cartoonist who 'insulted' the Prophet Mohammed.

Hey! I learned how to overlap clips! The odd cartoons were murals in Rejoyce's school hallway. I think this was the fifth video. My first winter in Kochkor left me with lots of time to walk around the village. Its a short song that I paired up with a short walk around the village.

My second video, it uses alot of fades with white or black panels. The images are a combination of the final weeks in training and our first weeks in Kochkor, Naryn. I love the segments from the Dordoi Bazaar and the long line of horses.

This clip is a summary of my Peace Corps training experiences. Not the sitting around and listening to business men attempt to explain their daily grind with the ubiquitious powerPoint display in Russian. But the daily wonder of the fact we were in Kyrgyzstan and the things we saw. Lots of playing with photo editing filters as animation. This was actually the third or fourth video.

This was the first one. Lots of Boston material. The blurry images are actually photos of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, it was the inflight movie when our group of Peace Corps Volunteers flew to Kyrgyzstan.

Two years ago, before I joined the Peace Corps, I heard an amazing musician on NPR named Andrew Bird. I found his work to be incredibly surreal and impressionistic, much like our lives at that time. We were selling off our possesions and packing up what was left to head out into an unknown land. I began to feel that Andrew Bird's album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs was becoming our soundtrack for the next two years.

About that time, I also recieved a little 4mgp Sony Cyber Shot for my birthday. I began recording little 10 second clips and lots of photos. After we had moved to Kyrgyzstan, I had a bit a free time at night and a computer with Windows Movie Maker.

What follows is the product of being in wonder with a country that is, for Americans, the antipodes of experience. Life there was surreal and synched perfect with Andrew Bird's music.

I didn't make a video for every song, I instead would match a song to a series of experiences.

You might see some images from the states. As time went on, I became more and more immersed in Kyrgyz life and used less material from America. I wanted to focus on the Kyrgyz experience more.

I hope you enjoy them. These videos are not here for me to make any money. I made these in homage to Andrew Bird's talent and the beauty of Kyrgyzstan.

Thank you.