The Hamilton County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (EMHSA) will conduct tests of two emergency notification tools today, September 4, 2019.
Hamilton County EMHSA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct the first county-wide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system today, at 9 a.m. EDT. A test message reading: “THIS IS A TEST of the Hamilton County Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action required.” will be sent to cell phones in Hamilton County to assess the county’s readiness to alert the public when an emergency is in progress.
In addition to the Countywide WEA Test, EMHSA will also be conducting the regular monthly test of the Outdoor Warning Siren System at 12:00 p.m.
Miami Township, Ohio – As part of their 40th class reunion, the Milford Class of 1979 is paying tribute to the loss of four National Guardsmen whose helicopter crashed in the community on September 29th, 1979. They are providing a memorial for these men in the peaceful setting of Paxton Ramsey Park, just less than a mile from the crash site.
The National Guardsmen who died are Capt. James Capps, S/Sgt Alan Piatt, S/Sgt Wayman Nixon, and Capt. Paul Edgar. The class has located and is in communication with family members of all four soldiers.
The reunion will include the placing of a large memorial boulder with an engraved plaque honoring all four National Guardsman, four park benches with each soldier’s name on a bronze plaque, and a military ceremony.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend the memorial dedication ceremony at noon on September 29th. This date and time mark the 40th anniversary of the accident.
The class will gather at Paxton Ramsey Park with the Miami Township Trustees, Civil Air Patrol, Local American Legion and VFW, and the families of the fallen guardsmen
The public is encouraged to attend the ceremony in a show of support of these fallen heroes. To find out more information or to donate to the memorial project, please visit Memorial.Milford79.com or donate online at Milford79.com/Donate.
We ask your support with our class project to make sure these soldiers will never be forgotten again. You can help in these ways: We need financial support to help with the cost of the boulder, benches, travel and ceremony expenses. Donations can be made payable to “Milford Class of 1979 Memorial” and sent to 5654 Harvest Ridge Drive, Milford Ohio 45150. You can also donate online HERE. You also might know someone who might also like to donate to such a worthy cause. Please help us get the word out about this memorial project. We also want you to help honor these soldiers with your presence at the ceremony at Paxton Ramsey Park on September 29, 2019, at noon. Please bring your family and encourage others to join us as we celebrate the sacrifice of these four National Guardsmen.
Please help us make sure that these names will never be forgotten again as we ask you for support in our Class Project.
David Miller is the Publisher and Editor of Loveland Magazine and a Vietnam combat veteran.
by David Miller
Back in early 2011, I heard that the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 649, from the Batavia area, were collecting torn and tattered American flags. They would have a proper retirement ceremony for the flags they collected. I contacted the organization to see if Loveland folks could participate. As much as anything, it was a selfish question because I had several old flags in my own basement that I never knew what to do with. When they said, “Yes of course.”, I began to think of a way to collect flags in Loveland.
Union Savings Bank is right next door to our office on West Loveland and I had known the Branch Manager for many decades so decided to ask that if I put a collection bin in the lobby of the bank, would it be OK. Marla Simiele thought it would be a great service to offer her customers, and over the last 4-years we have collected perhaps 500 old, torn, and tattered flags. The first batch was taken to the Veteran’s group and those flags were then taken after a retirement ceremony to the Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes Cremation Center in Goshen where they were turned into ashes. The ashes were buried in a Goshen Township cemetery.
Simiele and I decided that because of the popularity of the program we would do it year-round and although they have never been counted, I estimate we have collected more than 500. Simiele says it has been very popular with bank customers.
Over the years, every time I spoke to a scout leader I would ask if their troop would like to conduct a flag retirement ceremony to help me properly dispose of all the flags. I put pleas on community bulletin boards and still had no takers until I met a local leader this winter who I was buying a record turntable from. As we talked, he mentioned his son was in scouting and that he would ask at their next scout meeting about doing a retirement ceremony for the flags. After another couple months, I finally got a call from Kirk McCracken a local Cub Master, who said he would like some flags for a project. Kirk visited Loveland Magazine and he told me the story of taking his father on an “Honor Flight” and that one of the favorite things about the trip was when his father received a star from a retired American flag when he returned from Washington D.C. and was greeted at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Kirk wanted local scouts to have a supply of stars for projects like Honor Flight.
“A nice picture of some of the boys with all of the stars we cut out for the Vets! 2750 Stars in all, and more to come!” – Kirk McCracken
In this LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV interview, I spoke to McCracken and his son Liam, Bob Solimeno and his son Tanner, and Dee Daniels an Ambassador with Honor Flight Tri-State. Both Liam and Tanner helped cut out about 2,800 stars from the flags from only a portion of the flags that have been collected by Loveland Magazine and Union Savings Bank.
Daniels talks about the purpose of Honor Flight, and how local folks can get involved. You can support their trips to the Nation’s Capital as they take Veterans to see the war memorials, and how you may honor your own loved one with a free flight to visit their memorials in Washington, D.C. All World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans aged 65 and older, who served either stateside or overseas, are eligible for the free flights.
Loveland Magazine and McCracken are arranging for a flag retirement ceremony conducted by the local scouts to be held soon in Loveland. Stay tuned.
Loveland, Ohio – While Cassie Mattia and I were visiting Mosaic Climbing last month to videotape her climbing for the first time, she spotted a group of experienced climbers as we were about to leave. We stopped and asked Jesse Belton*, Tanner Wilson, and Carter and Jack Brown what they thought about the new rock climbing facility in Loveland and about their own climbing experience. The four had traveled down from Miamisburg for Mosaic Climbing’s grand opening.
Below, you can also see the video of Cassie trying out the new indoor recreation facility.
*Our apology to Jesse Belton for having her last name as “Velton” in the caption you see in this video.
Loveland, Ohio – Students from Jennifer Miller’s 1st-grade class walked to Loveland Magazine’s offices on December 12 to learn about newspapers and write their own story. They had been studying about military Veterans.
“There was a lot of excitement leading up to our trip to LM. Lots of questions – what does it look like? What does your dad do there? Are we stopping to get ice cream?” said Miller. “Upon our return and through a follow-up activity for our scrapbook about our trip – I was able to reiterate that writers write in all different kinds of spaces and places and for different reasons. And that this trip to LM will help our reports on Veteran’s Day reach all kinds of readers in our community.”
Jennifer Miller grew up in Loveland and in 1993 graduated from Loveland High School. She is the daughter of Loveland Magazine Publisher, David Miller. She has an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Miami University and a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Literacy. She has taught in the Loveland School District for 21-years.
Miller, a teacher in the Loveland Primary School said she believes writing is important for first-graders because they can learn to express themselves through their words and pictures. Every day, her students write and read what they write to each other. Often, they will collaborate on a story in small groups. Miller said, “They watch me be a writer every day. They become confident during writing as well. Writing is a social experience for us.”
During their visit to Loveland Magazine, the students learned about magazines, newspapers, news websites, and the purpose of writing news stories that people in their own community will want to read. They understand that teachers and parents will read what they write, but if their stories are published in newspapers people they don’t even know will learn what’s on their mind as well.
Many parents came with the students and helped the smaller groups complete their writing assignment.
The students work on a specific piece of writing during “Writer’s Workshop” every day. Before they write though, they practice yoga to get their bodies ready for a morning of learning. Miller said that Yoga helps first-graders focus and make good decisions about their behaviors. “Yoga allows us to move in a purposeful way before we have to sit still. That makes for fewer unexpected behaviors in our classroom and room for more meaningful learning,” said Miller.
Students and parent-volunteers sprawl out on the floor to write their story about Veterans.
Amy Reiss is the English as a Second Language teacher for the District, servicing grades 1-4.This is her 6th year teaching in Loveland and her 12th year of teaching.She services students who are bilingual, or who need support from exposure to another language. She sees students inside and outside of the classroom and provides them additional support in English Language Development. There are over 14 languages represented in the District. Reiss and Miller have co-taught for 5 years and work together teaching the Expanding Expressions Tool Writing sequence for the whole class. The languages represented in Miller’s first-grade class this year are Spanish, Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz, and English.
After yoga, Miller dives into the writing lesson. She said, “Some days there is a mini-lesson from me, some days there is time to share, and there is always time to write, or what we call a work session”. Amy Reiss (English as a Second Language teacher for grades 1-4) and I work together.” The students just finished pieces titled “My Thanksgiving” where they retold the facts from their Thanksgiving Holidays with their families. “They turned out wonderful. The children worked hard on including adjectives to describe pie and mashed potatoes. So much work went into this three-week writing project. We completed our pieces of writing with a fancy cover, class photo, and a ribbon. They knew their piece of writing was even more important when I took the time to pull it all together for them this way.”
The languages represented in Miller’s first-grade class this year are Spanish, Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz, and English. There are 26 students in the class and approximately twenty-five percent are “English Learners”.
is one of the many tools Ms. Miller uses to teach her students to write.
Upon return from Winter Break, the class will turn their focus to “small moments.” These personal narratives are also fun to write, according to Miller. For example, instead of writing about their Winter Break, a huge topic, a student might focus just on the moments of making cookies with their grandma while on winter break. “We will then move into a personal narrative about a snowy day which also serves as an assessment piece. And then, my favorite – opinion pieces,” said Miller.
Miller’s first-grade classroom recently volunteered to pilot two new writing resources for the District so they will be working with those during January and February. Miller said, “We are excited to see what they have to offer to help us become even better writers. I will then share my thoughts and examples of my student’s writing with our writing team to help make a decision about which resource we will use in our District at the elementary level in the years to come. It’s going to be a lot of work, but worth it.”
While at Loveland Magazine each group practiced reading what they wrote and were filmed for broadcast.
Miller’s first-graders also work on writing in personal journals every day. This can be a challenge because they can sometimes see this as a job rather than a place they can express themselves. Miller says writing in the journals improves writing stamina. Miller said, “Each month the expectation increases to help them expand a topic that they have been writing about. They must stick to the prompt and really stretch their thinking during this time each day.” When they are done writing in their journal, they have to read it to a friend before turning it in. Reading what they wrote is an important skill for first graders, according to Miller. Their classmate then offers them some constructive criticism and usually, the student returns to their desk to improve their journal before turning it in. Miller said they also work on choosing a friend who will actually offer good advice and not just say, “It looks good.”
While at Loveland Magazine each student wrote their own sentence describing Veterans to make their group’s story that they read on camera.
“So much learning!” said Miller. Each child has a goal for their journals hanging on their desk. The students write their goal. Some want to make their writing more interesting or work on their illustrations. And some who are learning English want to better use their new vocabulary. “Goal setting has become a very important part of writing in our classroom,” said Miller.
Publisher’s Note: I cannot thank the parents and Amy Reiss who accompanied the children – enough. Your help with the children’s field trip to our office is so very valuable, from ensuring they have a safe walk to and from their school, to each of you taking part in helping the small groups with their lesson.
On Tuesday, November 28, 2016, Loveland High School graduate Dean Parker released his most recent film: Together. Based on a short story written by Mackenzie Powell, Together follows a college student’s (Haley McCrory) fading relationship with her boyfriend (Palmer Bowen) as he transitions into university. Together is Parker’s first experimental film, breaking narrative conventions with visual metaphors and a loose non-chronological storyline.
Haley McCrory stars in Dean Parker’s new film Together
“I was inspired to make this film back in 2014 when I read the short story by my friend Mackenzie Powell who studies at The Ohio State University and went to Kings High School (Kings Mills, Ohio).
It was such a well-written story and I thought to myself that this would make a good short film,” said Parker. He didn’t make the film right away, as Parker intended to first shoot other films and did not feel he was ready to make it yet. “I wanted to make sure I would do the story justice,” he said. Then in 2016, during post-production of Parker’s film Images, he decided he was ready. (Read Together by Mackenzie Powell)
Together was filmed in Loveland through last August with an array of current Loveland High School students and graduates, helping on Parker’s crew. Among them, cinematographer Sam Smith, location recordist Stone Taul, and production assistant/actor Sam Sauer. The trio founded the Loveland Film Club with Jon Parker and Dean Parker, and plan to continue their film careers into college and the professional world.
Parker’s latest film features an original score by Ohio University student Danny De Leonardis.
Cinematography by Sam Smith
Dean Parker, a sophomore studying media and film at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, has already found success in his film work. His film, Images, won a Golden Eagle Cine Award, best editing winner and best overall/cinematography/drama finalist at the All American High School Film Festival, an official selection at Nashville Film Festival, among an array of other awards.
Anne Parker with her son Dean at the CINE Festival in New York City. Golden Eagle Award for Narrative Youth Media for my short film Images. 60th CINE Golden Eagle Award for Narrative Youth Media
Together will travel to festivals and contests and is available for viewing on Vimeo.
“To be honest, I’m not sure what’s next. I’ve had some ideas for new short films but nothing that I want to go into production yet. I’m still learning a lot in school and I’m set to be the script supervisor for a big short film next semester for one of my classes. I’m planning on doing some writing over winter break, but for now, nothing is in the works for me… yet,” said Parker.
“The most important visual metaphor is the hands.”
Parker said he doesn’t necessarily see himself just doing experimental films from now on. “When I wrote the film I perceived it as a regular narrative film. However, when I was editing and showing people early cuts there was some stuff that wasn’t working.” He said that as Sam Smith would give him his thoughts on rough edits. Smith suggested that the film should be experimental rather than narrative. Parker added, “I had never thought that. I didn’t realize that I had written an experimental film. From that point on, everything was so much more clear.” After cutting some scenes and lines and playing around with some editing tricks, Parker found the experimental film that he had written. “I’m very thankful to Sam and my friends at OU for their feedback. They helped me uncover what the film is,” said Parker.
The visual metaphors
Parker said that the sequences in the sunflower field are basically the woman’s thought process as she is going through this relationship. “The important thing to take away from this is that they are holding hands. They are together. That was the visual way I wanted to express that state of being.” In the beginning of the film, you’ll notice that when the woman closes her eyes it fades into a shot of the two holding hands and the shot is positioned so that it lines up with the woman’s head in the previous shot. Parker’s description is, “It’s like we are pulling back the curtain to see her thoughts. And of course, when the relationship goes bad she’s all alone and we see that she’s no longer holding hands with the guy. It’s a vast contrast from earlier in the film. “There are more metaphors I could describe but I’ll leave it up to the viewers to figure out the rest. But the most important visual metaphor is the hands,” said Parker.
Together cinematographer, Sam Smith
“Dean is a great collaborator and we communicate visual ideas well,” said cinematographer Smith. The pair talked through plans from early on the process and spent days looking for locations. “I was there to serve his vision as best I could and collaborated to help him realize the film from writing to editing. Dean was also willing to let me try some more out-there and experimental techniques that I’d been wanting to try, like the unnaturally harsh lighting at the end that I think ultimately helped the film find its soul and represent the story better.”
Breaking conventions
Parker said he felt like he was breaking the convention of how to show what a character is feeling in a situation. “A lot of times, narrative films express this by having a character
Dean Parker’s film Together was a SEMI-FINALIST at the Los Angeles CineFest
actually say what they’re feeling or write a situation where the character can express that. With the way the short story was written, though, we couldn’t do those things.” The short story examines the thought process of the woman, according to Parker, “So we had to visually show that, which is where the sunflower field scenes come from. There are some narrative films that break some narrative conventions, but what makes this film different than those is that we did it to a much higher degree.”
I think young filmmakers should break narrative conventions and experiment. That doesn’t mean they have to make experimental films but I would encourage young filmmakers to find unique ways to tell their stories. There’s nothing wrong with not breaking narrative conventions but it is a lot of fun and can add something special to your film. – Dean Parker
Parker said, “I’ve learned a good amount about storytelling from making my last film until now. One of my OU professors taught us a lot about how to create visual meaning and I took what I learned and applied it to this film. I felt rewarded for that.”
Low light conversations
On a technical side, Smith shot on a Sony a7s. He said it is one of the best cameras for low light video ever made, however, the only time he needed sensitivity at very high settings were the scenes in the bedroom. They picked up some inexpensive battery-run LEDs and a ton of batteries. “We used those stylistically and didn’t try to hide them or make them look natural which made things easier
for me,” said Smith. For the last scene, he had one light on top of his camera at full power and an assistant running on either side of the actress. “This gave it a very harsh, almost home-video feel that is a strong contrast with the more natural daytime scenes.”
Parker said that Smith does do a great job with low light. “He had a lot of great ideas with how the scenes could be lit to create the mood but we both knew that when the relationship was at its best those scenes should be brighter and the scenes where the relationship is not at its best those should be lit darker. There were times when they kind of play around with that rule to create a certain mood. “But for the most part that’s how it is,” said Parker.
Danny De Leonardis music
Danny De Leonardis
“First and foremost I’d like to say that it not only was a great honor to work on Dean’s newest short film, but I also had a great deal of fun working on this project, said Danny De Leonardis who’s soundtrack fills the length of Together. “Yes, there was a great deal of editing done to this film. I accredit all of these cool sound effects to Ableton live’s amazing instrument, operator.” The intro squeal you hear is a recent synth theory De Leonardis said he has been working on in his own work. “Typically it is played in a lower octave, but I found a very cool sharp sound effect when I raised some parameters.” Most of the FX you hear in the film along with some of the synths in the music we’re made by De Leonardis.
Effects
De Leonardis said the effects he used are, including but not limited to – auto panning, frequency shifters, reverb, reverb, and a little more reverb. Add some delay, echo, attack parameters, distortion, and exciter. He added, “Almost no plugins and all Ableton Suite included audio effects were used. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head, but when used carefully in unison they create unheard effects.”
This project presented its challenges, however, there was never a time I didn’t enjoy working on it. Dean was a fantastic collaborator for this work, I feel his style in this film and my style of music meshed well. Some of the best memories of college thus far have been creating this film in our dorm room. – Danny De Leonardis
De Leonardis is currently working on his first debut full-length EP. It’s set to probably come out mid-spring of 2018, but as of now, this is his debut work. “I also have a Seelio page that I’ve included a link to, but please keep in mind that there’s a great deal of school work on there.” De Leonardis is an Assistant Audio Director at Ohio University.
The mood
Together has constant mood changes… what was the overall artistic expression you wanted to convey? How did you go about expressing different moods?
Dean Parker directing his film Images
Smith said, “We relied on lighting a lot. Everything is on a tripod except the party scene and the ending scene which creates a jarring mood change.”
Smith said he always reads through the script and generally asks the director how each character is feeling in a scene, and have the actors run the scene. “From there I decide camera angle, lensing, lighting, colors, composition, etc. This all dictates the mood.”
Beyond storytelling and interpretation of Parker’s vision, this is a mystery film. Cinematographer Smith was asked, “How do you feel you helped maintain the mystery of the story?
Really, editing created the mystery. Dean is a talented editor and cutting the film in a non-standard way helped create tension. On my end, I like to show only what the viewer needs to see. The film’s compositions are pretty minimal, which I think helps keep the audience on their toes in a subtle way. The dramatic visual changes dropped throughout the film – that increases towards the end also play a role.
Dean Parker (on right) directing a previous film, Images.
Dean Parker is enrolled at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. See more of his films HERE at his Vimeo Channel. Parker graduated from Loveland High School in Ohio and was a former staff writer for Loveland Magazine.
In 2017 Dean Parker won the CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Competition in the Youth – Narrative category for his film Images. The film was also selected as a finalist in the Nashville Film Festival in 2017 “Best Young Filmmaker”.
No Love In Loveland was accepted as a finalist in the All American High School Film Festival – the largest high school film festival in the country. The 12-minute long film was screened at the AMC in Times Square, New York City, in 2015.
Parker won 1st place in the Short Film category and Best of Show for his film, Regret at The seventh Annual Golden Lion Awards Film Festival in 2016. He won two Golden Lion Awards.
Sam Smith
Sam Smith, a Senior at Loveland High School was recently accepted to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. The students undergo the most rigorous admissions process of any school at NYU. Notable alumni of the Tisch School are Martin Scorsese, Alex Baldwin, Oliver Stone, and Spike Lee.
Smith is currently a staff writer, videographer, and photographer for Loveland Magazine. He was one of the staff writers of the Loveland High School (LHS) student newspaper The Roar which theQuill & Scroll Honorary Society for High School Journalists awarded the 2016-17 staff International First Place award.
Smith was director of photography on four out of five films from Cincinnati in the All American High School Film Festival in 2016.
Sam Smith’s film, STRING was screened at the the All American High School Film Festival in New York City in 2016.
Other Sam Smith Kudos:
Best Cinematography at the Blue Ridge Young Filmmakers Festival. Best Cinematography at Premiere Film Festival. Best Editing and Cinematography and second overall in 2016 72 Hour Teen Film Challenge. Best Cinematography and third overall in 2017 Teen Film Challenge, Best of Show at Exposure: Montgomery Photo Show 2017. Best of Category at Golden Lions Film Festival. Student winner at Exposure: Montgomery Photo Show in 2016 student.
Smith was the videographer for the music video, Delusion, released in 2017.
At the 60th CINE Golden Eagle Awards Dean Parker won first place in the YOUTH MEDIA / NARRATIVE category for his film Images. He joined the ranks of past winners, Steven Spielberg, Ken Burns, Robert Zemeckis, Mel Brooks, Ron Howard, Jim Henson, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Altman, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Spike Lee.
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Loveland, Ohio – On Saturday, September 23 The Captain Seth Mitchell HERO 5K was run from Nisbet Park in Historic Downtown Loveland for the eighth straight year. The race is organized each year by Mitchell’s former classmates who miss their friend and want to keep his memory alive. They represent the many people who Seth made an impression on with his sense of humor, kind heart, and loyal friendship. The race raises scholarship money for graduating seniors at Loveland High School.
Captain David Seth Mitchell
Mitchell was class president his senior year at Loveland High School in 1997. He died in 2009 in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on a mission he volunteered for.
In the first LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video, you will see clips from the event and listen to Marisa Sobb read a letter from lasts year’s scholarship winner, 2017 Loveland High School graduate, Katie McElveen. In the letter, McElveen talks about the inspiration Seth Mitchell was for her as she strived to live her life with the ideals that Mitchell embodied.
In the second video, Seth’s father Steven Mitchell thanked the participants, sponsors, and the organizing committee and announced that this year was a record for the amount of money raised at the race, more than $10,000. Mitchell told the young people in the crowd to learn about and remember the life his son led, “You will make a difference in somebody’s life someday.”
Captain David Seth Mitchell is resting in Arlington National Cemetery
The event featured a cookout and festival during and after the race. Race results are posted on www.runningtime.net
For more information about the race and to participate in being a sponsor: please contact…
We need many volunteers to help with the race and festival.
If you’re not running or walking that day, please consider supporting us by serving in this vital capacity. Contact info@sethmitchell5k.org if you’re interested!
Pocket released their first music video on Tuesday
by David Miller,
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland 2016 graduate Ryan Mangan and his alternative rock band, Pocket, released their second album in August. The Things You Think At Night is available on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music. Mangan self-produced, wrote and performed nearly the entire album. In collaboration with Loveland senior and Loveland Magazine writer, Sam Smith, Pocket released their first music video on Tuesday.
The Delusion music video is a mix of live action, digital and practical VFX and 3d computer renderings. The video tells a story through hands, statues and falling actors.
2017 Loveland graduate, Jacalyn Parsley is featured in the music video Delusion
The video was shot over the course of only two days on a shoestring budget and with almost no crew. The Delusion music video stars 2017 Loveland graduate, Jacalyn Parsley and was produced with help from Loveland High School seniors Ricky Vilar and Stone Taul.
“Delusion is about all the unwanted anxiety that comes when you’re falling for someone. You start to wonder if they like you back, if they feel same. After a while you kind of just get to this point of ‘let’s stop thinking about this stuff, I’m not going to figure it out right now’,” Mangan explained.
Sam Smith is a photographer, videographer and writer for Loveland Magazine and award-winning independent film producer
The video is largely based around looping, long exposure stop-motion sequences created with a device called a Pixelstick. The Pixelstick works by “scanning” across individual pixels of an image in succession and are captured by moving the device laterally in a long exposure. Smith created images and sequences that were loaded onto the tool, and then it was moved laterally hundreds of time, displaying slightly varied frames. This created the illusion of movement and a holographic-like effect that is easier seen than described. Smith said, “Yeah, it was two months of spending most of my free time editing since it was so effects heavy.”
In the studio shooting Delusion
“Honestly I don’t know much about videography, but I had seen some videos that Smith had done before and he’s just flat out amazing with that stuff,” said Mangan. He gave Smith some ideas for what he wanted the video to be like, and then he took it from there and beyond, is how Mangan described the collaboration.
“The video goes past my wildest dreams honestly. Shooting was a lot of fun as well, I’ve never done anything like this before so seeing it come from the start to the end was a very cool process,” Mangan said.
“Shooting the music video was an incredible experience. It was a lot of run-and-gun, shooting from the hip and making things up as we went along,” said Smith who added, “It was a pretty ambitious project for our resources, so we tried to embrace the flaws and go for a little bit of a low-fi look.” Smith said it was his first time doing something like this and he felt that he was able to put a lot of his own style and aesthetic into the piece. “Working with Ryan was wonderful– he gave me a great song and pretty much total creative freedom. I’m really excited to see where his career goes,” Smith explained.
In addition to being a photographer, videographer, and writer for Loveland Magazine, Smith is president of the Loveland High School Film Club, Overture Award recipient and has had work shown at festivals such as NFFTY, AAHSFF, Vidcon and Nashville Film Festival.
The video is available on the Pocket Youtube Channel. Keep up with Mangan’s new releases on Spotify, Apple Music, and Twitter. You can follow Smith’s work on Instagram and Vimeo.
Sample other songs on The Things You Think at Night:
Loveland, Ohio– Apparently Tuesday’s City Council meeting will take place, however, there may be no business conducted. On Thursday, September 21 Loveland Magazine received the following email from Loveland’s Vice Mayor Angie Settell:
Never before receiving a press release from an individual member of the council, Loveland Magazine proceeded cautiously on reporting the press release. In this highly charged election season, it seemed prudent to verify Settell’s message and verify that it, in fact, came from her. Press releases are almost always either sent out from the City Manager’s office or the Clerk of Council. Add to that, the release sent by Settell referred to “We” as if it was being sent on behalf of others or from City Hall.
After receiving the “Press Release” we looked on the City Web site to see if in fact the meeting was canceled as the release might suggest. It was not. It was still listed as a public meeting and there was no “Press Release” on the website such as the one Settell sent out, the City Facebook page, or the City Twitter page. Looking at the City Facebook page also confirmed that there was a council meeting on Tuesday, September 26.
An email was sent to the Clerk of Council and the City Manager asking for clarification. We asked two questions. Did it come from Settell? Is there a meeting?
City Manager Dave Kennedy answered at 2 Pm on Monday simply saying, “There will not be enough members for a quorum at tomorrow’s meeting.”
Clerk of Council Misty Cheshire responded at 5:43 PM on Monday by saying, “The press release did not come from the City and was independently done by an individual council member. The meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night and will take place if a quorum is present.”
After the recent resignation of former Mayor, Mark Fitzgerald there remains six members of Council. A quorum of Council would be four. Settell’s release would suggest that three of the six council members do not plan on attending Tuesday’s meeting. She did not say which members would not be attending.
Not on the meeting agenda, but a decision that could be made at any future meeting is a vote on who will take Fitzgerald’s seat and serve the remaining two years of his vacated term. It will require at least four members to agree on a replacement. A 3-3 split council as it is today is a delicate attendance balance.
You can read the Agenda for the meeting where apparently none of the business listed will be conducted.
LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV will be at City Hall tomorrow night at 7 PM and be broadcasting live on our Facebook Page.
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Norwood, Ohio – Loveland resident Patty Horton-Sandmar filed protests over the nominating petitions to run for City Council of Pam Gross and Andy Bateman. Both candidates had already been certified to be on the Fall ballot, but Horton-Sandmar told the Hamilton County Board of Elections (BOE) this afternoon that the paperwork the pair submitted had fatal flaws because they did not follow the letter of the law..
At the BOE hearing today the Board overruled Horton-Sandmar’s protest in both cases.
Horton-Sandmar alleged that the address of one of Gross’ five nominating committee members was wrong. The address listed according to Horton-Sandmar was 274 Shadow Ct. and it should have been 274 Shadow Wood Ct. Gross said it was an innocent error because when she filled out the form she used the address she saw on the “Walking List” of registered voters, a spread sheet provided by the BOE. The BOE determined that if Gross had expanded the spread sheet “cell” she would have seen the entire correct address.
In the case of Bateman’s petition, Horton-Sandmar alleged that the candidate turned in 83 signatures of registered voters and that was eight more than allowed by the Ohio Revised Code and 33 more than allowed by the Loveland Charter.
In overruling the protests the BOE determined both petitions were in substantial compliance with election law.
Below are the protests Horton-Sandmar submitted to the BOE, and the response Gross submitted. Bateman did not file a written response however did explain his position at today’s hearing. Gross and Horton-Sandmar also testified today at the hearing.
The hearing was broadcast live on Loveland Magazine’s Facebook page. Go to the -21:40 minute mark to watch the agenda items of interest to Loveland voters.
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Jennifer Miller grew up in Loveland and in 1993 graduated from Loveland High School. She is the daughter of Loveland Magazine Publisher, David Miller. She has an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Miami University and a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Literacy. She has taught in the Loveland School District for 21-years.
Amy Reiss is the English as a Second Language teacher for the District, servicing grades 1-4.
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Publisher’s Note: I cannot thank the parents and Amy Reiss who accompanied the children – enough. Your help with the children’s field trip to our office is so very valuable, from ensuring they have a safe walk to and from their school, to each of you taking part in helping the small groups with their lesson.
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Really, editing created the mystery. Dean is a talented editor and cutting the film in a non-standard way helped create tension. On my end, I like to show only what the viewer needs to see. The film’s compositions are pretty minimal, which I think helps keep the audience on their toes in a subtle way. The dramatic visual changes dropped throughout the film – that increases towards the end also play a role.
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