Sam Easterson: New Footage of the Eastern Mole

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Nature Holds My Camera
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Check out the official site for Nature Holds My Camera The Video Art of Sam Easterson.

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Read an article about Sam Easterson
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Read an article about Sam Easterson and the animal video projects he films.

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Salsola, the real tumbleweed.
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Ever wonder about those tumbleweeds in the wild, wild West?

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Eastern Mole, friend or foe?
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We're crawling with them at the IMA!

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Mole Tunnel Cam
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See what it's like to be in a tunnel with a mole.

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Buffalo Cam
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What would it be like to see the world from a Buffalo's point of view?

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Sam Easterson: Nature Holds My Camera Installation
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Check out a behind the scenes look at the installation of this show.

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Keeping you on the edge of your seat
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The trailer for Nature Holds My Camera.

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More about Sam Easterson
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His own website...

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Channels: ExhibitionsSam Easterson

Video artist Sam Easterson has been collecting footage from the perspective of animals and plants since 1998. On June 24, 2007 an exhibition of his video works, Nature Holds My Camera: The Video Art of Sam Easterson opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This exhibition featured works from the extensive video library that Easterson has developed, including new footage created specifically for the IMA - a unique perspective from an Eastern Mole that included cameras mounted on the mole and underground in the tunnel systems. The exhibition, Nature Holds My Camera ran from June 24 -- July 15, 2007. The exhibition website is still active and can be found at www.natureholdsmycamera.com.

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00:00:00 I've been working with animals since 1998 when I outfitted a flock of sheep with helmet-mounted video cameras. The success of that project really intrigued me.

00:00:09 It really seemed to hit a chord with people, so I decided just to continue and outfit as many animals and plants as I could.

00:00:18 I am going to be outfitting an Eastern Mole with a helmet-mounted video camera. When I was visiting the IMA, the ground's crew caught a mole. I knew at that point, that's what I was going to do.

00:00:28 Everyone has seen those, you know, tunnels in their yard, they are below them in the earth and when they walk across the ground, you never know what's under there. Every single shoot, I learn a lot about the animals themselves.

00:00:38 I usually do a project because I am interested in that specific animal. Someone doesn't suggest to me, it's only a sort of in a rare circumstance that someone will come to me and say, "We need you to do this."

00:00:47 I usually have a personal, you know, curiosity and that happened with a mole here. I really want to see what a mole sees. We are doing video transmissions

00:00:56 of the footage, outdoors, and I don't know very many places that would even try that. This is the first time that this has been done and quite frankly, in terms of the sort of video field guide,

00:01:06 this is the first time that I really have seen this done in this way which is really exciting.

00:01:11 It seems like moles sort of get the raw end of the deal lot of the time, and I feel like it's their turn to get the spotlight.