The Art of Cranky
In May 2024, Rappahannock County musicians/artists John Hallberg and Linda Heimstra asked Luke to get cranky — four times, in fact. Crankies — moving panoramas with hand-painted, backlit artwork, music, narration and, often, shadow puppets — are a form of folk art that brings to life folk tales, some of them ancient.
Rappahannock Benevolent Fund
A look at the unique work — and good works — of the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund, a nonprofit that provides help, financial and otherwise, to those who need it in Rappahannock County, Va.
Festival of Voices (Castleton Performance)
Just before Christmas 2023, the participants in the Vocal Immersion Program at Castleton perform "Festival of Voices," an art song and lieder recital at Castleton Theatre House, with faculty Robert Grayson, Michelle DeYoung, Paul Groves and Dietlinde Turban Maazel.
You Are My Everything (Castleton Performance)
"You Are My Everything" is the Aug. 20, 2023 program of the songs and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann that concluded the Castleton Festival – University of South Carolina Vocal Immersion Residency, featuring performances by tenor Dominic Armstrong and mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway.
Weston: A Place Apart
The story of Weston, the historic Casanova farmstead in Fauquier County, Va., and the women of the Warrenton Antiquarian Society who inherited it, restored it and continue to lovingly preserve its place in Virginia history.
1000 Faces Mask Theater 2022 Performance
Another beautiful Rappahannock afternoon on the grass with 1000 Faces Mask Theater, performing founder Peggy Schadler's latest play, "Marco Polo Travels the Electronic Super Highway," Sept. 17, 2022 at Pen Druid Brewing in Sperryville, Virginia.
Testing 1, 2 . . . 8
Switched to a new video editing software (it's Davinci Resolve, and I love it, and good riddance to the ultra-unstable Premiere Pro). Just for practice, I made a little music video.
When Smaller Is Better
A switch this year to eight-man football by Rappahannock County High School — Northern Virginia’s smallest school division, and one of the smallest in the state — turned out to be a big win for the team, the school and the community at large.
Amissville Carnival and Parade
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, one of the community's most popular long-standing traditions – the Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Carnival and Parade – returns. Produced for Foothills Forum and Rappahannock News.
1000 Faces Mask Theater 2021 Performance
After several years indoors and a year off due to the pandemic, 1000 Faces Mask Theater returned to the great outdoors — specifically to a grassy hill beside Pen Druid Brewing in Sperryville, Va., with the Blue Ridge Mountains as backdrop.
NPCF: A View to What We Do
Our first animation! Conceived by Jane Bowling-Wilson, executive director of the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, with wonderful illustrations by Lucas Wilson and top-notch voiceover by Tish Iceton.
RLEP: Celebrating 50 Years
Edited and provided footage, stills and music for a video initially meant to be released for the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection's 50th anniversary in 2020 — but delayed for a year, like many celebrations, by the pandemic.
Lykksalighet (Bliss)
A dog-centric music video for some new orchestral/choral soundtrack music meant for celebrating life. (The title is the Norwegian word for "bliss.")
High School . . . Interrupted
We shot, edited and produced short but eye-opening documentary on high school life during the pandemic at Rappahannock County High School in Washington, Va., for the Rapp Center for Education (RappCE).
Motional (Original music release, July 2020)
If you're like me, music just makes you happy — or makes you feel like dancing, or dreaming, or hits the precise notes to put you at peace with the world.
1000 Faces Mask Theater performance
We shot and edited 1000 Faces Mask Theater's performance of Peggy Schadler's latest show, "Another Crack in the Cosmic Egg," on Sept. 28, 2019 at Castleton Festival Tent in Castleton, Va.
Woolf Lavender Farm
Shot, edited and produced video on Woolf Lavender Farm, a beautifully renovated home with a peerless view of the Blue Ridge that can be easily adapted for agricultural or agri-tourism use — for use on YouTube, Facebook and in online real estate listings.
Amissville Community Christmas
Shot, edited and scored our first official news-oriented documentary short, a five-minute video for the Rappahannock County-based Foothills Forum on one of Rappahannock’s longest-running, all-hands-on-deck volunteer traditions: the Amissville Christmas holiday gift basket project.
Fall Art Tour
Shot, edited and produced video on the Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community's annual Fall Art Tour, for use on YouTube, Facebook and as a featurette at Little Washington Theatre events.
Middleton
Short promotional YouTube video to assist in the sale of Middleton, the historic property in the town of Washington, Va., nowadays an award-winning bed and breakfast inn.
Hinson Ford Cider & Mead
We put together a three-minute video for Hinson Ford Cider & Mead in Amissville, primarily for the owners of the new business to use in an Indigogo crowdfunding campaign.
Artists of Rappahannock
We produced a half dozen five- to seven-minute video profiles of artists in Rappahannock County, Va., exploring the relationship between art and nature amid the county's scenic Blue Ridge foothills.
Rappahannock Media
From 2009 to 2018, designed, built and maintained five websites for Rappahannock Media, including the local news-oriented RappNews.com in Rappahannock County, Va., and the Fauquier County, Va.-based news and features site PiedmontLifestyle.com.