Sidewalk Digital Media specializes in video production, photography, post production, tutoring, and consulting. We make videos and photos of events, conferences, weddings, activities, music, and other things for campaigns, documentaries, television, and online. We produce projects in English, Spanish, and other languages. We travel to anywhere for projects and we are based in Chapel Hill, NC.

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Scroll down to see some other projects we have been a part of and media about some of our project.


The ArtCenter Summer 2015 Programs 

If your kids or any of your friends kids would be interested in learning how to edit videos learning Adobe Premiere or if any are interested in making digital art while learning Adobe Photoshop then one of the three courses I am teaching this summer at The ArtCenter in Carrboro could be great. These three links have the course descriptions to learn about the classes. Thanks!

http://www.artscenterlive.org/camps/af109a-intro-digital-arts-rising-grades-4-6-1-4-pm
http://www.artscenterlive.org/camps/af109b-intro-digital-arts-b-rising-grades-4-6-1-4-pm
http://www.artscenterlive.org/camps/syw116-post-production-video-editing-rising-grades-7-12-9am-4pm


Waves In Chapel Hill

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Sidewalk surfing in Chapel Hill. Thanks to Memet Walker, Mike Sinclair, Nick Shear, and Nathan Clendenin for helping make this fun project come together that we all put together. Extra thanks go to Mikyoung Kim at Mikyoung Kim Design for her inspiring art here and around the globe.

This is a link to the story. Surfing art in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.


Indy Week - Published about the Carolina Global Photography Exhibition                          

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For its 13th annual Carolina Global Photography Competition, which showcases outstanding foreign fieldwork by UNC students, staff and alumni, the UNC Center for Global Initiatives hooked into the university's current campus-wide theme, "Water in Our World." Going for the horizon is first-place winner Cam Carrithers' celebratory "Garifuna Culture in Belize," which the documentarian has covered for years. "The Garifuna culture originated after ships occupied with Africans crashed in the Caribbean."

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/carolina-global-photography-exhibition/Event?oid=3382683

UNC Global Photography Exhibition

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On display photography from around the world in this exhibit featuring works by UNC students, faculty, staff and alumni through March 8 at the Global Education Center. UNC alumnus Cam Carrithers photo “Garifuna Culture in Belize” received first place this year. This year's exhibit is in connection with the campus-wide academic theme “Water in Our World”.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/02/51218c8f5e842


ABC News - New Music Mondays

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New Music Monday: Superchunk is an ABC News video that has a clip we filmed and clips from edits we made while editing the Superchunk documentary "Quest for Sleep" on their Crowding Up Your Visual Field.  You will need Adobe Flash to view this on the ABC website. You can see it at the other link on youtube too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFpD9w8lvo&list=UUbg-6LhSYM6H9PrAeGUBeEA


Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records

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The Story of Merge Records . You will need Adobe Flash to view this. This is an online interactive edition of the book Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records published by Algonquin Books. In the timeline section at this link it has two videos made by Cam Carrithers. One of the videos is Superchunk live on the 1990 section of the timeline of this website and the other is of Arcade Fire live at the Local 506 in Chapel Hill on the 2004 section of the timeline of this website. This is the link to the interactive edition.

http://www.ournoisethebook.com

Now available in E-Book! You can learn other things too about the book and about the label that has brought us Superchunk, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Magnetic Fields and Arcade Fire on the Algonquin Books website. It includes praise by David Byrne, NPR, and other things about the book at this link.

http://algonquin.com/book/our-noise

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) live in Chapel Hill, NC

This is just one video camera and good microphone from that show. We thought this song was better
just left unedited of one angle of the four that we filmed. It really shows how together this band is without
having to edit anything to make it flashy. This is something we think fans would like.
Produced and Directed by Cam Carrithers

Arcade Fire Interview at Merge Records 15th Anniversary Festival

This is the first ever video interview of Arcade Fire.
Filmed by Cam Carrithers for Merge Records

Duke University and Merge Records Anniversary

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This is a video production course we had the concept for and instructed at Duke University. Video Course: Merge Records 15th Anniversary Videos

http://www.cdsporch.org/archives/4293


M. Ward Live at Merge Records 15th Anniversary Festival 

M. Ward song Vincent O'Brien live at The Cat's Cradle at the Merge Records 15th Anniversary Festival. 
Produced and Directed by Cam Carrithers

Spoon Live at Merge Records 15th Anniversary Festival 

Spoon song The Fitted Shirt live at The Cat's Cradle at the Merge Records 15th Anniversary Festival.
Produced and Directed by Cam Carrithers


Duke University and a New Video Course

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The Duke University Center for Documentary Studies offers new class using
Merge Records anniversary footage. Students will use Mergefest footage
courtesy of Cam Carrithers and Merge Records.

http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2011/01/27/cds-hosts-class-merge-records


Portastatic - Autumn Got Dark

This song is Autumn Got Dark by Portastatic from the album Autumn Was a Lark. The cover art painting
and album graphic design was by Mac McCaughan. The photography for this record was by Cam Carrithers 
at the Cave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  Available at Merge Records. 

Portastatic - Growin' Up originally by Bruce Springsteen

This song is Growin' Up, originally by Bruce Springsteen, covered by Portastatic from the album Autumn Was a Lark.
The photography for this record was by Cam Carrithers at the Cave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Available at Merge Records.


Superchunk: Crowding Up Your Visual Field

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Superchunk - Crowding Up Your Visual Field dvd has tons of videos on it including different videos we filmed in the bonus section and a feature-length documentary titled "Quest For Sleep" edited by Mac McCaughan and Cam Carrithers . We edited the documentary, conducted a bonus interviews video, made one of the live videos for the dvd, and did other postproduction for the authoring of the dvd. Includes vintage Superchunk videos as well. You'll need a few days to get through all of the dvd. Over four hours of material from different directors. It's pretty cool.
Available at Merge Records.

http://www.mergerecords.com/superchunk-crowding-up-your-visual-field



A New Life in America

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This is a nice interview of Cam Carrithers with La Prensa about making films in Honduras. It is in Spanish so you will have to be able to read Spanish or translate the text for this from English to en Español.

http://www.laprensa.hn/vivir/516126-97/el-sueno-de-dos-garifunas-de-vivir-en-eua





National Geographic Magazine

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Of the different projects I have worked on for National Geographic the most inspiring one for me was about  Aron Ralston. It isn't a story that I was shooting photos for as I was just doing image collections for this issue at Adventure. Aron Ralston was trapped for five days in a canyon and managed to cut off
his own hand saving his life . This is part of the story at this link.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0308/q_n_a_rex.html

World Culture Open

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The World Culture Open selected Cam Carrithers to do most of the still photo and director of photography work for their website, along with other production specialists, to document the World Culture Open festival and the Cultural Olympics. The World Culture Open is an international cooperative of private and public sectors for people to engage, enjoy, embrace, and be enriched together through interactive culture exchange and collaboration. World Culture Open works to build a global village where diverse cultures, ideas and dreams harmoniously live together. 

http://www.worldcultureopen.org
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Canon 1014xl-s Part 1 of 2 (Different Vintage Super 8 Films)

This was filmed on a vintage Canon 1014xl-s camera. We filmed this with all different types of color negative and chrome films. We made this just to see the differences in some of the grungy and warmer looking Super 8 films. This is in SD and we are going to have an HD formatted video of this in the future.
Telecine by Spectra Film http://www.spectrafilmandvideo.com 
Filming by Adam Weatherford and Cam Carrithers
Editing by Cam Carrithers
Music by Portastatic - A Cunning Latch

Canon 1014xl-s Part 2 of 2 (Different Vintage Super 8 Films)

This was filmed on a vintage Canon 1014xl-s camera. We filmed this with all different types of color negative and chrome films. We made this just to see the differences in some of the grungy and warmer looking Super 8 films. This can go 480 in SD and we are going to have an HD formatted video of this in the future.
Telecine by Spectra Film http://www.spectrafilmandvideo.com 
Filming by Adam Weatherford and Cam Carrithers
Editing by Cam Carrithers
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Snowy Day at UNC - Portastatic "Race You Home"

We had a snowy day this winter and that doesn't happen often so we made a little video.
This video is just clips filmed on a iphone5 of us in the snow and while walking around
on the UNC campus in the snow. The song is "Race You Home" by Portastatic.
Filmed by
Cam Carrithers and Eliot Meyer
Edited by
Cam Carrithers

Superchunk - Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)


Superchunk "Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)" EP is an enhanced CD that includes a live video we made for it directed by Cam Carrithers. This EP has two different versions of the Art Class single off the Here's To Shutting Up album. It has the album track and an acoustic version as well as a live video for "Art Class" filmed at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina.


http://www.mergerecords.com/art-class


Superchunk - Clambakes Vol. 1 Acoustic In-Stores East & West

Superchunk Clambakes Series Vol. 1 Acoustic In-Stores East & West. The eastern shows, most of the songs on this album, were recorded by Cam Carrithers. This was the first release of what became a successful series that has continued over the years.

Originally released in 2002, the first of Superchunk's Clambakes live series documents the band's in-store performances during 2001's nationwide tour in support of Here's to Shutting Up. Limited to 1,500 physical copies and long since out-of-print, this digital re-release is brought to you exclusively from the Merge Digital Music Store.

http://www.mergerecords.com/clambakes-vol-1-acoustic-in-stores-east-west











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