Tonight is the annual International Show on the Southern Oregon University campus. I will be out of town and unable to attend this year’s performance. If you are in Ashland, you should check it out. The International Show is free, but sometimes it fills up well before and people are turned away. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. in the SOU Music Recital Hall. Get there by 6:40 if you want to be sure of getting a seat. Arrive before 6:30 (when the doors open) if you want a good seat.

Posted on April 27th, 2012 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, nikon 18-200mm vr ii, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU ISA International Show 2012

Today I will wrap up the posting of photos from the International Show held at SOU.

Posted on May 8th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Final batch of photos from the 2011 International Show at Southern Oregon University

I processed another 15 or so photos from last month’s International Show. I’ll present them in two batches. Tomorrow you’ll get the final installment.

Posted on May 7th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on More photos from the 2011 SOU International Show

At this point, I’m thinking, “What is Jun about to do, and why are those boards being held more than 7 feet off the ground?” With no trampoline, or running start, Jun begins his flat-footed jump.

Pretty cool, eh? A vertical leap of 5 feet or so. But that wasn’t the end of the story…

Wow!

Posted on April 26th, 2011 under people. Tags: international show, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 2

Each year, near the end of the international show, the students do an international fashion show. My-Linh, above, is from Vietnam.

Not all of the students represent their home country though. Ashley, on the right, was representing Thailand even though she is from Oregon.

Erina is Japanese, but she was part of the Mexico group.

The hosts of the fashion show portion were from France and Japan. That’s another student, Yuki, from Waseda University.

Earlier in the evening, many of the Japanese students (and some non-Japanese students) performed a medley of Japanese Anime songs including Miyazaki classics like Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ).

Posted on April 25th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University, video. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University International Fashion Show 2011

The Southern Oregon University International Show turned into an event where I came to understand my new camera’s limitations.

The autofocus (AF) on the Nikon D7000 in video mode has two major problems for which there is no fix. First, it isn’t smooth or quick as you’ll see in the video below. The second problem is the audible noise it makes. The video quality can be outstanding at times, but unless your target is not moving you will have problems with the autofocus. Actually, I took the camera out for more video tests today and found that even with a non-moving target the camera would sometimes try to refocus causing temporary blurs and the noise once again. Basically you can only use the autofocus if you are going to edit out all of the portions of your video when the camera is focusing. For future video on the D7000 I will have to only use manual focus, which means the quality probably won’t be outstanding. I’m very disappointed in this aspect of the camera.

The following video is of the Indian stick dance (Dandiya Raas). Many of the participants were not from India, but they looked great anyway.

Before they finished I was so frustrated with the autofocus problems in video mode that I just started taking still photos instead.

Posted on April 23rd, 2011 under people. Tags: international show, Southern Oregon University, video. Comments Off on More photos and video from the SOU International Show

Sachta Bakshi and DaeWook Kim were the hosts of SOU’s International Show 2011.

One of my accounting students from Korea, Jun Byung Joon, put on an amazing display of Taekwondo.

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Taekwondo from Korea at the International Show

Sohana and Sachta Bakshi

Many of the SOU International Show participants at the end of the performance

Takumi the samurai

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Tonight was SOU’s annual International Show put on by the Southern Oregon University International Student Association. I’ll have some more photos (and videos) in the coming days.

Posted on April 21st, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU International Show 2011