Tim Frakes Productions

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  • Effigy Mounds National Monument

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    Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in North East Iowa along the banks of the Mississippi River. In the centuries before Columbus arrived from Europe, a mysterious native culture built thousands of dirt mounds across the Upper Midwestern Untied States. Often, these mounds took the shape of animals; birds, bears, etc. Effigy Mounds National Monument…

  • Streetlights Music Video

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    In February 2007 I visited Ziway, Ethiopia with Food for the Hungry. We were shooting footage for a music video with the Christian band “Willet“. Here are the results.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com

  • Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya

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    Last month I was in Nairobi, Kenya. My friend George Arende took us to an IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camp outside the Madera Slum. Following the national elections in December, ethnic/tribal violence erupted across Kenya. Typically, it is the poor who suffer the most. The people in this video were forced to flee their slum…

  • Tim Frakes At Luther College

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    Next week I will be speaking at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. My friend, Dr. Mark Johns asked me to come out and share some of my travel wisdom, or lack there of… Here is a news release from the college.Videographer Tim Frakes to serve as Sense of Vocation visitor April 7-9Tuesday, March 18, 2008Public…

  • Nairobi Web Video Workshop Complete

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    Our web video workshop in Nairobi came to a close Tuesday. Participants, pictured left to right included: (front row) George Arende, Xavier Ravelomanantsoa, Mammy Ranaivoson,Christine Mangale, (back row) Andy Hinderlie, Abraham Data, Len Mason, David Ntidendeza and myself. Workshop participants learned to shoot, edit and upload video the web. Training also included a digital photography…

  • Nairobi Web Video Workshop Photo Essay

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    As our web video workshop draws to a close here in Nairobi, Kenya, I’ve put together a random photo essay documenting some of the places we visited, the people we met and images of our participants in action. The music is a Maasai children’s choir we recorded at the Olerum Lutheran Church in Kajiado Parish.…

  • The Carnivour Restaurant

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    My friends Sarah and Stephen Padre and their infant daughter Alexia took us to dinner tonight at one of Kenya’s most famous restaurants. The Carnivore is unique. Every type of meat imaginable, including crocodile, is roasted on traditional Maasai swords (skewers) over a huge, visually spectacular charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant.…

  • Kenya Lutheran Toy Maker

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    This woodshop operated by the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church provides jobs for at risk youth.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com

  • IDP Camp in Nairobi, Kenya

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    Today we scouted locations for our web video training workshop here in Nairobi, Kenya. This woman cooks beans over an open fire. She is living in an internally displaced person (IDP) camp on the outskirts of the city. She and her family were forced to flee their homes in a nearby slum following post election…

  • The Hague Netherlands

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    Len Mason and I stopped in The Hague Netherlands in 2008 on our way to Nairobi, Kenya. I took a few shots and uploaded them. The weather was cold and grey, but the city was beautiful anyway.