Marengo Media

a blog of original, multimedia art created by Alice G. Beck
Yesterday was my last day volunteering as a mentor with the Ophelia Project’s RAPS (Relationships Are Pathways To Success) Program in Erie, Pa.  RAPS is an after-school program that focuses on helping middle schoolers create healthy relationships. The program starts off by building relationships between the mentees and the mentors and then through those bonds, the mentors work with the mentees to help them create healthy boundaries in their lives. RAPS teaches middle schools students to have healthy relationships with adults and with peers. On our last day, one of my mentees came up to me and gave me a letter thanking me for being there as a support system for him. It nearly brought me to tears. The fact that I could impact just one child’s life in such a way was really touching. I’m in the process of editing a short film about my last day with RAPS and I will post it when it is completed.

Yesterday was my last day volunteering as a mentor with the Ophelia Project’s RAPS (Relationships Are Pathways To Success) Program in Erie, Pa. 

RAPS is an after-school program that focuses on helping middle schoolers create healthy relationships. The program starts off by building relationships between the mentees and the mentors and then through those bonds, the mentors work with the mentees to help them create healthy boundaries in their lives. RAPS teaches middle schools students to have healthy relationships with adults and with peers.

On our last day, one of my mentees came up to me and gave me a letter thanking me for being there as a support system for him. It nearly brought me to tears. The fact that I could impact just one child’s life in such a way was really touching.

I’m in the process of editing a short film about my last day with RAPS and I will post it when it is completed.

Window of Wee House. White Lake, New York.

Window of Wee House. White Lake, New York.

Hello, Tumblr! It’s been ages. I haven’t been creating lately due to copious amounts of schoolwork, but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. Which kind of sounds like I’ve been doing nothing, huh?


Well, I have been inspired by my friends recently to get back into the saddle of art-making again, particularly my friend Ashley Rosemeyer, who’s photos can be found on flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleyrosemeyer/?v=1 ) and on tumblr ( http://ashleyrosemeyer.tumblr.com/ ). She just took really fantastic photos this weekend and I was lucky enough to watch her create artwork.

I brought my camera along and snapped some photos of her photoshoot with her model on High St. in Edinboro, Pa. Ashley’s photographs from the shoot can be viewed by going onto her flickr page.

A video postcard of my trip to Phoenix, Az. My friends and I met a woman who told my one friend that he had eyes she wanted to buy. I didn’t record that exchange on tape, but I did accidentally record her talking to us in passing.

Film Sketch #2:

For this short, I was instructed to create six, 30 second-long short films that were 1 shot each. I did that, but decided to take the 6 short films and chop them up and create a longer editing exercise.

Film Sketch #1:

A short sketch taken in the autumn of three friends on a cool afternoon. I wanted to create a short about what my friend’s cat, Jackolantern sees when he looks out the window.


The Most Naive of Questions.

I would eventually love to make a career in documentary videography, and “The Most Naive of Questions” was my first attempt at creating a conceptual documentary short.

So, here now is my short, “The Most Naive of Questions,” loosely inspired by “The Gay Science” by Nietzsche and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Kundera.