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Specializing in Video Production for the Internet. Alaska Video Production and Website Design Tourism Marketing and Native American Culture
About Me:
http://www.youtube.com/SeeD...
http://www.youtube.com/cvbtv
http://www.youtube.com/Doyo...
http://myspace.com/DoyonTou...
HEAR MUSIC RECORDINGS BY BEN BOYD AT:
http://www.benboydalaska.co...
Email: boydcommunications@acsalaska.n
BOYD COMMUNICATIONS
is owned and operated by Mie Kojima-Boyd and Ben Boyd. The company authors websites and produces Multimedia and Video Productions both in English and Japanese. It specializes in Tourism Marketing and Native Culture and Wildlife Video Productions.
ALASKA NORTHERN LIGHTS TOUR
Ben Boyd is owner, guide and presenter for a winter evening tour to view the Aurora and Native Culture Show.
http://www.alaskanorthernli...
Ben Boyd is Expediter for Doyon Tourism Inc. a subsidiary of Doyon Limited an Alaska Native Regional Corporation. Other duties are Wildlife Tour Guide, Sled Dog Demonstration, Native Culture Shows and Internet Marketing.
http://www.seedenali.com
Mie Kojima-Boyd and Ben Boyd manage and market 5 Star Log Cabins (Alaska Vacation Rentals). http://www.5starlogcabins.com
They both also work for American & Pacific Tours with offices in Anchorage Alaska and Tokyo Japan. They perform various duties in the Japanese Tourist Industry in Alaska.
http://www.aptoursalaska.com/
Mie Kojima-Boyd is from Tokyo Japan and received a M.A. Degree in Community Development (specializing in Tourism Development) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2001.
These videos are a culmination of all the talents of Ben Boyd. Through out his life his primary talents have been in the fields of Art, Dance and Music. Upon coming to Alaska in 1975 he added to those talents by living a Traditional Native Subsistence way of life which expanded his talents to Dog Mushing, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing and Arctic Survival Skills.
In 2001 he received a Masters Degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks for who he has also taught. He worked on multimedia and video productions to pursue an Interdisciplinary Degree in Cultural Documentation through Multimedia from the Art, Journalism and Communication Departments. He spent many years working on the degree and has more than twice as many credits as required because he had to continue in order to keep up with the evolving technology and because he needed access to equipment to work on actual projects.
Perhaps,his best talent is Indian Dancing.
He started dancing at age six and was a professional dancer at age thirteen. There are two types of dance he specialize in, Fancy Dance and Hoop Dancing. Both of them are considered the most difficult forms of Inter-Tribal Dancing and are usually done by young men and women up to their mid thirties. He is in his sixties and still does these dances like he did when he was a teenager. He is one of the oldest performing Hoop Dancers in North America and uses 26 hoops. When he was sixty he started Hoop Dancing again, after a thirty year break, so that his daughter Hanna, then 3 years old, could learn the dance. Hanna is now 9 and uses 11 hoops.
Ben is a descendent of the Trail of Tears. His family escaped into the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and that is where he grew up and spent summers in Oklahoma dancing at Powwows. These days, Ben is a Lead Dancer for Powwows in Alaska and Elder Advisor for the Midnight Sun Powwow held in Fairbanks each July.
Ben Boyd has been a professional musician since age thirteen and preformed all over the western states. He has played in groups with hit recordings and worked in recording studios in Hollywood California. He continued to work there as a recording and video producer. He played in clubs in Fairbanks during the pipeline era and helped start some of the first native bands in the Indian villages above the Yukon River where he was an Itinerant Music Teacher in seven Indian villages. He now performs a "One Man Band" 60's Hits Show by using computer technology to play and prerecord all of the backup tracks and preform the vocals and instrumental solos live. He ends the Show with his daughter and he doing Native Hoop Dance.
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