Arts & Entertainment

Video: 'Eulogy for 2012' and Hope for 2013

Ocean City filmmaker John Thornton mixes sounds and images from Ocean City's First Night and from the year 2012.

The Taiko-Masala Japanese Drummers provide a fitting soundtrack for a new montage of video clips and still images created by John Thornton, an Ocean City resident from the south end of the island.

Thornton describes his work as "kind of a eulogy for 2012 and hope for better times in 2013."

The video features clips and the Japanese drummers' performance from Ocean City's First Night celebration on New Year's Eve.

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Thornton is at work on the final segment of a series of films about Ocean City's recovery from Hurricane Sandy. He is a a teacher at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.


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