Vidblog 008: Not Flesh
3 years ago
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267. Vidblog 008: Not Flesh
3 years ago
I made this in 2003. I was doing a lot of basic stimulants at the time so I would often find myself walking around like a zombie at dawn. (I don't do that anymore)
The smoke part is because Josh and I found a huge bag of pot on the sidewalk. The college stuff is from when I visited Wake Forest for a week to work on the first version of Busted Tees with Zach. I also worked on some CollegeHumor features like user accounts and favorites, but those features were put on hold and didn't appear until 2006.
A lot of this footage was shot by Nick Gray. Some of it, I wasn't around for because I just lent it to him for a bit.
Two Heady Teddy makes an appearance -- back then he only had one head!
The part where I sniff the shoe is from a video I made with Andy Milonakis in NYC in 2002 I think.
"When I can't hang out with you, I feel like I can check your website and then we're hanging out." - that sentiment encompasses the spirit of Vimeo pretty well.
The swing part was an old childhood tape that Ryan Welch and I shot in Baltimore. "Is my whole body visible when I got up?" - I didn't want anyone to miss the action-packed stunt that was about to explode off their screens!!!
The smoke part is because Josh and I found a huge bag of pot on the sidewalk. The college stuff is from when I visited Wake Forest for a week to work on the first version of Busted Tees with Zach. I also worked on some CollegeHumor features like user accounts and favorites, but those features were put on hold and didn't appear until 2006.
A lot of this footage was shot by Nick Gray. Some of it, I wasn't around for because I just lent it to him for a bit.
Two Heady Teddy makes an appearance -- back then he only had one head!
The part where I sniff the shoe is from a video I made with Andy Milonakis in NYC in 2002 I think.
"When I can't hang out with you, I feel like I can check your website and then we're hanging out." - that sentiment encompasses the spirit of Vimeo pretty well.
The swing part was an old childhood tape that Ryan Welch and I shot in Baltimore. "Is my whole body visible when I got up?" - I didn't want anyone to miss the action-packed stunt that was about to explode off their screens!!!
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There is no need to explain what you're doing with a video. The video explains itself.
i love the editing.
Also: I think its funny you mention the stimulants This video pretty much depicts what insomnia feels like to me too. (I take prescription amphetamines also)
Of course, the vidblog overall was the opposite of disappointing. Satisfying?
Anyhoo, that's just my opinion. All I've said could just be a reflection on me! Good video though. I really like that you're putting your old vidblogs on here. I keep thinking I ought to give it a go.
the music is awesome
it's like something from dave lynch's twin peaks.
i love these
good memories.
If he could somehow add smell to these things I'm sure we'd all be weeping like babies.
:)
That's my take.
I'll add that I think Jakob's vidblogs, especially this one, make me feel sad because it opens up something that has already happened, and can't happen again -- which is sad sometimes.
I mean, Jakob could fly off a swing again, but he'll never be able to do it in his childhood body or experience it with his childhood mind. This vidblog is the closest thing, besides actual memories, that Jakob will have to that specific time.
I don't think sadness is the correct word for it, but neither is nostalgia. I don't know that we have a proper term for what it feels like to experience the past through video that we made ourselves.
What's especially curious, is the fact that other people generate feelings from watching someone's personal vidblogs. What I mean is it's personal to them, but we can experience these feelings/emotions together.
a little help from Mo Nature Ha ha.
(about to get lazier!)
music is great.
I really enjoyed this.
the last scene. it had to've originally been on a vhs tape or something right? what did you use to get it to the same editing table as the more recent footage?
I liked the overlapping sound, killer! This was really really great dude!
Hanging with Andy too, haha, that must have been really fun! Hehe, you should invite him to Vimeo!
BRAVO!!! Made me trip a little!
I think this is masterful. You've definitely tapped into something seriously powerful to put this together and have this effect on us. I think I've heard that music bed before but I dont know what it was in. It pulls an indistinguishable desperation out of the viewer in a way. I dont know if you intentionally raised and lowered the levels with each compilation but it heightens the effect. It seems to be in perfect cadence.
If you think of this montage in terms of feature film, this scene could be inserted in a deeply personal and reflective moment with intersecting cuts of the person reviewing these memories. (Shot handheld, shaky, camera walks left to right, framed wide ending tight as we cut back and forth. Open windows, hazy smoke, heavy contrast to shadow washed out colors, the character leaning against the back of a chair, hands resting on the top of the backrest, head down, and hair falling on either side of the face.)
Whoops, I lost myself there for a minute. Anyway, loved it!
you beatnicks sicken me.