wow, nice!
you have always been a creative head so.

I agree, little Jakob was way before his time. This is one of my favorite clips out of all of yours.

nice! i was like..what's wrong? he seems depressed...then i saw the udda one and i was like oh he was just saying what he said back then. awesome. i'd like to do some of these before and afters, too.

on another note...your stop-motion stuff was awesome for that age! it reminds me of stuff by gir2007 (gir2007.com).

nice to know another kid who grew up with video.

Wow genius. I wish my old family camera had that bug feature.

you're amazing! i want to meet you one day... badly! you were great already back then! this is so interesting to watch, please show more!

Wow, I really really like this.

And, you were so cute! That was 2 days before I was even born. haha

quite possibly one of my favorite videos ever. your mannerisms are to a T. I wish I was this aware when I was that age.

wow this is amazing. You must have been a cool kid, all deep and stuff. This would be a cool start to a movie. And it's also crazy if you knew back then what you would be doing in your life right now. Crazy. Also, in both clips you have like the exact same expression.

nice video! it reminds me to the john mayer song "stop this train": So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young

Jakob this is really a haunting piece. It's the kind of piece you see an two plus hours later you leave a comment 'cause it's "hauntingly" simple but exquisite in a timetraveling sort of way .

this was so beautiful to watch...so personal. thanks for sharing it with us, Jakob!

nothing nothing nothing

loved seeing both jakes saying the same lines. don't think i've seen anything like that before.

I turn inside-out for stop motion. Love it.

Were those stop-motion parts in another video, like a long time ago on Blumpy? I feel like I've seen them before and I'm almost positive that the hand at the end is the beginning of the "1-800-Mattress" prank call thing. Right?

In 1991 I was in 8th grade at the Walden School in Louisville, KY. I would borrow my dad's camera and reenact scenes from spinal tap with my friends. I also filmed my friend get in a fist fight at a middle school basketball game.

Jakob...This is probably my favorite video of yours, ever.

hey jakob, this is by FAR the best thing that i have seen you create.

it's moving and surprising, and it deepens my appreciation for your affection for film/video making.

based partially on the other things that i have seen you post, i would never have anticipated something as poignant as this coming from you.

it's really good, simple, creative, slightly melancholy and revealing.

This is really amazing. What a cool little kid, and what a great way to put the old video together with the new.

i want to go back in time and find myself at that age and jokingly punch myself in the balls and say "c'mon with it chump, let's get some shit going here!" :)

The repetition, the time element, and the very simple fact that we're all kids still playing around with shit threw me, moved me in such a beautiful way. Very well done, standing up from across the salty pond, loud applause, pointing at your virtual self, screaming "incredible!". This shit is powerful.

I'm actually surprised it took this long for this clip to make it on to Vimeo.

wow, what a treasure! thanks for sharing

love it.

This is really great. I can't stop thinking about the utter lack of forward momentum in adult life--post-grad, working way too much, etc--and how difficult it would be to replicate the sheer amount of time we all had growing up. How great would it be to have the time to (presumably) REALLY discover stop motion by just experimenting with camera glitching?

Gosh. Remarkable. Thought you were kinda full of it when you told me you did stop-motion when you were like 5 :)

Ha, my camera did the same thing! I'll try and find the footage of the stop motion stuff I did next time I visit my folk's, although I was a bit older at about 12 or so I think. Nowhere near as complex as this though.

I love how even back then you had an original hairdo. ;)

Jakob that was amazing! It blows my mind how old you were and made amazing films like this animation. Brilliant. Happy and sad. It made me think of when i tried to make my first film, borrowing cameras from relatives, explaining to them how the lens broke because of how a skateboard 'accidentally' hit it, figuring out how to edit between 2 different decks and not lose quality, obsessing. Nevermind that friends were calling you to come play, i had to edit. It eventually became, "call that kid, the guy with the camera, he can film you... he'll do it for free." You have no friends at that point, just people that need you. uh...

That was awesome, Jake. This really makes me want to start digitizing all my old family videos.

I don't think anyone here just "liked it" this... You guys should really add a "love it" feature on Vimeo, because some videos are really special in a powerful way. This one would totally made it to my love list.

that was so awesome - a different side of Jake

reminded me of Donnie Darko for some reason

Loved this. I can't wait to see the update on 3/17/2023! I'm working getting some of my stuff from, actually 1991 also, up onto Vimeo... we should add a tag for "back in time" clips.

very touching and strange...

especially since the young you seemed surrounded by a crowd (as background noise) but spoke of being alone and the you you was alone, but also not in that we're all watching you.

Must be great seeing those animations now...they're really turned out well.

Amazing concept. I wish I got my first video camera sometime before I turned 18.

this is wonderful. Same day 16 years later... still making amazing videos.

You're amazing, Jakob. Well, I think I have to rip & edit my old VHS recordings...

"littleish"...i love ittt

i love that you used vhs tapes to create some of the animations.

Needless to say, I absolutely love this. What I find so amazing is that you weren't able to monitor the results of your filming - so you could only picture it in your head, and still you made such a beautiful, flowing design. I remember us watching it in fast forward mode, that was the only way to see it move at "normal" speed. I almost want to say slow it down a notch, it moves a little too fast to get a good sense of what went into making it.

Absolutely amazing... Kind of reminds me of when we used to make home movies around that age. But your work there reminded me of some of the earliest 'animated' films, like from Emile Cohl in the early 1900s.

Wow. Touching in such a pins-and-needles way...

That was fantastic :)

Jake, this was so orginal and amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Truly inspired this is one of the best clips I have seen.

That's a cool look back. Boy, you've been playing with video since you were a wee sprite haven't you! Nice use of the stop motion too.

You are a good person.

oh wow... O_o

I'm floored.
The award for best vimeo goes to... seriously.

you are amazing.

Wow Jakob, off the charts man. It was cool to meet you a couple quick times at SXSW.

Wish I had a camera to play with when I was little. I missed out in remembering some of the most obscure, yet profound moments of my childhood life. *sighs*

I love childhood videos, this one is one of the best.

epic!

oh wow jakob that is really impressive.. at first it looked like a video blog >.< .. it s so evocative and well brilliant. you were a talented kid...very.

this is awesome, how long have u been waiting for March 17th to come around?

i have nothing to add that no one has already said, but i will agree with those who said this is their favorite video by you. oddly moving...

That's it - the boy gets to play with the camera much much more - so what if he's only two. I've just to get him past watching himself over and over.

'91... wasting my life away trying to be a scientist when I should've been doing something FUN!

so rad. my dad began renting a betacam over christmas when i was 6, i became obsessed with it. when i go back to my childhood home this summer I will make some transfers and upload some clips now.

you are too cute...

Indeed very surreal, disturbing, haunting.

You knew you were recording for the future. Something we all wish we had done and/or kept until now or later. In years to come, you can add to those two clips again.

The stop-motions are amazing, especially if made by a kid.

I've always been one of these computer type people, from a young age I'd be fucking with a computer (by young age I mean like 6). Watching old videos from other people when they were younger, they seem to go on and do what they were best at then, if you get what I'm saying. Now at the age of 17 I'm planning to go into television production - only really tinkering about with video editing these last few years - so confusing.

Do I stick what with I'm good at and I know that I'm good at, or move onto somthing I'm not all that experanced with!?!

I do remember making houses out of video tapes we had sitting under the VCR back in the day!

i like so much that clip...smells of intimate feelings :-)
is it your the little soundtrack?

i feel stupid, but i almost felt tears.

jake, this was mystical and beautiful...your amazing skills as a video artist as a youngster have transcended into the you now. this opens up a part of you we've never seen.

this is simply fantastic. What will our kids be doing when they are kids that they look back on when they are grown and say, this was me way back then and this is me now?
I just hope its jet packs!!!!

You have no idea how this video stole my heart. I can't describe it.

That is so cool! Dude you were a smart kid!

so awesome... I want to know why I have only just seen this!

Blessings on your amazing work.

Still love this and actually had some tears in my eyes.

wow, awesome video.
the stop motion stuff is really cool! love the idea!

Beyond precosious, little Jakob.

this is seriously the best thing i've ever seen on the internet. ever.

this is really incredible...

wow.....i like it