Con Tricker / Texts
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It happened many years ago yesterday.
Thanks! At this point, I'm using any excuse to practice video. This was a perfect opportunity.
This made me laugh as much as hyperbole and a half. Win.
He's in all my videos! He will not, however, be in the Journey video, and he's really mad about that.
There's always next year! And I don't regret doing it, since I'm pretty happy with the video and how much I learned.
I kind of want to do a checkpoint, though... I have Ideas.
Hi Dan. Thanks for commenting. I didn't narrate for a couple reasons.
1) I believe that art is the meeting of artist's intention and audience's perception -- and that actually frees me from trying to control the audience's perception. I wanted people to get their own idea of what the "voice" should sound like based on their perception from the video.
2) I wanted this project to be... not so much about *me*, but to share my experience of isolation and voyeurism. I think the text screens do that better than my voice. I get the feeling that if I'd been speaking, it would be more about my persona than people experiencing the footage for themselves. I hope it was somewhat successful -- it is only my third video, so I didn't angst about it.
As for the checkpoint ideas... any interest in collaborating on a Halloween event?
I want to send you something. Message me your address.
They're my parents' checkbooks from our old, horrible house. I remember my mom sitting at the dining room table, head in hand, looking at the money disappearing. It made me feel powerless -- I was just a kid, born poor to young parents. Unable to do anything at all to control my future (or so I thought.)
Money comes and goes, and that doesn't bother me. The powerlessness is all. I've taught myself many life skills, but sometimes, I still feel like the child who grew up in "that house."
The scraps were used as packing material. The plastic egg contains a Cadbury egg left over from Easter, and they were mailed to a web-acquaintance, someone I've never met in person, but the first one I could find a mailing address for.