So I really enjoyed Renato Umali's digital photo 'diary'. I had seen one similar to this a couple months ago, but I do have to say I like his way of doing it. In the video I have below a guy named Noah took a picture of himself for 6 years. It's pretty nifty how he did it though... where he's in basically the same position in every shot. I think it'd be fun to do something like this. Maybe once I find my digital camera battery charger I'll give 'er a go. We'll see.
So the topic of today's lecture was mostly about daily performance. I love Jonas Mekas' daily posts. That's an awsome idea, the kinda thing that can collect a fan base. Personally I adored the video letter from Benn (probably because I have a weak spot for british men and he was adorable himself). Just the simplicity of it, the sounds, the images, the personal(ness?) of it. I kinda started to feel like him and I were old chums. It got me thinking about how I've lost touch with some friends I used to be really close with. I have no idea what their atmosphere's are like, who they hang out with, or what they do in their spare time. Maybe I can get a group of long lost buddies to do a 'chain' of video letters... hmm, that'd be grand.
Su Friedrich's 16mm film Gently Down the Stream was, not gonna lie, kinda I don't want to say creepy... that's not the word I'm looking for. I don't know where I'm going with that... I understand that dreams can be pretty out there, and she did a fantastic job of making it concrete enough to get the idea of the dream across, but yet still vague enough that it kept you in the 'dream sequence mode'. I have pretty messed up dreams too... so I did connect with her in that sense.
My favorite things to watch though would have to be ones that are made in the video media. I love playing on the computer and manupulating things, in a previous class we had to show an artist that we really liked, one of my classmate's (his name slips my mind at the moment) showed this video and I just fell in love with it:
(I do not know the actual artist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIEM144OB0&eurl=
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