First Video Blog…
As part of my 100 Things I Want To Learn list I’ve made my first video blog post. I learnt how to export from iMovie and how to wait patiently while videos compress, get uploaded and then converted by Vimeo. So I guess I did learn more about 64. Video recording and editing to the level required for good vodcasting
the first battlecat vlog post… from battlecat on Vimeo.
Self-centered personal blogging ahoy!
I’m playing with my gifted video camera and the idea of different levels of honesty, intimacy and immediacy afforded by edited text and unedited video.
Also, I’m in the middle of trying to work out what happens next in my crazy life. Writing hasn’t worked so far. Maybe talking to an inanimate object will help?
So anyway the challenge is to know (with more certainty) by August, what I do next in my life. I’m not sure if I make much sense in the video.
Thanks for a good reason to, ahem, not do a briefing for another 7 minutes. I need a glass of whiskey now, though…
Easier said than done (and is it always true?): follow your heart with any grand-scheme decisions. We have been sitting ourselves on such a decision–whether to stay here or leave Berlin behind and go to the States—for way too long, juggling arguments back and forth. The problem is, there are zillions of arguments to be made for one decision or the other. In the end, if there is a place this summer where we have the feeling we would like it as much as in Berlin, it will just be that.
Ha! Let’s see about that.
i’m glad to know you and i’m very sure you’ll figure out what to do next pretty soon.
<3
(also i’d love to see more vodcasting here.)
If you want to move to a friendly place, cheep (you can do a lot without much money), not so big city but with a lot of artistic, design, web, tech rhythms and movements. Think about Montréal ! you can live there only in english if you choose, hiwever, to grasp the beat of the city it is interesting to immerse yourself in a unique french/english daily way of life.
cheer.
Oh I’m just excited to see you moving, and breathing and talking!
This is, admittedly, a much more intimate way to express yourself and you are really putting much more of yourself out on a limb. There’s something safe about writing and producing letters on a page/screen — safe in a good way, in that you are comfortable that there is a ‘distance’ created which gives you security when you are being so honest….and all that is removed when you have a camera. How much do you want to reveal?
As for the big decisions, I have grappled with these a few times in my life, so I know the idea of ‘the beautiful risk’. As someone wise once said, you should make choices that enable you to be a more interesting person.
Let’s chat sometime. I’m in UK in July (see your facebook page) and it would be lovely to see you in person.
x
Beautiful risks is a fine phrase.. I agree, it was entertaining and you should do more, I spose recording tasks would be a big way of being more likely to complete them… Say hello to A & D & brillig
great video! keep making them!
That was pretty intimate. Provocative to see an attractive woman, a stranger, share of herself– it reminded me of sex, lies and videotape.
All that aside from the fact that when I was in my late 20’s, I spent a year in Germany, had some heartbreak and had a number of similarities (not gender _Im a guy). Even if I hadn’t, I would have watched.
When you write, the eyes aren’t the window of the soul– when you vlog, they are.