Slide

Shot the same evening as 2 Baseballs. The boy's first solo flight down a tunnel slide.

Length: 0:28

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A Man Sneezing

Shot on Super8. Silent. Submitted as a class assignment in the category of "Documentary", because I was that much of a smartass. Ostensibly a tribute to Edison's early Kinetoscope of his assistant Fred Ott. Transferred rather roughly to DV, and tightened a bit in the timing, because iMovie allows a bit more experimentation than a chopping block and tape.

Starring my older brother Tim, whom I grew up loving in part for his willingness to hurt himself if it meant the bit would be funnier.

Length: 2:01

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Sunglasses

A bit of a trifle. Right now I could use a bit of a trifle.

Length: 0:24

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Living Room Recordings #010: Sally Come Down the Middle / Last Train Home

The last piece from my evening with Barbara Hansen (fiddle, ADAE) and Maggie Brunjes (banjo, aDADE). Includes a bit of toying with the built-in slow shutter effect.

Oh. And there's supposed to be a B minor chord in "Last Train Home" as well. But, what can you do.

Length: 3:05

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Categories: old-time

puyddiG

I'm sick to think of the children the boy's age killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They could number in the dozens. Or worse.

And the total loss of life looks to be in the thousands. What a nightmare.

Today as I post this I wonder about the Hayward Fault killing us and this video surviving us on the internet. As videoblogging spreads around the world it's inevitable that somebody's going to die with their videos still online. I haven't trawled the discussion boards enough to find out whether people are thinking that way in the context of OurMedia's pledge to host files "forever." To whatever extent their pledge is true all of us could be dead with our videos still online.

Which returning to the context of today, the start of September 2005, perhaps some of the dead in Louisiana and Mississippi have left behind text blogs, or flickr albums, or other kinds of web ephemera that persist even if their houses and all their belongings have been submerged or simply swept away. I'm sure examples of this will emerge in the coming weeks, drawing out the grief of those of us who spend too much time looking at a computer screen.

But it's not any more tragic than the death of someone who'd never sat at a computer, let alone posted anything online. And given the economic dimension of this disaster there will likely be a large number of those.

I'm sick to think of it all.

Oh, the video? It's kind of funny. I think he even knows it.

Length: 0:58

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