Naked

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One proposed "theme" for Videoblogging Week 2006 was "Vlogging Dangerously," and a great number of participants took up the challenge, or at least used the idea as a launchpad for their creativity. In the small fraction of videos I've watched so far (criminy--make seven videos AND watch what everyone else is doing? I'm not made of time.) the theme has yet to strike a match. (I do quite like Zadi Diaz's multi-episode riff on secrets, but she got bogged down midweek after her stunning and complex mashup of news clips related to the Scooter Libby prosecution). I guess what I'm mostly noting at this point is the level of privilege enjoyed by videobloggers (yes, it's a democratic participatory medium, but the price of entry pretty nearly requires us to be digital landowners--computer, camera, high speed internet), and that from the place of comfort we inhabit, danger seems a pretty abstract term.

The exhortation to recognize the trap of comfort and to risk stepping outside of it I do take to heart, but it's not something I can really address in my life or my art in a single week, nor (I wonder) with a video camera in my hand.

So in the meantime danger (and cute) seekers will have settle for this: a pre-pottytrained toddler running around the house without his diaper on.

Length: 1:34

This is the seventh of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.

Budge

Barely 10 months ago,* I was lamenting that the time and energy I was expending attempting to elicit a laugh out of the boy was time and energy I wasn't spending making movies or doing something "creative."

Some days, I've discovered, you get to do both.

Length: 1:02

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This is the sixth of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.


*Before I'd even heard of Rocketboom, or videoblogging, or FireAnt, or RSS 2.0--with enclosures.

Mirror IV (Sunglasses III)

The mirror is no longer the place for funny faces.
Now it's all about the attitude.

Length: 1:57

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This is the fifth of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.

Balance II

Of course, he still has trouble with slopes.

Length: 0:19

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This is the fourth of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.

Balance

The playground up on the hill is ringed by a concrete border just wide enough for a toddler to use as an imaginary balance beam.

His skills are increasing.

Length: 0:14

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This is the second of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.

The Walk Home

After an hour of running around at the playground, the boy will often request (demand?) to be carried home, rather than make the trek on his own two legs. In this case the free ride creates the opportunity for him to recite some of the rhymes he's been learning from Uncle Don's Playground, an album downloaded from Kiddie Records Weekly.

Warning: extreme sweetness.

Length: 1:57

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This is the first of seven videos I'll be posting this week as part of Videoblogging Week 2006.