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Xiola is my wife’s cat, she’s also my second favourite, after Macro. Problem is, after living with her for 7 years, she became a part of my life, and it has been frustrating for the last year as she’s been living elsewhere. I got to see her the other day, and she hasn’t changed a bit. Incidentally, Xiola made a cameo appearance in one of my videos in early 2005, hidden talents, part of Videoblogging week 2005.
I’m not a fan of still photography, particularly in “olden times”, when most photographs were posed for. I don’t like modern posed photos either (he says, noticing the posed shot of himself on his website), but that’s fine, as we have other methods for documenting history.
Looking at old “posed for” photographs, I can’t even start to visualise what life must have been like. The body poses are all put on, as are the faces, all those happy smiling faces. I find it hard to believe that everyone was happy in the early 20th century. It’s like watching professional models in an advertisement for Versace or Coca Cola, everyone’s happy, everyone’s beautiful… and everyone’s jacked up on speed and Cocaine, which they well could have been back in the 1800s when it was all legal, and the most famous poems in history were all drug induced. I’m starting to ramble…
Anyway, I’ve done photography rants to death already, so I’m not going to do that again. But I am going to point out that this is one of the reasons why videoblogging is so cool. A lot of it is real people in real situations, not acting, not putting on anything, just doing the real stuff they do, and being passionate about it.
In 100 years, our successors will look back at the massive amount of real media documenting real people, and although it won’t be like being here, it will be pretty damn exciting being able to view audiovisual representations of hundreds of years in the past. Imagine if we could see crystal clear (digital) quality video of Napoleon, King Henry VIII, that peasant guy from London who shovels shit off the cobblestones each week, or even a videoblog from a convict sent to Australia in the late 1700s.
This video is a snapshot of real people wasting real time.
Nobody thinks that it will happen to them. That is, until it does. Break and Enter.
Note: This is a 39MB file, but I think well worth the wait. But then I’m a little biased, and don’t really care how much bandwidth you’re chewing up. Regardless, bring on the fat pipes.
So you know how I had this video of a cat that I named Marco, because he looks a lot like my cat Macro? Yeah, well I’m considering a name change…
Vote Chris Christmas Rodriguez to replace Santa this Christmas.
So I did a Carp Caviar promo for Bottom Union. You’ve probably seen it already, but to be completist, here is it in my feed, instead of Erik’s. Don’t kill animals.
This one’s for Josh Leo. Having videoed so many stray cats, this one’s mine, Macro. He stays on my folks’ property, and I only had a short amount of time with him (for various reasons), but here he is. He’s usually a psychopath, but it was a really hot day, so he was more into just relaxing.