Throughout my first year in collage (as a film major) I have been coming to grips with doing artsy thing video wise and noticing the way people look at me while I am doing them. These “artsy” things done with my video camera can some times involve swinging my camera around like an idiot or simply filming a particular object or space that other people don’t view as worth any ones time to capture on minidv tape. Im not one to ever fall victim to embarrassment, but that’s not to say that having people look at me funny doesn’t bother me some. Along working on this piece I decided to start staring at people who were looking at me in those funny ways. I even went to the extent of finding things to film that may even bother people around me. I empowered myself in this way and found a vary peaceful state of mind in my methods to filming artsy things.
It was along one of these “artsy” filming days that I found myself rolling around the skate park just filming the ground running by the camera. I started thinking about what a skateboard would see if it had eyes in front of it. Then I started thinking of the skateboard having the mentality of a dog pulling an owner by the leash. Skateboard obstacles became things to seek out with an animalistic curiosity. Its with this experience that I now try and skateboard with the mentality that my board is leading me around the streets and skate parks. I try to skateboard with the sheer will of a dog who has been in the house all day and is finally getting outside. There is no time to be wasted, eyes straight ahead moving as fast as I can.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment