I'm definitely gonna give thar album a listen! My favorite song in terms of the interplay of lyrics and music has to be the song "fish inside a birdcage" by the artist of the same name. "Paperwork" from the same album is also a really cool example. It starts off with this very light guitar backing followed by a poem? Monologue? Not sure what to call it but it calms me down immediately whenever I hear it. Actually that reminds me of another incredible example: "Westward bound part I - The Lantern" from the album Odyssey to the west by Slice The Cake. It's this incredible performance of what I can only describe as a living poem. It's raw, it's overflowing with emotion. It's everything.
It's something I've been struggling with in my many attempts at making different forms of art. Lately I've been realizing that there doesn't have to be a literal message or meaning. If something calls to you and you just really want to make it, that feeling in itself becomes the message. It doesn't need to be put into words. It can be if that's what feels right but if you can't find the right words, don't force yourself. Youll just be destroying that delicate and vulnerable feeling and end up not liking it anymore. That's how it works for me anyway.
This topic came up in a conversation with a friend and it had the same effect on them as on me: we start thinking in an almost freeform poetry kinda way. It's like magic how you fan the glowing embers of creativity into a blazing bonfire.
[disclaimer that a lot of this comment is word vomit and miscelaneous ramblings] This is an interesting viewpoint, I feel like you'd be interested in Apparatus Film Theory. Even though its focused on cinema, the idea of the use of the "mechanism" of cinema to affect an audience may interest you. Personally, the way I shoot I wouldn't be able to identify with your sentiment here. In high school I wrote an essay about street photography, connecting it to the theory of thin slicing. How Gary Winnogrand left thousands of rolls undeveloped and a curator was only able to create an exhibition of a dozen of these undeveloped photos from rolls that Winnogrand already knew to not have any keepers. Or how Bresson "fished" for moments in compositions he could predict would have a photo in them. I think that's how I live through photography. I tend to remember more vividly the moments leading up to a candid photo of one of my friends. I developed and gave them the photos but I don't' think I ever look back at them that often. I think I thin sliced a feeling or something before I raised my camera. I can't even remember using my camera half the time even though I probably was using my camera half the time. And your bit in the description about recording sound. I've had an interesting revelation recently, I think I get that intense nostalgia that you get from mementos and recordings from the music I listened to at the time. Maybe put a photo together with a song I was really into that period and I could start forming a more accurate association.
You deserve so much more, incredible video! Currently searching references to make a photobook but this vid made me feel like « I have to do a bigger project, where people connect way more with what I lived in this travel ». Congratulations 👏
I have not seen a video done this well in a long time.. checked a few of your videos and I have to say I love your ability to put visuals and thoughts together. because I had similar thoughts myself but you absolutely nailed it visually as well!
this video is beautifully put together. I can't agree completely though. I'm not considering myself a photographer (I've only got my first real DSLR yesterday lol), but I've had a few humble attempts at creating something with my phone when I was out in the mountains. looking back to those photos, I'm actually longing for the feeling of being creative, getting around poles and stop signs to capture the idea I have in my head
Nice video, subscribed! The only thing I disagree with is at 1:35 - we DO see noise/grain/whatever - just that we tend to ignore it. Human vision becomes super noisy (and also black and white, for that matter) in the dark at night, and even in daytime if you are in a dimly lit room with a bright window, look into a shadow/on something dark somewhere and you'll see noise.
@@robertkirschphotography you do, but you may subconsciously be ignoring it. Just close your eyes- you won't see a "pure black" but black+noise. Same thing with shadows - you'll see similar noise in them. As for black and white during darkness- it's not controversial that humans have special eye cones for nighttime which don't really see color (you may "remember" what color things are but its an illusion unless there is actual light nearby)
Kinda makes you think... What even is a memory? Is it the moment? But memories change over time. Photographs don't. Does does a photograph's connection to the memory then fade over time? Does it fail to grow along with the memory? Or does it anchor the memory to reality? Like a chain, forever shackled to the past. An object instead allows a memory to grow and develop organically. But who is to say if that's a good thing? And what does all of this mean for a person like me with a memory so incredibly bad that at least half of my memories are provably false?
Exactly. How important is it that how we feel about the past is based in the actual reality of it? Memories are a phenomenon in our mind, maybe they're not meant to be for actually documenting factual details.
The theory of quantum uncertainty doesnt support this hypothisis. However, I guess thats just a theory. Maybe one day we will understand the chaos of quantum physics However, if we dont the unpredictability of the quantum world is a good indicator of free will and a non pre-determined timeline
Quantum physics is not random, it's probabilistic. Meaning that the outcome might not be determined, but it's also not a realm of infinite possibilities. There are a set of possible results, some more likely than others. And this interpretation is not a consensus, since Shröedinger's equation, for instance, are deterministic. Only the result of the measurements appear "random" due to interference. But even if it was random, it wouldn't change a thing. Because random is not determined by anything. Definitely not by will. The universe would still be 99% deterministic and 1% random. No combination of the 2 would result in a world where a miniscule human being would be able to shape the future with his ego making a "choice".
Even though it's mathematically possible, traveling to the past is extremely unlikely. Mostly due to the possibility of violating causality. But if eventually this type of travel become possible, it would still be deterministic. There no way around it.
Just discovered your channel. There’s something really special about your films… they have character, some kind of indescribable and yet palpable energy. You’re very talented! Keep it up!! 😊
Solid Video. I also feel really old because I totally remember Merlin Mann, the internet blog/productivity scene back then, and absolutely carrying a hipster pda for a couple of years.
The camerawork and use of color and texture really draws me in. Your videos really have something very special. It's not just good cinematography, it's art. It feels a bit strange to apply the word artstyle to the medium of film (since I haven't heard it used in that context before) but regardless, your artstyle really resonates with me.
I have started this practice with a notepad ruler and pencil on my desk if I’m lost all I have to do is let myself draw with the lines in the paper and see what comes up no thinking no planning just making the act of an analog creative practice takes about 5-20 mi utes and outs me back in a headspace of reality and I can break back into what needs to be done
Maddeningly good video. Short and packed with visual interest, with a good and relatable message. VERY nice. We will be watching your career with great interest.
