I guess my vimeo is linked to my tumblr… oh well i might as well keep it up.
This is the first video I ever edited… a little “memories” video from the 2 years of film/tv school I spent together with 40 or so guys & gals, in planes, trains, and automobiles, drooling on each others shoulders, working on our first macs, making videos, sleeping on floors, in churches, buses, starbucks, running 100ft. cables from tv trucks to front of house, and waking up every morning to a new adventure together. We loved each other in the most telling light of our shortcomings and biases, learning to accept our diversity and then to deeply enjoy it… but it was proper for those days to come to an end. We had a different kind of growing up to do in our own families, houses, cities, and jobs/schools of choice.
For the fleeting months after graduation, I felt the wind knocked out of me by the absence of both my comrades and the demands of a busy production house. But the show did go on, and at some point I’ll revisit those lonely, quiet, and painful but steady days that followed college. They aren’t the kind of days you can graduate from.. there is no looming end that creeps up on you, no celebration or award for your achievements. I wonder if those days have even fully run their course in me yet, but I’m passed the point of… well I’m passed some unspoken point. I’ve become quieter about all that for the time being.
In a few days, I’m going to visit a small and random handful of these old pals. It’s been 4 years since we graduated and 6 since we met. It’s hard to believe we only spent 2 years of our lives together.
They are good people, good friends, whose presence is a special magic to me. Even the estranged ones.
