I discovered that if I set my point and shoot camera to the macro mode and point it far away, trees get these amazing shifting bokeh patterns. I’ve been taking lots of video of … trees blowing in the wind. Really exciting.
No, it actually is exciting to me, and I don’t know why. I suppose it’s because those are the types of things that I pay attention to. You are likely to find me stopped, staring up into a tree, arrested by the sight of shifting color patterns, while walking to work. (That is, if you’re following me around– please don’t.) I love plants, and I love them more in the flesh than in photos (even though I do have a lot of fun photographing them); taking video of them being quiet in their environment in their own planty ways adds a little more of that ineffable “plantness” to the media.
Maybe at this point you have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s cool. I’m just going to link up a video I made last night to show you what I mean. (link it up, Mott!)
(Track used is “Hlemmur” off of “Hlemmur” by Sigur Rós (2003).) By the way, embedding this video completely breaks my blog in Firefox 3. Wow. Are you guys seeing this?
Update 7/18/08: I finally upgraded Wordpress to the most current stable version, and now FF3.0.1 does not completely break my blog with this post– it just won’t show the video. Fine with me for now.
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hi Jessie
i don’t remember if i posted a comment to this before, somehow i think i did but don’t see it here so i have to let you know how much i love this video, i have viewed it many times and will do so again. it’s so calming and dreamy, very meditative, your choice of music is probably a big factor but in combination it actually has made me cry (in a good way lq= laughing quietly). i also love your photography and wit.
thank you :-)
You know, I think you might have commented before– it’s possible that your comment got marked as spam and then I accidentally deleted it while clicking too fast. I remember that happening before, and I couldn’t figure out how to get the comment back, but I remember feeling sad because it was such a nice comment.
Really, I am so glad you like this video! I haven’t watched it in months and months… rewatching it now makes me wonder how I can even survive the winter months in Seattle. Summer is so much more beautiful.
Anyway… thanks so much for the compliments. I can’t get much higher of a compliment than that I really moved someone!
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