UPDATE: Both Ryanne and Schlomo correctly pointed put in the comments that I’m using a copyrighted song in this video (Cat Power). I feel like an idiot since we just put on superhappyvloghouse with an emphasis on Creative Commons. I have now taken off my CC license off this video. I’m emailing the CC people to see how they feel about using a copyright’ed song in a personal video. Jeez…i just like the music and want to be creative! These are the breaks.
Love this kind of stuff. Seems like you and Ryanne do a lot of these. I need to bring my camera out more. I actually shot some stuff yesterday, totally thought of you two while I was shooting “moments”.
hurray for jay making videos!!
i love it.
i hope cat power is cc-ing her music now….
ah hem…
i have been sitting here for about ten minutes trying to work out how to tell you why i loved this film, but i can’t. everything i say is either not enough or sounds like hyperbole/overexuberance, so fuck it:
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your choice of moments is _______ the music choice is _______ the photography is _______ the editing is ______ and the combined effect of all of them together almost makes me ________
thanks a lot
delightfully sensual
& with little snipits of
haughnting climaxes
i love the way you jutoposition frames
my eyes widen, my eyebrows lift
i may let out a gasp then a sigh
for instance, arm waving shadow over
parallel white then you cut to
what looks like fleash burning
but is a hotdog
Briziiliant!
thanks for the ride
you’ve hit my reset button
The swimming bee has me mesmerized. The bike riders, the gulls, shadows… Moments in time. Wonderful!
Me likee!
Question though: when putting a CC license on this, what about the Cat Power song? I use copyrighted music often without any attibution to the creator (like your video), and wonder what exactly is CCed here?
Does CC really matter if we are just taking from others without attribution anyway?
This is classic Dedman video; really nice on a Wed morning.
I’m gonna assume that after shooting you helped the bee get out of the water.
The motion between shots (objects in frame, camera movement and zoom) is really nice.
Beautiful little video poem there Jay.
Loved all of the close-ups that pan back to the wide world.
So many other great clips in there as well.
Thanks for sharing!
My favorite video from vbw07 so far.
Your simple complexity leaves much room for meaning. Thank you for not filling in all the blanks, Jay.
I do love exploring Jay’s bug and texture fetish.
Definitely have a poetic eye, and I’ve always said
you should make more video, but then again, and I think
we’ve talked about it a little, that these videos might
not mean as much as they do, or have as much in them if
you did them every week. The images, time and life itself
compounds the power behind them.
schlomo and ryanne….you are absolutely correct. I should not have put on that CC license on the end. Im taking it off now.
but also…it’s illegal for me to use this song without permission..but i want to!!!
Jeez…here I am taking part in a CC weekend at superhappyvloghouse…and now im breaking all the rules. shit.
yeah man. it’s all about the compositional contrast between each shot. the scale is all out of whack. little planes little ants. surfaces. ahh gahh gahh. freakin that xacti.
p.s. i love the birds flying with the boat.
oh man that was cool in real life, also so cool to see it again months later.
Great work.
Podsafe music. It takes a little longer, but some fantastic artists out there.
Love love love it.
I think this is my favorite kind of video.
Nice to see you making videos my friend.
Cat Power really makes it powerful… not hurting anybody.
I really want to make a single-take video with a classic Van Halen tune. Just need to find an old Chevy Nova, a guy with greasy 70′s hair and mirror shades.
For the discerning video entomologist:
http://www.insects.org/entophiles/index.html
You are good at making videos.
nice jay.
i’m a fan of starting with closeup shots myself… so i always enjoy those little surprises when others do it.
i’m going to make my next video with copyrighted music
Beatufifully shot, thoughtfully edited, lovely lyrical poem.
Congratulations.
I got here for the chicken vid which also was superb.
Hello Jay, your videos make the ordinary look extraordinary. Keep it up ese!
I agree. I want to use TLOM but I didn’t because the author doesn’t respond to emails, etc. So, I used music from the ‘free music project’ instead. TLOM (the law of miracles would have been so much better.)
Almost cried at work. At loss for words. Want more. Want to be that woman on the bike next to your car (and still want you in car next to bike). Want to see birds. Want to leave office now and film. Implied noun – I.
whenever i think about putting copyrighted music on my videos (well, i always do) i think about the actual chances of getting sued.
i’ll probably regret this some day when i’m sitting in court, hahah (:
but thanks for the comment.
dylan’s grounded right now, but i plan on making many wonderful videos with her when her punishment is lifted….
Watched again. And again. And again.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful art…
God, I still love this video. Close to perfection.
Have watched this several times in the last couple of days – and it’s only just occurred to me: this is like Eggleston! Video Eggleston!