I won’t say too much about this session except that there are four boys in this family, ages 4, 3 and 1 years old twins. Needless to say, this was a unique opportunity for me to explore my willingness to go with what the kids were doing instead of this adult desire to control the outcomes. I’m really excited to share these pictures with y’all.

I tried to put together a movie using the still frames I shot during the fireworks show on July 4th… but I’m not so good at using iMovie and apparently, iMovie is not that great at being used. (If anybody knows how to get 1/20 of a second or faster duration per slide, please let me know because I’ve been trying for hours to get it to set the duration that fast. Recommendations to more useful video editting programs would be good too, although I’m sort of on a strict budget for non-work essential tools.)

Anyway, it is what it is. Hope y’all enjoy the “video”. (I’ve decided that it’s almost equally as interesting to watch the cars on the freeway as it is to watch the fireworks.)

[Music: "Faint" by Linkin Park.]

Happy 4th, everybody.

I was browsing BoingBoing today, and I came across this posted video. There’s more information if you follow the BoingBoing link above, but here’s a a quick quote regarding the background of this video:

Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world.

I’m sharing this video because it made me deeply happy - happy in a way that makes me appreciate the mysteries of life and marvel at the connectedness between us all. Some of the footage is breathtaking, and some of it just silly. I find so much comfort in the simplicity of the world portrayed in this 4+ minute video.

edit: I’m also adding his second video (the one above is his third)… he just goes to so many cool places. If you do a search on YouTube, you can also find a series of him talking about the making of these videos. The cool thing about this second video is that he’s using vocals recorded by this guy who went around trying to document dying languages.

Link to Matt:
www.wherethehellismatt.com