What I am reading : “Lush Life: By Richard Price
What I am watching: A New Zealand Childhood
What I am listening to: The whir of the scanner

Holiday Onslaught

I have been inundated with video transfer this holiday season. We have been snowed in with 7 year old twins and that has added a new dimension to the work at home dynamic, to say the least. The snow daze looks as if will continue into the kids holiday break extending it to three weeks. I am in my bunker of a video studio dodging the flak of the skirmishes outside my door. Not entirely successful I might add, I have the scars to prove it.

Some observations on home movies. There is a theme that runs through our lives documented in our home videos. Decades of summer water skiing videos (I mean hours), dance recitals, the endless opening of presents at Christmas and birthdays. The table setting at Thanksgiving and Uncle Leo talking with his mouth full. I too am guilty of this complete lack of imagination when it comes to home movies. I vow to change this and document more of a cinema verite of everyday life and the way we live and the times we live in. Not just some forgotten gifts on Christmas morning, something rich, deep poingant and fulfilling that will be a revelation to those who transfer my home movies onto some future format, 3D, holograms?
Enjoy the pictures of my kids playing in the leaves