I have been working a documentary video lately – a change of pace for sure. Most of the skills from still photography transfer, but there so many others required. I have been reading on everything from myth’s role in cinematic storytelling to camera movement, and of course I have been watching documentaries that are supposed to be exemplary.
One that is often suggested is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, which does in fact own. However, it is not as entertaining as an insightful account of an unhinged nature lover as it is a glut of schadenfruede – a sort of feature lenght “Leave Britney Alone.” Also there are the foxes that break into the subject’s camp and steal his hat. Comedy gold.
21 August 2009
Grizzly Man
15 August 2009
This is the greatest prank call of all time. This telemarketer actually tries to close the deal on mortuary services after the prankster tells him that he is going to kill himself.
14 August 2009
More Roadside Pics
Not sure whether this qualifies as necrophilia, since this blog has lain stagnant long enough to be declared dead in even the most conservative pockets of Haiti. Here are a bunch of "new" pics from the driver's seat (newly dumped off card). This is *so* fascinating.
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