Agreed.
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A few days before the start of my freshman year at college, my mom wrote my last name inside 75% of my personal effects.
I got the impression that she thought once I got to school, my hand towel, underwear, T-shirts, jeans, and pillowcases, would be so coveted by the other freshmen that they would become prominent targets for dorm room theft. Therefor I would be constantly having to prove to my RA that they were in fact mine.
Last year, about ten years after graduating from college, I moved into a house that had been previously occupied by several old friends from school. I found this towel hanging in the bathroom with my moms handwriting on it.
It’s kind of like The Incredible Journey but with towels.
Although none of the trees are brown yet, the hoodie came back out this morning, and that’s got to mean something.
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The Library: Frederick Wiseman Interview Highlights -
My girlfriend runs a blog for NW Documentary a nonprofit organization that aims to help filmmakers learn about and create their work. She just posted some advice from filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and I can’t help but want to make a documentary after reading it.
I’ve been fascinated by the process of going out and gathering a million different pieces and seeing what sort of picture you can make by fitting them all together. Although normally I think in terms of doing some sort of radio show using documentary audio, hearing people talking about documentary filmmaking still gets me excited.
I do very little research – only one or two days on site. I don’t like seeing something interesting happening and not being able to film it. My approach to filmmaking is very similar to Las Vegas. You roll the dice and hope for the best. My films are a combination of luck, instinct, and judgment.
Thank you everyone for helping me get to this landmark moment in the history of my blog.
Dance! Whoo!
Another drawing done on top of photo taken from this set of depression era photos.
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