Haha…that was funny! It’s like a sequel to “Flight Into New York”! Different people, different opinions. (At least the good think is that everybody has an opinion!)
By the way, I like the background music playing on your videos! Where did you find it? – I’m waiting the new video… “Stephen Gyllenhaal hits the streets!” Haha.
And also, I’m just wondering: do you tell them who are you before you shoot them? Do they recognize you? Or you just ask them directly? Thanks!
It’s interesting. I’m not at a level where people recognize me (which is a real blessing, believe me.) What I have learned is that as long as I have the camera on me and am talking first, generally people will talk back. I tell them I am doing this for my blog. There are some people who don’t want to participate. At first they pissed me off a little (ego nonsense on my part), then I realized they absolutely had the right. I’ve been busy shooting TV stuff (another Numb3rs). I want to get back to shooting some more of these little videos. I’m really pleased that people like them so much. I do too. An important thing to note is that I have some young editors helping me. As time goes on I want to introduce them as I introduced various people on the Numbrs crew. This kind of work is never done alone. Not just the people on the street, but the people who have started helping me behind the scenes. The music is coming together by bits and pieces since it has to be cleared to be on U-tube (the system through which we work.) I’m sorting out a better way to do music with a friend. It’s all about uncovering a new world of filmmaking. Thanks for participating.
Amazing, It is always a child who recognizes and unabashedly declares that the emperor’s new suit is an empty promise and a fraud that insidiously permeates and pollutes an unsuspecting society. Do we increasingly inhabit a counterfeit world, blind and oblivious?
I think the world has always been a mess (think about the Middle Ages,) our Civil War and so on. It’s not good now, though, and I think it was less chaotic a few years back. The one thing that seems clear to me is that we really are going to have to change now as a specie if we are to survive. It’d be nice to survive. It’d be nice for the kids…
I think society’s progressive loss of connection to the natural world is the “root” of our problems. No other species on the planet intentionally dumps its wastes into the fresh water and fresh air that sustains us and all life. We are the only species on the planet no longer able to recognize our food in the wild. Our perceived separation leads us to the illusion of power, perpetuates greed and leads to destruction I am filled with hope however because of the pervasive and growing grassroots community efforts to preserve and protect our natural world and hopefully help guide us to a shared understanding of what is truly of value. What if filmmakers, marketers, and advertisers promoted love instead of cheap sex; clean free-flowing rivers instead of whiskey and beer; forests instead of cigarettes; and tried to convince us that all of these are worth way more than their weight in gold?
Haha…that was funny! It’s like a sequel to “Flight Into New York”! Different people, different opinions. (At least the good think is that everybody has an opinion!)
By the way, I like the background music playing on your videos! Where did you find it? – I’m waiting the new video… “Stephen Gyllenhaal hits the streets!” Haha.
And also, I’m just wondering: do you tell them who are you before you shoot them? Do they recognize you? Or you just ask them directly? Thanks!
It’s interesting. I’m not at a level where people recognize me (which is a real blessing, believe me.) What I have learned is that as long as I have the camera on me and am talking first, generally people will talk back. I tell them I am doing this for my blog. There are some people who don’t want to participate. At first they pissed me off a little (ego nonsense on my part), then I realized they absolutely had the right. I’ve been busy shooting TV stuff (another Numb3rs). I want to get back to shooting some more of these little videos. I’m really pleased that people like them so much. I do too. An important thing to note is that I have some young editors helping me. As time goes on I want to introduce them as I introduced various people on the Numbrs crew. This kind of work is never done alone. Not just the people on the street, but the people who have started helping me behind the scenes. The music is coming together by bits and pieces since it has to be cleared to be on U-tube (the system through which we work.) I’m sorting out a better way to do music with a friend. It’s all about uncovering a new world of filmmaking. Thanks for participating.
Thank you for your answers! Yes it’s a blessing to not be recognized!(Haha) You ‘re so right… Interesting infos.
Amazing, It is always a child who recognizes and unabashedly declares that the emperor’s new suit is an empty promise and a fraud that insidiously permeates and pollutes an unsuspecting society. Do we increasingly inhabit a counterfeit world, blind and oblivious?
I think the world has always been a mess (think about the Middle Ages,) our Civil War and so on. It’s not good now, though, and I think it was less chaotic a few years back. The one thing that seems clear to me is that we really are going to have to change now as a specie if we are to survive. It’d be nice to survive. It’d be nice for the kids…
I think society’s progressive loss of connection to the natural world is the “root” of our problems. No other species on the planet intentionally dumps its wastes into the fresh water and fresh air that sustains us and all life. We are the only species on the planet no longer able to recognize our food in the wild. Our perceived separation leads us to the illusion of power, perpetuates greed and leads to destruction I am filled with hope however because of the pervasive and growing grassroots community efforts to preserve and protect our natural world and hopefully help guide us to a shared understanding of what is truly of value. What if filmmakers, marketers, and advertisers promoted love instead of cheap sex; clean free-flowing rivers instead of whiskey and beer; forests instead of cigarettes; and tried to convince us that all of these are worth way more than their weight in gold?