Regular visitors may have noticed a fifth square icon added to the series at the top of the site. Do not be alarmed. Go ahead and feel fee to click it. Yes! It’s a movie. Please enjoy responsibly.

And you say flatly, “Dude, you made a video of yourself.” Ha! Guilty as charged. Just having a bit of fun. Allow me to explain: this is my first venture into video and the idea was to experiment to see if I could come up with something visually interesting within certain limited parameters. Yes! How clever of you, just as we do in architecture; mature architecture, that is. So the variables are minimized: just one guy in a black shirt with a coffee cup, no dialogue, and shot with the low-res camera on my MB Air from a single camera position and with single camera angle. Pretty much just leaves action, music, lighting and editing as the active variables.

The final picture was edited down from 15 minutes total footage of me just walking around or being silly at home shot in four separate short clips over the course of a single evening. Then I just extracted any snippet of visual tastiness and strung them together in a certain order. “Dude. You just called yourself tasty.” No I didn’t! I mean that I used any action that possessed the quality of being remotely compositionally interesting, and in fact! in some cases, not at all interesting, yet when set in contrast to action, become interesting through being uninteresting? Understanding?

The toughest decision was choosing from the list of music contenders. Below is a shot of said list and please click on it to enlarge as it was a bit less convenient than usual for some reason to upload this one.

In the end, much fun was had. There will be more.