The motion/movement Archive, Vol. I

It’s video day!

While fishing through all of the old promos for the sake of some Conclave display DVDs, I came across a stockpile of some of my old videos.  I think I’m going to start uploading a bunch of these to YouTube (keeping them separate from my Vimeo page for obvious reasons), and share some periodically here for their comedic value.  I also put these here as a tribute to my friends; I couldn’t do this at all without years of their encouragement and participation.  

Notice that in just about every case, these were the days before I understood the concept of de-interlacing.  A few of you will be able to appreciate that.  

The Discipleship Linebacker

Ah, good times.  This was the first video I ever made.  In spring of my senior year in high school, my discipleship group decided we wanted to do something special as a going-away gift to the rest of the youth group.  The thing is, the video isn’t that inaccurate.  For the six years we met together, our group was about Bible Study, Football, and Pizza.  Nothing else.  

Furman BCM: “Leave it Behind” Opening Video

In Spring of ‘05 (my freshman year in college), my brother and Andrew Floyd wrote a wonderful little play called “Leave it Behind,” which a large group of us then performed as a Dinner Theater fundraiser.  Inspired by Matt McNair’s video work in the previous dinner theater, I set out with a Sony Handcam and made other members of the cast stand very still in high traffic areas of campus for uncomfortably long amounts of time.  Thinking back, it’s one of only two videos where I set out to make art with the camera alone.  And I miss those days.