November 4, 2009

Dear Diary,

It has been an amusing few days. Very enjoyable, but amusing. You know about all the Taylor-ness. But the other occurrance is that the videos that I shot at the show seem to be getting a lot of attention.

I've been playing around with videos for awhile. I guess it started a few years back when I got a cheap camera and was fortunate enough to catch Bruce Willis at his Netflix concert at Kennedy Space Center. I got some good grainy video then. One in particular features Bruno performing "Paint it Black" at a sound check. That's the one that has gotten the most attention. But I've taken other videos of Taylor Hicks, Richard Marx, Michael W Smith, and various Disney attractions.

While teaching a class once, I had a group use a video in their presentation and it was nicely edited and I wondered how they did that. They dropped the names of a couple of different programs, and I started experimenting. I took a lot of video on my 30th Birthday and made myself a little movie from it. Then I went to New York for a visit and took some more video and edited it together to make a nice montage.

I put together that "Chick Flick" movie for my own entertainment, and compiled some footage of Bing for a cute little "short." I've even taken to making video "yearbooks" for my class every year.

But I've never had a decent camera until recently. And things have been somewhat of a blur over the past week. From time to time, I have had comments about doing something with video. Making a career out of it. Or some kind of job. And with the momentum of the past few days and still trudging through this awful book about having your dreams fulfilled, I'm starting to wonder if I wouldn't really like doing something along those lines.

I'm not saying I'm ready to quit my job or that I have any such gigs lined up, but it's a curious little thought that seems to keep appearing lately. It's possibly something I'll have to keep you updated on. Because also, there's a line from Gilmore Girls that keeps popping up with that thought. "It wasn't like it was a hard thing to do, but he did it good."

So who knows what tomorrow holds...