One summer day in 2010, I attempted to convey what a day in the life of yours truly might look like. This was my response to an invitation from YouTube to participate in their big “Life in a Day” production, directed by Ridley Scott.
I am tickled to see how much the video is animated by the spirit of One Continuous Take. You know, the concept that there is only now, this moment, and it’s always now. Even 14 years later. It’s still now. Now then and now now are one. It’s never not now. I’ll say it again. It’s never. Not. Now. That’s the core of the seamless One Continuous Take: Life Itself.
Funny story. Later that year, 2010, in September, I got to take a big item off my bucket list. I got to take a business trip to Kauai and actually work. Not vacation. Turns out I had multiple projects. One, the one that got the whole ball rolling, was to shoot a video of a wedding. A Chicago couple had connected with me, and we arranged to make it happen.
So when I first arrived at their rented place on the morning of the wedding, I was delighted and surprised by how warm and familiarly they greeted me. In fact, one of the party kept turning to the camera, crying out, “It’s NOW! What time is it? It’s now! It’s NOW!”
How could this be? Well, naturally, he had seen the above video which I’d posted on my website among my wedding video samples. Bottom line, the video made an impression and served to help me feel more at home that day when I began to shoot a very important video for them, to work with people I’d only known previously by speaking on the phone. Plus, it hadn’t been my work on Wild Chicago (PBS in Chicago) or any other shows I’d done on broadcast TV. No, the recognition came from the humble place of YouTube and my fewer-than-a-hundred-views platform.
Meanwhile, I recover from the tumble I took on Mount Trashmore last week in Evanston, Illinois. I recount that in last week’s posting.
Originally, I did not want to show the pic of me and my injuries that you’re about to see. But now that I’m on the mend, I’ll give it some air. Some may object to my use of such imagery. Sorry. But see, as a producer, it just seems be necessary to share all critical information if you have it. This old body, after all, isn’t the end-all-be-all of my story. Yeah, I live in this physical place, sure. I have to deal with that. But there’s another truth going on. And that is this: that once this physical carriage breaks down, it eventually turns to dust. But the spirit is eternal. It has no beginning and no end.
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