Adding Video Compilations To The Mix

Duh...Why Didn't I Think Of This Before?

“MAC” BEFORE “JR.” = MEMORIES OF MY RETIRED IMAC

For the past two years, I’ve explored countless ways of creating and curating. First with original and remixed art and design collaborations. Then with blog posts. Most recently with montages of found photos.

Yet, for some reason, video compilations never really crossed my mind. Despite the fact I love watching them. Maybe I thought they’d be harder or more time-consuming than photomontages. I’m not sure. But I know this: I’m ready to make more now!

Yesterday, I created my first compilation, Fur Real #1 = Cuteness Overload. I had so much fun making it that something finally clicked: Video compilations might be just what I’ve been working towards all along. Or at least a good addition to the mix.

While technically a bit more involved than working with stills, video compilations aren’t necessarily any harder to make than photo montages—at least in theory.

What excites me most is how curated found footage—with or without music added—can "collide" to create something new. I love mixing and remixing “high-brow” and “low-brow.” Even a simple montage of static, found photos gains fresh energy and meaning when sequenced and paired with the right track or transitions.

Adding more found footage to the mix feels like a game-changer.

While researching for photos and videos, I’m always rediscovering historical and pop culture moments I forgot or never knew.

Getting to “meet” new faces and “visit” new places is the most rewarding part of my work. Source material inspires my experiments and fuels my creativity.

So, what’s next? More experiments, more compilations, and hopefully, more “aha” moments along the way. Variety, after all, is the spice of life—and it’s what keeps me and my motley mix grooving and moving.

Thanks for reading!
Clint

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ON THIS DAY = DECEMBER 23

BIRTHDAYS

• 1812 = Samuel Smiles = Scottish-English author

• 1867 = Madam C. J. Walker = American businesswoman and philanthropist

• 1868 = Mary Rozet Smith = American philanthropist and suffragist 🌈

• 1908 = Yousuf Karsh = Armenian-Canadian photographer

• 1926 = Robert Bly = American poet and essayist

• 1929 = Chet Baker = American jazz musician and singer

• 1936 = Frederic Forrest = American actor

• 1938 = Bob Kahn = American computer scientist and TCP co-developer

• 1939 = Nancy Graves = American sculptor and painter

• 1943 = Harry Shearer = American actor, voice artist, and comedian

• 1946 = Susan Lucci = American actor

• 1964 = Eddie Vedder = American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1970 = Naked Cowboy = American street performer

• 1971 = Corey Haim = Canadian actor

• 1977 = Matt Baker = English television presenter

• 1978 = Esthero = Canadian-American singer-songwriter

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Festivus

• National Roots Day

EVENTS

• 1815 = The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

• 1888 = After an altercation with former roommate Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh cut off part of his left ear and gave it to a woman in a brothel in Arles, France.

• 1893 = The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

• 1913 = The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

• 1919 = The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the UK.

• 1947 = The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

• 1954 = The first successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

• 1959 = The California Supreme Court upholds the right of LGBT people to congregate in Vallerga v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

• 1970 = Little Big Man is released in theaters. It features a character named Little Horse, played by Robert Little Star, who is biologically male but wears female clothing and identifies as a woman. Little Horse is a “hee-man-eh” which, in the Cheyenne tribe, is the tribe is the word for what anthropologists call a “berdache.”

• 1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

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PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
Samuel Smiles

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
Eddie Vedder