hummingcrow: one squall voice

 

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Update: January 17, 2008

I created five Lumiere videos between June 27 - July 22, 2007, in response to encouragement from fellow vlogger Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen. It was fun. My videos, along with those of many others, were linked to from videoblogging.info.

In August 2007, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen and Brittany Shoot published the Lumiere Manifesto. I wish to publicly state that I disagree with most of the manifesto content, and that my Lumiere videos should not be construed as an endorsement of the manifesto. I am not interested in engaging in a conversation about the manifesto’s relative merits, or what I view as problematic. I simply wish to disassociate my work from it.

Original Post

This is a 60-second excerpt of an 11-minute Independence Day Parade, July 4, 2007 in the little town of Clarkdale, smack dab in the rural-ish Verde Valley in central Arizona. Welcome to SmallTown, USA.

I wish I could show the entire parade! It starts with the Color Guard of WW2 and other veterans, and then come the children. Oh! The children! They are so cute, haphazardly throwing candy at the spectators, then greedily picking half of it back up for themselves. Then there are the cyclists, the dogs, the homemade floats set atop Radio Flyer wagons. And then the ancient fire engines! Somewhere in there are the town dignitaries, but everyone knows it’s not about them. What you do at the parade is, you wave at the kids and shout how great they’re doing even if they can’t march along in a straight line. It’s all about the kids.

Remember, Lumiere videos have no audio, so play your own patriotic tune as a backdrop. I hope this still counts as a Lumiere, despite the fact that a four-year old jostled the camera while lunging for a piece of bubble gum thrown from the parade ranks.

Oh, and warning - the AppleTV version is now huge (960×540 pixels) with the recent update of QuickTime and the H.264 codec.

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