Now it is time to work
Tomorrow I am going to pick up a 3/4 video machine from a guy’s garage somewhere along the coast, it’s an hour and a half drive from L.A. Then I am taking the 3/4 video machine back to the archive. After that, I am picking up a broken 3/4 machine from the archive to bring to get repaired. Tomorrow is about 3/4 video! Somedays that is it, one simple task gets accomplished.
There are over 100, 3/4 format tapes that are about to be unplayable unless I transfer them, they are gone forever. I hope they are still somewhat playable. I need to hire an intern who likes to be bored, who likes to discover hidden gems, needles in haystacks.
July is the first time I have ever been able to spend an entire month digging through footage for my epic project “Gravity”. I am strangely excited about finding a rhythm to this work.
In the early eighties Carl Boenish coined the acronym “BASE” (standing for Buildings, Antenna, Span, and Earth, the objects jumped) and invented a sport. Carl was the catalyst behind modern BASE jumping; an electrical engineer and filmmaker who believed that BASE jumping would allow mankind to overcome artificial limitations. He religiously chronicled the early days of BASE in beautiful 16mm film, often with cameras mounted to the jumpers’ heads. He saw BASE as the next amazing thing to film. Subscribe via RSS.
