Probably Only Captivating to Me
July 31, 2010
Probably Only Captivating to Me from Christine Mason Miller on Vimeo.
I have already shared quite a few images from my recent Photo Slides to digital Files Conversion Project, but it took me a while to figure out how to convert the video files to a format I could edit. The videos I have of my grandparents are kind of like a drug ~ I can't stop watching them, can't stop bursting into tears at unexpected moments, can't stop the feeling of unbelievable desperation, wishing so badly I could step into these scenes and watch my grandparents when they were young.
Life moves so quickly, doesn't it?
{Music is Far Far by Yael Naim}
beautiful! now i want to watch my grandparents videos
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I find this completely captivating, too!
It’s amazing that you have these videos, and I love what you’re doing with them.
Me too. When we view life on a degradable format like film, we can see it with penetrating insight. It is all, always, an illusion. A captivatingly beautiful illusion.
Yes, captivating if not a bit nauseating. I watched this without sound maybe that’s why my head is spinning so badly and I have a stomach ache. There’s a lot of movement :^) Seeing images like these, even if the people in them are strangers, always make me feel naustalgic and sort of melancholy even if I wasn’t alive at the time. They’re evocative and as Karen said, a captivatingly beautiful illusion. It always seems like a “better”, more innocent time, doesn’t it? I could cry, too…