Oh, how the children love to dance (alt title: the ordinary life, with seasoning).

Children at play.

If there is any question that I'm the luckiest guy in the world, than I think one glance at this image will settle the debate.

I'm not sure if our life is more musical theatre, or more circus, or more performance art, or more oddball school, but whatever it is

...it is fun.
And it is authentic.
And I wouldn't trade Countess Becca for anyone, including a queen. Maybe a billion dollars, but definitely nothing less.

If you're a parent, permit me to give a little advice:

Get off your feet. Wrestle. Dance. Move. Jump.

Sometimes it's better to have a messy performance stage than a perfect living room.

I am grateful for cameras. Don't worry: I set it down after this and joined in the party. Sometimes you just know you gotta capture something magical in the moment to hang onto for a dreary day in the future.

life documentation
This is a little something I love (11 snippets of my brother on his 36th birthday).
This is a little something I love (11 snippets of my brother on his 36th birthday).
What has changed in my lifetime : notes on technology & society from an interview with my daughter.
What has changed in my lifetime : notes on technology & society from an interview with my daughter.
The poetry of existence.
The poetry of existence.

Altman played with overlapping dialogue and long handheld shots that kept the focus on people talking and interacting over each other. Rather than the rat-a-tat-tat of one person talking, then another, there were people constantly moving and talking over and around one another in many of his films - and sometimes off-camera - in fact, sometimes the dialogue happening off-camera is more important to moving the story along than what we’re actually seeing.

Malick has crafted many beautiful, provoking, poetic films that also focus on capturing the feeling, the presence, the happening of a moment in earth’s existence, rather than blazing along with the camera directly focusing on the action. There’s an ephemeral presence in his stories that are both contemplative and action; the action of life happening in our peripheral vision, and how that often is the driving force, rather the apparent happening in front of us.

My mom would come out in the front yard and video. A child would fall, and she would keep videoing. Children would argue, and she would keep videoing. Something would happen away from camera, and she would keep videoing - and narrate what was happening.

Death does not become her (a non-linear treatise on grief, tragedy, and horrible happenings).
Death does not become her (a non-linear treatise on grief, tragedy, and horrible happenings).
Oh, how the children love to dance (alt title: the ordinary life, with seasoning).
Oh, how the children love to dance (alt title: the ordinary life, with seasoning).
This is a long drive for someone with everything to think about.
This is a long drive for someone with everything to think about.
No idea where she got it.
No idea where she got it.
Popping Stars
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