Chuck it all, Adam. It´s a very nice feeling. Do you know Las Fallas de Valencia? It´s a spanish celebration: they work all year long to make giant, beautiful, expensive sculptures with wood etc. and one night they set them alight. All in honor of St. Joseph, patron of carpenters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FypDyGNyDyQ&feature=channel
pepa garcía http://teleperra.tumblr.com http://pepa.tv http://twitter.com/pepa 2009/9/28 Adam Quirk <[email protected]> > > > I get that same choking feeling. I feel the need to purge every once in a > while and start fresh. I just threw out a *lot* of old notebooks today, and > it felt good. > But the tapes I'm keeping. Boxed up and in the back of the closet where I > don't have to think about them until I move again. > > Thanks for the replies everyone. > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Brook Hinton > <[email protected]<bhinton%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > I think this differs wildly depending on who you are. Part of me feels > the > > way Jeffrey does... when it's other people's media. For my own, looking > at > > a > > box of old tapes gives me a choking sensation. I try to discard whatever > I > > don't think will be useful for a future project, but I wait at least a > year > > to make that decision, since I find I don't really have enough > perspective > > to use material to its best advantage for at least that long after I've > > shot > > it/captured it/whatever. > > > > I even destroy masters occasionally, but I'm someone who sometimes > cringes > > when old work of mine shows up somewhere, so I'm probably not the best > > advice-giver here. I even throw away my notebooks every few years. My > > fantasy life involves not having to store anything, ever, and having > every > > tool I need to make music and video without compromise fit in a shoebox. > > I've just never made peace with the reality of Stuff. > > > > Given what Trace Garden was made of, this is total hypocrisy, I know. > > > > Brook > > > > > > _________________________________ > > Brook Hinton > > film/video/audio art > > www.brookhinton.com > > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
