Instant Videos
Blog URL http://instantvideos.blogspot.com
Located Peterborough, Ontario Canada
The making of...a brand new live homemade music video every week.
Latest Blog Posts
- A Day at the Beach on Aug 8, 2009
This is what we do. Go up to Meaford, Ontario and play a couple of shows at the Funny Farm at this year's Electric Eclectics festival. We extend the weekend an extra night and camp at nearby Sauble Beach to try to avoid the busy holiday traffic. The...
- Summer Hours on Jul 22, 2009
What was once a weekly deadline, a busy summer slowed it to a steady every two weeks or so, we make an Instant Video. And I'm okay with it, for now. There's good reason. And for this idea, yes, it's totally my fault. Put the chain-cuffs on me. I made...
- Waiting for the End of the World on Jul 8, 2009
Not like instant coffee but "instantaneous coffee." Our first date with collaborators. Rushing as usual. Tammy packs up the instruments. I pack up the video gear. Five minutes. We drive up the street and see the house.Later, it will occur to me to wr...
- I'd rather be... on Jun 25, 2009
Hot summer, the air seems to buzz. There's a big pile of laundry but we are low energy. It's the slow motion time of the day. There's more work to do. But I'd rather be...anything. Let's shoot that Instant Video. Now? Where? How?What's this song abou...
- Down and Dirty on Jun 12, 2009
Instant Video #30 wouldn't be the first video for this song of Tammy's.This is flashing back a few years ago when we lived in Toronto; another late night. I was experimenting with my new editing system. I decided to make Tammy a video for a song she...
- Available Light on Jun 4, 2009
"Okay," says Tammy. "I'm ready." She's ready, I think to myself. But I'm not. "Where are we going?" I ask. She says "I don't know. You're the director." Okay. I pause for a second while I take this in.Let's go upstairs... The light is going fast. I g...
- Mirror, Mirror on May 19, 2009
I'm up early. I send Sunny off to school and find myself alone with a double espresso WiFi surfing at the café. I'm looking for an article I read a long time ago. I'm wondering if I can find it somewhere on the internet. Tammy's new song reminds me...
