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Jacob Geller
@jacobgeller.com

Five years ago, I ran across a piece of stock footage that defied all conventions. It was beautiful and textured. It was *memorable*. But what can this single video tell us, in context of an entire industry designed to be generic? youtu.be/k3bkCTy9rLk

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Ethan
@sarik704.bsky.social

I would pay for Jacob Gellar created stock imagery. Things like: 3 young men dig a hole. Bearded orator gives speech. Cute couple at a spring picnic.

Sebastian
@finest.day

No one, and I want to emphasize this, no one has ever managed to keep me captivated for 35 minutes just by promising to show me their favorite stock footage. Thanks Jacob. 🌱

Joesferatu
@makeitunclear.bsky.social

having immediately recognized the clip, this was still a fun watch the way it's fun to see a quarter circling around in one of those big spiraling donation bins even though you already know how it ends

Tom Vickers
@tomvickers.bsky.social

Based on everything in it, but especially your observations about film's capabilities for inadvertent capture, I cannot recommend 2021's The Afterlight to you enough.

Tom Vickers
@tomvickers.bsky.social

The Afterlight is a film assembled by Charlie Shackleton entirely from clips of other, already existing, black and white film, a film acted in only by the now deceased and of which there exists no digital version, only a single physical copy, a copy now being slow degraded every time it's shown.

ghost hive mnemoneth
@pooltoy.info

good video; you pretty much ended on the same thesis that made us fall in love with photography as an art form. it's qualia capture, it's the lens of the moment - even in still frames, without the shake of intent in a hand, there is still that burning and yearning of what the eye sought to see.

ghost hive mnemoneth
@pooltoy.info

photography is an ephemeral art form, at least with how we approach it. fleeting moments of light, an infinite series of unique scenes churned from the background radiation of the universe - something may look similar throughout time, but it will only look a specific way once. curley's is gone.

ghost hive mnemoneth
@pooltoy.info

biggest regret of the summer other than getting caught in floodwaters in the permian basin was definitely: not capturing the blood-red colours of the county-sized storm from a hundred miles west of it at sunset. it was like jupiter came to west texas. we only got pics before it started churning.

FroggVorbis
@froggvorbis.bsky.social

oh shit, Kermit mentioned! I’ve driven home from Odessa on this exact highway countless times. Almost feels like a video I would’ve taken myself of the sunset on one of those drives