- 9:13 AM, Monday,
May 10th, 2021:
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- When I was in 3rd
grade I was in some competition to make posters
for the book fair. I designed this poster that was a
bunch of books, with each one saying one letter to
form "Take a look and buy a book!" I got 2nd
place. When my mother and grandmother came to see all
of the posters and saw mine next to the winner they
both sighed and looked at each other. While I thought
1st place was a better poster, my mom knew immediately
that an adult had made it. And that's when I looked
closer and, yeah - it was overwhelmingly obvious what
had happened. My mom just said "Hey, you did better
than the other 9 year olds, don't worry about it..."
And I didn't... but it never, ever, ever left
me.
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- The inherent
unfairness of a kid taking credit for something their
parents did (although wildly common) ate at me. I knew
one day, I'd have a kid doing a project and I knew I
would have to fight the urge to "help" too much. Well,
that day came when Vienna said she wanted to make her
own "Journey" video and this was it. So I thought I'd
show you a clip of what's honestly the most
I helped in this entire process. If I had thought
about it? I'd have filmed her voice overs, her
keyboard playing, her googling for pictures (that was
a bit sketchy without safe search - lol) and her
camera work. But it was the fact that she sat at a
laptop she had never used, used a mouse she had never
used - I mean, this kid has never made a folder
on a PC. Like - ALL of that and she never gave
up. It's something I wanted to document because it
means as much to me as the finished
product:
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- So good. I'm so
proud of her. As time goes on, I'll get her a laptop
that she can truly practice on because that's the way
you learn. You just throw shit on a timeline and fuck
around. We had specific goals with this so it was way
more intense... but you retain WAY less when you do it
like that. Ya gotta make stupid shit. Ya gotta do
simple shit. Ya gotta log and label your files until
your brain is numb so it changes the way you shoot,
etc. That's the actual process she has to
learn.
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- But man - she
pulled it off. So, so, so proud!
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- Adam
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