There’s a strange man who writes aggressive things to me on YouTube that I ignore. His last one was about my putting up the News playlist about 9/11, when he called it “old news.” It’s not to me. It has to be remembered. A lot of what is up now about that day has been sanitized, like Father Judge being killed by falling debris rather than by a falling woman. I think the issue of protecting the feelings of those who lost people that day is an excuse for not letting people feel the pain as deeply as they did at first. It’s a political changing of memories so that the young never know. I went to U of Chicago, where we studied source material rather than text books. Keeping these videos alive is my version of source material.
Thank you SO much for your kind comments on the fine art and Christmas videos. Christmas - well, it’s irresistible to integrate all of my life together. Fine art - I may not want to spend hours pouring over my old art books, but I do want to be able to spend 4 minutes to remember. So I’m still searching for the right pieces of music to put together videos on French Impressionism, Rodin’s statues, religious art, etc. Then when I want to remember how much I loved the beauty, I’ll be able to remember for a few minutes. I’ve put my high school classmates and grandfather and mother and my town to music. It’s like a video scrapbook, instead of my old photo ones. I can’t tell you how good it feels to have someone watch and share those emotions.
Actually, since I ‘met’ you here, I’ve looked at a lot of them. The 9-11 ones take me right back to that morning; I was home from work and watching MSNBC. Just like one woman interviewed on the ground, my first thought was that something had gone wrong with the airplanes or air traffic control. The reality was unthinkable.
I like what you did with the Kaleidoscope; and the Dr. Who/Van Gogh video was beautiful.
I think my husband and I were most affected by the video about John Cocke - to the point of watching some of the extended interviews. We looked at each other and had the same thought: we are seeing some of the people who helped to create the world we live in today! He seems to have been such an interesting and lovely man. (I’m still trying to get my head around his concept of dreams ;-)
You are a very creative and thoughtful person. I’m glad you are here.